AI can sound like a violin but it's not the violinist
I think of AI more like a synthesizer than a replacement for the musician.
Writing
Four mistakes I shipped
None of these were coding mistakes. Every one was an assumption I never tested.
Newsrooms Deserve to Have Fun with Their Numbers
The newsroom needs a more personal space to play around with metrics, so they can introspect and ask better questions.
The empty seats cost the whole bill
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.
Why this site exists
I wanted a place for myself online, an expression of me, my thoughts and my taste.
Bengaluru's traffic is a geometry problem
Everyone counts the cars. Almost no one asks how much road each one takes.
What 2,000 Chennai commutes really cost
The people who measure their commute are the city's most car-dependent.
Not Quite My Tempo
What happens when you give an AI agent a journalist's skill and a tyrant's temperament.
Chennai drives alone. The calculator goes global.
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.
Optimize for Your 'Brain' Tokens, Not LLM Tokens
You might have to start protecting your 'brain' tokens. You are going to need a lot of them.
Chennai's Solo Commute Problem: What 779 Real Journeys Taught Me About Our Traffic Crisis
Three months ago, I built a simple traffic calculator for Chennai. The data that came back revealed something I wasn't expecting.
Stop Telling Journalists to Write Authentic Content
Why does it even need to be an advice? It's the fundamental job of journalism.
AI Can Write This Post, But Why Do I Want to Suffer Writing It?
We create because creating is itself nourishing.
How Chennai Traffic Made Me Build a Calculator
A story about traffic entropy, AI experiments, and why I built a tool to make people uncomfortable with their choices
Looking for the Right 'Wrong' Approach
Three experiments in making people care when numbers no longer matter
The 'Who' Behind the 'What': Author Context as Meta-Information
People have always been interested in knowing how the stories take shape and more about the authors.
Episode 1: The Authority Doesn't Want You to Dream
And what happens when you do?
Contradictions Collapse: The Era of Liquid Content Without Solid Journalism
Contradictions: a necessary speed-breaker in the pursuit of truth.
A Long Form Content on Short Form Content
When a 60-word short news saved a life, and why I still hate short form content.
The 'secret order' of saleable content
Do we need to put more Ferraris on our magazine covers?
What powered all this was anxiety
One thing about anxiety is that you can always turn it around and use it as a driving force.
On TV news and subliminal cues
I feel that the news organizations that use such provocative lines are not treating their profession and their audience with dignity.
Is pay-per-article a tricky path for publishers?
What I learnt from running a pay-per-article product.
Dunno how Dunzo does it!
As a product person, my personal goal is to add emotion as much as possible to anything I work on.
Automobile Journalism to Product Management: Is it worth it?
Do what you love, they said.
Vaigai Express
Nostalgia, railway gates, and the rhythmic heartbeat of a 90s childhood.
Have You Felt the Same?
So I wanted to preserve the 'rawness' of that opinion/feeling and stopped writing anything.
Are Journalists aware about their filter bubbles?
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.
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இந்த ரூட் பத்தி நான் நோட் பண்ண விஷயங்களை இங்க எழுதுறேன்.