Category: Personal

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

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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.

Writing

I wrote a lot this week. Most of them have been work but I have managed to pull aside some time to write about Scott P Scheper’s version of the Zettelkasten, that he calls Antinet this week. I am exploring Andy Matuschak’s Evergreen Notes this week.

I also wrote the broad contours of the novel that I will write for NaNoWriMo 2023. Title is TBD.

I have not written my fortnightly space newsletter in two fortnights.

I am writing but things are not in kilter yet.

Reading

• Newsletters; or, an enormous rant about writing on the web that doesn’t really go anywhere and that’s okay with me – Robin Rendle
• The Screens are the Symptom – danah boyd
• Sufficient Decentralisation of Social Networks – Varun Srinivasan
• Of Digital Streams, Campfires, and Gardens – Tom Critchlow
• Self-Anthropology: Becoming your own anthropologist with personal field notes – Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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OTT

• The Irregulars (English)
• Rocky aur Rani ki Prem Kahani (Hindi)
• Biohackers (German)
• Reptile (English)
• Miss Sloane (English)
• The Pale Blue Eye (English)
• Wheel of Time (Season 2, English)

I missed writing the Weekly Notes for the thirty eighth week and the fifty eighth edition of Pradeep’s Space Newsletter. I caught up with a lot of writing work-wise but not much otherwise.

It was a fantastic week for reading. I got a lot of reading done and listened to a lot of podcast episodes. This post is just to make sure that I don’t miss more than two in a stride.

I started reading, physical exercise, and a few routines.

OTT

• Luther: The Fallen Sun (English)
• The Gift (Turkish, English)

Reading

Books I listened to (on Audible):

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson

I read more articles than books to get back in touch with reading:

• Photo Essay – The Kangra Valley Railway – Shashanka Nanda
• Ladakh’s struggle for identity and survival – Anando Bhakto
• The tragic tale of General Edroos, who fought a losing battle for the princely state of Hyderabad – Zeenat Khan
• Growing Gains – Lux Capital
• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden – Maggie Appleton
• 6 Thoughts on “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson – Trung Phan
• Self-Anthropology: Become your own anthropologist with personal field notes – Anne-Laure Le Cunff

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