Hi, I'm Swarn. You'll find my thoughts and anecdotes here. I write about tech, personal health, cricket, and general goings-on. No promises, but the inten...
I wanted to fix my sleep and morning routine, which had been inconsistent for a while, and my Dog's routine was the perfect one to go after. Snoopy wakes up at 4AM, gets her morning light, plays, eats, and is napping by 9. April, with the summers starting, seemed just right to feel the fresh morning summer breeze. My birthday in the first week was also a motivational factor to sort things out. I…
Yeah, it's actually 31. I had no plans of doing this experiment until Jan 8th when I saw I'd had eight continuous days of walking 10k steps and maybe I can do it for the remaining month. The idea partly comes from a Matt D'Avella video where he eloquently documents his experiment. For me, the thought of walking so many steps was not alien as I've liked walking and averaged about 5k for some time…
My Fufa (my father's fufa, but I used to call him fufa too) passed away at 80. Fufa and Bua lived right above our flat on the 2nd floor, and we were very close to them, often going to each other’s houses. You may say he saw me grow up. Fufa was an engineer himself and shared a lot of good stories and tales which I fondly remember. Being an elder, he regularly used to call me to fix something on…
For a fan who started watching the game with the limited overs format taking the lead, it is very hard to get them interested in Test cricket. Especially when the team was going through a rough phase with repeated overseas losses and a major transition. The IPL taking over made it even harder for new fans to like the ebbs and flows of a slow, drenching Day 3 of a Test match. Virat made it happen.…
Gen AI is getting better, and looks useful. Maybe even good. But look closely, and it feels like we're just getting faster at churning out high-grade slop. The real question is, does anyone even notice the difference anymore? None of these things is in any meaningful way "solved." The quality of the slop keeps rising, and is genuinely very very good now, but what we keep learning is that the gap…
I made this account ten years ago during the Cricket World Cup 2015, to keep up with cricket updates and follow my favourite players. And I’ve regularly used it for a number of things. My way of using this social tool has changed a lot since then. Twitter was a good place back in the day, already famously known for being a battleground of opinions and its trolls, but still decent and less…
I want to think for myself, and I think you should too. I came across an interesting term called "Algorithmic Complacency." As you can guess by the name, it's about how most of the internet nowadays revolves around doing your thinking for you rather than letting you decide for yourself. There is no doubt that algorithms are controlling us: constraining our ability to search and think before…