NL31 - Going back home

Sajal Choudhary -

Hello from India! I am sitting in a random room in Bangalore as I type this. This is NordLetter #31, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web.

Previous editions can be found here. You can reach out to me by replying on this mail or adding a comment on this. I am also posting on Threads.

I travelled to India on Wednesday. The flight aboard Finnair was good, the best I've had by now. I could not point to one particular reason and say this is why. It just felt better.

I wrote about my dreams for the fediverse, and also about kindles.

/five things to share

  1. Documentation as code. Good documentation truly is critical to all orgs. Both consumer facing and internal. Good docs describe how things work and can help in troubleshooting when things go wrong.
  2. Falling birth rate prompts Finland to suspend baby box procurements. People in developed places are having lesser kids. Places like Japan, even Finland, provide assistance for people wanting to have kids. I think all of this is a product of people generally being pessimistic about the future, and the rising costs of everything, along with the stagnancy of salaries. Coming from India, it always felt like the world will die of overpopulation one day, but then I came across Kevin's article about population decline. I was surprised. It felt counterintuitive, but the reasoning was solid.
  3. The 2025 Ford Mustang Mach-E gets sportier and more affordable. I will get a car next year in spring season. I am tempted to get an electric car. But I am worried about the battery life, basically. How long will the car last and how will it perform as the battery starts to decline.
  4. A history lesson from Adolf's Germany. This election will be an interesting one for the world. The US is a big player, and it feels like Trump knows what he wants to do this time around.
  5. Apple will announce the new Macs with M4s next week. There should be new MacBook Pros, a redesigned Mac Mini, maybe even new iMacs. It will be a week of releases, maybe something new announced every day of the week? We shall see.

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Until next week.