Outside a clinical practice in India, I spend time with philosophy (particularly the Zhuangzi and Wittgenstein), financial history, and building up knowledge.

This site is a collection of notebooks, reading notes, and occasional essays. It is updated irregularly and archived indefinitely.

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• My Thinking System

  Ongoing · Essays on Thinking Systems

• My Thinking System - Part 2

  Ongoing · Essays on Thinking Systems

• Philosophy of Medicine - My View

  Ongoing · Philosophy

• Markets, Temperament, and Uncertainty

  Ongoing · Finance · Psychology

• On Language, Silence, and the Zhuangzi

  Ongoing · Philosophy

• Personal Knowledge Systems

  Ongoing · Tools · Epistemology

• 31 Oct 2026

  Too dumb for the gyan

• 11 Apr 2026

  Writing Instruments

  The thought process of selecting a Writing Instrument.

• 06 Apr 2026

  The Silence Between Propositions

  A note on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and why negative space matters in both philosophy and medicine.

• 20 Apr 2026

  Substack to Local html and to epub

  Howto of converting Substack blogs to html and then those html to epub

• 14 Apr 2026

  Downloading a Youtube Playlist

  Short Way to download a youtube playlist for offline listening.

• 10 Apr 2026

  The Making of This Site

  How this site is built, hosted and updated - Hugo, GitLab Pages, plain Markdown, no cookies.

• 02 Oct 2026

  Advice for Inner Transformation and Healthy Life

  Concern for sister and asking for advice

• 22 Sep 2026

  Ways of Learning

  List of Ways of Learning in decreasing order of Retention.

• Poor Charlie's Almanack

  Charles T. Munger · Investing · Mental Models

• Zhuangzi: The Complete Writings

  Brook Ziporyn (trans.) · Philosophy