Weekly Notes 1/2025

2175 weeks left.

I spent the New Year’s with my wife and kids.

I had met up with Jatan in Pune during the science journalist’s conference. We had discussed about social media there. He’s written himself about some of the weirdness of social media here. People build an audience on a social media platform, the social media platform attracts more people who want to build an audience, and the social media platform wins while the people don’t. Yet people continue to flock to the different social media platforms.

Writing or building your blog or website slows down the discovery process (like this, for example or on people’s blogrolls) but the people who discover things this way have a way of remembering you that is much better. I remember the people I found on blogs much more than the people I engage with on social media platforms. At the conference, I realized it is true the other way as well.

I picked up writing on the blog from the next week onwards.

Reading

1. The City and It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami – I wrote a review here.
2. The Notebook – A History of Thinking on Paper – Roland Allen – I made slow progress reading this week.
3. Moustache – S Hareesh, Translated by Jayasree Kalathil – I started listening to this today.

Writing

1. I wrote the seventh edition of the healthtech newsletter, Towards Eternity.
2. I got back to writing my space newsletter this week. You can read the sixty third edition of the newsletter here.