Aneesh Sathe

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

write to distill life’s brine into Morse code. we dot the night – constellations to navigate by

This essay was explored with ChatGPT o3 as a curiosity while reading Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Douglas E. Streusand as part of the Contraptions Book Club Introduction # The decline of the Ottoman Empire from the reign of Süleyman the Magnificent (1520–1566) through the 1800s was closely intertwined with its financial system. A combination of internal fiscal instruments – such as the timar land-tenure system, tax farming (iltizam), coinage debasements, and halting reform efforts – and external financial dependencies – including capitulatory trade agreements, foreign loans, and reliance on …

Desert guitars breathe dusk’s low tone, dissolving the sun; Footsteps of light retreat alone, dissolving the sun. Victories fade like prayers on wind-worn stone, dissolving the sun; Sorrows sleep deep in caverns unknown, dissolving the sun. Love gilds the cactus—an amber throne, dissolving the sun; Hatred grinds silence to marrow and bone, dissolving the sun. Hope drifts north with oud smoke blown, dissolving the sun; Despair sits south, unmoved and prone, dissolving the sun. Time loosens strings on an old dial-tone, dissolving the sun; Night tunes the dust to a heart on loan, dissolving the …

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.