Excursions

I know password manager's an important service and one shouldn't hesitate to pay for it. But LastPass's free tier was a good enough option for me; there was no feature that I needed to pay the subscription price for. That changed with today's modifications to that free tier.

That update also made me reevaluate my options. And I realized 1Password is a better option for me -- both in terms of the features and the cost it charges (especially in Indian market).

So I've ditched LastPass the moment they asked me to pay. Is that cheating?

Is today’s doomscrolling a severe variant of 2007’s wwilfing? I’d, for sure, suffered from the later during my early blogging days. We humans have since long mastered two things – finding the most boring ways to kill our productivity & naming them in the most creative manner.

I read a headline “The science of reasoning with unreasonable people”. Why would I do that?

I finished (finally!) reading 4:50 from Paddington today. I was about to rate this book a lot lower than what I eventually did. The meandering second half - a difficult feat in an already short book - made me forget how brilliant the first half of the book was.

I felt this was a short story that Christie wrote first and then rewrote it for a book. Wish she hadn’t.

Stop Defacing Quotes With Brackets! →

If the changes are not obvious, don’t use the quote; if they’re not necessary, don’t use the brackets. The goal is to present the quotation as directly as possible.

Has anyone used Beeper - “a single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other networks”? And it is built on an open source project, Matrix?

It sounds too good to be true. What’s the catch - there must be one?

This comment from Dave Winer made me pause.

[Y]ou don’t make money from a blog or podcast, but you can make money because of a blog or podcast.

Why We Fight Over Fiction →

Our moral evaluations of the main big actions that influence our world today, and that built our world from past worlds, are still up for grabs.

Why is it that every time I take a break from writing, for whatever reason, I find it extremely difficult to get back? I feel the longer am away, the better the next post has to be; it has to explain why I was away. May be I am not comfortable? That’s stupid, but I can’t help.

I managed to complete my 2020 reading challenge – finished reading Fraudster by R.V. Raman.

This one had a pretty interesting storyline with lots of twists and red herring peppered across the chapters. Having said that, I wish the writing in the middle third was a lot more crisp. It gets too simplistic, slips into a narrative style of telling what’s playing out. I would have lost the patience, but it was the rapid pacing of the plot that kept me going. Also it has a few subplots and characters that should have been edited out - it becomes tiresome to follow towards the end.

With all said, this is a promising debut nonetheless by Raman with a welcome, quick read with an Indian setting.