Gandhi might as well have been a psychotherapist

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/03/non-violence-wasnt-gandhis-only-message.html

I was at FOSSMeet '23 of NIT Calicut the other day. In 2016 when I went there I wrote a blog post. This year I couldn't. But Atharva wrote a post that I concur with (which also discusses my talk in the conference). https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2023/03/20/fossmeet-2023

I've downloaded the fragments that were recorded and put them on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/m5hpysn1aXM

What's the point of Twitter anymore?

https://asd.learnlearn.in/to-leave-twitter/

Not just a note on the dress code of these places

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/04/engaging-with-system-visit-to-iisc.html

This was fun to write (because I didn't write it). I am already feeling more productive.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/2-experiments-for-productivity/

Reading fast is a skill that can be acquired by right practice.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/speed-reading/

In which I finally make sense of my shift of allegiance from Gandhi to Ambedkar

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/05/ambedkar-and-gandhi-they-couldnt-have.html

Everyone is everything (to varying degrees)

(In which I use the word intersectionality only once)

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/06/everyone-is-everything-to-varying.html

Just documenting how I run my hobby android based webserver

#code #hack
https://asd.learnlearn.in/android-web-hosting-setup/

The conflict resolution guideline of social.coop seems really nice.
https://asd.learnlearn.in/social-coop-governance/

I just read this book and it confirms my long held suspicion about #management. That positive feedback is much better than negative feedback at helping people grow

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/09/dont-shoot-your-colleagues.html

How do we hold debates and reach productive solutions to the problems of the world? Words matter. But how exactly do we use words? All of those problems are addressed in this book

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/09/how-to-talk-with-people.html

Some practical (?) suggestions on what to do about social media.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/understand-social-media-role-in-democratic-backslide/

Wrote a quick guide to download administrative boundaries at ward level from OpenStreetMap

https://asd.learnlearn.in/downloading-wards-from-osm/

I've written a lot about intersectionality. I finally realize a lot of what I say when I talk about intersectionality is actually about the non-binary.

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/11/being-comfortable-with-non-binary.html

In which I heavily quote Ravikant Kisana to state that our world is built on lies and that a radical commitment to truth is what we need to escape savarna mediocrity

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/11/radical-commitment-to-truth.html

Just documenting some know-how about #subtitles (automatic and manual)

https://asd.learnlearn.in/subtitling-experiments-2023/

In which I send a cease & desist notification to Vidhi

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/what-ails-indias-approach-to-universal.html

Just explaining myself in another debate

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/whats-most-important-scientific-research.html

They say you can't be a good doctor until you've killed five patients. Similarly, you cannot be a good sysadmin until you've ran an open relay mail server.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/hardening-mailu/