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