The battles between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans for the control of the Mediterranean ...more

Review of Marie Favereau's The Horde ...more

Review of Wade Davis' book on Everest ...more

Summary Andy Grove really doesn't grok bullshit. Unlike other business books, this one is short and to the point. His central thesis is that business … ...more

Bookmarks of note from the last few months. ...more

Some dissenting voices. ...more

Kosho Uchiyama's commentary on Dōgen's early text. ...more

On Fukuyama's defense of liberal ideas. ...more

Dainin Katagiri on Zen and Dogen ...more

Notes from one of the best books on writing I have read. ...more

A few years ago I tried listening to Dainin Katagiri's lectures on Apple Podcasts. Dainin Katagiri was the founding abbot of the Minnesota Zen Meditat… ...more

What I read this past year and some desiderata for the next. ...more

Moving away from Jekyll. ...more

Bookmarks of note from the last few months. ...more

I have used Apple Notes before for note-taking and Scrivener for journaling. Over the past year, I have switched to Obsidian for both these activities… ...more

This is the most I have written publicly in any year. It has mostly been book reviews. Despite the lack of quality, the overwhelming feeling I have is… ...more

Notes on Graeber's 2011 book. ...more

Recalling my earliest memories. ...more

While looking into understanding the Dvaya Mantra, meditation on which is regarded by the eleventh century theologian Ramanuja as one of the duties of… ...more

Some notes from SM Srinivasa Chari's Vaishnavism: Its Philosophy, Theology and Religious Discipline. In Vaishnavism, kaiṅkarya is a service (seva) r… ...more

Kuvempu's first novel. ...more

An axiom ...more

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People ...more

An examination of the past self, a stranger who one is intimately familiar with and yet whom one cannot identify with. An examination of a madness. Wr… ...more

Mary Oliver's essays. ...more