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Empathy-tinted glasses

I won't call myself an empath because I dislike labels. I like to think of myself as someone with a pair of empathy tinted glasses. This is very similar to the "sunglasses" from the movie They Live OR like the Peril Sensetive Sunglasses from the HGTG. Things changed once I picked up these nice looking shades.

The oldest prominent memory that I have with these shades dates back a fateful day in school where I was involved in a "fight". I hit someone and the pain it caused them did something to me. I remember being numb for a while after that. The fact that I was capable to such violence, of inflicting so much pain was very alient to myself. I tried to replicate the hurt by inflicting the same on myself for the rest of the week without much success. You see it is very important to me that I am familiar with the type / intensity of pain I can cause. Since that incident I have had trouble "fighting"; even playfully. I DO NOT want to hurt people.

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General Fitness

Some of my notes on strength training for my particular style of living.
These are added in no particular order, as and when needed.

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How I use AI - LLMs

This documents my setup for using LLM-powered coding agents (specifically OpenCode with Claude) as a day-to-day software engineering tool. The system is built around three ideas:

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Chicken Curry (Mustard and Onion)

This is the first proper curry I learned to make, thanks to my friend Sayan (who's a bit of a wizard in the kitchen) and some help from Gemini. It's become my go-to for 750g of chicken. The secret is all in how you handle the curd so it doesn't split and ruin the texture.

I usually get about 3 solid servings out of this. It's great with rice or roti, but honestly, I sometimes just eat it on its own.

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escaping the tyranny of the screen

Like many users of the internet I too am a victim of the attention-span-destroying things that live on the Internet. My attention span is the worst it has ever been and I think it will be the highest it will ever be. This is not a very happy thought. This has also started affecting my work and other reading skills.

Last year was an exercise is cutting out the crap when it comes to digital presence etc.

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Being easy-going and goofy is hard work :(

These are the two main cornerstones of my personality. Like any other coherent consciousness and too feel a tension between intent vs perception

I did some thinking and figured that the best course of action was to write.

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Cooking for friends

For the longest time I wasn't interested in cooking. I only cooked enough to make food edible for myself, and even that felt like a complex project with little return.

After moving to Bangalore and finding my community, I started taking part in shared routines — hanging out, grocery runs, and informal gatherings. I moved to Bangalore to be closer to friends; to have a village you have to be a villager.

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Learning to be Human

Ive spent a LOT of time belong alone; not just in the physical sense but also in the psychological sense.
I have become an extremely independent person as a result. This super-power comes with its own problems.