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My experiments with Polyphasic sleep
I had this wave of exhaustion that swept over me every day at night, around 11:00 pm and often, I'd take power naps, but a lot of them ended up with me oversleeping.
Things they don't tell you when buying a geared MTB
Review of "And the Mountains Echoed" - Khaled Hosseini
A new milestone and all about the new website!
The fallacy in 'The Alchemist'
Logo Design shout-out
More experiments with sleep
Privacy focused personal diary or journaling
I used to write a diary back in my school days. It is very comforting to write anything and everything into one. The feeling of having somebody, to listen to all your whims and fancies. 🤣
Do first impressions matter?
How I learned to type in 2 weeks
**QWERTY** never made sense to me. All the keys looked disorganized. I didn't know how to type and even then, things did work out well.
Please stop mutilating words!
Review of Brief Answers to the Big Questions - Stephen Hawking's final book
Brief answers to the big questions is another awesome book from Stephen Hawking and also, unfortunately, his last one. Anybody can pick this up and start reading and requires no particular knowledge of particle physics or cosmology. Hawking makes the secrets of the universe accessible to all thanks to his simple way of explaining things with enough real-world analogies. Now here are some specific things I learned or liked in the book. * * * ⚠️ Spoiler alert ⚠️ * * *
All the books I've read
On poets and poems
Do you want to be the next best-selling author? Then, don't forget to add 'The girl' to its title 😶
Is it only me or does everyone see an increasing number of books having titles starting with 'The Girl'? I wish I had enough time to go around hunting for the true origins of books that started this trend.
My favourite quotes
A tribute to Paul.
One day as I was browsing through [Amazon's 100 books to read in a lifetime](https://www.amazon.in/s/ref=s9_acss_bw_cg_100BXTLI_4a1_w?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Cn%3A976389031&hidden-keywords=AmazonEditor%27sPicks_100BooksToReadInALifetime_GenericSelection_MustReads&ie=UTF8&pf_rd_m=A1K21FY43GMZF8&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-3&pf_rd_r=TK7H698D6MM536C5B406&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=9c06454a-21d1-4a61-9912-1a499fc1eeee&pf_rd_i=4348234031) I came across this book: **When breath becomes air - Paul Kalanithi**
quOra = Opinions
Quora starts with a 'q' and ends with an 'a' ( for those of you who haven't got it yet: it starts with a 'Question' and ends with an 'Answer'. This is a coincidence ardent Quora fans have identified. I'd love to add on to it and say that the 'O' in Quora sits right in the middle and stands for ' **Opinions**'.
Fireworks🎆 ...bleh!
Today is some auspicious day and everyone is out, bursting crackers. All status updates have some firecracker or the other.😑 There are loud bangs and cracks coming from outside as I'm constantly reminded of the things happening around.
Designing : and what it means to me
Two years back, I built a locomotive from scratch, built it part by part..took care of every single bolt and screw and slowly set it in motion.
The silent world of actions
_Image for representational purpose_ onl _y._ As I write this, two women seated two rows in front of me on an almost crowded bus are talking to each other in a language I'll never know. Nor will I hear strange-sounding words that I can laugh about. There were only actions, the play of the fingers, expressions in some cases; which I think was just natural and had nothing to do with the language as such.
Will we ever run out of new email addresses?
You're lucky if you can find an available short email ID that fits your name. Many years ago most of the email IDs that I came across had only a few characters. Nowadays with the present level of email penetration, finding short email IDs is like mining for gold. They have started getting longer and longer and with more numerals and other valid characters.
The Need.
My quest for the perfect To-Do app
It all started with [Google Keep](https://keep.google.com). All my lists and drawings were stored in it. Keep has a neat UI with just the bare essentials. After about a month, things started to pile up. Every update took more time as I had to search through loads of notes.
Windows mobile and where it's headed
At the time of this writing, I represent **1%** of global mobile users. Now if that's a privilege to be rare or a sad thing to be the minority - **I don't know**.