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This site belongs to me, Angadh. It is an attempt to construct an aesthetic home for my written wares. As with my physical home, I expect to be its most frequent user.
Its primary purpose is to collect those writings of mine that capture elements of my personality that academic publications are designed to negate; their style of discourse has a purpose and place but my priority here is to do that and something more. It’s where I write about varying topics: education as technology; contemplating Thoreau; history of von Braun wheels; and high-level Space Data Center Analysis. A complete archive of writing is available that includes unpolished and unfinished thoughts.
Newest
AI & Coding Agents
- Learning Friction at Inference Speed
- Planager Mode
- RalPhD and The Autonomous Paper
- A Pathway to Privacy from AI—while using it?
- Claude Code rebuilt my COVID podcast generating messenger side-project in 9 days
- Nano Banana-pilled, Nano Banana-shilled for Spaceship Engineering
- Claude's Suggested Essays from My Notes
- Claude finds Contradictions in My Thinking
- No way Starcloud's putting a data centre in space in a Starship or $8.2 million
- Moravec's Paradox
Spaceships & Space Engineering
- Notes on Google’s Space Data Centers
- What is a spaceship?
- No way Starcloud's putting a data centre in space in a Starship or $8.2 million
- Where is my von Braun wheel?
- New York to Paris in 30 mins? How to achieve Elon Musk’s vision of rockets replacing long haul
- Some notes on BEAM
- Inflatable von Braun space stations: an idea worth revisiting?
- Some Space Stations in Fiction and Reality
- Final Year Project on Space Station Design
Personal
Art & Culture
- The flat-as-an-office theory towards nothing
- A Taxonomy of My Irritation and Anger
- Memoirs of a Long-time Luddite
- Global Oases Are Easier For Me Than Local Ones
- Building an Oasis with Friends
- The Perils of Working with the Garage Door Up
- The Selfless Driving Car
- Their Technocautionism
- There is Such a Thing as Timeless Art
- Meditation as non-symbolic education
- The Button of Mass Distraction
- Is Huxley saying Education is a Technology?
- Aldous Huxley Predicts Adderall and Champions Alternative Therapies
- What I Learned from Living in England
- Britizenship and the Cheeky Pint
- Revisiting Thoreau in the Twenty-first Century
- Sovereign Wealth Funds
- Varoufakis' word salad visions offer no solution path
- Graeber and Thiel on Stagnation