This is the personal website of Kunall Banerjee, a westerner with an oriental mindset. He lives all alone in Ottawa, Canada.
In the coming weeks, Your Android devices will soon join the Find My Device network. In case you didn’t get the email in your inbox (or it got lost in spam), you have to disable this “feature” before it is turned on automatically for all Android users.
I just finished part one of Don’t Worry Because 90% of Your Worries Won’t Come True earlier today, but I just had to talk a little bit about one of the zengo (Zen saying). It goes something like this: Don’t wear colored glasses.
Should you eat to live or live to eat? Does it make a difference? According to biochemist Clive McCay—a professor at Cornell University in the 1930s—significant calorie restriction prolonged life in laboratory animals.
In the late 15th century, during the Muromachi period, there was a shogun named Ashikaga Yoshimasa. In his possession was a Chinese tea bowl, a rare and treasured piece of ceramic. One day, this precious bowl accidentally fell and broke into pieces. So he sent it back to China for repairs.
I moved to Canada to pursue engineering in 2014. At the time of writing this, it is 30 June, 2021. So, ~2500 days. Does it take this long for everybody? No. Could I have gotten it sooner? Yes. I was eligible in mid-2020, but I did not apply till early 2021. In hindsight, this was one of the easiest things to obtain, however. Was it worth the wait, though?
This comment is taken from a submission on Hacker News about how entrepreneurs aren’t a special breed, and it perfectly describes how I feel about entrepreneurship. Here’s the original comment if you wish to go read it for yourself. There are also other points people make that (I think) are quite insightful. Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.…
A colleague jokingly asked me how I manage to live alone, and how I’ve continued to do so, especially during the pandemic. “Doesn’t it get lonely?” I think they were confusing being alone with loneliness. People often tend to mix the two. I wouldn’t say I’m lonely, but I am usually alone. It doesn’t bother me at all. In fact, I’m the most productive when I’m alone. People in my line of work are…
The Internet is by default public, not private. That’s because the original protocol was not built with privacy in mind. Quite the opposite, actually. Whether that was the intention or not is no longer a worthwhile discussion.
In the first part of his book Historia da igreja do Japão (History of the Church of Japan), João Rodrigues noted that: “[The Japanese people] are so crafty in their hearts that nobody can understand them. Whence it is said that they have three hearts: a false one in their mouths for all the world to see, another within their breasts only for their friends, and the third in the depths of their…
The inevitability of our eventual demise is a fundamental aspect of the human condition. Our mortality is an inescapable reality that shapes our existence. Yet, we often find ourselves disconnected from this truth. However, the tragedy lies not in the fact that we are mortal, but in our tendency to forget our mortality and live without fully embracing the fleeting nature of life. Instead of…