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  • Jul 17
    Essay A Good Dictionary

    Yesterday I wrote about good documentation opening doors to options you didn’t realize you had. In the book On Writing Well Zinsser mentions how one of his key tools is the dictionary. That got me …

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  • Jul 16
    Essay Divine Documentation

    Dad was about my age when he said that reading the manual was better than hypothesis driven button pressing. For teenage me, that took too long. Sure, I may have crashed a computer or two but …

    2 min
  • Jul 15
    Essay The Plato Plateau

    This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone: The Plato Plateau: People …

    2 min
  • Jul 14
    Essay Problems are Places, Questions are Spaces

    Last year, while regrouping myself and rebuilding my old curious ways, I had a thought. The common words “spaces” and “places” pass through our minds, fingers, and lips but they deserve a second …

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  • Jul 13
    Essay The Best Game Ever Made

    What does audacity look like? I did not imagine the problems I was having was due to a lack of temples and worshipping the right gods. Being from India, this should have been obvious. I had figured …

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