Ephemera tagged with "blog"

Noticing the little things

Tribes

We join them

Attending the Global AI Bootcamp in Helsinki

The value of diversity

The reason why I want to move my home on the world

A tale of four chat bots

We need to learn the technique in the beginning and then leave it behind

Don't think too much about the rules

Reading children’s books

They are so damn beautiful

What would you do without me?

Remarry (Bad jokes and me)

Just because you can do something does not mean you should

A writer's apocalypse approaches

Moving my home on the web

Everything you type in your iPhone could be used to train a digital you

Make more detailed notes

I want to share little ephemeral messages with my family

Like this picture of the skies I took while out on my walk

Organizing the things in our life

The value of knowing where things are

I voted for the first time in Finland

In the municipal + county elections of 2025

Elections in Finland

About the local elections

The three places where I noticed Apple Intelligence

Apple Intelligence comes to India (English)

Temu as a form of soft power

A realisation amidst assembling cheap stuff from Temu

Balancing new tech and its maintainance

All new technology needs to be tested out in the world

It does not matter how many times I do surya namaskar

I don’t need to count anymore

How would the web work in an increasingly AI-fied world

Boiling frogs and global warming

Duplicating everything

Stop re-doing everything

Be a hybrid

Have expertise in two or more things

A weird day

Something felt off

Re-designing my home screen and the way I use my phone

Focus modes + Shortcuts magic

The contexts in which I use my phone

Thinking about phone usage + productivity

Maybe we should not have connected

Mixing DS2, Mastodon and Fediverse

Ghost announces beginning of the public beta for the social web

Public beta for fediverse support is live now

Who are you?

You can’t make friendships happen

Good food takes time to prepare

Patience is a virtue

Providing customisation options to users is a great thing

Adventures in configuring tools to work better

Which iPad do I get in 2025?

About the state of the iPad lineup

Don’t call me a writer!

I hate the spotlight

Sit on the floor with your child and play

Spend time playing with your child

We are all addicted to our phones

And a few rules I have

How I use Obsidian

Notes on note-taking

About the Pareto principle

And the value of putting in the work

Warming up to LLMs

Using copilot to update my book page

Seeing it for the first time

Following Apple rumours

Spring already?

Walk a little

All work is creative

Things change when you become a parent

Life goes on

LLMs are being deployed in factories

How does that make you feel?

About Garbage

And how its our responsibility

Reading is better than watching movies

If it’s the same story

About reflections on writing

From people who have been doing this for many years

Savya-Sajal

Coalescing into my son

How the coffee breaks have changed

Answer: more time on phones

About the marshmallow experiment

And the value of providing kids with a good environment growing up

Why work?

The myths of work

Some times we wait

For a thing to become what it must

The three types of code I write

slapdash, scrappy and production-grade

Some times

The last work left in this world

Train the models!

Should you pay for search?

Public services should be subsidised

Once upon a time, we almost lost everything

A story of a near victim of a cyber crime

Sleep well

Yoga helps you know your body

Designing a book

With a little bit of quirkiness

A week of AI news

Deepsek and the others

Why do I read more on the web

The phone, that’s the answer.

What a mess!

Living with a kid in a messy home

Embracing the light

Light mode / dark mode

I need to talk to more people, more often

And hear their stories

The two factors that allow services to be terrible

My WhatsApp story

The next four years are going to be a drag

Spent in dread

You can’t have one without the other

Actions and consequences

Parenting is full of contradictions

Sleep child, sleep!

The value of consistency

Discipline and repetition

How to complain

Or, how to make your boss's life easier

Meta will not do fact-checking anymore

Meta goes MAGA?

About glue work

Is glue work bad? Depends.

Would you enjoy killing more human NPCs?

Nvidia’s AI NPCs can become your allies

Sometimes all it takes is magic

Sometimes magic is working harder than imagined possible

I do not know what to do

Part #3 of what to do and how to post my damn links

I figured out what to do

How to write here

Rethinking what and how I write on this website

How to add a linkblog here and about how I categorise things

How to use habituation to your benefit

Recognise. Breaks in good. No breaks in bad.

Build a bridge to your corner of the web

Self host

When to write

When you're away from the keyboard

Two lessons on work

Show your work + Ask for help

Books I've read this year

16 - that's the number

Sitting and talking

a place to be less alone

Advanced civilisations could be indistinguishable from nature

A sustainable solution to the fermi paradox

How do I know if someone subscribed to me via RSS

Fans everywhere. Fans nowhere.

No pity for the bosses

Apps make everything legal

The net good or bad of AI

Balancing the perceived benefits against the harms

We don't own anything in this age of subscriptions

An accidents leads to a little peak behind the curtain

We can have a fun conversation with max four people

Shakespeare got it

Digital consumption does not let me do actual work

It affects my ability to focus and remember

The things we don't need

We should let those go, no?

Music can remind you of things

It can transport you, across time and space

Birthdays are funny

Another year around the sun! Yay!

Notes on obsidian

Some things which do not work

Building furniture

A traditional Ikea holiday

Beating death

Living forever

Types of workers in an organisation

Or, evolution of the type of worker you are

Duo all the way

Learning (Playing?) on Duolingo

Why are there no small photo sharing apps

There is an opportunity here

Proprietary formats

A day spent copy pasting from Notes to Markdown

Love and Despair

Reading poems

Life everywhere

But not in the way you expect

Be positive

And not just in the abstract sense.

Trusting people to do the work they were hired to do

Curb micro-management

Where you do yoga matters

Or, the poisonous Delhi air sucks ass

Visiting the Ashokan Pillar in Vaishali

When to let go

Life withers away

Bimba

The art hut

how to blog

daily posts?

A tale of two airlines

Finnair good. SpiceJet shit.

Going home

To Delhi

The future of Kindle

More notes please!

Look at the stars

Look at the sun

How to tell stories

Stories need to surprise

If you're stuck on something

Talk to someone

You're like a river

You flow

The problem with read-it-later apps

It feels like stripping character from the web

Keeping promises

Why walk the same path every day

Ignore the path

We don't want intelligence

We want slaves

Who will advocate for the future

Leave a better world than you found

The custodian for all human knowledge

AIs trained on the web make the web a worse place

Everything can teach us something

Help us grow

A world full of agents

Hey Siri fetch me a glass of water!

The stories we tell

Of a place and a time

Sing!

Go on!

Blue skies

Night skies

Professionals are consistent

They show up

Science fiction does not have to be dystopian in order to be interesting

More hope for the world

What is an iPhone

Answer - a computer

Linkin Park are back

The emptiness machine

Losing someone

It's hard

Everything in nature that is born, dies

Life is what happens in the middle

What are trails

But paths other have walked upon

The good people of Finland

About going to sell my phone and unexpected kindness

Hello from the puddle

Nature

The joy of reading

Books transport you

Made you cry

That's the goal

Further thoughts on certifications and trainings

And marrying well

Original art

No art is original

Thoughts on iPhone day

2024 edition

A day of firsts

Here's how I plan to beat my laziness

Why places matter in a story

How I felt when my Jawbone broke

Let's talk!

Thoughts on self-hosting

Post a day!

Are you tired of everything?

Are you afraid of dying?

Why standing still is scary

How it feels to finally finish that first draft

Some numbers

Does setting a goal really help you?

What to say to someone who's feeling down

What if life were a game?

Why do you fight?

Why persistence matters

What is love?

Why happiness never seems to last

Why you should spend a little less time working

On writing : the numbers

On s*x

On the competitive aspect of things

Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : Two

On emotions

On Killing

New year, new rules!

Fifty plus one

The hopeful human condition

On Honesty, Part-II

Letters to an imaginary girlfriend : One

On Honesty

On Possessions

On Tolerance

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The idea of being a writer

Progress

Why I decided to set a shipping date for my book

The Google or Windows dilemma

Let's sail!

In search of 'Routine'

Children, and truth

All the motivation you need!

The therapeutic act of writing

The whorish aspect of things

The Human Connection

Something about nothing!

The journal

Observations!

Incomplete

Anonymous

Life!

At work!

Was

Coming Home!

Decisions decisions!

Something new!

Communication protocol

Who are you?

Universality

New Life: Ties, and cufflinks!

How important is grammar to a writer?

Writing about not writing

How democratic is our democracy?

FSoL: Happy!

Surprises, and good stories

Moving On

FSoL: That's how we celebrate jobs!

We are all inspired!

The benefits of living with T1D

Five Seconds of Life: 1. The trip

What makes me happy?