Essays

Personal essays and reflections. Some started as talks, some as late-night notes, some as arguments with myself. They share a thread: trying to make sense of things that matter to me but don't have clean answers.

Hobbyist Programmers Have Been Gaslit for Too Long. On programming as a lifelong hobby and the culture that keeps telling you it should be something else.

Navigating the River of Thoughts. A metaphor for managing information overload, originally a presentation.

Bhāva and feeling. A ChatGPT-written summary of a conversation about emotion, language, religion, and disbelief.

Let's, can we, and the language of requests. A companion conversation about request forms, politeness, Indian English, and how we ask agents to act.