TLDR : This is an exploration of the indie-web. The indie web is a community of people building personal independent websites to host their own data, rather than on centralised platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. The principles : Your content is yours – When you post something on the web, it should belong to you, not a corporation. Too many companies have gone out of business and lost all of their users’ data. Read more...

I recently listened to a 4 hour podcast whilst driving in Scotland about the life of Bruce Lee. He’s another one of those figures who has shaped a large part of my thinking. Lee wrote Striking thoughts : a series of reflections on various topics. This is inspired by Striking Thoughts. Condensed aphorisms as a guide. These are for myself as reference. Please disagree and examine yourself. Words are fixed. Life is fluid. Read more...

TLDR : Internet is allowing for permission-less leveraged creation. Short observations on the topic below stolen from others The term ‘content creator’ has become mainstream. People want to grow up and become influencers/content creators. This is on observation on how media is impacting the landscape, reflections on attention, and the future of information consumption. Individuals are replacing legacy media PewDiePie vs NY Times. Who do you think has a larger reach? Read more...

I’m becoming technologically symbiotic with my iPhone. It’s partly terrifying, but my recent screen time has been atleast 6 hours daily. I know some people are much worse. The trend is that we are escaping into the virtual. Software is eating the world. I’m all in favour of this. The internet allows us to form communities where geographic distance becomes secondary to geodesic distance (find your ‘tribe’), it allows for permission-less leveraged creation, it allows for curiosity driven learning and tinkering. Read more...

TLDR : recounting interesting cases in my first 2 years of medicine I wish I had taken more notes. Created some form a logbook. There are too many interesting patients and stories, and already I find myself forgetting. Here are a few anonymised prominent cases (in no order), from the top of my head. I think I will keep a logbook during radiology training (or maybe make a digital one). Read more...

TLDR: All my thoughts on productivity collated My YouTube algorithm is showing me productivity videos. I don’t know why. Please stop this YouTube. I watched one and found myself disagreeing with a lot of the advice. I don’t need to speed read, increase my typing speed and be beholden to a 15 minute tomato pomodoro timer. Here is advice for my future self in case you forget. Work on the right problems Productivity for the sake of productivity is dumb. Read more...

TLDR : (Very) short story about digital manipulation of selves Marianne preferred her real face to her digital face. Not that it ‘felt’ any better when looking at it. Obviously, being able to proportion her face so that it was entirely symmetrical, get rid of acne and rein in her crooked nose, ‘felt’ aesthetically better. The issue was, it didn’t ‘feel’ authentic to her. She tried to bring this up whilst walking back from school with a friend. Read more...

TLDR : Thinking about influences, especially after the last post : Media scripts humans It’s hard to pick out who has influenced you. Partly because it is time dependent (certain ideologies and messages resonate at a certain age), and partly because there are too many. I thought I would list some, partly to acknowledge their outstated influence, and partly just to be aware of how some of my views were formed. Read more...

TLDR : Exploration of ideas and memes (I use the terms interchangeably) If code scripts machines, media scripts humans" - Balaji Srinivasan I’ve been thinking about media consumption in general, and how its evolved over the course of history In the past, access to information was scarce. The ability to read was incredibly rare, and information was siloed by establishments such as the Church. You believed what other people in your locality believed. Read more...

TLDR : A few musings on design that I aspire towards Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.” ― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness Read more...