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All 183 ideas in the garden
2026
The future of AI and automation
You don't know much
On AI regulations
On AI coding
Small tyrannies
The Bullshit job apocalypse
The virtual co-workers are here?
Yeah, sure, AI is useless
The future of coding
Open source voice transcription tools
Automation is a moral imperative
The short-termism in our stars
Best of times and worst of times for cognitive peasants
AI is killing software jobs
If you can describe it, you can solve it
All habits are hard work
On AI and job automation
Ben Thompson makes an optimistic case for AI
Code is now content
I dwell in possibility
A Psalm of Life
Emotional returns vs financial returns
Neo-gangsterism
Writing as a way to converse with yourself
Now is the time for fun
The future of work
We're all unique protons and electrons
2025: The year LLMs felt real
Gitanjali 48
Industrial-scale production of software
Wild times in AI land
2025
AI and the compression of everything
You can just do things
On the joys of writing
Reflections on Scott Belsky’s Predictions
Building at the speed of thought
Skyfall post-AI world edition
Welcome to the slopocalypse
Gitanjali 3 by Rabindranath Tagore
Intellectual bacchanalia
Why write
Summoning Ghosts: Why You Need to Try AI Coding Tools
Another lament for literature
G.K. Chesterton on miracles
Self improving systems are not possible
Why AI is not a bubble
A dumb model of AI
AI is overdelivering
Claude Code is awesome, but terribly named
The debt part of the AI cycle
Some non-advice advice
Preserving India's artistic heritage
We are a collection of particles but...
Blogging is good for your soul!
The case against superintelligence
AGI for normal people is here
Predictive AI > Generative AI
The digital world is the only escape
We are summoning ghosts with LLMs
My little heart
Be human
AI coding tools keep getting better and better
LLMs as your reading partner
On China and chips
Vibe engineering
Ads everywhere
Poor countries are not catching up with rich countries
An unified theory of vibes
László Krasznahorkai's Nobel Prize lecture
Links for later
How to read more
Monkeys are really good at predicting electoral winners
We're are all unoriginal
How much knowledge has been lost
Learn some philosophy
Virtue cannot be known without knowing vice
Charlie Munger on dealing with setbacks in life
The future of global trade
Oral traditions in India
Ah, but is not this a glorious time for your deep inward fires?
How many jobs can AI kill
Take big shots
AGI will be business as usual?
What to expect when expecting
Did we get evolution wrong?
Evil by Arthur Rimbauld
Reading as escalation
Leviathan by George Oppen
AI as a research partner
Human nature will never change
The guy who financed Johannes Gutenberg
AI blind spot
Dhwani: A directory for Indian public domain works
Invention of modernity
Post-cognitive world
Can AI eliminate information advantages
Economic impact of AI
Institutional impact of AI
Don't want to die? Drink coffee
The value of asking right questions
AI-powered invoice fraud
Brian Eno on being pretentious
The value of education in the shadows of AI
AI is kicking your butt; just accept it
On having a philosophy of money
Fun is a skill
Here come the robots
Rousseau on reflection and reason
The prerequisites for scientific progress
China is playing long games
Naked without values
On ritual
You never know when the carousel stops spinning
For A Cynic by Countee Cullen
On hope and despair
On billionaires and the ultra-wealthy
Odds and ends
Tools for thinking
Where death is cheaper than life itself
A few good rabbit holes
Rilke's advice to a young poet
A beautiful line from Camus
Meditation by Charles Baudelaire
odds and ends
Henry Oliver on how to have good taste
How Terence Tao uses AI
C.S. Lewis on reading old books
On nostalgia
On pursuing things
The cost of extreme weather
AI links
Everything everywhere all at once
The day is gone by John Keats
The infinite pleasures of diving down rabbit holes
Zero Sum thinking is ruining the world
I got some links for you
Kafka on reading
Philosophy of life and Seneca’s letters
Twilight of the humans?
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
How Americans use AI and what they think about it
How long do we have left?
Today in learning
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
We are borrowed stardust
Philosophy understood as a way of life
The economics of tyranny
A hopeful view of large language models (LLM)
Social media is a funhouse mirror
The solar revolution
Poetry is a salve for the soul
Aggregating book mentions
I got some links for you
How fiber optic cables work
Think of a fiber optic cable as a super-thin strand of glass (about as thin as a human hair) that carries information using light instead of electricity. It's like a tiny, flexible glass tube that light can travel through.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
Bhuvan's law
Will the poor countries catch up the rich?
The heart wants what it wants
The heart wants what it wants.
Speculation Is like water—it always finds a way
From a front-row seat in Indian markets, I trace how post-COVID tech and payments supercharged both investing and gambling. The essay makes a simple case: bans without internet, payments, platform, and cross-border enforcement just move the problem. Better to design the dam—keep play on regulated rails and cut harm.
Vibe Physics? Not Yet
The weight of telling stories
I watched this conversation between Dave Chappelle and Mo Amer and got really thinking about what artists are supposed to do. Mo's Netflix show Mo is about Palestinian refugees, and he literally finished writing it right before October 7th happened. Hearing him talk about navigating that timing as one of the few Palestinians in Hollywood made me appreciate how hard it is to be an artist dealing with heavy, real-world stuff. I loved their discussion about how you know when a story or joke is worth telling—basically, if it makes people laugh, think, or feel something. Both of them talked about just "calling it like you see it," even when it's risky.
Your next good read
A collection of the most insightful articles on culture, philosophy, history, science, finance, economics and much more.
I just want to know
Sometimes, the most important discoveries come from simply wanting to know. This video by Betül Kaçar, "Why we explore, even when there’s no payoff," is a beautiful reminder of the power of pure curiosity in science.
On luck and randomness in life
On Walking
Henry David Thoreau's essay Walking isn't just about nature—it's a diagnosis of modern life's deepest tragedy: we've become estranged from our wild selves. In a world dominated by left-brain thinking that treats everything as a resource to exploit, we've lost our contemplative spaces and buried our primordial desire to wander.
On AI-assisted writing
On AI taking jobs
All knowledge is my province
The cost of collective apathy
That simple matter of fact is that we don't bother about so many bad things that happen in our local communities, let alone at a national level. If we keep ignoring this accumulation of evils, petty or profound, what price we are paying?
The greatest anonymous poem
Understanding the greatest anonymous poem.
Why read?
Reflections on Harold Bloom’s interview with Charlie Rose on why should one read.
Is the twilight of the humans? A few AI links
LLMs show promise but can’t yet build software. AI's rise is slow, uneven, and energy-hungry—progress needs breakthroughs or massive infrastructure.
Welcome to the age of weaponized interdependence
What It Means to Be Human in the Age of AI
A few thoughts what AI might do the human ability to think critically.
The world won't end with a bang but with a shrug of indifference
The troubling decline in conscientiousness. A critical life skill is fading out — and especially fast among young adults
The death of silence and the loss of contemplative spaces
An essay about how the loss of contemplative space is robbing us of our humanity.