This week was spent reflecting on a few thoughts and did some routine cleanups.

Musings

I tend to come back to the analogy of cooking with whatever advancements we make. Technology is a lot like them. Tools like gas, ovens, cooker and mixers make things faster, but the basics matter more to excel. For instance,

  • Food tastes better when the heat is right. That’s why the old Ammi Kallu always gave better flavour. Even now, just adding cold water to a mixi keeps the taste fresh. These small principles matter.
  • Coding I feel is becoming very similar. AI can help like a tool, get away with tasks done, but without good practices and knowing the nuances, the work won’t last. Neither can you, nor the product sustain without one.

There were times when anxiety meant real survival: a predator nearby, or trespasser stealing food or belongings. Now it has shifted to jobs, reputations, and in startups especially, pleasing investors so the money keeps coming. That’s just how the world runs today. Even at government levels, we still see the same pattern: one man worship or one man hate, as if someone else will save the day for us.

But real change comes from building small circles of trust, helping teammates, supporting people close to us, and keeping everyday life steady by solving our own problems. Buying food or clothes within a circle may look small, but it builds credibility, better feedback, and growth that lasts. Sometimes I feel anxiety isn’t about controlling everything at a large scale. It eases when I focus on making my immediate circle steady and strong.

The strength of the civilisation is not measured by its ability to fight wars but rather by its ability to prevent them - Gene Roddenberry

I’ve been reflecting on that Gene Roddenberry vision lately. Preventing wars, in a broader sense is also about learning to live without constant battles, at work, in society, even in our own minds. To create solutions that don’t lean on fear or control, but on compassion.

Others

  • We completed two years count down with 1.5 years ruled by four paws. Hemanth gifted me a Green Soul chair for anniversary so each of us have one and do not fight anymore :). We took Tars out and had dinner for the first time in years. He was pleasantly cooperative.
  • I’ve noticed I always finish books on an e-reader more than with hard copies. So I went ahead and invested in Kobo, loaded it with a few rare e-pubs, and started with the original Star Trek books so that it motivates me to stick to reading. I was in the middle of Alien Clay, but it felt a bit too heavy on the science for me right now.

Work

Got more comfortable with Claude code, now using it just as a tool for routine cleanups and lazy mundane tasks. Built a candlestick trend analyser for stock market(reach out if you're curious), planning a budget tracker next.