Day 23/31 Are you also worried about AGI? do you too believe a super intelligence will destroy you along with rest of the humanity? Have you also considered the terminator movie series are basically likely except for the time traveling modern day Jesus? Well, you can insure yourself agains singularity with this one easy technique. […]
Author: Piyush Hatwalne
Filters and fashion
Day 22/31 While posting a instagram story, I accidentally swiped right. Suddenly the colors of my story popped, red became maroon, blue became indigo and a text popped. “Rio De Janeiro”. Damn. Instagram filters. They still exist. Filters was the killer feature of instagram. Everyone used to use filters a few years ago. And then […]
Rock bottom is for boring people
Day 19/31 * I would not read this post when I am down.* So, you think you are at rock bottom? You think things cannot get worse than this? well I wish that they don’t but there are still tonnes of ways your life can get worse. If you think it can’t. you just lack […]
Nothing to write about
Day 18/31 I am not too tired, I am just tired enough that I don’t want to think of something to. write about. But I have to write something because it is the month of writing. How many words do I need to write for it to qualify as a blog Probably, I need to […]
Free Snorkeling
Day 17/31 I did snorkeling at elephant beach today. Or rather, I was tricked into doing it and then I volunteered to pay for it after the fact without any nudge or anything. How? By using a fairly sophisticated business model IMO. So here’s how the snorkeling at Elephant beach at Havelock island works. Honestly, […]
Vomiting in Public
Day 16/31 I vomited in a ferry today, That should have felt embarrassing, right? uncontrolled smelly projectiles coming from your mouth while you feel like dying? And you are making everyone around you uncomfortable? You should just kill yourself with shame. Except I wasn’t. And the reason I wasn’t was that I was not the […]
Not Listning to AI
Day 15/31 When you choose not to listen to AI is how you ll show your personality in future. From LinkedIn to Bumble to Slack, every estate on internet where you have your profile is getting a AI “profile reviews” and “message rewriters”. These tools will no doubt “improve” your profile and writing but looks […]
Tropes of Daily soaps
Day 14/31 If you watch (or are forced to watch because of your mom) Indian daily soaps, you will quickly realize there are probably 3-4 central themes all of them revolve around. Why do all the daily soaps follow the same themes? Some time ago, I had written about medium-message fit. The idea was that […]
Luxury of Procrastination
Day 12/31 I have come to realize that procrastinating at work, something I am very used to do, is actually not common. Or rather, it cannot be common. Procrastination is a luxury that can only be afforded by entry level, smart, white color workers. You can afford to not do work on time and only […]
Create scripts
Day 10/31 This is a note to self Many conversations we have, are fairly repetitive. Conversations like: It’s a good idea to mentally create scripts for these conversation beforehand. You will form a script anyways after the first 3-4 conversations. The trick is to do it in advanced so that even those first 3-4 conversations […]