It's a dog's life.

61 straight days of football starts today...

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Good. Nature is healing. I bet many of them know who Rachel is.

Scenes after picking up mail

A key to productivity with agents is that you have to raise your ambition - give it bigger chunks, take bigger swings. This is the reason why _experts_ do better with agents. They have a laundry list of "I would do X if only I had time", beginners have no such sense

Whew! I was worried there for a bit. The next model released is still gonna be good.

Smit Macchaara ~ My Smiling Arrow the roots of the Indian pilot's name. That arrow flew straight and true today. (h/t @kaeshour)

Seems like this has ignited discourse. Lot about women's work. But truth is, women were also the main beneficiary of these dropins. My mom might complain about the guests but she liked meeting them. The thing i miss the most about this is that people don't know how to be good guests now. Hosting is still a thing because Instagram. But because people are only used to visiting people's homes for big events, they dont know how to be a good guest who makes hosting feel worth it. And this puts pressure on hosts to host something major. Not casually host someone who just dropped by with conversation and upma. I used to host a lot pre-kid and my go-to dish was avlakki upma. Now I suppose I worry about whether it has protein and if the visitor has a history of upma-hate on their social media that they will add to after this visit. It also makes visiting so formal, and that makes interpersonal relationships also so much more formal. And it increases social anxiety because you're much less used to someone affirming you in your own space. And you only see the insides of immaculately clean homes, so you feel you and your home are much less "enough".

This is also basically how everyone used the internet 20 years ago You’d end up on some guy’s website about Civil War cannons, click his links page, discover a county historical society, then spend 40 minutes reading a forum for antique tractor owners “What sort of website is this?” was half the experience We called it surfing for a reason, now you open the same 4 apps every day

How it feels talking to anyone outside of twitter

Shankar Nag left three exceptional imprints on Indian cinema that one does not find strongly in others, if not unmatched. 1. Shankar Nag could integrate the anglicised and the un/less anglicised worlds and present them together as part of a single story weaving a single narrative. Eg., Kannada Movie Accident. I don't recollect anybody else having achieved this. The diversity of characters in Accident is unbelievable. Even Ray's universes were exclusive. 2. Shankar Nag could also create a mythical timeless aesthetic/experience from absolutely modern, realist paradigm. The obvious example is Malgudi Days. But, more than Swamy and his Friends, The Vendor of Sweets is a big testimony to this. Epic grade representation of complex reality. 3. Shankar Nag could also capture historically important elements through unassuming characters. Eg., Anant Nag - Arundhati Nag - Shrinivas Prabhu - Ashok Mandanna in Accident together represent a unique decay in Indian elite of which the character played by Anant Nag is actually conscious. Several scenes in Malgudi Days are enhanced versions of the original story where he has seen them through the lens of History. The politician played by CR Simha delivering a speech in Malgudi is another examples. A master of subtlety and cinematic poetics without abandoning realism.

How do you deal with people who strongly disagree with your views? 1. Begin by genuinely listening to them. Make sure that you understand them. It is often useful to ask for confirmation: restate what you think they are saying and make sure that you understand. Physically, it helps to turn your shoulders so that you face them. Don't look at your screen while they talk. 2. Ask more questions. You can often effortlessly weaken the stance of someone who has not given much thought to an issue just by asking them questions. Don't 'challenge them'. Ask genuine questions. The objective is not to break their views with questions, but to establish the playing ground. Many people are unclear about what they think they believe. They may simply be repeated what they heard. 3. Focus on what you share in common. Often, the disagreement is smaller than you think. Furthermore, you can sometimes entirely avoid a conflict by establishing strong agreement on many points. 4. Unless you are clearly a knowledgeable person, do not immediately express your opinion. Begin by establishing your credibility. Refer to hard facts, data. Refer to people or documents you have consulted. This, in turn, should have been done ahead of time. Never engage in a debate without having done at least a bit of research and reflection. 5. Use language that fits the issue. You need to learn the vocabulary. Learn the technical terms and use them, although you may want to remain accessible, so explain them as well. 6. Tell stories. People understand by emotions as much as by their reason. Ideally, the story should be true and it should be backed by hard evidence. 7. Avoid personal attacks and do not tolerate them against you and others. If someone is insulting you, if it is fair to say so. You may say that you feel offended. It is the one case where you can and maybe should go on the offensive. Once an insult is marked as such, you may gain the advantage as insulting people is a sign of loss of control.

The fun bit, for Greeks mainly, is that Skt sundar is the *exact* cognate of Greek εὔανδρος (euandros) > English evander Literally “good man”

You can take a German out of Germany, but can't take their superstitions about AC out of them.

Didn't wear patagonia or smoke, but this was my job description for a few years prior. Between this, and not securing sandboxes and having leaky DNS lookups etc.. I roll my eyes daily - keeps my vision 20/20.

The problem for folks like this isn't that they're dumb or anything, Timnit has all the skills of top scientists, rather the information ecosystem and peer groups they live in that don't encourage interrogating thought. Echo chambers are a slow death of clear thinking.

Radical Candor by Kim Scott is a good framework

I have noticed this in Bangalore too. People would rather meet in a restaurant than invite people home. Such a drastic change from our parents' generation, where dropping in unannounced was the norm, and of course various opportunities to have people over (simply "ಊಟಕ್ಕೆ ಕರೆಯೋದು" is becoming rare).