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TATAs by Girish Kuber

A book review

An easy to read and concise book which takes us on a journey to track the history…

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

A review and a few excerpts

On high rise buildings

A high-rise building transcends the typical x-y axis heavy model of thinking by leaning heavily on the z-axis. A…

Thinking Prompts Project

What is it about?

Lessons learnt from CIA analysts

A review and notes for “Structured Analytic Techniques for Improving Intelligence Analysis” by CIA

How Does The Internet Work?

A few days ago, I was installing a video game on my PC. I wanted to play that game with my friends online, so…

Days till my death.

In this post, I would like to quantify the shortness of life. This will feed to the existential dread many of us feel, will…

Lessons learned by painting as an amateur.

Spending some time at home, I went through art supplies from my childhood. I got my hands on some decent brushes, purchased basic acrylic paints and went ahead to experiment with it and try to paint something. As a complete amateur in the skill of…

History’s Trash can-Evolution and Creativity

Ideas survive when spread, which is similar to the propagation of genes in the evolutionary theory of natural selection. Therefore only those ideas survive, thrive, spread and are passed along to the next generation which are able to survive both the…