Weekly Notes 05/2025

I missed writing the weekly notes last week because I was not well. Sorry. 2171 weeks left.

I gave a talk last night on OpenTakshashila on the trends in space technology and policy. The talk was brief and I did get lost while talking in the middle. I wrote a brief X thread on what my main talking points were. I will also write a more detailed blog post based on these talking points soon.

I reduced the time that I spent on X, BlueSky, and Mastodon this week. It was more than the time I spent on these websites in the week before this.

Writing

I wrote the two newsletters:

• Towards Eternity #11
• Pradeep’s Space Newsletter #66

I am also following along with Brandon Sanderson’s Writing Course on YouTube. I am planning to use it to improve the story I started writing on thinkdeli for NaNoWriMo 2024.

Reading

I finished reading S Hareesh’s Moustache. I am yet to write a review of the book. I am presently reading two books:

• The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Rolland Allen (56%)
• Boulder by Eva Baltasar transl. by Julia Sanches (19%)

Watching

I watched these over the last two weeks on Netflix:

• Sakomoto Days (ongoing S1 E3)
• The Night Agent (S2)
• Back in Action (movie)
• Asura (S1)
• The Playlist

I watched these over the last two weeks on Prime Video:

• Paatal Lok (S2)
• On Call (S1)

I watched this video on YouTube that I really liked, besides the Sanderson lecture.

I had once read a book on this that I wrote about here. This one by Vikas Divyakirti is in Hindi and much more crisper and clearer. I also saw the video on Charwak by him and I was left wondering why we can’t bring this philosophy to the twenty first century.

The illness last week means that several blog posts are pending on here. I will get to work on those shortly.