Excursions

Often my daughter asks me the meaning of a word unknown to her. Which is fine, but she doesn’t stop at that. She wants me to enact the meaning too. Like today she wanted me to enact what a character “squealing” would sound like. Unfortunately, I’m neither that good at English nor at acting. Sigh!

I figure, at the midway stage, India still isn’t in any position to be a contender to win the T20 World Cup. Or even to reach the finals, for that matter. They weren’t the favourites going in. They haven’t improved their chances much 🏏

The Curious Bee and her friends celebrated Halloween yesterday — she dressed up as a witch. She wanted herself to look scary, but I don’t think she can be. To my eyes, she looked so cute! Anyway, happy Halloween folks! 🧙🎃

Build my productivity system. As much as the p-word is hated, I need a process to manage the sheer amount of tasks vying for my attention.

I just got an external display in my workspace at home. I should have done this earlier, but I was afraid the large display will crowd the desk. On the contrary, I love this setup! It has instead freed up with so much space. Curious how something larger can occupy lesser.

“Even if you ideologically agree with him, unless you love being a replaceable cog who has to dance on command, this is not a workplace to be in."

A comment that says so much about the anxiety among Twitter employees.

Source: Elon Musk’s Disastrous Weekend on Twitter - The Atlantic →

I disabled all cross-posting today. I will manually syndicate the posts I want. Basically, I consider all platforms independent and will use them in their native forms.

• I think it’s time to make all content 20% human-produced.
• To a coder, if his code doesn’t work, it means he’s wrong.

Here’s what AI thinks I can write based on what I have written on Twitter. Interesting!

My daughter just shushed me because I talked to her while she was engrossed in her adventure novel. Now even I want to read the book.

In the past 30 years, the British economy chose finance over industry, Britain’s government chose austerity over investment, and British voters chose a closed and poorer economy over an open and richer one.

Source: How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe - The Atlantic →

I have always built web apps with Node.js and Express for all my side projects till now. However, I wonder if that duo is still the best choice for a new one that I am working on. What are the other options? I am ok to learn. Rather, I would love to learn – pick up something faster that’s also easy to maintain. Node.js projects are clearly neither. Time to explore.

The games the shadows play.

Can I read any big publication anymore? Everything’s behind pay wall - and I can’t subscribe to all.

I don’t think Twitter users will mass exit the platform. Do people on Twitter care who heads the company? The exits that happen today won’t be of the users. And that has already begun.

Loved this line from The Obstacle is the Way by Holiday Ryan 📚

Stop looking for angels and start looking for angles.

This in context of persisting with your efforts when faced with failures.

My aversion for the concept of timezone is not hidden - I probably have an yearly post begrudgingly accepting the fallout of this weird phenomenon.

What makes it worse though is how each region is allowed to select their own timezones. This makes the situation messier than anything to do with time should be. Just search YouTube for weird timezones. There are ample examples of how we have screwed this up.

I read about another such weird little timezone from Australia - given the size and nature of the region involved, this has to be amongst the craziest.

I love taking portrait shots of my daughter. Her expressions are the focus, and everything blurs away in the background. Anyway, what matters to me is my daughter’s smile or the lack of any. Each expression more priceless.

I hope to live my life in the same manner, in portrait mode. Put things that matter to me in focus. Blur the sidelines into the background. It might be messy around me. It always is. But to let it impact my perspective towards the moment or not is my choice.

So a friendly reminder for myself - put what matters in focus. Make the ugliness that surrounds me the blurred background. It may only heighten the charm of the moment.

And as with photography, not all perspectives can be portraits. But some certainly should.

I loved the recent article from Dan Lewis about the history of the word “curfew” and how it took the meaning that it has today. It’s fascinating how words change meaning over time as the world changes. This story is no different.

With a lack of any options for a minimalist phone in India, I am glad that Android allows custom launchers. I have stripped most distractions off my phone with one such option. I’ve managed to kill the subconscious “swipe-tap-launch” cycle for sure.

iPadOS, specifically its multi-tasking, must be Apple’s Achilles' heel in making the iPad the default family computer. They attempt to improve its windowing capabilities significantly every iteration, only to further muddle it. What’s a Computer? It for sure is not an iPad yet.

And it begins - T20 #cricket worldcup is on the role. There’s been an exciting build up to this match. Yay! 🏏

It is for conversations like this that I love browsing through the Micro.blog timeline. The only place online where I feel am amongst my friends. Thank you, you lovely folks! 😇

Numerous world changing ideas are drained down during the shower, killed by the lack of any tool to capture them with.

Don’t know why, but I am psyched about this year’s T20 #Cricket WorldCup. I don’t fancy the Indian team’s chances - their form has been patchy. Yet I feel this WorldCup will be exciting.

Never listen to the person in you who has just woken up in the morning. He gives the worst advice. The only one he does give for that matter is, “Go back to sleep buddy”.

Just close your ears and run out of your bed.