I spread love and joy through writing. Stints @FreshworksInc., @livemint, @FactorDaily + others. New book - River of Love: Meditation beyond the App

New Delhi, India
Joined May 2009
Happy to share that my #book on #meditation, published by @IndiePresss, is now available on @amazonIN! Get your copy here: amazon.in/dp/9360451266
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To improve your writing, read more. To improve your thinking, write more. To improve your understanding, build more. To improve your storytelling, present more. To improve your energy, rest more. To improve your network, give more. To improve your happiness, appreciate more.
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Some observations about the "total" automation of software engineering: 1. There are more software engineers now than in 2025, and demand is growing. 2. Software engineers have never worked harder than they do now. 3. They largely don't write code anymore, agents write ~100% of the code. 4. The bottom line of the companies that employs these engineers and agents (i.e. the terminal purpose of all this code) is typically not budging as a result of AI adoption. This is why you have to think in terms of systems. Automating one aspect of a system creates its own friction and moves the bottlenecks elsewhere.
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This is how a seal sleeps Because they are sleeping and not actively swimming, they can stay under water much longer than when hunting for food (which is on average about 30 minutes) [📹 Michael Boyd / michaelboyyd]
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Nature’s slow dance, captured in mushrooms timelapses
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Carl Sagan wrote this in 1995. Unbelievably prescient! "I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness..."
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Indian universities publish a very large number of research papers. One man decided to actually read some of them. What he found was papers bought and sold, fake authors, and journals that will print anything for a fee. His name is Achal Agrawal. He has a doctorate in applied mathematics from Paris Saclay University in France, completed in 2016. His research was on how wireless networks share resources. He came back to India in 2018 and worked as an academic in data science. Then he started something called India Research Watch. To understand why it matters, you need to know how academic promotion works. A researcher's career depends heavily on how many papers they have published, and in which journals. More papers means promotion, funding and rank for the institution. That creates a market. If papers are what you are counting, somebody will sell you papers. So there are now services that will write a paper for you, or sell you an authorship slot on somebody else's, or publish anything you send them in a journal that exists only to collect the fee. The industry has a name. Paper mills. India Research Watch went looking for this in Indian institutions, and published what it found. In 2024, Agrawal and Moumita Koley at the Indian Institute of Science raised a further problem. They flagged evidence that some universities may have been manipulating the numbers used in the National Institutional Ranking Framework, the government's official ranking of colleges and universities. That is the list parents look at when deciding where to send their children. In 2025 the framework changed. It began penalising institutions with high numbers of retracted papers. A retracted paper is one a journal has withdrawn after publication, usually because something in it was wrong or fabricated. India Research Watch's work is credited with contributing to that change. Also in 2025, the journal Nature named him in Nature's 10, its annual list of people who shaped science that year. That list normally contains people who discovered something. He is on it for checking.
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Swans might have one of the most underrated landing techniques in the animal kingdom.
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Know anyone who does good sound design / background scoring for videos? Please tag/ RT.
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Today we have set out how we’re building AI to accelerate science and improve people’s lives. Just some examples in the last week or so: - Mapped all 9B possible single letter genetic changes across the human genome with AlphaGenome Atlas and made it openly available to researchers. - Billions of decisions depend on weather predictions so we introduced WeatherNext 3, our most accurate and capable global weather AI model to date. - We published AI & Economy ATLAS, a comprehensive open-access look at how people are using AI globally. - AI has enabled extraordinary advances in language translation. Today our services are available in nearly 300 languages, spoken by 7B people We’re focusing our efforts on four key areas: health, natural disaster and weather resilience, learning, and economic opportunity. blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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Many birds, one beautifully unified movement.
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Fun fact. Voyager 1, currently over 16 billions miles away (nearly 1 light day), still operates using 69 KB of memory, 8 track tape and Fortran code written in 1977.
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Quand Albert Einstein donnait une conférence dans les nombreuses universités des États-Unis, la question récurrente que lui faisaient les étudiants était : Vous, Monsieur Einstein... Croyez-vous en Dieu ? Ce à quoi il répondait toujours : - Je crois au Dieu de Spinoza. Seuls ceux qui avait lu Spinoza comprenaient ... Spinoza avait passé sa vie a étudier les livres saints et la philosophie, un jour il écrivit : Je ne sais pas si Dieu a réellement parlé mais s'il le faisait, voici ce que je crois qu'il dirait au croyant : Arrête de prier et de te frapper à la poitrine ! Ce que je veux que tu fasses, c'est que tu sortes dans le monde pour profiter de ta vie. Je veux que tu t'amuses, que tu chantes, que tu t'instruises... que tu profites de tout ce que j'ai fait pour toi. Arrête d'aller dans ces temples sombres et froids que tu as construit toi-même et dont tu dis que c'est ma maison ! Ma maison est dans les montagnes, dans les bois, les rivières, les lacs. C'est là où je vis avec toi et que j'exprime mon amour pour toi. Arrête de m'accuser de ta vie misérable, Je ne t'ai jamais dit qu'il y avait quelque chose de mal en toi, que tu étais un pécheur, que ta sexualité ou ta joie étaient une mauvaise chose ! Alors ne me blâme pas pour tout ce qu'ils t'ont dit de croire. Arrête de ressasser des lectures sacrées qui n'ont rien à voir avec moi. Si tu ne peux pas me lire à l'aube, dans un paysage, dans le regard de ton ami, de ta femme, de ton homme, dans les yeux de ton fils...Tu ne me trouveras pas dans un livre ! Arrête de te faire peur. Je ne te juge pas, je ne te critique pas, je ne rentre pas en colère et je ne punis pas. Je suis pur amour... je t'ai rempli de passions, de limitations, de plaisirs, de sentiments, de besoins, d'incohérences...et je t'ai donné le libre arbitre... Comment puis-je te blâmer si tu réponds à quelque chose que j'ai mis en toi ? Comment puis-je te punir d'être ce que tu es, si je suis celui qui t'ai fait ? Tu penses réellement que je pourrais créer un endroit pour brûler tous mes enfants qui se comportent mal, pour le reste de l'éternité ? Quel genre de Dieu peut faire ça ? Si j'étais ainsi, je ne mériterais pas d'être respecté. Si je voulais juste être vénéré, je n'aurais peuplé la terre que de chiens. .. Respecte tes semblables et ne fais pas ce que tu ne veux pas pour toi. Tout ce que je te demande, c'est que tu fasses attention à ta vie, que ton libre arbitre soit ton guide. Toi et la nature vous constituez une seule entité ....alors ne crois pas que tu as un pouvoir sur elle. Tu fais partie d'elle. Prends-soin d’elle et elle prendra soin de toi. J'y ai mis et rendu accessible tout ce qu'il y a de bien pour toi et j'ai rendu difficile d'accès ce qui ne l'est pas. Ne mets pas ton génie à y chercher ce qui est mauvais pour cet équilibre. A toi de garder intact cet équilibre. La nature elle, sait très bien le garder, juste ne la trouble pas ! Je t'ai rendu absolument libre. Tu es absolument libre de créer dans ta vie un paradis ou un enfer. Je ne peux pas te dire s'il y a quelque chose après cette vie, mais je peux te donner un conseil, Arrête de croire en moi de cette façon, Croire, c'est supposer, deviner, imaginer. Je ne veux pas que tu crois en moi, je veux que tu me sentes en toi. Que tu me sentes en toi quand tu t'occupes de tes moutons, quand tu abordes ta petite fille, quand tu caresses ton chien, quand tu te baignes dans la rivière.... Exprime ta joie et habitue-toi à prendre juste ce dont tu as besoin ! La seule chose sûre, c'est que tu es là, que tu es vivant, que ce monde est plein de merveilles...et que dans toutes ces merveilles tu es capable de savoir exactement ce dont tu as vraiment besoin. Ne me cherche pas en dehors, Tu ne me trouveras pas.... Je suis là... La nature, Le cosmos... C'est moi. Extrait de Baruch Spinozza
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We need more inventions like this
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Former astronaut Ron Garan returned from space convinced that humanity is “living an enormous lie.” During his 178-day mission aboard the International Space Station in 2011, spending nearly six months in orbit and covering over 71 million miles, Garan experienced the transformative “Overview Effect.” From 250 miles above Earth, the planet appeared as a single, delicate blue marble suspended in the void, with no visible borders, nations, or divisions. Political lines vanished; instead, he saw a fragile, interconnected biosphere wrapped in an astonishingly thin atmosphere, the sole protective layer sustaining all life against the deadly vacuum of space. This perspective shattered his prior worldview. He observed an iridescent, teeming world of life but no trace of the global economy that humans prioritize. Garan realized the “enormous lie” we perpetuate: the illusion that we are separate from one another, from nature, and from the planet itself. Our systems treat the Earth’s life-support mechanisms, air, water, ecosystems, as mere subsidiaries of the economy, when the orbital view reveals the opposite truth: the planet comes first, then society, then economy. In his words, this realization highlighted how crises like climate change, deforestation, and biodiversity loss stem from this fundamental misperception of separation. Garan argues that embracing this unified, fragile reality, seeing ourselves as crew members on “Spaceship Earth”, is essential for collective survival and effective global stewardship. The view from space didn’t just change his outlook; it underscored an urgent call for humanity to realign priorities with the undeniable interconnectedness of our shared home.
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A breathtaking view of peacocks flying in slow motion
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Dragonflies fun facts - Just one dragonfly can consume over 100 mosquitos in a day - Dragonflies can fly backwards - They have nearly 360° vision - Their wings inhibit bacterial growth due to their natural structures - They're actually beautiful
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