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🏏 Far from resounding. Or a win. Where are the Indian bowlers with the wickets? Cannot believe that South Africa actually reached 300 runs in this chase. SA is going to win.
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🏏 Every Indian cricket lover has been pissed off for the last couple of weeks. Nothing short of a resounding win will help today.
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🏏 Ending superstar culture in Indian Cricket
The current coach of the Indian national cricket team is on a simple mission: to end the team’s “superstar” culture. He is accomplishing it, by becoming the center of attention.
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17?! Every time I think tech cannot/did not descend further into depravity, I stand corrected. And in that regard, Meta is a particular “gift” that keeps on giving. Simply odious.
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🏏 Watching the Indian National Cricket team play test cricket. it’s been a while since I have followed cricket matches live. Their current head coach Gautam Gambhir needs to be sacked by the end of this home-series vs. South Africa. Otherwise, it is hard to see how the BCCI is not corrupt.
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The Weekly: 996 or AI? Pick.
First things first. Been away for a while. I have probably gone through 3 rounds of burnout this year. Those burnouts triggered an intense re-look at my life and life choices. I will speak to the burnout soon. What I can say is that while I accomplished a lot this year, I am not ending…
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Just re-watched Greyhound on Apple TV. Perhaps the most riveting movie I have ever seen. A real naval-warfare movie. Probably the best WW2 movie I have seen. Tom Hanks at his very best.
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The Weekly: No Vibes in Manuals and Testing
… also in this issue: Sauce, SloMo and some stuff brewing in my mind. There is a scene in Die Another Day, where Q hands Bond a thick instruction manual for his new Aston Martin that comes with all kinds of guns and gadgets, and says, “You should be able to shoot through that in…
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but speed does not always amount to quality. Certainly not in tech. Moving fast, breaking things, and then iterating to fix them is a utopian idea that does not pan out in reality.
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Ramping up my running 🏃 But it has left me sore in my shoulders, back, and legs. Everything hurts. There is a tonnage of work left. And I want to kill myself on behalf of my back and legs.
Winter Rant 