Arijit's Special Newsletter

Ramblings & essays

Happiness and little pleasures

Dear L, We start today with a simple discussion. What it means to be broken, and how we can work our way to obtain the little things that makes us happy. And we'll end with one of most brilliant short stories that I have read in past years.…

Consciousness

Dear L, Today's topics are bit a denser than our usual picks. These are something to be mulled over, something that piques one's mind. I'll start with a short story made by Andy Weir made as a video by Kurzgesagt. And then we can…

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…