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Pale blue dot

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and ec...

manan dedhia

a day ago

What I learnt about SaaS from coconuts

Got a bad fever after having way too much tender coconut water.

Adithya Venkatesan

a day ago

How to read more — habit creation

Well, start by allotting time in your calendar like it's a task you have to complete. Just 15 minutes should do. Not more. Phone on silent. Do this religiously no matter what for 2 weeks. Habits compound, and to kickstart a habit, you need discipline.

Adithya Venkatesan

2 days ago

Pain

When it comes to you it seethes right inside, deep, penetrating and constant..

Poorva khandelwal

3 days ago

Keyboard Warriors

👆Your friendly neighborhood Whatsapp group admin(poor admin) popping intermittently in during the educated ‘keyboard warriors’ group arguments.

jaee jadhav

3 days ago

“Real” Mother

On last Thursday I was dropping Vivaan at his daycare. Since Mother’s day was coming on Sunday they had a prop to take photo with your kid. I saw some of the mums taking photos and quickly proceeded to drop Vivaan. Thought that came to my mind was I am not a “real” mother so I do...

sanika joshi

3 days ago

Eternal search

I search outside

Rahul Pawar

4 days ago

A lonely time

In an abyss, completely broken,

Rahul Pawar

4 days ago

Books of 2024 - Book 9

I had bought this book a couple of years back but hadn’t read it till now. I have read all of Jane Austen’s books but had never read any other classic. The world that Charles Dickens has constructed is very different from Jane Austen’s. This feels more real even for today. But I ...

sanika joshi

5 days ago

OMG

Oh my garden!

Satyajeet Jadhav

6 days ago

Vihaan had to go for Mansha to come

As I sit here watching my daughter Blow Bubbles with so much Joy and Utter Bliss, her right leg injured from a fall in the bathroom as she Seized, and yet she singing and Blowing Delightful bubbles in the air…She doesn't know what a seizure is and how and what happens to her whil...

Poorva khandelwal

9 days ago

Thrive to Survive

So, if F1 is quite boring as a live sport - why are people interested? Where can you go get your fix?

manan dedhia

13 days ago

The biggest challenge with AI

For most of us, the biggest challenge with AI is not going to be which LLM model to use or what infra to deploy. It will be to understand why do I need AI.

Satyajeet Jadhav

15 days ago

Drive to Revive

Formula 1 has reached a whole new audience because of the Netflix treatment in Drive to Survive.

manan dedhia

16 days ago

More is more.

There are many kinds of songs in this world.

manan dedhia

18 days ago

Colonization behind the mask

Pradeep Mohandas

20 days ago

No Futz Zone

Photography has been a hobby as long as I can remember.

manan dedhia

21 days ago

Spill the tea, spoil the milk

Pradeep Mohandas

22 days ago

Daffodils

As the only poem that I remember from school, the association is instantaneous and overwhelming.

manan dedhia

22 days ago

When your heart breaks but they are not your lover

Pradeep Mohandas

23 days ago

Tyranny of the list

It is a terrible thing to be consistenly successful when you are young. You need avenues to fail. Without failure there is no learning.

Satyajeet Jadhav

22 days ago

Salad dressings

Adithya Venkatesan

23 days ago

Yahan: this unvisited body

Pradeep Mohandas

24 days ago

The Legs of Back Bay

manan dedhia

25 days ago

Sushi’s meant to be shared

Pradeep Mohandas

25 days ago

Songs for our times

Time is better than money. Spend it on some good music. Toodaloo.

manan dedhia

24 days ago

Little joys of not fitting in

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Self-portrait of David Wojnarowicz

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Beyond Code: Applying the MINASWAN Principle to Everyday Interactions

Let’s explore a topic that has intrigued me throughout my life: the concept of \"being nice.\" This seemingly simple idea can be quite complex, as everyone seems to have their own interpretation of what it means to be nice. These interpretations are often bounded by personal expe...

Aniket Rao

a month ago

Depression meals

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Boston Marathon @ Patriots Day 2024

It’s the day to ship off to Boston - we welcome spring and athletes from all corners of the world.

manan dedhia

a month ago

Can talking to customers be frustrating? A big YES…

A guide to who talks what with the customer.

Mohammed Mujtaba Sayed

a month ago

Skepticism on a not so holy holiday

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Despair

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Bandipur and Ooty

Sept 7th to Sept 11, 2023

Satyajeet Jadhav

a month ago

Epilogue: SUV-Glam

Glam metal confused and splintered the metal music industry.

manan dedhia

a month ago

Emoji picker for tiptap

The official tiptap emoji picker extension is a pro extension. Meaning you have to pay for using it. It is easy enough to build this extension by extending the existing Mention plugin from tiptap.

Satyajeet Jadhav

a month ago

Jackie Shroff’s clip about Anda Curry Patta

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Voice Notes

We are happy to announce the launch of this cool new feature. Now you can record your thoughts and ideas directly into your thinkdeli note. The audio file is transcribed and added to the current position in the note you are currently editing.

Satyajeet Jadhav

a month ago

An Apolitical Therapist

Can self-care exist without community care?

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Morning Sun by Edward Hopper

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Never go full glam.

If you are younger or more musically discriminating or just uninterested in anything 80’s, you wouldn’t have heard of this term called glam metal.

manan dedhia

a month ago

Superfood pseudoscience

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Matapacos meets the police dog

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Books of 2024 - Book 8

After I started my new job and with moving, it took a while to get back to reading. After a month have resumed reading regularly. Saw this in our bookshelf that Satya had newly organized. The book is little different than the genres I usually read and enjoy. But liked reading thi...

sanika joshi

a month ago

Basic Rhythms

We all find life lessons and values in things that we are attached to and like.

manan dedhia

a month ago

Gaining Blood

Did you travel outside of the USA and Canada in the last year?

manan dedhia

a month ago

Masking

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

How does this work?

Nishant Modak

a month ago

Zomato is as Zomato does

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Portrait photoshoot sessions(pune)

Give your 'phone camera' a break for a while from everyday selfies and usual snaps clicked all over the place!Let's get some creative, well-thought-out shots instead?

jaee jadhav

16 days ago

Reclaim Saffron. Make Biriyani.

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Encryption

Cryptography is encryption + decryption.

Satyajeet Jadhav

a month ago

De Daan Chhootey Grahan

8-Apr-2024 - New England will be in the path of a solar eclipse.

manan dedhia

a month ago

Instructions for Living a Life. Pay attention.

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Cultural Sportivity

The Mercedes Benz 500E (W124 E60 AMG)

manan dedhia

a month ago

The Warli Revolt

The words deserve to be heard. The art needs to be seen.

manan dedhia

a month ago

Take it easy

Not the Eagles. Screw them.

manan dedhia

a month ago

Ginger aale ghari

Dude this chai is awesome…. how do you decide how much ginger to use?

manan dedhia

a month ago

Downsides of going vegan

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Today I am angry. Today I am hopeful.

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

I'm Learning So Many Different Ways to be Quiet

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Kitchen table

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Biryani review

I have been a customer of Sapna's Chicken Biryani for more than 5 years now. Throughout this period, the quality of her biryani has remained consistently high!

jaee jadhav

a month ago

Late at night scrolling my Twitter feed

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

The Decision

manan dedhia

a month ago

View of Cambridge

manan dedhia

a month ago

Nobody is free without breaking open

April is National Poetry Writing Month. Using a series of prompts to write poetries this month. The title of the post is the prompt.

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

Naming

He was sitting in front of a 3D printing machine that was reading a design and transforming it from bits to atoms. He suddenly got thoughtful.

Pradeep Mohandas

a month ago

the immigrants

“Good we are moving. This house is so small.”, said Vivaan. He must have picked it up from our conversations. “But I will miss my friends”, he quickly added.

Satyajeet Jadhav

a month ago

Prototype

Once you were sentient beings

manan dedhia

a month ago

Thinkdeli Release Notes

This document maintains the list of new features and bug fixes as they happen.

Satyajeet Jadhav

a month ago

Explosia

manan dedhia

2 months ago

How are you? I am fine, thank you.

There is no aspect of music that i claim mastery over. Not even close.

manan dedhia

2 months ago

A plea

Here is an idea for smartphone makers to add value - like actual value.

manan dedhia

2 months ago

SRECon 2024

I attended SRECon 2024 in California last week. Overall, the experience was amazing, I got to interact with a lot of folks at the [Last9](https://last9.io) booth.

Prathamesh Sonpatki

2 months ago

The Eye

manan dedhia

2 months ago

Cafe Fiesta

manan dedhia

2 months ago

The Blue Book

Author: Amitava Kumar

Satyajeet Jadhav

2 months ago

Introducing, Chat

For the above conversation the prompt was

Satyajeet Jadhav

2 months ago

Fierce

Model is Carolyn McCarthy. Instagram - @carolynmacc

manan dedhia

2 months ago

Starbucks talk

Tall Hot Chai Latte.

manan dedhia

2 months ago

Meeting vocabulary

Separating fact and fact-based conclusion is very different from gut-based pronouncements.

manan dedhia

2 months ago

Patronus

I owe a debt to fiction and indeed to all good art.

manan dedhia

2 months ago

A Religious experience

Mental turmoil

manan dedhia

2 months ago

Comfit Garlic

manan dedhia

2 months ago

Big City Lights

manan dedhia

2 months ago

AI - Local or Cloud ?

If you are integrating AI into your applications, there are three ways to do it.

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Embeddings eli5 version

Computers don’t understand text like humans do. Computers understand numbers.To get computers to understand text, you need to convert the text to numbers.

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Semantic Search, aka Magic

The related notes feature searches all your notes to find the ones that are closest in meaning to your current note.Searching notes to find text similar in meaning to your query is called semantic search. We are trying to build a semantic search engine.

Satyajeet Jadhav

2 months ago

Formatting on thinkdeli

You can use single ticks around a word to mark it as code too. For example

Satyajeet Jadhav

2 months ago

Books of 2024 (Set #1)

Decided to track my books this year. Just to boost up more reading and keep track of books that I liked.

sanika joshi

2 months ago

Manan kaka visits Bengaluru

Manan visited us for 4 days. He arrived on 2nd Jan.We took him around Bangalore for a couple of days.

Satyajeet Jadhav

2 months ago

thinkdeli

thinkdeli is a light and fast writing app. It lets you take notes instantly without any need for navigation or searching.

Satyajeet Jadhav

2 months ago

Strangers

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Learning

I was asked the below question in a survey run by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, to which I make at least 1 visit a year.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Soldier ask not

They are fools that think that wealth or women or strong drink or even drugs can buy the most in effort out of the soul of a man. These things offer pale pleasures compared to that which is greatest of them all, that task which demands from him more than his utmost strength, tha...

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Moaning Lisa

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Raj against the Machine

The great thing about the world of metal music today is that there truly are no boundaries.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

How to find new artists

A friend posed a question yesterday - how do you discover new venues or new artists?

manan dedhia

3 months ago

FAQs from friends and strangers

Who do you think is the closest to thinkdeli in terms of competition? Is it notion, notes, or medium?

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Reading Habit

My monkey brain is in overdrive when I am alone. I can’t read. I can’t write. I can’t watch an entire movie. I can’t code. Well this is all I can do when I can. There is not much else to me.

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Motivational Fees

I love food. Live to eat – will apply aptly in my case. Happy – celebrate with food, tempo down – cheer up with food, anxiety attack – need an endless supply of food to calm down!

jaee jadhav

3 months ago

We quit the Race

“Get up little sister, the morning is bright. And the birds are all singing, to welcome the light!”

jaee jadhav

3 months ago

Motherjane

A rather excellent piece of art.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Ijjat

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Technology

It's complicated.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

A Milestone

jaee jadhav

3 months ago

The Minimalist Mindset

I used to be one of those who tried to do everything at once. You know the kind, of juggling a million things, trying to be the best at everything - school, work, home stuff, being the best daughter, mother, wife, friend, you name it. I was always told I was the \"Pillar\" of the...

jaee jadhav

3 months ago

Toxic Positivity

It was a Friday. Ira and I arrived at the neurologist’s clinic at around 3.45 PM. We had an appointment at 4 PM. Usually, I visit him in case of Ira’s epileptic emergencies in a panic state! This time it was our regular 3-month follow-up with Ira accompanying me, excited to meet ...

jaee jadhav

3 months ago

365 Days Challenge

Dusted off my old Canon 'point and shoot' from the attic in 2019, the one I bought in 2010, and started playing with it for in-house ‘Food Photography’. It appeared as though a child was presented with a plaything for amusement. Since then the ‘light and shadow’ saga has begun!&n...

jaee jadhav

3 months ago

Marked for Death

I don't like bourbon. The one time I was offered it and consumed it, was immediately followed by involuntary discharge of my stomach contents.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Retro-grade

Film photography has been making a comeback.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Cosine Similarity

it is the cosine of the angle between two vectors.

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Smart Asthma Inhaler

Smart Asthma Inhaler is one of the most innovative projects that I have worked on. While working at Tritek Micro Controls, I handled the complete development of the electronics of this inhaler. The smart inhaler kept a track of the time and the accuracy of the last 1000 doses. It...

sanika joshi

3 months ago

2024-01-28

It is Sunday. I woke up early today. I am not sure why. I think I had to go to the bathroom. Or had I set my body clock to go off before Sanika’s 7:30 AM dance class?

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Reflection

Airports should reflect the city they are in.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Farewell

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Remembrance.

Uday Singh.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Pornography

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Grand Trunk Air Raid

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Books

Non-Fiction

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Hampi

We decided to spend our christmas - new year break visiting Hampi this year. We left on 26th Dec and were back on 30th. Including the two travel days, we were gone for 5 days.

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Homeopathy

Akhand Bullshitay Namah.

manan dedhia

3 months ago

Mysore

I have been to Mysore 4 times in the past 8 months. Here are some of the places I visited.

Satyajeet Jadhav

3 months ago

Burn the Priest

Five seconds.That is all Napalm Death needed.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Eye on the prize.

What happens when people focus on one and only one goal - unto the exclusion of all else that life has to offer?

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Candlemass

She always slept the same - face with a smile just about to break the darkness with rays.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Bon Appetit

Presenting the bill to patrons who are still enjoying their meal and chatting, is asking them to vacate without saying so.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Flow State

Right at the eye of the chaos, there is a moment of clarity.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Colors

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Cafe Dreamlight

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Untitled

manan dedhia

4 months ago

A Bronx Tale

Criminally underrated movie. A beautiful story simply and powerfully told.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Custom Links in tiptap

Today I came across a scenario where I wanted to modify the default behavior of some <a> links in tiptap editor.

Satyajeet Jadhav

4 months ago

Wisdom

Excerpt from“The varieties of scientific experience” by Carl Sagan.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Droplets

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Moon rock

manan dedhia

4 months ago

John F Kennedy Presidential Library

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Hippopotamus Ice Cream

Kids say the darndest things.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Knowledge and Enlightenment

In this day and week, when podcasts are numerous as the grains of sand on a beach, this still is the best out there. Dan Carlin has been showing how to do it masterfully, for a long time.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Boston, My Boston

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Missing

Report of a missing smile.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Stimulants

We know information overload is real.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Creativity

The thing about exhaustion is the altered states of consciousness can be achieved with no effort.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Future

The kids are alright. We will be ok. They won't let us off the hook.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Rush

The stretch of road looked perfect.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Liberalization

If the 1991 Economic Reforms in India are of any interest to you, this is the website to check out.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Turbulence

Swimming smoothly through the sun rays, the bird flew effortlessly.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Symmetry

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Essence

Appropriation fuels culture. Authentic is only in documentation. Moving sands cannot be bottled.

manan dedhia

4 months ago

Untitled

Things to do -

Antariksha Joshi

5 months ago

Home

Every noon the sun comes in unobstructed through this window. Harsh.

manan dedhia

5 months ago

Sisyphus

When the laptops always charged at a 100%, and no troubles are a coming, there is ennui.

manan dedhia

5 months ago

Shades

She was from Mumbai.

manan dedhia

5 months ago

Love?

We all looked on as she screamed bloody murder.

manan dedhia

5 months ago

Book recommendations

Book recommendations from Richa and Anant

Satyajeet Jadhav

5 months ago

LangChain for LLM Application Development

Langchain provides convenience wrappers over OpenAI models. It lets you wrap your prompts so that even the complex prompts can be reused. Parsers let you define the format of the output you want to extract from the OpenAI response.

Satyajeet Jadhav

5 months ago

A History

The newness of everything had faded. Even momentary renewal would have helped. So I left. Went as far as I dared. When the scenery was just about unidentifiable, I stopped. Near a cinema. Went in and bought a ticket. Didn't know what was playing or when.

manan dedhia

5 months ago

Sensibility

Vengeance has its place.

manan dedhia

5 months ago

Frenzy

One simple mistake leads to a severe penalty. Or so I think. In the moments that follow, my inner star is starved of all its fuel and implodes into a black hole. Sucking up all the joy around me. There is no mirth, no hope. I straddle a weird line - something between going throug...

manan dedhia

5 months ago