So typically Indian 😀😀😀!

Of ~200 books I've read, the few that stayed with me over time and I find myself often thinking back to or referring to, in ~random order: All short stories by Ted Chiang, especially Exhalation, Division By Zero, Understand, The Story of Your Life, Liking What You See, The

Marc Andreessen: Elon inspires incredible loyalty from his employees because they know he'll sit all night with them to solve a problem. “Elon actually delegates almost everything. He's not involved in most of the things that his companies are doing.  He's involved in the thing

One of the most fun papers I've read in recent times. Excellent. Reminiscent of the good old days of science papers.

It’s a beautiful day. Be grateful. The Kiffness

Japan reached its peak technological prowess around 1990. "Japan as the number 1 economy, Japan overtaking the US" were all serious topics then. What happened? Serious demographic decline. Today, China is already the technology leader in many fields and is well on its way to

Engineers-turned-PMs keep making the same fatal mistake in stakeholder meetings: They think logic will save them. After mentoring a few folks, I've noticed a pattern no one talks about:

Obituary for my father. Richard Warner Carlson died at 84 on March 24, 2025 at home in Boca Grande, Florida after six weeks of illness. He refused all painkillers to the end and left this world with dignity and clarity, holding the hands of his children with his dogs at his

Harvard musing: He is going to be 92, still teaches a philosophy class once a week at Harvard, is completing a new book and has plans for another, travels to India to spend time at his beloved Santiniketan , has retained his Indian citizenship, reminds me that Sanskrit was his

I’m a middle-aged man, born and raised in Guwahati. My wife is from the hills of Nagaland and belongs to one of its indigenous tribes. We’ve been together for over 25 years and have raised two daughters. Lately, I’ve been hearing worried whispers about how a couple from mainland

Rashtrapati Bhavan , Delhi 🏛️🌆 🇮🇳

Be Biju Patnaik Makes a daring solo flight into Dutch occupied Indonesia and sneaks away their Prime Minister. Gets awarded Indonesia's highest honor Bhoomi Putra. Becomes close friends with Sukarno, names his daughter Megawati after character in Kalidasa's Meghasandesam.

Why I Chose to Learn Tamil (Instead of Complaining About It) When I joined CMC Vellore for my MBBS in 1989, little did I know that one of the most important skills I’d pick up outside the classroom would be—reading Tamil. I had come from Bihar, where roads and public transport

This has aged very well.

I am nailing Nine Theses to the door of Wikipedia. This has been my project for the last nine months. There has never been a thoroughgoing Wikipedia reform proposal—this is the first. If it doesn't work, we need to organize an alternative. 🧵

October is almost done and It has been a tough few days. The sky is falling. Sleep has been rare lately. I land early in the day in delhi. The sandpaper flavour of its people makes a red ruin of my sanity. I finish a tough meeting. It goes well but I am hungry, cranky and have

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Fast, cheap AI-assisted decompilation of binary code is here. Which means code secrecy is dead. Decompilers in themselves are not a new technology. Security researchers have employed them for years to analyze compiled malware. There's been some limited use by others, notably by

Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must

It is a source of continuous delight to watch the AI community rediscover the fundamentals and the dynamics of software engineering as they take those things and embellish them with AI adjectives, making them sound all fresh and new and sparkly while in truth, those fundamentals