Category: Status Updates

  • David Epstein on Constraints 

    Brett McKay does a good interview that gives you a clear idea of you want to decide if you want to buy a book or not. 

    David Epstein was on The Art of Manliness Podcast on the 1117th episode of the podcast.

    He talks of the power of constraints by contrasting two companies – General Magic Company, where there were no constraints and Pixar, where there were many.

  • WordLand again?

    WordLand has improved a lot since I posted here earlier.

    I am on vacation in Kerala and that is the reason for my pin-drop silence here. 

    I hope WordLand helps me post again.

  • I think IDFC First Bank has done well with AI related search engine optimization. All chat-based AI tools suggested IDFC First Bank and its banking products during my various interactions with AI.

  • I wanted to share this Instagram post from the_blueboat. This is about a 3 hour journey between the districts of Kottayam an Alapuzha through the Vembanad Lake.

    The first service is at 6:45 am, that the_blueboat recommends for a comfortable ride through hidden villages not usually covered by houseboats and shikaras. The service is run by the Kerala Government’s State Water Transport Department.

  • Helical stepwell of Walur, near Parbhani. Quite a wonder of geometry and constructional precision. Designed in the shape of a spiral galaxy (possibly by observing Andromeda?). Perhaps even a perennial source of water and weather study.

  • An Instagram post on the transformation of Muthoot group headquarters at MG Road, Kochi.

    I hope more companies consider the move from Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP) to Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete (GFRC). I had to look up the acronym GFRC because they never explained that in the video.

  • YouTube – Life Explained in 15 minutes

    There are many such videos online which mainly remix online gyan using AI. This may also have been scripted using one. But, I found the order in which it was said and its tone useful to me. Hence, sharing.

    I think this video has collected the 20% I find necessary to live the 80% of my life.

  • We started off with the New Generation Launch Vehicle (NGLV,). Then, there was Lunar Module Launch Vehicle. Then, NGLV was named Soorya. There is confusion about whether the NGLV and LMLV are different vehicles or the same vehicle. ISRO keeps changing nomenclature. This is the latest avatar of LMLV according to Anshuman.

    This is a version with 3 stages, 99.77 m height and 6.5 m diameter. This looks like a version they are developing of NGLV for lunar missions. Just like LVM3 and HLVM3 and hence interchangibly used.

  • Neil Borate shared a summary of the changes in EPFO. Video on X.

  • It is so much fun to read accounts of how blogs which started in the 2000s grew all through the next twenty years. Especially, when they opened doors in formal institutions a decade later for many of us. Read this.