Seth Godin on how to delegate To be able to delegate well, is one of the first things I learnt when I joined TCS all those years back. Delegating well is a skill. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/seth-godin-on-how-to-delegate/ #delegate #sethgodin

Universe Expansion May Be Slowing Big Crunch anyone? Some time back I had read this book - The end of everything by Katie Mack. It was an awesome book. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/universe-expansion-may-be-slowing/ #science #astronomy

Google will be changing App Store rules globally The hope is that Apple would do something similar, worldwide and skip this process everywhere. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/google-will-be-changing-app-store-rules-globally/ #google #apple #epic

1 The hope is that Apple would do something similar, worldwide and skip this process everywhere. That would require a new leader, I think. One thing that was not clear to me was that they mentioned this is up to 2032. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/1/ #google #apple #epic

OLED MacBook Air to come out in 2027 My next Mac is here. I have an M1. This would be a good age for this product. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/oled-macbook-air-to-come-out-in-2027/ #mac

The Internet was made for privacy The thought I had when reading this was the thought I had when comparing subscribing via RSS vs email. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/the-internet-was-made-for-privacy/ #corydoctorow

Chath celebrations Hello from my home in Matinkylä! This is NordLetter 78, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/nordletter/nl78/ #chath #bjpf #finland

A growing movement to shift away from US tech 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/a-growing-movement-to-shift-away-from-us-tech/ #europe #cloud

FAUG October meetup The reason I was excited for this event was because of the palce it was being held at - PolarSquad. I had applied for a position at this organisation and even though I did not get an int... 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/blog/faug-october-meetup/ #faug #azure #meetup

MSFT AI User group event at Nitor Back at the Nitor office. At this point I feel like I should create a tag for Nitor. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/blog/msft-ai-user-group-event-at-nitor/ #msaiug #finland #ai

The CAP principle From The practice of cloud system administration and other places. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/til/the-cap-principle/ #distributedsystems #sysadmin

Deepsek uses new way to store AI memories It also uses older or less critical info in slightly blurred pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words after all. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/deepsek-uses-new-way-to-store-ai-memories/ #ai #deepseek #llms

Distributed system design patterns From The practice of cloud system administration. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/evergreen/distributed-system-design-patterns/ #distributedsystems #sysadmin

Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages 1. I did not know this was happening. 2. Who decided what these 885,000 articles would be? 3. What a weird name! 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/grokipedia-contains-copied-wikipedia-pages/ #wikipedia #grok #xai

A house of dynamite I was literally at the edge of my seat - talking to the TV set. Do this. Do that. Oh fuck! And so on. Highly recommended. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/a-house-of-dynamite/ #movies #netflix

A house of dynamite I was literally at the edge of my seat - talking to the TV set. Do this. Do that. Oh fuck! And so on. Highly recommended. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/a-house-of-dynamite/ #movies #netflix

The Practice of Cloud System Administration started reading 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/bookshelf/the-practice-of-cloud-system-administration/ #technical

Why stories make you smarter My reading pattern or the pattern I try to implement is one non-fiction book, followed by a fiction book and so on. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/why-stories-make-you-smarter/ #reading #selfhelp #novels

Hyva Diwalia! Hello from my home in Matinkylä! This is NordLetter 77, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. #diwali #ai #claude

Obsess over quality Have pride in what you build. Give it time and the effort it deserves. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/evergreen/obsess-over-quality/ #work

Work at a natural pace There should be a varying approach to work, periods of rest and celebration, followed by periods of work. How? 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/evergreen/work-at-a-natural-pace/ #work #timemanagement

How to create a simulated pull workflow Related to Pull vs push method for getting projects. Read about this first in Slow Productivity. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/evergreen/how-to-create-a-simulated-pull-workflow/ #management #projectmanagement

Celebrating Diwali at OP In what has now become a yearly tradition, we celebrated Diwali at the OP Vallila office yesterday. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/blog/celebrating-diwali-at-op/ #op #diwali #finland

Do fewer things Limiting missions Limiting projects Limiting tasks on a daily basis - 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/evergreen/do-fewer-things/ #work

Code like a surgeon The idea being AI works on the secondary stuff and keep it ready while you work on the primary stuff. I found the above idea important as well, to rotate grunt work among the full team. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/code-like-a-surgeon/ #agenticcoding #work

A little essay by Stephen King Good advice this. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/a-little-essay-by-stephen-king/ #writing #stephenking

Claude gets memory ChatGPT already has this. It can be useful in principle. But it has the potential to taint the context. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/claude-gets-memory/ #claude #anthropic

Mico announces for copilot voice mode I still don’t know how I feel about ChatGPT having a character. But clearly they’re going through with it. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/mico-announces-for-copilot-voice-mode/ #msft #copilot

Microsoft announces Copilot groups Not out for the enterprise yet. WhatsApp also added AI to group chats, which sounds like a different product. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/microsoft-announces-copilot-groups/ #msft #copilot

Rivian announces first ebike I love how it looks too. It has a retro sci-fi vibe to it. I love it! But it’s costly at 4500. I don’t know why I was expecting it to be cheap. I guess I wasn’t. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/rivian-announces-first-ebike/ #ebike #rivian

Giving books away for free Derek Sivers emailed me (and by me I mean he emailed everyone I guess) about an offer for a week to get his books for free. 📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/blog/giving-books-away-for-free/ #books #reading #money

Pythonic coding conventions In PEP 8, from The quick python book. #python

Anything you want This is a short book. #nonfiction

https://interconnected.org/home/2025/10/13/dichotomy "Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms." Cyborgs is us being augmented with implants or devices we wear. #ai #compute

Diwali week Hello from my home in Matinkylä and Happy Diwali! This is NordLetter 76, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. #claude #diwali #finland

Slow Productivity Notes #nonfiction #productivity

Anything you want Started reading. #nonfiction

How to automate something After you’ve figured out what to automate, follow these steps - 1. Make sure you know how to do the thing manually. 2. Document the steps needed for the same 3. Make sure you can automate each step 4. Bring it together - add one step after the next and tes... #automation

What to automate There are four types of things that we can automate - #work #automation

A little inefficiency is good From Same as Ever. #work #thinking

Be a rational optimist From Same as Ever. #optimism #psychology

Progress takes time while destruction is instantaneous From Same as ever. #progress #psychology

How to decide what to watch or read 1. Keep a list 2. When it comes to pick what to read/watch next just pick the next item in the list 3. Delete that item from the list #reading #tv

How to avoid wasting time 1. Set a timer for the thing that you want to do - for me playing a game 2. Once the timer rings, stop doing the thing #howto #gaming

Happiness relies on expectation By almost every metric, we are better off than we were in an earlier age, still we earn for the golden period we had earlier (supposedly). #happiness

Risk is what you can’t see coming Like Covid, or any of the great depressions. Sure in hindsight it seems obvious, but for people living the happening, it’s anything but. #risk #planning

How to handle stress at work These are the things that work for me. They may or may not work for you. #work #stress #yoga

https://interconnected.org/home/2025/10/13/dichotomy "Loosely I can see two visions for the future of how we interact with computers: cyborgs and rooms." Cyborgs is us being augmented with implants or devices we wear. #ai #compute

Diwali week Hello from my home in Matinkylä and Happy Diwali! This is NordLetter 76, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web. #claude #diwali #finland

Slow Productivity Notes #nonfiction #productivity