I have a few simple thumb-rules
If most people in our pro-people circles were right, we would have a fairer, equitable, and just society years ago. We don't have such a society precisely because there's a lot of cognitive lapses in the pro-people circles.
All human beings are animal brains with plenty of cognitive biases and other traps. All of us are struggling all the time with these. Questioning ourselves all the time is the one way to help ourselves out of our human condition.
There is no difference between an elite group of tech-bros stoned on weed and worrying about the state of the world, and a democratic group of health activists dreaming about an alternate social reality (except perhaps the weed). In either case, the material reality of the world doesn't change.
Let the only indicator of the right path be change in material reality. Either people coming out of ill health (ideal) or at least elite people coming out of their cocoons and calling out the system and actually making sacrifices (not a good proxy, but maybe useful)
There are at least two-three separate related skills that's lacking in this side of the world:
- The ability to stand up against a friend circle and say the unpopular thing (contrarian)
- The ability to hold an opposing viewpoint in mind, think sincerely about it, and find points of agreement/disagreement (as opposed to emotionally and viscerally opposing the opposing viewpoint, without even engaging with it "as if it were true") (rational thinking)
- The ability to cut through cruft and focus on the core point and politics being put forward by any particular person (reading between the lines)
I tested Indic Subtitler on a project I had earlier subtitled manually. There were some rough edges (missing lines and incorrect words) but these can be fixed easily from the in-built editor. It would have saved me hours of manual typing. The development of this project is at breakneck speed too!
Quickly jotted down some of my thoughts about the reasons why medical college work #culture is horrible.
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2024/02/why-medical-college-work-culture-is-so.html
BTW, my youtube channel has 99 subscribers now. If I reach 100 today, I'll make a video today.
These days there is lots of pressure on people to believe that there is no way to arrive at truth and that there are multiple (and contradictory) possible truths. Do not fall into that trap.
Found/filed a bug on Mediawiki
Just another way of saying "be patient" when it comes to change.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2024/01/how-world-should-be-and-how-world-is.html
Recently discovered a nifty (and thrifty) video capturing setup. Stand back for more video contents 
Finding districts without Domino's Pizza
After about 5 years of dormancy, migrated learnlearn.in to hugo. Going to create more wiki style content there.
Akshay S Dinesh shared 3 months ago
They say you can't be a good doctor until you've killed five patients. Similarly, you cannot be a good sysadmin until you've ran an open relay mail server.
I'm not sure if I've said this here. I have been studying "leadership" for many years – unaffiliated to any university. I haven't put together my thesis yet. But it is gonna come soon. This article came up in a lit search today and it is very nice
Just explaining myself in another debate
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/whats-most-important-scientific-research.html
In which I send a cease & desist notification to Vidhi
https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/what-ails-indias-approach-to-universal.html
Just documenting some know-how about #subtitles (automatic and manual)
In which I heavily quote Ravikant Kisana to state that our world is built on lies and that a radical commitment to truth is what we need to escape savarna mediocrity
https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/11/radical-commitment-to-truth.html
Often I read ABC's writing and figure out certain problems in their politics. But seldom am I able to convince XYZ that these problems exist.