4 posts
9 minutes read02 Jul 2026
When we see two events, A and B, our natural tendency is to place a succinct left-to-right arrow —>, in between two events A and B. It hardly crossed my mind sometimes that A and B could be feedback loops. A could effect B, and B could effect A, and the effect of B effecting A, could effect the effect of A effecting B…. . Why complicate things isn’t it? We will just leave it as it is, after all...
3 minutes read08 May 2026
Recently I had made a digital painting on Procreate, this was describing the Hindu deities in the Kerala mural art style. What I painted doesn’t matter much for this story, but what I wanted to share was the way in which this digital painting was printed and framed. Naturally, I was interested to get a quote from multiple printing vendors in my hometown, Thrissur, to compare the prices and see...
4 minutes read07 Apr 2026
One of my favorite ideas from Shane Parrish’s Mental Models book which I read recently is this: The map is never be the territory. Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) In other words, the “description” of the thing, is not the thing in itself. It’s so applicable, that it doesn’t exist to me as this abstract idea anymore. So, the Argentinian writer Luis Borges, in his...
4 minutes read05 Apr 2025
It took me a long time to realize that arguments we argue about — aren’t always about facts. They are about values. And we mostly argue, very passionately, when the values have a conflict. We can live with a conflict of facts, but not with a conflict in values. A conflict in values doesn't sit comfortably in our minds, and even if it does, it dries to dismiss the contradictions. Reading Jonathan...