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My email program, was somehow hacked into last week, and close to 3000 spam mails were sent out in the course of a few minutes. While I was able to serendipitously catch it as soon as it happened, I apologise if you were the recepient of unsavoury stuff from my email address. I am now in the process of rebuilding everything. letter at janusworx dot com is the new home from where these letters will be sent from. Please add this address to your contacts, so that I do not end up in your spam :) ...

This post was first sent to my newsletter on November 30th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) Now that life is picking back up, I have slowed down on the reading. I stuck to fiction this month. Only this month was at my normal pace 😄 The speed demon of September and October is no more 😂 Actually I stuck with Jack Reacher this month. I thought I would be done with him, but he does not seem to be done with me. There was another new Reacher published last month, to be tacked on to the end of the queue. ...

This post was first sent to my newsletter on November 23rd, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) A quickie for all you fellow epistemophiliacs. I may have written something about this somewhere, but this still rankles my brain enough, that I want to put it down in a note. Learning across various subjects, as I have been for the past two years (12th, college, programming, and the rest), for a short while, I was obsessed about the best way, the fastest way, the most efficient way to learn something. ...

This post was first sent to my newsletter on November 2nd, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) Nothing really exciting this month. I had lots of work and could not quite focus on reading hard books or non fiction. I needed to escape from the humdrum of life So, I read a lot of Jack Reacher. I decided to read all of the Lee Child novels featuring the character. And all of that, started because I read a book, that followed Lee Child around for a year, describing his writing process and the work that goes into a Reacher novel. It’s been fun, reading. Like meeting an old friend. Considering that he writes about one a year, I find it slightly alarming that I have now read seventeen years of Child’s work in a month. ...

This post was sent to my newsletter on October 25th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) What I Learnt from Antifragile (III) What Does Not Kill Me … Antifragility for the Collective What does not kill me makes me stronger. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxims and Arrows The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms ...

This post was sent to my newsletter on October 16th, 2020. You really ought to subscribe :) I was wondering about what kind of technical posts, I could write, since I am still learning programming and I did not want to bother you folk, with this is how I learnt to do lists in Python and this is what dictionaries do :) I then realised that it’s been slightly more than a year, I have been touch typing using the Dvorak layout. ...