Dear L, Lately, I have been in a mild perpetual wonder. How do human minds, not very different from yours or mine collectively build systems as complicated as self-driving cars, or rockets? The amount of information contained in the designs of such systems is too big to be comprehended by…
Dear L, I grew up with a general idea that anything superfluous should be approached with careful examination and skepticism – and it's probably one of the most important life lessons that I have had the privilege of learning. "I don't need it" is my…
Dear L, When I was about fourteen years old, I came across a computer application called Fruity Loops [https://www.image-line.com/]; It came in a CD that shipped with a computing magazine. I remember firing the application up for the first time. It was borderline mesmerizing to see the…
Dear L, Ever since I started reading Murakami, I believed that surrealism is a very effective instrument in despair. It manifests in sudden mild dissociations, like a curtain on a sunny day yanked by a gust of wind, slowly falling into rest. It not only allows one to detach from…
Dear L, A few weeks after I moved to Germany, I started noticing a glaring difference compared to my life back in India. The difference was time. I didn’t have to calculate the extra time when going to places, the public transport worked reliably. No longer I would fall…