Book summary: Antifragile by Nassim Nicolas Taleb
Does raising the education levels to lead to wealth? Should we bail out banks? Is an irregular diet better than a regular one? How complex systems differ from complicated ones?
When can you count on public transport while traveling?
I love taking public transport while traveling. One, not only, gets a chance to see the lifestyles of the locals but also becomes more familiar with the new area. So, when can one count on public transport while traveling? Peru […]
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism is a philosophy of technology in which you focus your online time on a few carefully selected activities that support the things you value.
Indian accent
About 50% of Indians use Hindi as their primary language. Hindi/Devanagari is fairly phonetic except when it starts to import foreign words. And that’s why many Indians, with Hindi as their primary language, end up with incorrect pronunciations of foreign, […]
Things to do in Aruba
Aruba, a small Caribbean island 29 km north of Venezuela, is a part of the ABC islands – Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao, which form the Dutch Caribbean and is a part of the Netherlands. It is famous for its white-sand […]
What’s the best alternative to Google Play Music and Google Podcasts…
Google Play Music was great. Apart from one missing feature about the inability to upload music from the phone to the Google Play Music library, I had no other complaints. Then it was forcefully shut down.
React Native
There are tons of hyped-up claims surrounding React Native that are worth addressing. The reasons why companies run for React Native are usually, We already use Javascript for the website and now, we can build apps in that as well. […]
Android: Catching NDK crashes
On Android catching Java exceptions is easy via UncaughtExceptionHandler. Catching NDK crashes is a bit more convoluted. Since the native stack is probably corrupted, you want the crash handler to run on a separate process. Also, since the system might […]
Hindi: The missing “v” sound
Indic-origin names should not use “v”, the sound is entirely non-existent in Indic-origin languages.
Egypt in 8 days
Egypt, locally known as Misr (मिस्र) is world-famous for its pyramids and ancient polytheist temples. I made a trip to Egypt in Nov 2020, during the COVID-19 era. Given the general lack of tourism, it was a great time to […]