This page is dedicated to thoughts. Thoughts that are still unfinished, not fully formed. Thoughts are fleeting, ephemeral little buggers. This page aims to be a catch-all for various images, world-views, quotes and sentences that resonate with my world view.
20th April 2026
Post a discussion with a Prof.:
Whatever you produce- research, blogs or words (speech) should be of high-quality and reproducible. Never compromise on QUALITY.
19th April 2026 (Sunday)
From So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport:
Amy Wrzesniewski, a professor of organizational behavior at Yale University, has made a career studying how people think about their work. Her breakthrough paper, published in the Journal of Research in Personality while she was still a graduate student, explores the distinction between a job, a career, and a calling. In Wrzesniewski's formulation:
- A job is a way to pay the bills
- A career is a path toward increasingly better work
- A calling is work that's an important part of your life and a vital part of your identity.
19th April 2026 (Sunday)
A genuinely interesting mental model I walked away with post a 5-min chat with Arnav Sahu at the Y Combinator Startup School in Bangalore.
11th April 2026 (Saturday)
Interesting statistic from Hank Green's Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos:
8th April 2026
Writing is is THE most important meta-skill one can learn. Writing is thinking. If you can't write well, you don't have any well thought out or non-trivial thoughts about anything.
Here's a quote from William Storr's The Science of Storytelling :
According to Bergen, we start modelling words as soon as we start reading them. We don't wait until we get to the end of the sentence. This means the order in which writers place their words matters. This is perhaps why transitive construction - Jane gave a Kitten to her Dad - is more effective than the ditransitive - Jane gave her Dad a kitten. Picturing Jane, then the Kitten, then her Dad mimics the real-world action that we, as readers, should be modelling. It means we're mentally experiencing the scene in the correct sequence. Because writers are, in effect, generating neural movies in the minds of their readers, they should privilege word order that's filmic, imagining how their reader's neural camera will alight upon each component of a sentence.
6th April 2026
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