Reading/Listening
I am currently reading/listening to:
- The Bullet Journal Method – Ryder Carroll
- Marathi Vangmayacha (Galeev) Itihas – Pu La Deshpande
Writing
I have been busy with professional commitments this week but was very happy to be able to write two posts on my blog:
- Thinking about my first home is economics and policy themed.
- Trackside – A Collection of Railway Stories is a book review.
The book, Trackside got my writing and reading started again this week.
Spirals
I did not follow any new spirals this week. Most were continuations from the ones last week.
I stumbled on Neeldhara’s tweet about a resource she created on note-taking on her blog.
FP mentions that he backs up his notes digitally. Presently, he does them on Obsidian.
Frontline has a nice interview with Ananyo Bhattacharya, who is the author of The Man from the Future, a book about John von Neumann. I plan to get this book.
I argue that another of von Neumann’s contributions to computing, specifically his insistence on putting everything into the public domain and preventing the computer from being patented, has also had an enormous impact. He is the godfather of the open source movement, which is incredibly important today.
Ananyo Bhattacharya, Frontline
Some of the smartest people in technology say they are worried that AI is worse than pandemics and nuclear weapons. What I worry about is not AI extinguishing humans, but our humanity.
Om Malik, Your Weekend AI reader
Across India, there’s a new kind of tourism that’s seeing a boom- astrotourism. Amateur astronomers, citizens building telescopes, hobbyists, and private companies are organizing dark sky tourism with nightly sky watching and fun daytime experiences.
Sandhya Ramesh, India’s new tourism boom is in the sky
Parallel Spirals 
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