Fascinating book: Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - https://sive.rs/book/Conscious19 - uses one true story, 19 times, of the laughing brain patient - https://sive.rs/u12 - in the format of Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - https://sive.rs/book/WangWei - to explore the subject.

Good book on cultural psychology: Tribal. Great insights and examples of how change happens on the personal, cultural, and institutional level. My notes at https://sive.rs/book/Tribal

My favorite LLM prompt: “List the top cities in {COUNTRY}, and anthropomorphize each one, listing the good-natured stereotypes and jokes that other people in {COUNTRY} say about people in this city.”

Since we moved from city to rural land, to a house where the bathroom and kitchen are outside, my boy observed: “This year there are way more full moons.”

I’m not autistic, but my heroes are.

1993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen

Geography is four-dimensional: https://sive.rs/4d

My life was changed by four sentences in four books : https://sive.rs/4s4b

Prepare your “no” and keep it handy: https://sive.rs/n0

Fight Club: I liked it the first time years ago, but watching a second time when you already know the end reveal? Elevates it from good to great. So many brilliant details in the screenplay. What else in life is better the second time?

India tech friends: I just bought my ticket to IndiaFOSS in BLR Sept 26-27: https://fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026 Want to meet? Email me: https://sive.rs/contact

16 conversations in super-multicultural Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur: https://sive.rs/met/at-13

17 conversations in Jakarta, Indonesia: https://sive.rs/met/at-14

I write to see what I can write. I code to see what I can code.