I had cut myself while shaving. Straight razors are known for nicks and cuts. I generally put on some after shave lotion and move on. Today the lotion didn’t burn, or so I thought a few minutes later after I applied it; I hadn’t bother to flinch at…
It was a nice North Eurpean fall Saturday night. That day wasn’t particularly a remarkable. I woke up, drank coffee, ate breakfast, and spent the next few hours playing video games with mates from India. After the video game session was over, I ended up finishing all the items…
Dear L, I once went to a basic sciences course after graduating from high school, and there a chemistry professor who posed us with a question, “Do you know what cooking did to early humans?”. Obviously, as high schoolers, we were oblivious to any answer to that question. And he…
Dear L, I would argue that the cognitive revolution is the most amazing thing that ever happened to the human species. The ability to abstractly reason and communicate about the real world meant it was an unprecedented evolutionary advantage over other species. And on that note, today we will celebrate…
Dear L, I have been thinking a lot of software, how we write software, consume software and use it to augment our minds as people; The general approach, is fraught with danger and in worst cases, fatal. One flaw with creation of software is that the the largest chunk of…