This is the collection of some of the best tweets I’ve posted and read, and some of the best articles I’ve read on the internet that I’ve bookrmarked.
The word ‘best’ is perhaps too feeble a term to encapsulate the breadth of ideas the contents of the below links sometimes touch. But it’s usually a mix of wit, wisdom, and the unbridled exuberance of 3 A.M.
Table of contents
My tweets
Observations and Reflections
- Prayers are clarifications. Prayers will save yourself: Link
- Thinking about the human history lives inside our genes: Link
- A common nature of many things in life: Link
- Today’s attention span is more about your nutrition and well-being, rather than last day’s screentime: Link
- Growing thread of things to be grateful for on a global level: Link
- People getting very good at one or many things is (mostly) not an anomaly: Link
- How I visualize new ideas (the creative process): Link
- Mentally visualizing talents as a symphony: Link
- Advice on improving writing: Link
- Best way to learn a musical instrument is by learning how to play your favourite song: Link
- All creative people should get a website: Link
- Being able to sing and play a musical instrument is wonderful: Link
- A glorious memory of waking up from a fever as a child: Link
- My dream as a piano player: Link
- I’m an ‘internet explorer’: Link
- My random and stinging urge to write an autobiography: Link
Technology
- What running Arch Linux (Operating System) is like: Link
- Programming and automation haven’t really come down to people: Link
- I look forward to the convergence of AI and hardware: Link
- Thread about my phone - Pixel 8 Pro. Link
- Internet has silos, social media apps especially: Link
- What openwrt lets you to do to routers: Link
- On Open Source Projects that has a special culture and tools: Link
- Electric scooters lie in the antipodal point of where classical motorcycles lie: Link
Personal experiences and memories
- Reflections from 2021: Contains wishful thinking and subtly motivating words. Link
- Tweets from Israel: Link
- Descriptions about Chalakudy: Link
- December 9 2023’s Thindi (Food) Walk with Thindi Capital: Link
Humorous observations
- The ‘c’ in ‘aswin c’: Link
- On Mark Zuckerburg: Link
- The degree of dependence on romantic crushes: Link
- About terraces being a place with privacy for (Indian) kids: Link
- About roomates who set alarms and doesn’t turn it off themselves: Link
- What North Indians think about South Indian languages: Link
- How good I am in programming – on a scale of 10: Link
- About women with nose rings: Link
- What Malayali driving instructors need to do: Link
- Why I write beautiful e-mails at work: Link
Culture, history and aesthetics
- Aesthetics about the South Indian culture that I love: Link
- On Mani Ratnam’s romantic movies: Link
- My favourite bad-ass imperial moments from world history: Link
- On Lijo Jose Pellissery: Link
Others' tweets
- On the line of “do 100 things, get out, and do things”: Link
- On Marriage: Link
- On making friends: Link
- A collection of Steve Jobs' quotes: Link
- Sam Altman on “bending the world at our will”: Link
- Build first, optimize later: Link
- Applying high agency: Link
- To expand my sense of agency is to pretend I have permission: Link
- Agency is realizing that you can “just do things”: Link
- “Avoid snacking” and seek better and bigger projects: Link
- Specialization is for insects: Link
- The best writers, programmers and artists don’t do it because they have to: Link
- Pick a business, deeply understand the workflows, and solve it: Link
- “if you’re precise about what you mean, and choose your words carefully, you end up improving language just by speaking and writing”: Link
- Intuition is simply reading a lot: Link
- “if I don’t know something I can put a box there that says “there is a thing here but it is ambiguous and I dont know the answer yet”": Link
- Sam Altman: “Generally the highest ROI comes from getting even better in areas where you’re already strong, not improving in areas where you’re weak.” Link
- Summary of David Deutsch’s book – The Beginning of Infinity: Link
- Thiel’s Closing Thoughts (CS183: Startup): “There is something importantly singular about each new thing in the world. There is a mini singularity whenever you start a company or make a key life decision. In a very real sense, the life of every person is a singularity.": Link
- “building trust requires risky micro-movements be made and reciprocated by all parties in order to progress”: Link
- The mood for e/acc (effective accelerationism): Link
- “the more you build, the more you have to pay to maintain”: Link
- “Things around you weren’t just always there; people made them happen”: Link
- What people want: automation, plants, sunlight, family: Link
- All advice is context dependent: Link
- Good generalists ask “what is nobody else doing?” (Related to: what is worth doing?): Link
- Why some things don’t exist: Link
- Visakan Veerasamy’s thread on random historical events: Link
- “I can author my life”: Link
- If you’re not annoying someone, you’re not doing anything interesting: Link
- Experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world: Link Archive link
- Knowing the word for a thing doesn’t mean you know the thing: Link
- A huge part of success is connections: Link
- Master boring fundamentals; Play infinite games: Link
My bookmarks
- Milan Cvitkovic – Things you’re allowed to do (and can do in life): Link
- Steve Jobs - Most people do not act. They don’t pick the phone up and ask: Link
- Alexey Guzey – What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice: Link
- Moxie Marlinkspike (Founder of Signal) – Career Advice: Link
- Wikipedia - The purpose of a system is what it does: Link
- Ben Kuhn – You don’t need to work on hard problems: Link
- brycedotvc - Most people won’t: Link
- A meme about life and the importance to move (simply get out and do things): Link
- Dan Luu – 95%-ile isn’t that good: Link
- Paul Graham – Superlinear Returns: Link
- Paul Graham – Life is Short: Link
- James Hush – “poke around, find something, redefine yourself”: Link
- tegowerk – Serendipity: Link
- Stepan Parunashvili – What Artists Notice: Link
- Alexey Guzey – On (email) follow ups: Link