Status Update on Aneesh Sathe

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Thu, 07 Aug 2025 06:52:15 +0000

Godzilla minus one had no business being that good!

Reflection on the VGR bookclub

Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:38:00 +0000

This bookclub is the most fun thing I’ve done in a decade… this includes starting, expanding, and leaving a startup ;)

The last fun thing was post-PhD rapid exploration of applying AI for bio, which laid the foundation for where I am now.

The book club feels like a philosophical anchoring to understand complexities of the world and, as I turn 40, my place in it.

Read more about it: The Modernity Machine

Carry you home

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 07:42:05 +0000

Sometimes the algorithms find just the right thing. Carry you home is a beautiful song. Especially for those days and nights when parenting is a little bit of an uphill climb.

Read more about it and the Jazz artist, Curtis Nowosad, here.

Musings while reading Monkey King Journey to the West

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:22:19 +0000

Monkey King is named Sun Wukong - Child awoken to emptiness. Sun can also mean monkey instead of child if, what is called as, the animal radical is included. Wu means awoken
Tweeting from the Bureau of Rice Reincarnation. iykyk
“Give him a government job.” seems to be a much older solution than I had imagined.
Monkey’s job in heaven being imperial groom is telling. Given the age when this was written, horses, their variety, numbers, and complexity of upkeep must have been a well known thing. Also interesting that it’s a very lowly post, imperial context wouldn’t want to give importance to horses no matter how much they depended on them.