Category: Status Updates

I missed an important milestone, two days ago. I wrote my first blog post on Blogger on 1 April 2006. It has now been 18 years since I started this blog.

I love how writing here is spurning me to action. After making no progress on my note making process in the last 3 months, I have already set up parts of the note making system. I think having the system will help implement the workflow.

Enshittification as a matter of taste by Dave Rupert (via Tracy Durnell):

To me, enshittification means that a person who lacks taste was put in a position of power.

Enshittification is a word introduced by Cory Doctrow.

I keep reading Cory Doctrow’s blog post about making technology policy. 

The job of government experts isn’t just to research the correct answers. Even more important is experts’ role in evaluating conflicting claims from interested parties. When administrative agencies make new rules, they have to collect public comments and counter-comments. The best agencies also hold hearings, and the very best go on “listening tours” where they invite the broad public to weigh in (the FTC has done an awful lot of these during Lina Khan’s tenure, to its benefit, and it shows).

If you look closely, you'll notice the real ones have smaller circles, louder love, stronger integrity, deeper presence, and greater peace.

One of the reasons that I like reading Om Malik’s blog is because he puts into words what we feel in our guts, in terms of a trend that you see crystalizing but can’t yet put into words:

This is just like how I felt when I experienced Google for the first time—even before it had made it to the market. After that first meeting with Google’s co-founders, established search engines like Yahoo, Lycos, and AltaVista suddenly felt antiquated.

This shift matters more than you might think. Even the browser, that faithful window into the internet for the past three decades, is starting to feel like a relic. We’re moving from a document-centric web to something more fluid, where information flows naturally through conversation rather than being bound by pages or URLs.

The atomization of information is unfolding rapidly. Artificial intelligence doesn’t just search; it synthesizes, contextualizes, and presents information in a user’s preferred format.

Utsav Mamoria has a great long read about how to live an intellectual life. He uses fantasy as a great storytelling tool to illustrate his point.