Beautiful. > Take it easy, Sadness. Settle down. > You asked for evening. Now, itās come. Itās here. > A choking fog has blanketed the town, > infectingā¦
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Reflections
14 posts
Personal insights and experiences. Thoughtful contemplations on life, work, and learning.
The infinite pleasures of diving down rabbit holes
I believe going down rabbit holes is essential to living well. When something catches my attentionāa "ripple"āI follow it wherever it leads, even if it seems raā¦
Kafka on reading
Amen. Amen a 100 times! > āI think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to tā¦
How long do we have left?
Google DeepMind's Gemini and OpenAI achieved gold-medal-level performance at . > We officially competed in the onsite AI track of the ICPC, with the same 5-hā¦
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
Damn. What a powerful poem. If there was ever a poem for the present moment. > Turning and turning in the widening gyre > The falcon cannot hear the falconerā¦
Poetry is a salve for the soul
: > I have always put my faith in poetry, have come to it for answers. (I have never understood the shame, in poets, in admitting this.) And there was no one eā¦
Bhuvan's law
I was between Jack Clarke, co-founder of Anthropic, and Tyler Cowen. It was an interesting conversation with some interesting things that made me go, "Ooh, thaā¦
On luck and randomness in life
I sent a message to someone on LinkedIn saying luck and randomness played a large role in my life. Out of curiosity, I asked Google Gemini a few questions aboutā¦
On Walking
Henry David Thoreau's essay Walking isn't just about natureāit's a diagnosis of modern life's deepest tragedy: we've become estranged from our wild selves. In a world dominated byā¦
Why read?
Reflections on Harold Bloomās interview with Charlie Rose on why should one read.ā¦
What It Means to Be Human in the Age of AI
A few thoughts what AI might do the human ability to think critically.ā¦
War and Peace isnāt a novel, itās a mirror
Reflections from 500 Pages into *War and Peace* At the beginning of this year, I started reading *War and Peace* thanks to . This is my first proper literary cā¦
Stephen Hawking on the philosophy of life
I just finished watching , a biographical drama about the life of the famed theoretical physicist . It follows how Hawking finds love and battles adversity as hā¦
Good advice from Rudyard Kilpling
Rudyard Kipling, Michael Caine, and the Testicle-Punching Self-Help Industrial Complex I woke up and, like any good, sane, and sensible human being, I picked uā¦