Sahil Parikh

I’m a big fan of Apple (AAPL).

I love diving deep into work and really thinking things through.

These days, I’m quite bothered by these pristine, well-written, bulleted AI emails from people I know or work with.

Depending on the project I like having a few terminals outside of my IDE. open -a Terminal .

I’ve been experimenting with building a full-stack web app and integrating OpenAI’s API to summarise a list of reviews that are stored in the database.

I am currently reading this fantastic book which can be applied to any industry and to life.

Mumbai lacks open spaces, good pavements, and sidewalks.

This week, someone I knew had their WhatsApp hacked and couldn’t access their account for a significant part of the day.

Nice article on The Recurring Cycle of 'Developer Replacement' Hype - every decade or so we will have new technology that will promise to make developers obsolete.

Software is never done.

I have shared a fantastic piece on Writing and AI last year.

An engaging and insightful read about Bill Gates' formative years and the origins of Microsoft.

why are we so inclined to add things rather than take them away when searching for solutions?

I've been using ChatGPT 4.0 extensively in my work, and it has been a game-changer.

In The Ken's First Principle's newsletter, they discussed a very interesting thought --- Is writing, thinking?

For me, this book was like Carl Newports Slow Productivity meets Eckhardt Tolle’s Power of Now.

A month ago, my yoga instructor set me a simple yet powerful challenge: to hold a 1-minute plank every day for 30 days.

Someone put this question about up on X so I thought why not try it.

I recently listened to an interesting “Be the Tortoise” episode of The Laracasts Snippet podcast, where Jeffrey Way discusses how developers often spend a lot of time fine-tuning their workflow, obsessing over keyboard shortcuts, and perfecting their setu…

Over the last year I have been in conversations with non-tech people and their views on how Gen AI is going to make developers obsolete and that we should speed up our software development process 2x now that ChatGPT is helping write the code for us.

Learning is what turns information consumption into long-lasting knowledge.

I love visiting bookstores and I am guilty of buying more books that I can read.

Bookmark this artcile and read it many times - For what it'll make of you Loved the part about setting ambitious goals vs. delusional goals.

Fantastic article -> Learn Things That Don't Change Lindy’s Law applied to technology says that the longer a technology has been around, the longer it’s expected to be around.

Data visualization software, like Dark Sky (the popular weather app that Apple acquired last year and subsequently discontinued), goes beyond simply displaying data in attractive graphs.

Good daily standup video links to improve the way your software team works :)

I've recently begun reading The Economist weekly, and an ad in it really caught my attention.

Must watch!

On point.

Enjoying using Maccy for Mac.

How does one differentiate between a software developer with decades of experience and a new developer who is just awesome at coding?

Fantastic piece on why we should write on our own.

This is 8 mins of pure awesomeness - a beautiful and detailed video on servicing a small machine!

Remember, "Productivity booster, not a job stealer."

While software development is constantly evolving (just look at the Javascript ecosystem!!!)

Fantastic book on what will always remain the same - Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life.

A friend of mine shared the YearCompass a couple of days back and spending a few hours thinking about 2023 (where I came from) and 2024 (where I am going) was an absolute joy on a Sunday afternoon.

In a more conflicted way, he also wrestles with the core question about Musk: whether his bad behavior can be separated from the all-in drive that made him successful.

I loved Morgan Housel's The Psychology of Money and I love reading his articles on money and everything around it.

I love watching tech documentaries on how languages/ frameworks evolved, the journey and the minds behind them.

Manage Your Capacity, Not Your Time is a really good read by James Steiner. ... it’s not the quantity of time that you are able to juggle, assign and manage that matters, it’s the quality of the time that you are able to spend on your tasks.

A phenomenal post by Morgan Housel - A Few Laws of Getting Rich Everyone talks about getting rich.

Lots of interesting things.