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The coffee abstinence experiment

Vishy KurugantiDecember 01, 20193 mins

Regular readers of this blog might know that I run multiple experiments at any time. Experiments of the life hacking kind. Start doing this. Stop doing that. Well.. maybe more of the stopping kind…

Heads I win, tails I don’t lose

Vishy KurugantiOctober 05, 20193 mins

“Racing is a true experience. Only the conditions are artificial. My entire self is engaged in a genuine struggle against time and distance and those around me. All my strengths, physical and…

Quitting in the age of vaping

Vishy KurugantiJuly 18, 20194 mins

If vaping was a thing back in the early ’90’s, I seriously doubt I’d have quit smoking when I did. Not that it was easy. It took a year of umpteen failed attempts with quit streaks ranging from days…

Unlocking a superpower

Vishy KurugantiMay 04, 20195 mins

Decades ago, I went to bed with a raging headache. For the next 10 minutes, I performed a sequence somewhat like this – took my attention away from my forehead, imagined myself floating in the ether…

Mind is deeply blowing

Vishy KurugantiFebruary 16, 20196 mins

[Title is a hat tip to the recent Bollywood masala flick where the character Simbba turns a perfectly legit American phrase into the endearingly Hinglish “mind is blowing”.] There’s much to say in…

The crowdsourced traffic light

Vishy KurugantiDecember 09, 20182 mins

I’ve been wanting to write this post since 2009. Really. Exhibit A : Year in Bangalore – the Unwritten Posts. When we moved to Bangalore 10 years ago, good reason prevailed to not get immediately…

Eating pork chops while petting your Golden Retriever

Vishy KurugantiOctober 20, 20185 mins

Fifteen years ago, as we sat in a Singapore tour bus, we heard the story of how the Singapore zoo came to be. An entire generation of kids had grown up knowing chicken only as a packet of shrink…

Adventures in buffet optimization

Vishy KurugantiJune 10, 20186 mins

Mathematically speaking, a buffet function could be expressed thus: Buffet f(x) = sigma (dish1(a1 ->n1)) + sigma(dish2(a2->n2) +… + sigma(dish N(aN->nN) (Turns out there is a WordPress LaTeX plugin…

A Sunday in Jakarta

Vishy KurugantiApril 08, 20181 mins

The best part of spending a Sunday in Jakarta is their car-free zone on Sudirman Road. A nearly 8km stretch of Sudirman Road (General Sudirman was the first commander-in-chief of Indonesian Armed…

A summer vacation in 1955

Vishy KurugantiMarch 31, 20189 mins

[Editor’s Note: My mother, a late adopter of the Internet, used to write the loveliest of letters to her children pre-Internet era. The letters stopped after I returned to India. In the past few years…

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