It’s been 20 years since I registered on WordPress.com.
7 June 2026 Sunday
I decided to change the way that I write Weekly Notes into these daily paragraphs inspired by reading this. I wrote the Weekly Notes 23/2026 in this format. Let’s see how long I can keep up. Friends came over to see our home.
8 June 2026 Monday
Kids were both unwell. We asked the friends who had come over on the day before if they were OK. It helped us to narrow down what could have caused the issue. I Googled 6 7 and learnt about a neat little trick that Google does. I found out Shubha Mudgal has a Substack.
9 June 2026 Tuesday
My wife celebrated her birthday. We had a small cake cutting ceremony in the evening. We had an intimate event.
10 June 2026 Wednesday
I learnt that Malayalam actor Salim Kumar had passed away. Read this article on his life on X among other tributes. I also read a blog post about the evolution of Marathi. Nidheesh M K wrote about how a video posted on YouTube ripped one year of his hardwork. I also read about face fatigue written by Shephali Bhatt.
I learnt about the original jugaad.
11 June 2026 Thursday
A nice look at @zenrainman’s garden and water management system.
12 June 2026 Friday
I went for the periodical medical test sponsored by my workplace. I also made my way through the ശ്രീ ലളിതോപാഖ്യാനം (Sri Lalithopvakhyanam) as told by Sharath A Haridasan.
13 June 2026 Saturday
The US Government blocked access to Fable 5 citing national security. Companies and people that were planning their businesses around the access to AI are worried. There still seem to be hackathons in India that support Claude and OpenAI. I don’t understand this. Isn’t it better to contribute to open source foundational models rather than closed foundational models?
SpaceX IPO went live. Elon Musk became a trillionaire and Gwynne Shotwell became a billionaire.
I agree with Sandhya Ramesh when she says that the space for humanity era is gone.
But, true for many other things.
Many people have pointed to the writing of Shankar Sharma. This video summarizes many of his writings about stock market in India.
He makes some very interesting arguments – innovation falls as the country gets rich off the stock markets, Indian retail investors are giving exits to foreign equity investors (and so, the money is not getting re-invested in India), retail investors must not be so active in the stock market, and foreign investor exits must not be as easy as it is presently.
Parallel Spirals 