Sajal Choudhary - Evergreen

Thin on the Outside Fat on the Inside

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TOFI not Tofu (the food). Read first about it in The Diabetes Code

BMI is not a good predictor of T2 diabetes. A waist circumference is a better indicator.

Visceral fat accumulates inside and around the intra-abdominal organs - like kidney, liver, etc. In contrast subcutaneous fat is fat deposited under the skin.

Waist to heigh ratio should be less than half. So, for me waist should be under 89cms or 35 inches.

Extinction Was Discovered

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At a time in the recent past, humanity did not know about extinction - everything seemed to exist in perpetuity. Then came Cuvier, a French naturalist who looked at fossils (which were assumed to belong to humans in some cases, and elephants in other) and said, they were in fact extinct.

Our knowledge of the world seems to have grown in almost all the aspects in this similar fashion - the solar system, Newton’s law.

While listening to his story in The Sixth Extinction, I came to know about his colleague - Lamarck who was a proponent of evolution. Cuvier did not believe in evolution.

While reading about this I thought about the concept of mental models which I am reading about in The Great Mental Models and I thought this is the same thing. Based on their models of the world, they came to different conclusions.

The Four Diseases Leading to Slow Death

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From Outlive.

Heart disease
Cancer
Neurodegenerative disease
Type 2 diabetes

Slow death moves very slowly. We need to step in sooner or better yet prevent them altogether.

Write a Letter to Your Child

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From Bird by bird.

When stuck, or unsure what to write, write it as a letter to your child. Tell them whatever you want to tell them, however you want to tell them.

That might just be enough to get you writing and finding the story.

How to Craft a Story

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There are three acts to a story - beginning, middle and end.

Consider a 100K word novel.

You spend 25 K for the beginning, 50 K for the middle and 25 K for the end.

Each scene or chapter should ideally be around 2K words. Why? Because readers can’t quit in the middle of a chapter. 2K words is a good enough length, a potato chip length, where the reader will keep reading one more chapter.

This comes out in terms of scenes - 12 for the beginning, 25 for the middle and 13 for the end - more or less.

There are fifteen scenes that each part needs to have -

Inciting
Complication
Crisis
Climax
Resolution

So that’s 15 scenes done. Now, for the rest of the 35.

Ultraprocessed Food Is Designed to Be Irresistible

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How?

Bliss point - the amount of an ingredient (salt/sugar/fat) which optimises deliciousness
Texture - soft foods require less chewing, so we eat more food
Marketing - Colourful packaging, cartoons to market to kids, etc.

Ultraprocessed food uses all of these things to be just irresistible. The industry uses many of the items from the cigarette industry playbook - denying addiction, different packaging and so on.

I saw this documentary (Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating) which talked about these points in detail.

How to Read

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Read anything and everything.

Anything that draws you to it - whether you like the book’s cover or a blurb or its description or the writer.

Have a wide funnel.

But you don’t have to finish every book you start reading. If you don’t like it, drop it.

Have a sharp filter.

This idea - wide funnel / sharp filter - came across it while reading The art of spending money.

Write for One Person

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Write for one person. It’s difficult to make every one happy. If you try to write that way you will not be able to write anything. So, write for one person - the person you love. Try to make them happy.

Hemingway thought the same (from Ernest Hemingway on writing).

I believe that basically you write for two people: yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that, then wonderful. Then you write for who you love, whether she can read or write or not, and whether she is alive or dead.

Limitations Mean Freedom

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I had this thought a couple of days back about time-limits.

I have had this thought a couple of times in the past, mostly with regard to my writing. About having a deadline, a shipping date by which I have to ship a work.

This recent thought I had was with regard to reading, specifically the type of reading I am doing now - using e-kirjasto (e-library). Compared to the traditional books I borrow from Helmet, I borrow e-books or audiobooks from the e-library. Both of those are borrowed for 14 days. That time limit forces me to finish the book in this time. I find myself reading whenever possible. I have mostly stopped listening to podcasts now. I read ebooks while eating lunch or whenever I have time.

I find this applies to other things as well - like figuring out what to learn. It’s good to limit yourself to one or two things, using two or three resources. The technology landscape is huge and limitations are good. This limitation is not the time-limitation I talked about in the last paragraph. It is a different limitation - of choice.

Distributed System Design Patterns

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From The practice of cloud system administration.

These are the three patterns:

Load balancer with replicated backends
1. LB forwards query to backend server.
2. Backend server are replicated, so any backend should give the same response for a certain query.
3. Round-robin or slow start algorithm to assign traffic.
Server with multiple backend
1. Server receives a query and then forward it to different components.
2. The components all send their responses and then combine it to form the response the user gets.
Server tree
1. Root receives the full query and forwards eat to leaf nodes.
2. Each leaf node works on the query.
3. It allows for parallel searching of a large corpus of data for example.

Work at a Natural Pace

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There should be a varying approach to work, periods of rest and celebration, followed by periods of work.

How?

Take longer to do things

Have long terms plans - 5 years or so
Double the time taken for projects
1. Initial time estimates are usually guesses and wrong
Simplify your day to day
1. Schedule fewer meetings - If you block time for meeting, block similar amount of time for work
2. Schedule lesser work - so that you have more time to do things

How to Create a Simulated Pull Workflow

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Related to Pull vs push method for getting projects. Read about this first in Slow Productivity.

This is especially useful when you don’t have control over how work gets assigned to you.

The core of this system are the two buckets where projects live -

On hold
In progress

Every new work comes to the on hold bucket. Things you are actually working on are in progress bucket. The key point is to ensure a max number of projects in the in progress bucket - three.

Once a project is done we add a new project from the on-hold bucket. If for example, writing a book is a project in the on-hold bucket, what you pull in the in-progress bucket is ‘write chapter 2’.

When a new project request, we need to ingest it properly, by:

Acknowledging the requester
Giving a time line
Giving a list of open projects you have
Any information you need from them

The final step is to ensure proper cleanup of the on hold bucket on schedule.

Obsess Over Quality

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Have pride in what you build. Give it time and the effort it deserves.

Do Fewer Things

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Limiting missions
Limiting projects
Limiting tasks on a daily basis -

How?

By time blocking or doing certain things at certain times
By paying for services that save time and take admin work off your hands.

How to Automate Something

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After you’ve figured out what to automate, follow these steps -

Make sure you know how to do the thing manually.
Document the steps needed for the same
Make sure you can automate each step
Bring it together - add one step after the next and test after each addition, incrementally.

From Time management for system administrators.

What to Automate

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There are four types of things that we can automate -

Simple things done once
Hard things done once
Simple things done often
Hard things done often

It is better to try to automate simple things done often and hard things done once. We should consider buying tools for hard things done often.

From Time management for system administrators.

A Little Inefficiency Is Good

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From Same as Ever.

Like in nature, species are not perfect. There are some imperfections.

Small inefficiencies in the work we do are similarly required - especially in knowledge work. We need time to think, to work the problem but seldom get the time to do so. Our days are filled with things - meetings, calls, disruptions.

The 9 to 5 is great if the work is formulaic and repetitive. But it does not work if you have to think.

Progress Takes Time While Destruction Is Instantaneous

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From Same as ever.

Good things take time, they compound and that is difficult to point at and understand. Bad things on the other hand are things that did happen - a market crash, for example.

Creating a good reputation may take twenty years while losing it takes just five minutes.

Construction need engineers and planning while demolition needs someone with a sledgehammer.

Be a Rational Optimist

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From Same as Ever.

A rational optimist is someone who knows that in the short term things will go bad, but over a longer time, things work out.

Being a pessimist or optimist all the times is not optimal. Because life does not work like that.

How to Avoid Wasting Time

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Set a timer for the thing that you want to do - for me playing a game
Once the timer rings, stop doing the thing

I have found myself getting lost while playing a game in my playstation. It takes my partner calling me out and telling me to get off my ass, that I think about shutting it off.

Gaming is not bad. It’s entertaining. There should be a limit though.

How to Decide What to Watch or Read

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Keep a list
When it comes to pick what to read/watch next just pick the next item in the list
Delete that item from the list

How to Handle Stress at Work

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These are the things that work for me. They may or may not work for you.

If feeling overwhelmed with work, add stuff to the planner, see what can be done now, prioritise. Talk to your boss for prioritisation.
The rubber duck hypothesis- if stuck talk to anyone, sometimes just the act of explaining unlocks a problem.
Take vacations - not let me do some chores vacations- actual vacations
Walk. Do yoga. Meditate.

Risk Is What You Can’t See Coming

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Like Covid, or any of the great depressions. Sure in hindsight it seems obvious, but for people living the happening, it’s anything but.

There are two things to do then:

Plan for risk without prediction. You will not when it comes but you must plan anyway.
Always plan more than what might seem ok - like in personal finance it should feel like you have saved up more than needed for the emergency fund.

Happiness Relies on Expectation

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By almost every metric, we are better off than we were in an earlier age, still we earn for the golden period we had earlier (supposedly).

The difference is expectation. The delta between expectation and our reality is what causes happiness or sorrow. We should have reasonable expectations and take whatever happens with stoicism.

Expectation comes from looking at what others around us have. That may or may not be what we need or want.

Also expectation is easier to manage than the outcomes.

How to Work With Your Boss

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Make your boss’s life easier. Understand the priorities, if they ask for some information or task there may be a bigger ask they are trying to accomplish.
1. If they ask you to do something go to them with solutions, or clearly ask for help.
Make sure your boss knows your career goals. Once a year have a chat. The preferred outcome is that they will tell you what you need to do.
Upward delegate only when it makes sense. When you need your boss’s authority for example to deal with other business units etc.

Best Practices for Presenting Things

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These are things that I have noticed in presentations given by others. Presentations that I have liked have these qualities.

Less text on the slide. Just pointers not descriptions. A person viewing should be able to skim quickly. This is not a SOP document.
Have a demo. Demos are fun.
If you include diagrams, it should be visible, i.e. the text should be visible.
Consistent design language, don’t jump from one style to a different one. I prefer minimalist styles.
Do not dive too deep technically - depends on the audience actually
Pick a topic accordingly. A super technical presentation will be difficult to pull off. Generally speaking, it’s easier to do overview sort of talks.

How and When Do I Read

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At present, I am mostly consuming audio books now. I listen to them whenever I can, but mostly -

While commuting (a 40 min commute at present)
While walking
While out for groceries, etc.

I love physical books - hardcover and paperback. I used to borrow from my local library and read during my commute which was via the Metro. I miss that.

Inspired by this article on the reading habits of some well-read people.

Ergonomics for Sitting at a Desk

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From this YouTube video and many other articles I’ve read elsewhere.

Adjust chair or table so that elbows and arms are at 90 degrees to your desk
Monitor at arms length, top of the monitor should be at eye level

Curation Matters

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Or, curation can have long term consequences.

I read about this first in Yuval Noah Harrari’s Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI.

The Bible is not one book, but rather a collection of different texts that were canonised over many years.

A committee did this task. The things they decided to add - like how women are somehow inferior and have little rights compared to men - took a lot of time to roll back and fight against in the modern world.

Curation is important. I am thinking about this of course in terms of what I write here. I wrote earlier about writing more and the things I write on my blog. I keep going back to the value that micro posts bring, if any.

I know I don’t need to justify what I write about.

Curation is important though. Especially in this age. And even more so going forward. There is a list of blogs, newsletters and news sites I follow via RSS. What I share after reading things there is my curation.

You may decide to follow me based on that, because you value my taste and curation.

Write More

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Should I write more or less has been a constant tension that I have felt over time. Should I write and publish essays like Craig Mod, polished things, which exist on their own. Or should I write more, publishing links as I go along, little thoughts, things I’ve learned and so on. Not super polished, but living documents, which I can edit over time.

Over the course of redesigning the website and ensuring I have a place to do both, I have found myself writing more and more. I used to think what’s the point of a link blog, sure someone else reading it might get some benefit out of it. But what benefit do I get from writing those?

I think two-

As a personal bookmark for things and ideas that I could refer to later
It just contributes to the volume

And this second point is what I have realised recently. Yesterday while walking, in fact.

The more I write, the more I practice this muscle that I have, the easier it gets. I am writing more in the daily note - a journal, more micro posts, more evergreen notes, and so on.

The more I write - the more I write.

Always, write more.

Humans and Algorithms Think Differently When Coming to a Decision

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Humans take one or two factors into consideration when deciding on something. These factors may be reached by further subconscious factors.

While algorithms refer to a multitude of factors. When asked to explain it’s decision an algorithm may point to pages upon pages of reasons why it took a decision.

Algorithms Affect What We Post on the Socials

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In order to maximise engagement, algorithms figured out that incendiary things drive more engagement, so they promoted that content.

Once people figured out that that is the stuff more likely to be viral or popular they started making that stuff.

This is also noticed in how YouTubers have to change how they make things - the image for the video for example, based on whatever the YouTube algorithm wants.

When Someone Has Been Dead for a While

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When someone has been dead for a while, you don’t remember how they look. Their image, in your mind becomes muddied. The image is not that sharp. It feels like you are looking at them through a muddied window or without eyeglasses.

It happens gradually of course. Perhaps because there’s peace in that, peace and a respite from suffering.

In your mind’s eye, this new image, this muddied not-so-sharp image is the correct image. It’s how they looked.

Recently, I got a picture of my mother, cropped, sharpened so I could put it on a wall in my home. The first time I saw that picture, I thought this is not right. This is too sharp. This is artificial. But I just did not remember her face that well.

It had felt that way since the day I had put up her picture on the wall. Something felt wrong all these months.

Today, as I saw her smiling face, I felt recognition. I saw her, and remembered her. I felt glad to have spent the extra money on this picture to get it sharpened.

Someone somewhere had said this once -

Dead people die twice. Once when they die. And the other time when people stop talking about them.

The Things I Write on My Blog

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The first step is to figure out the things I write and a brief description of those things. Then, we can move onto how those could be organised.

Links with a little occasional commentary from my end
Notes on something I came across - written in my words with links/quotes where needed
Notes on books I’ve read
Weekly newsletter - nordletter
TILs - notes on things I’ve learned
Short stories
Poems

Why Journal

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I was not into journaling for a long time. Maybe I would write something if I was feeling particularly sad, or happy, if I had achieved something that I would want to remember. But I wasn’t consistent with it. While reading Derek Sivers’ talk about their daily journaling practice, I felt I needed to be consistent with it. Consistency was the point.

Today, I read Victoria Song talk about journaling, especially this part:

Some days, it’s abundantly obvious what you should write about. A great tragedy, a joyous occasion, an event you’ve been looking forward to — anything that sparks a strong emotion is an obvious prompt. But most days pass without much happening at all, forcing you to sift through mundane minutiae to find anything worth recording. That’s the point. Honing your discernment, exercising your brain, wracking your vocabulary to find the right phrase to express your inner world. These are not things that are supposed to be easy.

I felt motivated to write about my own reasons. Here they are:

As future notes to myself, as random things I might read back on. As things my future self might reference.
As a kind of therapy, a signal to wind down after a long day.
So that one day, if Savya wants to, he could train an AI on these notes and ask the AI, if Dad were here, what would he think, or say.

Principles

Do daily journaling, preferably at the end of the day.
- If it’s not possible to do it at the end of the day, do it early next morning
Write anything
- What I did
- What happened and how it made me feel

The Keyboard Shortcuts I Use in Obsidian

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Open daily note - Cmd+D
Create unique note - Cmd+Shift+Z
Show file explorer - Cmd+Shift+E
Insert current date - Cmd+Shift+D
Close current tab/note - Cmd+Shift+X
Move note to different folder - Cmd+M

Majority of the Organisations Are Not Seeing Any Monetary Benefits From Deploying AI

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Bank Forced To Rehire Workers After Lying About Chatbot Productivity, Union Says - Slashdot

As banks around the world prepare to replace many thousands of workers with AI, Australia's biggest bank is scrambling to rehire 45 workers after allegedly lying about chatbots besting staff by handling higher call volumes

This aligns with a previous study out of MIT with similar findings.

The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025, a new report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative, reveals that while generative AI holds promise for enterprises, most initiatives to drive rapid revenue growth are falling flat.

Despite the rush to integrate powerful new models, about 5% of AI pilot programs achieve rapid revenue acceleration; the vast majority stall, delivering little to no measurable impact on P&L. The research—based on 150 interviews with leaders, a survey of 350 employees, and an analysis of 300 public AI deployments—paints a clear divide between success stories and stalled projects.

Analogical Thinking

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Read about this first in Range.

Analogical thinking allows us to use existing things to explain new things.

The more analogies we use to explain something, the better. The more diverse places these analogies are from, the more likelier we are to find a solution.

It is better to look at deeper relations between things than surface level things like category, or domain.

As an example - sweating and fed are both examples of negative feedback loops. If we sweat more, we don't need to sweat that much. The fed controls monetary policy to increase or decrease spending, if spending increases, then it does the opposite.

How to Learn Effectively

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Read about this in Range

Humans are very good at doing the least amount of work to produce a solution. So, in class or while learning, we end up figuring out the rules to get to the solution. If these rules are not what the teacher wants us to learn, then the learning is ineffective.

Getting hints while working on a problem improves short term performance but harms long term learning.

There are three science based methods that one could use to help with long term learning - spacing, testing and making connections problems.

Making connections problems
Spaced repetition - Waiting between practice sessions of the same thing
Testing effect/Retrieval practice/Generation effect - When you are forced to recall something, it helps with further learning, even if you recall it wrong. The act of trying to recall strengthens your memory of that event.

Mixed Format Books

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I have discovered audiobooks recently. Before this, of course I was not a big fan of audiobooks. I was unsure, I was a bit of a purist. I used to feel that if you want to read a book, you know, read a book.

Of course I also used to be someone who wrote everything that they wrote on a keyboard. These days I am asking Wispr Flow what to type and it does that.

Speech is natural and it is fast.

The second thing is about time.

I bought a car recently. And what that has meant is the time I used to have sitting in a metro reading a book is just not there anymore. So I can either listen to songs on my way to work (which is a 30-minute approximately drive one way) or listen to podcasts, or the third thing being listen to audiobooks. I have picked the last thing.

Of course, another factor nudging me in that direction was molly White's YouTube video where she talked about how she was able to read so much. A secret? Audiobooks and reading 3-4 books at a time.

This is something that I have realized as well. There are some books, mostly nonfiction, where you want to be reading it because, at least that's how I think, those books require you to concentrate more and reading a book allows you to concentrate more. What I've found in my limited experience is that fictional books are better as audiobooks or books in which you are telling a story. Those could be like literary nonfiction as well.

Because, with audiobooks, most of the time you are doing something while you are reading the book or listening to it.

Here's the thing. I had this thought today while I was in the break area. It's where I usually have my phone out and I'm reading through my RSS feed on Net News Wire.

And I had this thought today, "Wouldn't it be better if I could just continue reading the book I was listening to while I was driving?"

It's simple: the idea is that I should be able to pick up where I had left off, and if I want to, start reading the book.

I don't think technically it is something that is out of reach for people. Of course, the quality of the voice doing the narration for an audiobook varies. It varies a lot. If you used a simple text-to-speech engine with Whisper and everything else they have gotten good enough, I feel.

Yesterday, I wrote about a Notebook LM launching a new feature. I feel Notebook LM, as a product, has shown that text-to-speech products are good enough. Kindle could add this feature to their app, wherein you could just ask it to read your book. You don't need a separate Audible app for that.

I think it's a simple enough idea and it's easily achievable. The problem, I think, is with the fact that the book companies won't license you the rights. It's about money at the end of the day.

But I think in terms of experience, it's a better thing, a better product that you could consume your book how you want to.

There are two excellent examples for this:

A book I started reading today itself, which is available as a book on the web, as a PDF download, as Mobi, as a podcast, or as a single MP3 file. It's called "Resilient Web Design". That is something that made me think about it.
The second one that I can think of now was Derek Sivers and his idea that once you buy the book, you know just if you want to get a physical book, pay for the print and the other editions come with it. Same for if you just want the digital, you'll get the PDF, EPUB, whatever, all of those in one go.

The technology I think clearly exists to make it happen. Hopefully someone does make it happen. I would love to be able to pick up a book, read, then listen to it on my way back or something, and then pick it up and start reading it again, having it sync automatically through all the states.

I think it would be a great experience.

The Goal With Yoga

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I had written sometime back on Mastodon, and I am paraphrasing here, that with yoga it felt like I was trying to get back to how my body was when I was a child.

I had this realisation after looking at Savya doing all the things I was trying to do effortlessly. Savya was able to bend his back, his feet everything and just sit there like that.

The goal with yoga, is to be able to do the poses, effortlessly. Most days I am huffing as I go through the surya-namaskar. The goal is to be able to flow, to not feel minimal effort.

Homes Can’t Be Considered Both an Investment and Affordable Enough for Everyone to Own

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Heard about this in Abundance: How We Build a Better Future.

Homes can’t be both investments and affordable enough for everyone to own.

For a home to be a good investment, its price has to increase. For that to happen:
You have to control how many homes can be built
1. If supply is low then price increases
2. With zoning permits and laws you can control which type of homes can be built which would control who can afford those homes

About AI Browsers

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OpenAI’s next big launch could be an AI web browser

OpenAI is planning to launch an AI web browser in the “coming weeks,” according to a report from Reuters. Sources tell the outlet that OpenAI could build its Operator AI agent into the browser, allowing it to book reservations, fill out forms, and complete other tasks on a user’s behalf as it moves toward an “agentic” future.

Quite a few companies are working on building AI browsers - Perplexity, OpenAI and The Browser Company. I have not tried any by now.

All these companies seem to have the same vision - they will use the browser for us, book stuff, search stuff, etc. I don’t know how I feel about that, tbh.

Be a Hybrid

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There are three things you can be in your career.

Specialist
Generalist
Hybrid

There are areas in which specialists are needed, doctors, for example. But in knowledge work, it might not be a good idea.

Being a generalist is another idea. But that means you never dig deep into anything.

The hybrid path means having two or more things you have expertise in. If these things are adjacent you get a T-shape. If not, then you get a U-shape.

I have come across these views at many times in my career. TCS has an internal T-factor score for example, for all associates.

I used to consider myself a generalist before reading Kepano's - Don't specialize, hybridize. I recognise myself to be a T-shaped hybrid. I do get tempted from time to time, to further dabble in the arts, learn to draw, paint, make art for my books and poems.

Branching out into a U-shape sounds fun. I am not sure if I will be able to achieve it though.