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welcome to my little corner of the internet.

each month, I share recent discoveries and long-time
favorites: blogs, books, research papers, videos, and other hyperfixations.

for class of 2025

To the graduating class of 2025, here are some speeches for you, other people you guys also must watch these are one my favourites

​Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

​Imposter Syndrome Is A Scheme: Reshma Saujani

Though you've probably watched Jobs' Stanford commencement, it's always a good idea to watch it again.

This is water – David Foster Wallace.

quotes of the month

  • "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas
     

  • ​“Stay hungry, stay foolish.” – Steve Jobs, exactly 20 years ago

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  • "Who doesn't like pie? Communists. Terrorists. Enemies of American freedom." – Anthony Bourdain
     

  • "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." Again Albert Camus
     

  • "Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?" Hour of the Star, Clarice Inspector
     

  • "Long you live and high you fly, smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry, and all you touch and all you see, it’s all your life will ever be” Pink Floyd

articles

Articles I read recently, last 4 are pieces I keep revisiting:​
 

  1. Chattel Childhood –  Link (weird and very good)
     

  2. The deaths – and lives – of two sons – Yiyun Li, New Yorker – Link 
    (Possibly the most gut wrenching piece of writing I’ve ever read. I am still thinking about it after days. Having recently lost my father to suicide, it really resonates.)
     

  3. What’s Happening to Reading? – Joshua Rothman –  Link 
     

  4. Contra grant on exaggerated differences – Slate Star Codex –  Link 
    (good piece on the gender gap in tech. Despite being a feminist, this article changed the narrative for me.)
     

  5. You're literally worshipping your phone – Adam Aleksic –  Link 
     

  6. Conformism: Paul Graham – Link 
    (I think I read this before, but don't remember clearly. Written in 2020, but rings truer even now.)
     

  7. The Lesson to Unlearn – Paul Graham – Link  
    (I keep reading this one often, as I've realized what is education if not learning to learn, learning to unlearn, and then learning all over again.)
     

  8. ​The currencies of a life well lived – Link
     

  9. P’s Parties – Jhumpa Lahiri – Link 
    (    I read this in 2023, first time i ever read something by her, and i just remember how how fascinating the narrative voice was)

recommended reading:

books i will be reading this month, and some of my favorites:

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youtube recomendations:

I absolutely love watching documentaries – learning about recent world history through accounts of people’s lives, often made possible by the courage of investigative journalists. I love Isobel Yeung – she is one of my idols. Unfortunately, most of her docs are removed India (but VPN works), here are some of the docs, debates, podcasts i watched recently

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