Weekly Notes 43/2024

I have not been very disciplined about writing these Weekly Notes in 2024. I have not enjoyed writing on WordPress. But, the alternatives are either too technical or too expensive or the process to pay for them from India is too convoluted.

But, I do not want the rest of the year to be the same. I want to be consistent. This is a small effort towards that.

Writing

I have had the honor of writing three articles for The Hindu. These are:

1. ISRO has a problem: too many rockets, too few satellites to launch (paywalled)
2. Since Chandrayaan-3, what has India’s space programme been up to? (paywalled)
3. New rocket, plus moon and Venus missions, herald new beginnings (paywalled)

All three were edited by the brilliant Vasudevan Mukunth. The third one specifically needed a lot of that editing brilliance.

This allows me to get back to my weekly newsletter which will begin again next week.

I am also planning to write daily for National Novel Writing Month 2024. This will be posted on thinkdeli.com.

Reading

I am presently reading Stephen King’s On Writing.

I recently finished listening to Chetan Bhagat’s 11 Rules for Life. I picked it up on Audible, which is still advertising it to me despite it being in my library. I found the advice neither philosophical like the Stoic self-helps nor generalist self-help. It seems somewhere in the middle. Closer to the generalist self-help but slightly above.

The second half of this year has been better but my tsundoku is growing everyday.