Misty
Woke up today to the mist.
Arun Sasidharan
Notes, essays, and long-form writing from Arun Sasidharan.
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Pre-monsoon
I woke up this morning to pleasant weather.
Café du Burundi
Opened the coffee bag from Burundi today.
April in a list
Everything that happened in April.
Film
On shooting film.
Buzz
While taking this shot I noticed a buzzing sound. It was travelling and buzzing at very precise intervals like clockwerk. I spotted the little guy and followed him for a bit. Oddly satisfying :)
A walk in the forest
We drove to the forest today and stopped at the parking lot (irony of the times). The howling winds travelled down the snow capped peaks, through several valleys, just to freeze us. I’m always stunned by the beauty of the Himalayas. My skills aren’t good enough (yet) to captur...
March in a list
Everything that happened in March.
Letters
Posts or letters?
I'm back
I'm back. This site is back.
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Decisions
I have too many decisions to make. Sadly, I don't recognise it most of the time.
Sprint Velocity Considered Harmful
Rethink your performance metrics.
Logos. Ethos. Pathos.
As you frame arguments, keep in mind Aristotle’s rhetorical categories of logos, ethos, and pathos.
4 States Of A Tech Team
Teams want to climb from falling behind to innovating while entropy drags them backward. Each state requires a different system fix.
Uncle Bob on Career
- You are going to have to learn all kinds of things that you may never use but you must learn them. - You must learn new languages, you must learn new framewo...
On Resolving Conflicts
The key principle to remember during a conflict is that conflicts always happen in a shared context. Different people bring different perspectives and the confl...
Breakable Toys
We can all benefit by doing occasional "toy" programs, when artificial restrictions are set up, so that we are forced to push our abilities to the limit. —Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming
On Helping Others
Have you tried to help someone only for it to go wrong? Gerald Weinberg has some lessons that you could be mindful of the next time you want to help someone.
Deep Work
I've been thinking quite a bit about why people are so obsessed with productivity. I imagine when retiring to bed at night, having had a productive day brings s...