Dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. Larry Niven Asteroid 2024 YR4, with its February 2025 estimate of having ~3% chance of striking Earth, was a sharp reminder to heed Stephen Hawking’s warning: that we must become a spacefaring species to survive extinction-level events. He believed we...| Angadh Nanjangud
I am a big-time and longtime fan of Obsidian- it is my note-taking tool of choice both for its usability and, just as importantly, its ethos of avoiding the travails of lock-in. However, my use of it recently plateaued — nay, it dropped off a cliff — when I started...| Angadh Nanjangud
This essay is mostly AI written. The introduction, marginalia, and two prompts (in callout boxes) are the only human content in this essay with the lion’s share being written by Claude to find contradictions in my thinking. I do so by giving Claude complete access to two of my Obsidian...| Angadh Nanjangud
I recently published an annotated AI-generated essay, Claude finds Contradictions in My Thinking, which found some interest on Hacker News. Basically, I let Claude loose on two of my Obsidian vaults: one has been gathering dust with my very early yet dense collection of notes and a more recent vault...| Angadh Nanjangud
Ben Horowitz said company culture is a way of working that will: Distinguish you from competitors Ensure that critical operating values persist such as delighting customers or making beautiful products Help you identify employees who fit with your mission A properly designed culture often ends up looking cultlike in retrospect,...| Angadh Nanjangud
This is what Bennis says in his book “Organising Genius”, which is at odds with what Ben Horowitz says in the Hard thing about Hard Things. #todo| Angadh Nanjangud
It’s criminal that it has taken nearly four decades for me to get around to watching “The Godfather”. I have also recently been on a bit of frenzy of rewatching cinema that I have previously enjoyed—like Django Unchained, Fight Club, and Spider Man: No Way Home. It has led me...| Angadh Nanjangud
Writing around the impact of Artificial Intelligence on society is burgeoning at a rate that LLMs would be proud of, if they could feel pride. I doubt there is much new to be said but there are new voices to be heard from; or new types of voices. Such as...| Angadh Nanjangud
In 1962. There — that answers the clickbaity title right away.| Angadh Nanjangud
