https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/ Essays by Raja Ramamoorthy, newest first. en https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/ai-is-a-synthesizer/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/ai-is-a-synthesizer/ Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT I think of AI more like a synthesizer than a replacement for the musician. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/four-mistakes-i-shipped/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/four-mistakes-i-shipped/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT None of these were coding mistakes. Every one was an assumption I never tested. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/newsroom-metrics-interpreter/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/newsroom-metrics-interpreter/ Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The newsroom needs a more personal space to play around with metrics, so they can introspect and ask better questions. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/the-empty-seats-cost-the-whole-bill/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/the-empty-seats-cost-the-whole-bill/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four weeks of shipping on commuteimpact.com: a weekend traffic forecast, monthly city traffic reports, and one number from Bengaluru that I keep turning over. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/why-this-site-exists/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/why-this-site-exists/ Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT I wanted a place for myself online, an expression of me, my thoughts and my taste. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/bengaluru-geometry-problem/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/bengaluru-geometry-problem/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Everyone counts the cars. Almost no one asks how much road each one takes. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/what-2000-chennai-commutes-cost/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/what-2000-chennai-commutes-cost/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The people who measure their commute are the city's most car-dependent. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/not-quite-my-tempo/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/not-quite-my-tempo/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT What happens when you give an AI agent a journalist's skill and a tyrant's temperament. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/chennai-drives-alone/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/chennai-drives-alone/ Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT What 2,000 commutes taught me, and why the Chennai Traffic Impact Calculator is now the Commute Impact Calculator, live in Bengaluru and Metro Manila. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/optimize-for-your-brain-tokens/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/optimize-for-your-brain-tokens/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT You might have to start protecting your 'brain' tokens. You are going to need a lot of them. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/chennais-solo-commute-problem/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/chennais-solo-commute-problem/ Sun, 31 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Three months ago, I built a simple traffic calculator for Chennai. The data that came back revealed something I wasn't expecting. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/stop-telling-journalists-to-write-authentic-content/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/stop-telling-journalists-to-write-authentic-content/ Wed, 20 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Why does it even need to be an advice? It's the fundamental job of journalism. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/ai-can-write-this-post/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/ai-can-write-this-post/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT We create because creating is itself nourishing. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/how-chennai-traffic-made-me-build-a-calculator/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/how-chennai-traffic-made-me-build-a-calculator/ Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT A story about traffic entropy, AI experiments, and why I built a tool to make people uncomfortable with their choices https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/looking-for-the-right-wrong-approach/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/looking-for-the-right-wrong-approach/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Three experiments in making people care when numbers no longer matter https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/the-who-behind-the-what/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/the-who-behind-the-what/ Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT People have always been interested in knowing how the stories take shape and more about the authors. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/episode-1-the-authority/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/episode-1-the-authority/ Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT And what happens when you do? https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/contradictions-collapse/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/contradictions-collapse/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Contradictions: a necessary speed-breaker in the pursuit of truth. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/long-form-on-short-form/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/long-form-on-short-form/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT When a 60-word short news saved a life, and why I still hate short form content. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/secret-order-of-saleable-content/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/secret-order-of-saleable-content/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Do we need to put more Ferraris on our magazine covers? https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/can-anxiety-be-a-positive-driving-force/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/can-anxiety-be-a-positive-driving-force/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT One thing about anxiety is that you can always turn it around and use it as a driving force. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/on-tv-news-and-subliminal-cues/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/on-tv-news-and-subliminal-cues/ Tue, 19 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT I feel that the news organizations that use such provocative lines are not treating their profession and their audience with dignity. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/pay-per-article/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/pay-per-article/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT What I learnt from running a pay-per-article product. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/dunno-how-dunzo-does-it/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/dunno-how-dunzo-does-it/ Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT As a product person, my personal goal is to add emotion as much as possible to anything I work on. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/automobile-journalism-to-product-management/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/automobile-journalism-to-product-management/ Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT Do what you love, they said. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/vaigai-express/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/vaigai-express/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT Nostalgia, railway gates, and the rhythmic heartbeat of a 90s childhood. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/have-you-felt-the-same/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/have-you-felt-the-same/ Wed, 27 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT So I wanted to preserve the 'rawness' of that opinion/feeling and stopped writing anything. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/are-journalists-aware-of-their-filter-bubbles/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/are-journalists-aware-of-their-filter-bubbles/ Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMT Media people need to be a bit more self-aware on how we perceive social media and how we make our opinions from this space. https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/chennai-trichy-highways/ https://rajaramamoorthy.com/writing/chennai-trichy-highways/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT இந்த ரூட் பத்தி நான் நோட் பண்ண விஷயங்களை இங்க எழுதுறேன்.