Weekly Notes 41/2023

A lot of outing happened this week after the monsoon pause. We went to the mall on Thursday. I met up with Saurabh in Pune.

Writing

I have not written my fortnightly space newsletter for three fortnights now. This is a streak I would like to break.

I completed a couple of long-uncompleted work items. Feels like a load off my shoulders.

I wrote one blog post here.

I finished writing about the zettelkasten, in my zettelkasten. I am following it up with Andy Matuschak’s Evergreen Notes.

Reading

I am presently listening on Audible:

• Novelist as a Vocation – Haruki Murakami

I am presently reading:

• Latitudes of Longing – Shubhangi Swarup

I am reading the following articles/essays/stories –

• Science values doubt over faith – Devdutt Pattanaik
• Heather Ford: Is the Web Eating Itself? LLMs versus verifiability – Ethan Zuckerman
• Charlemagne – The Cultural Tutor
• Bruce Lee and the Mystery of the Overflowing Tea – The Takshashila Institution
• Championing pluralism will make India a vishwaguru – Nitin Pai
• Getting too good at the wrong thing – Nat Eliason
• Resist the Reverse Michelangelo effect – Brett & Kate McKay
• Autofocus: The productivity system that treats your to-do list like a river – Brett & Kate McKay

YouTube

Cycling

Cycling is a practice I want to continue. I went cycling last Sunday and Monday before taking the cycle to work on Tuesday. I haven’t cycled the rest of the week.