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The table tent: scan, sign up, and try to hack an AI.

Micchami Dukkadam — forgiveness as a return to friendship and coexistence.

Book review of Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers by Massimo Pigliucci, Gregory Lopez, and Meredith Alexander Kunz, next to Beyond Stoicism — Digital Workbook, a companion notebook I…

Book review of Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins, next to the “gentle countdown” screen of While It Matters, an app I built to sit with this book’s questions.

Ranakpur from whole to detail: a temple set in the Aravalli landscape, an interior organized through pillars and light, and the carved Kalpavriksha medallion on a single column.

Over the last few years, I have used Paryushan, a holy period in Jainism culminating in Samvatsari in the Shwetambar tradition, to pause and reflect.

Book review of Runnin’ Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love by Bill Gurley Bill Gurley made his name backing Uber, OpenTable, Zillow, the kind of resume where you’d expect a book about spotting winners.

You’ve probably hit a token limit error at some point and wondered what a token even is.

A photo log of seven days in Seoul and Busan with my two nieces and nephew — a trip that had been on the calendar for two years, delayed once by political turmoil, and finally happened this June.

I’ve walked past the Ferry Building in San Francisco more times than I can count, and for years it was basically wallpaper.

Notes from AI Engineer SF, on Matt Pocock’s talk Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual.

Notes from Agent Engineering Day 2, on the talk Self-Improvement of Context, Harness, and Model Weights through Reflective Optimization.

Day 1 main stage talk things to try, from AI Engineer.

It was a genuine pleasure to bring GreenFairy to the San Francisco Exploratorium — and an even greater joy to see the crew, the poets, and the whole community show up for it.

How I built a grading pipeline for a Hacker Techniques & Exploits course — and what I learned about prompting AI to give feedback like a teacher.

This last week all the news media decried the upcoming burst of the AI bubble.