Logic & Life - Navin Varma

I've been missing a couple of weekends now as I was working towards this post, but life gets busy.

*These are my personal thoughts, experiences, and opinions, and they do not reflect the views of the company I work for.* Recently, I was reading a Hacker News thread about a blog post called ["We might all be AI engineers now"](https://news.ycombinator.c…

*These are my personal thoughts, experiences, and opinions, and they do not reflect the views of the company I work for.* Last week I wrote about [driving the California coast and finding clarity](/blog/2026-03-25-california-coast-letting-go-to-find-clari…

*These are my personal thoughts, experiences, and opinions, and they do not reflect the views of the company I work for.* This past weekend, I packed up the family and drove to San Francisco.

My wife is a freelancer looking to start her own home lifestyle business.

I'd just finished setting up a newsletter with Kit and tried webmentions (p.s. it was a waste of time, no backlinks showed up).

My mode of learning is a mix of reading high-level documentation, thinking of some interesting problem to solve, and just getting my hands dirty.

I lead distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones, which means my work calendar can look strange on any given day — early morning calls to sync with Europe, midday blocks for other US offices, and the occasional odd gap where I've shifted my…

If you’ve wondered how AI image or music generation actually works—or whether you can run it on a Mac Mini—this is a short, plain-language guide.

I recently migrated to Astro based blog that is self-hosted.

*These are my personal thoughts, experiences, and opinions, and they do not reflect the views of the company I work for.* I've been reflecting a lot lately about the pendulum swing between Engineering Manager and Individual Contributor.

One of my plans in 2026 is to generate more original content.

I tried to share one of my posts on X after my website rewrite this week and... my face showed up as the preview image.

Okay so I finally did it.

**No AI was harmed… or used in writing this post.** Every so often, new tools come in that change the way the industry works.

This is my running list of links as I discover topics I'm curious about from time to time.

Throughout human history, the specter of war has cast a long shadow, leaving in its wake devastation, suffering, and loss.

Losing a best friend leaves you with only memories.

Today, August 28th of 2021 marks 15 years into my professional career.

**Disclaimer:** This article reflects my personal opinion, experiences and reading about how Scrum works in enterprises versus how it should work.

**TL;DR:** I recently upgraded to Samsung Galaxy S4 on AT&T with a 200 MB data limit.

All good things must come to an end.

It is 2012 and boy does time fly.

As the US marks this day each year, this time it feels a little different.

I might come across as crazy, depressed, needing help, out of my mind or a combination of the above in this post, but continue reading until the end before judging me.

Lets face it.

There are some things I can not change.