McKenna and the architecture of consciousness
What a psychedelic philosopher and a distributed systems engineer have in common -- language as protocol, culture as legacy code, and consciousness as modifiable architecture.
Notation
2025
2014
ACCEPTed. COMMITed. RESOLVEd.
Adrian Hands contributed a GNOME patch using Morse code typed with his knees. His commit message was three words and an exclamation.
Go Big or Go Home
A text-poster on a meeting-room wall, doing more work than a poster should.
2013
11/12/13
A birthday, a public oath, and one line I want to keep.
Thank You, Sachin
Two days after the speech. I went looking for the numbers.
Sachin at Wankhede
He carried a list. That's the part that broke me.
Just Another Brick in the Wall
Some days you build the wall. Some days you notice you're in it.
2011
Flying Thru the Motions
Three months into the startup. From the outside, chaos. From the inside, flight.
Tangled Up in Blue
Dylan, and the artists who orbit him.
Naagin
Decibel made Indian rock that sounds Indian. That shouldn't be rare, but it is.
Chandigarh
Chandigarh was beautiful. I couldn't feel it. I don't know why.
Ping from Noida
An arrival note. The cold, the office, the exhale that took five days.
The Cosmic Drummer
A late-night conversation about why Lord Shiva might be the original rock star -- and what the third eye might actually mean.
Goodbye 2010, Goodbye Hyderabad
New Year. Half-packed boxes. The city I'm leaving is the city I learned to be free in.
2010
Rare Pictures of Hyderabad
Old photos of a city I've lived in for two and a half years and mostly walked past.
The Chaos
An 800-line poem that proves English pronunciation has worse consistency than most legacy codebases.
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman wrote the only song about leaving that gets it exactly right.
Love, Life, Nostalgia
Coincidence. No miracles. No fate. Three sentences of certainty, written late.
Monologue of an Idiotic Soul
That voice in your head that says you don't belong here. A conversation with it.
Standing at the Starting Line
I have a working install and a blank page. I've been picking fonts.