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Commonplace book: Learnt about the idea of “Commonplace books” via this X post. I shall study this. This will be a great addition to my “write stuff down” practice. I do that on index cards. Copying some of those notebooks over, and also write directly into a book will be great. I do have a …

two things to bookmark from listening to a recent podcast by Naval Ravikant - read Schopenhauer, and David Deutsch. Read the shorter works of Schopenhauer, and read Deutsch widely to form a broader understanding, and to connect the dots.

PeekDoc – a LLM enabled file renaming tool. Point peekdoc at a folder full of documents, typically PDFs, and have the application use smart techniques to look at the first few pages and figure out the title of the document and use that to name the file.

Balloon over Hamilton county. On the way back from the gym.

One under mentioned aspect of in-editor LLM coding assist is how much they act as the “pair programmer” of yore. They often catch small errors, and even suggest better wording — I noticed this as copilot suggested a better set of words as I was writing code comment in VSCode.

Kid#2 – I’m going to play “Bow-hammy Raspberry” on CarPlay (novel way to pronounce Bohemian Rhapsody apparently)

“The world of yesterday” by Stefan Zweig.

“The truth of fact, the truth of feeling”, short story by Ted Chiang.

Travel writing isn’t obsolete, if anything, it is even more interesting today - the amount of attention required by the author to travel, imbibe the surrounding, observe, and write long passages is a human endeavour unlike any other. Chris Arnade’s “Walking the world” has …

At Starting Strength Indianapolis (Fishers) I started training at Starting Strength on Aug 26, 2025. First day i was in at 6am. I’ve since moved my training time to 5:30am.

Book theft is a problem! The joys of buying used books are these nice surprises. I think this was inside the “The John McPhee Reader”

“The John McPhee Reader” - Recommendation via James Somers blog, while mentioning the “McPhee Method”. John McPhee is an American author that wrote for the New Yorker, known for his non-fiction writing.

Almost photographic! :) Drawn by Leela.

Every time a pro-apple macbook thread appears on Hacker News, there descends a horde of Apple haters. In this case, the linked story was actually about someone moving back to Linux from Mac, and the commenters still make it about how Macbooks can’t be / aren’t that good. This is my …

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Went to Academy sports + outdoors for the first time here in Carmel, near Greyhound pass to buy volleyball gear for le petite. Has a Meijer like vibe (good thing) with easy to find stuff that didn’t seem too expensive (like Dick’s). I never had good vibes at Dick’s. Good to have …

CauchyOS - first spin: Attempting to install CachyOS on my Intel MacBook Air. It is based on ArchOS. The installation is nothing like any other (To be fair, mostly debian/ubuntu based ones in the last many years). It gave many options for just the boot loader - grub, systemd (default), and something called limine. I went …

Interviews are less about success and lot less about (personal) failure. Interviews are about information gathering. You gather signals about what is needed, what works (in that narrow context), and how you respond to signals. Never miss an opportunity to collect high quality signals.

It’s interesting to see my weighting scale still show my age from 13 years ago when I set it up. It makes me appreciate the device and also say to myself “wow! Has it been that long? Good gadget.” It’s a Tanita.

Fran Lebowitz was on to something.

Trying out posting pictures.

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