Tag: Jatan Mehta

  • Weekly Notes 48/2025

    I got a lot of work done in the past two weeks. But, I had recurrent health scares that kept me away from writing. This weekend I was really busy with several home improvement works. Hence, the delayed post here. But, better late than never, as had been the case in the last few weeks.

    I am currently reading Oh, Life Relax Please by Swami Sukhabodhananda and listening to Consider Phlebas by Iain M Banks. I went to the library after a long time. I donated Jatan Mehta’s book Seven uni verses among several other books to the public library here. There are many more books that I plan to give away.

    I also attended my first in-person event in a long time. The talk was on geology of the Himalayas by Suvrat Kher. I have been reading his blog, Rapid Uplift for a really long time. His latest blog post, Landscapes: PIndari Glacier Trail formed a part of the talk. I also had the chance to meet some of my friends there, whom I had missed meeting because of the surgeries.

    I started reading blog posts on Readwise again. I have also removed X, Mastodon, and Instagram apps on the phone.

  • Weekly Notes 27/2025

    I realized I was not listening to podcasts that I usually would. I have downloaded PocketCasts to fix that. I have also downloaded the X and Tusky app for Android to access X and Mastodon. Thus ends my social media detox.

    What I’m reading?

    1. Education is free, Learning is expensive by Seth Godin
    • “If knowledge was power, controlling access was essential.”
    • “They even call it the ‘admissions office.’”

    2. On SpaceNews going paywalled, and the broader disregard for archiving in journalism by Jatan Mehta

    I read Doc Searls’ blog post about the subweb only two days back and now to be bought into my own space world so quickly is sad to see.

    3. Six Paths by Vishwesh Shetty (Qissa Comics)

    4. Build an Epic Career by Ankur Warikoo

    What I’m watching?

    Matt D’Avella is someone I started following when I was into minimalism. Good to see that he is still trying to hang in there.

    I have been trying to explore solarpunk and lunarpunk themes in my story writing. I haven’t written much this year. That’s something I hope to fix at this year’s NaNoWriMo.

    I’m seeing many finance YouTubers and podcast hosts talk about cryptocurrency again in India. Most of the stuff that I have watched had been sponsored by the cryptocurrency exchange, CoinDCX. Another cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, which had decided to not comply with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges and had left India is also returning with a India Blockchain Yatra.

    Mukesh Bansal’s solocast on fasting.

    Madhu Kela, knowingly or unknowingly says in this podcast, “China is an autocracy, India is a bureaucracy”, although he corrects it to democracy before he completes.

    Storytelling in Malayalam

    My Instagram watch time is also growing. I might add things I watched from there as well, starting next week.