Missing home

Hello from my home in Matinkylä! This is NordLetter #20, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Previous editions can be found here.

Prerna went home today.

Home. A funny word that. Home.

What is home? Can there be different homes?

I still think of India, Noida as home. This? Here? This is also home. I guess that is one of the tragedies of being an expat.

Can home be a person? I think so.

What is home?

It's where you feel safe. Where you can be yourself. Where you don't have to pretend. Where you feel loved. Where you can just be.

Prerna is my home.

And now, I don't have that to come back to after work.

/techStuff

Judge rules that Google ‘is a monopolist’ in US antitrust case

A US judge ruled that Google is a monopoly in search and ads. This feels like it was a long time coming. It is also about defaults and how most of us don't change them. It is true that Google is the best at search. It is also true that it pays other companies lots of money to be the default option.

It is yet to be decided what Google will need to do or forced to do.

Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line.

I had bought a Chromecast. It was cheap. It brought Android TV to my dumb TV. It was just perfect. End of an era. Now most TVs are smart. So a cheap plug is not needed any more.

Existential thoughts about Apple’s reliance on Services revenue

/reading

A Swiss Town Banned Billboards. Zurich, Bern May Soon Follow

Advertising is intended to create needs that people did not know they had before.

“No Salt”

About loss.

How not to say the wrong thing
A similar concept to how I think about the world in general. In circle. Who are the people I care about the most? And then it expands from there. Friends, family, colleagues. In circles expanding from myself. To whom and in what order will I give my mind-space and time to.
Everybody can text you. It’s up to you to decide who are you giving the permission to.
This expands it or talks about it in the context of being in a hospital.

Until next week.