Journal J

This was the question I asked on the Web yesterday, and people had interesting responses. Imagine you were born and brought up in a time where Twitter and Instagram always existed. Would you still blog?Many said no, which I find to be an interesting conclusion especially for people who

I’m the latest guest on the “People and Blogs” series by Manu. Hearing from people in this series has been a great way for me to meet some of their blogs over coffee. And now some of you web humans reading this might like the story

Instagram (I): Stories are not posts. They disappear after 24 hours.People (P): What if I want to retain them?I: Now you can archive storiesP: I don’t like some peopleI: Okay, you can mute their stories tooP: I want to

Someone from a legacy Indian media outlet called me recently to ask me to write an article on Indian space within five days, and for free. They expected me to agree to commit to it then and there itself. I said I’d have considered contributing but the timeline

I’ve seen this recurring theme on Twitter, LinkedIn, and virtually every microblogging social platform I’ve used. Teasing something exciting you’re working on gets better visibility than when you share that work itself.Here’s an example from the Twitter of yore—which

Hello friends,Continuing to embrace a calmer digital life instead of drowning in the slurp—and now slop—of social media, I’m sharing with you via this web letter some notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed in October.ReadingHow

Look, I hate social networks, especially all mainstream ones like Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and the ilk. And, microblogging is a terribly contextually deprived way to create, absorb, and converse anything. I can’t justify sacrificing my time and efforts on places which degrade my thinking, mental health,

2024 is a national election year for both the US and India. Some web searching led me to check past voter turnouts in both countries, and I was quite surprised with the numbers:The US (Source)2004: 60.1%2008: 62.5%2012: 58%2016: 59.2%2020: 66.9%

I love trains. Why you ask?I get to spend hours reading without much interruption from humans.⁠Eating and relaxing is more comfortable in AC coaches and above than being cramped in planes.⁠With trains you essentially just get in and get out. There’s no fuss

Just start a newsletter that announces in its name to the whole world that it will go out every Monday: https://jatan.space/tag/moon-monday ?

Hello friends,Here’s another web letter of notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed recently. A lot has happened over the last two months, and below are slices from both the spacey and non-spacey parts of my life.ReadingWhy research paper DOIs don’

Be outraged about everythingBe woke across all of timeNever bring nuanceSignal disapproval, or you might just cause an existential crisis for manyGet called out for not flicking your fingers in ways prescribed by stranger collectivesTorch your long-built reputation in no timeDo it all in

I’m now auto-sharing articles and blog posts from my space blog and Journal J on some non-questionable open social networks that also federate (interoperate):MastodonFlipboardBlueskyFollow wherever you like.For a better reading experience, directly subscribe to my blogs via email or RSS.PS: Since both

Many people have been suggesting me to start a “LinkedIn Newsletter” for my space articles specifically because it will tap into my existing connections and their networks on the platform. After much reluctance against joining yet another siloed service, I thought perhaps it doesn’t hurt to

I’m sharing with you the simple process I used to customize my phone such that in terms of incentives, it’s now easier to do the things that are good for me versus the things that are better off accessed with some friction.For any kind of