On Indian censorship online, open source SoCs, China’s backfiring Belt & Road Initiative, future of tech in Asia, and long-lived institutions
Interesting Links: November 15, 2020
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2020
On tech antitrust, tech acting like government, the differing liberalism narratives, India’s inflation woes, and how cool is pre-modern metalworking?
Interesting Links: November 8, 2020
On the state of Indian education, labour regulations and corruption in India, Moxie Marlinspike at Signal and privacy, on the audio industry & future of podcasting and concerts, and AI hardware in India.
Interesting Links: November 1, 2020
On Indian federalism and economics, Indian media & lack of competition, Chinese R&D in applied sciences, the wisdom of Audrey Tang, and first drafts / early work
Interesting Links: October 25, 2020
On India and Bangladesh, the war on general computation, auction design, the costs of COVID-19, and cool science
Interesting Links: October 18, 2020
On our post-COVID-19 future, India’s regional cultural divide, the Cambridge Analytica investigation, on India’s startup mess through the eyes of edtech, and quantum jumps
Interesting Links: October 11, 2020
On the State of AI, dealing with climate change, the tech stagnation, Palantir, and South Asia’s vulnerability to COVID-19
Interesting Links: October 4, 2020
On behavioral genetics, the geometry of Indian cities, Snowflake and data engineering, hardware-software symbiosis, and Chinese state capitalism
Interesting Links: September 27, 2020
On Singapore, Indian education, and current computing hardware
Interesting Links: September 20, 2020
On problems with social science, VC investing, collusion, and weird physics
Interesting Links: September 13, 2020
On cheating in Indian education, India’s economic woes, understanding Chinese education, and the Opium Wars
Interesting Links: September 6, 2020
On brain-computer interfaces, early education research, tech IPOs and startups, and understanding China
Interesting Links: August 30, 2020
On Apple’s abuse of power, the crisis in tennis, the genius of Amartya Sen, and the workings of DARPA
Interesting Links: August 23, 2020
On Pinduoduo, economics of AI startups, Indian infrastructure, and cutting-edge physics infrastructure
Interesting Links: August 16, 2020
On game design, Bill Gates on Covid, the effects of colonial land tenure in India, the abuse of labor, and on innovation
Interesting Links: August 9, 2020
On the National Education Policy 2020
As I noted in my weekly Interesting Links post, India released its massive National Education Policy 2020 (this is a link to the 66 page pdf of the policy it...
On Mumbai Covid seroprevalence, India’s new education policy, the history of CSS, and the debacle of US tech antitrust hearings
Interesting Links: August 2, 2020
On Adam Phillips, Or how could we ever be anything but permanently enraged?
Adam Phillips is one of my favourite writers. Just check out his short five minute interview on my favourite links page. Here I’ve compiled some quotes fro...
On Bill Joy’s pessimism in 2000, Peter Thiel on problems in tech, on Reliance Jio, and private schooling in India
Interesting Links: July 26, 2020
Book notes: Tyler Cowen, Stubborn Attachments
Tyler Cowen’s Stubborn Attachments was published in book form by the lovely Stripe Press in late 2018. However, he had published essentially the same conte...
Book notes: Tyler Cowen, The Complacent Class
“The complacent class itself has ceased to believe in the regenerative properties of the world we all inhabit.” “There is the distinct possibility that...
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