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Essay No. 46
The trouble with FIRE
Essay No. 45
Attention Management
Bookshelf No. 11
Outspoken by Veronica Rueckert
Essay No. 44
Star Trek: Discovery is an operatic nod to TOS and TNG
Essay No. 43
U and non-U english in the 21st century
Essay No. 42
It is time to bring back the wax seal
Essay No. 41
The subtle art of not giving a book
Essay No. 40
On the by-election in Karnataka in The Indian Express
Bookshelf No. 10
Atomic habits by James Clear
Essay No. 39
Tame your tech
Bookshelf No. 9
Indistractable by Nir Eyal
Essay No. 38
The iPad-only experiment, redux
Essay No. 37
Random approaches to better living
Essay No. 36
Dispatch From Kozhikode
Essay No. 35
On dynastic politics in India in The Indian Express
Essay No. 34
On the smoke monster and other elements of ‘Lost’
Essay No. 33
Google should turn off AMP
Essay No. 32
Karnataka crisis: This sham must stop in Deccan Herald
Bookshelf No. 8
All about Apple under Tim Cook by Leander Kahney
Note No. 28
A lesson in overpopulation and toilet-clogging
Note No. 27
Banksy on migration
Essay No. 31
Apple Watch Series 4
Bookshelf No. 7
The headspace guide to mindfulness and meditation by Andy Puddicombe
Essay No. 30
Lessons from building my first app ever
Essay No. 29
Secrets of staying motivated
Essay No. 28
The GitHub experience
Essay No. 27
A guide to living in the present
Essay No. 26
In random conversations with farmers
Note No. 26
Cyclists on city roads
Note No. 25
Chuck Close on inspiration
Bookshelf No. 6
A practical guide to always doing your best by Todd Henry
Essay No. 25
Gladstone
Bookshelf No. 5
The Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson
Essay No. 24
What happens when our virtual selves take us over
Bookshelf No. 4
Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers