4 posts
4 minutes read09 Apr 2026
Authority was once the primary means of determining truth. If the Pope at Vatican City declared something right or wrong, it was accepted without question. Over time, that model weakened, replaced in large part by the rise of rational, scientific inquiry. At least on the surface, we moved from deference to authority toward deference to method. But that shift is less absolute than it appears....
5 minutes read03 Jan 2026
I opened up Claude one day, and asked to summarise Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment into one sentence; and it said: A young, impoverished ex-student named Raskolnikov murders an elderly pawnbroker to test his theory that extraordinary people are above moral law, only to be consumed by guilt and psychological torment until he confesses and finds redemption through love and spiritual awakening....
5 minutes read11 Dec 2024
Strongly recommend everyone to keep private notes about people. These could even be some random jotted keywords: "served in the navy", "capuccino lover", "biker", "loves going on long walks", and so on. When private notes accumulate over time in the form of a database, they start showing emergent properties. As Derek Sivers rightly points out in his essay: having your own database is one of the...
4 minutes read02 Dec 2024
Not starting with a blank slate has been a great productivity boost in my writing. I wrote 50K words in 2024. And I can safely say that these 50K words have been written in a well thought manner, instead of an AI generated word salad. All this, because I've been exploring this neat little plugin called as Smart Connections on Obsidian. It is a tool, and I wouldn't be naive enough to say that...