Arijit's Special Newsletter

Ramblings & essays

Software is not code - Part 1

Tale of the spreadsheet punk A friend of mine builds tools in Microsoft Excel for small businesses. These don’t do much, except adding and calculating taxes, inventory, sometimes streamline very specialised workflows for a business. And these are fairly capable spreadsheets, albeit without a lot of features; Except what…

Well Being And Resilience

Dear L, Before we start today, here is a famous speech by Alan Watts compiled as a little video montage. A little thought experiment if you will. And here are this weeks reads, Why Walking Helps Us Think [https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/walking-helps-us-think] Your 'Surge Capacity'…

Remedies for the coding ailment

“A man doesn’t being to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable” - Richard E. Byrd…

Website Redesign

I created this website, when I was in my early 20s. So now that I am in my 30s, I wanted to give it another go, to mark an end of a decade. I am still in process of finalising the design and figuring out the details of how I…