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All through my life, I've preferred working out in the evening. Nice time to chill out You're already limber Night runs hit different Now, after trying it out in the mornings, some things have changed. Compliance is higher with a morning habit than your evening mood. Strength training is easier in the mornings, runs are still nicer in the evening. Evening workouts, for me, were a result of…
Was in Chennai a couple of time over the last week. Visited a few places, recording for posterity: • Vinyl & Brew - Lovely manual brew from Blossom (Genetics Roasters), great space + nice vinyl collection if you’re into classic rock, jazz, and blues, nice food • Beachville - Nice hangout spot, coffee is nice, food is good too • Southwest - ok ok only • Manjal, Poes garden - great…
I'm in Chennai for a day! Had my US Visa appointment early this morning. She said it was approved and I'll receive my passport in a week. Hope that goes smoothly. So, US it is this April! Interestingly, I gave an old person some money today. She was begging outside the consulate and I handed her a 10 rupees note. Usually, I don't give out alms, you never know if a person is truly helpless or just…
I read quite a bit in 2025. Checkov to begin the year, indie-web and bearblog universe towards the middle, and other explorations from sublime.app to close the year. In case you're interested, here's my public library on Sublime , it's unkempt but I'm invested in it. While I don't remember everything, I've compiled a few that I do. I enjoy simple, fluid writing – I'd like to do some myself. So,…
Years it took me to figure out People - 25 - What they can about and what motivates them Working out - 27 – Fun, athletic, really pushes you Learning - 20 - As an adult with limited time, energy, and a closed heart Connecting with others - 20 - Going beyond pleasantries Handling rejection - 24 - Why it can be fun for me Handling uncertainty - 26 - Why it can be fun for me Agency - 28 - Momentum is…
Showed up to a chat on How Advanced AIs Can Cause Human Extinction with Paras Chopra at Lossfunk. Dude bootstrapped Wingify for ~12 years and recently made an exit at $200M to Everstone PE , pocketing >$150M. Now he's doing side-quests. The premise was - "AGI/ASI is inevitable given enough time & compute, how could it go wrong for humanity and what can we do to prevent that". Lots of good…
Today, I got asked why triathlons appeal to me. Now, I haven't done one of those yet, but I've done some ultra-running so I extrapolated. After paraphrasing a few things I'd heard from others, I said "I don't know if it can be verbalized. It either hits you or it doesn't, and you got to try it for yourself to find that out". It, of course, hits a lot of people – they do it for health, for bragging…
It's a Monday, I'm sitting in a cafe. I came here to work, I should really get to it. But I don't feel like it. I spent the last 20 minutes reading this piece by Nick Thompson. Then The Mighty Rio Grande shuffled itself into my playlist. My dad's been over and I'd been gradually losing sanity, but I don't feel that way now. Last night I was up until 4AM, speaking to a close friend about his…
One of my goals in 2024 was to write more. That didn't happen. 2025, however, has been a different story. I've written 50 times, at least. Earlier this year, I got into morning pages. After coming across it on the internet for the seventh time, I decided to give it a shot. I realized quickly it wasn't going to be an everyday thing for me. In the interim, I wanted to write to clear my head – and…
When a friend did magic mushrooms, he tripped over language first. He giggled uncontrollably, "It's pointless, I don't know how to put into words how I feel". Then he saw shapes in the clouds and wept without sadness. I was reminded of this while signing up for sublime.app . One of their onboarding cards said – "trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a…