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Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Bar English for Bengalis Who Have Escaped the Tea Stall
Culture
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Why You Still Want to Read a Healthcare IT Blog in the Age of AI
Healthcare-IT
The Chair and the Drain
The Chair and the Drain
Artificial Intelligence
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
The Thermodynamics of Fishy Things
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Kenneth Arrow in the Waiting Room
Economics
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
FHIR and the Clerk With the Clipboard
Healthcare-IT
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Clinical AI Needs A Shadow Architecture First
Healthcare-IT
Administratively Deleted
Administratively Deleted
Personal Essay
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
The AI Sermon and the Wet Knot
Technology
A Trapezoid for My Mother
A Trapezoid for My Mother
Personal Essay
The Seasonal Crop
The Seasonal Crop
Short Fiction
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Hilsa and the Family Court of Appetite
Culture
Jealous of the Stupid
Jealous of the Stupid
Essay
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Blind Angry Unhappiness
Personal Essay
The Brain Scrap Yard
The Brain Scrap Yard
Personal Essay
Frog in the Robot Century
Frog in the Robot Century
Essay
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
I Do Not Hate the World. I Am Tired.
Personal Essay
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Insect Forms of a Calcutta Life
Personal Essay
The Error Bar Around a Man
The Error Bar Around a Man
Personal Essay
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
The Laugh Track Has Left The Room
Personal Essay
The Dopamine Economy
The Dopamine Economy
Mental Health
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of a Ruined Life
Personal Essay
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
The Turing Test for Human Usefulness
Personal Essay
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
The Local Disgrace Still Making Noise
Personal Essay
The Scarab Under the Skin
The Scarab Under the Skin
Mental Health
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
The Great Calcutta Bathing, Shaving, Dressing for Civilization Problem
Personal Essay
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
The Man Who Became His Own Waiting Room
Personal Essay
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
The Gracefully Grotesque Collapse
Essay
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
The Billing Hour Has Started to Smell
Technology
The Sword in the Frame
The Sword in the Frame
Short Fiction
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
The Test Is Congress Where Congress Rules
Politics
The Friendless Blister
The Friendless Blister
Mental Health
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
English Is Not a Subject. It Is a Passport.
Education
Knife Bite
Knife Bite
Short Fiction
The Smoke Under Howrah
The Smoke Under Howrah
Short Fiction
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Bad Logic at Three in the Morning
Mental Health
The Unrecorded Error
The Unrecorded Error
Healthcare IT
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Loneliness Is Not a Generation
Personal Essay
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
The Hidden Bill for Asking AI Instead of Hiring an Expert
Technology
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Trapped by the Room, the Mirror, and the Feed
Mental Health
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
The Trolley Problem Is In The Healthcare Queue
Healthcare-IT
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
The Trolley Problem Is Already Hiding in Healthcare
Healthcare IT
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
When Suffering Refuses to Leave the Room
Mental Health
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
When the Mind Refuses to Stay in One Place
Mental Health
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
The Vitruvian Man: A Naked Man, Two Shapes, and Our Old Hunger for Order
Art History
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
MYCIN: The 1970s Medical AI That Knew How to Explain Itself
Healthcare IT
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
The AI Moat Is the Missing Salary
AI and Society
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Hedonist Hollow Men on the Selfie Treadmill
Society
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Why Physics Keeps Sneaking Into Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
The First Door That Opens
The First Door That Opens
Science
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
India’s Noise Machine and the Small Man Under It
Politics
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Poisson Distribution: Counting Rare Trouble Before It Becomes a Queue, a Claim, or a Crisis
Healthcare IT
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Bogosity, Enshittification, and the Glittering Drain
Technology and Society
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 2
Healthcare IT
The Low Market Value of Reality
The Low Market Value of Reality
Personal Essay
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
The Coming White-Collar Mendicancy
Society
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Reading Is Not Homework. It Is How the Mind Keeps Change.
Essay
The Desperation Premium
The Desperation Premium
Technology and Society
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
The Overzealous Credulity Crisis
Artificial Intelligence
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
The Smorgasbord of Impotence
Personal Essay
Tea with George Orwell
Tea with George Orwell
Essay
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Still Here, In The Corner Room
Personal Essay
The Coming Unemployment
The Coming Unemployment
AI
The Second Mouth
The Second Mouth
Short Fiction
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Falling Through the Southern Edge at 3 AM
Personal Essay
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
The Chatbot Arrived Before the Seatbelt
AI Safety
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
The Rotten Sack Theory of Indian Politics
Politics
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
The Thin-Fat Bengali and the Treacherous Little Belly
Health
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
The AI Layoff Trap: How Companies Can Fire Their Own Customers
AI Economics
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
The Magnet, the Bulb, and the Battery
Personal
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
Coding After the Keyboard: How AI Agents Learned to Roam the Codebase
Artificial Intelligence
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
The Tea Stall as an Anti-AI Safety System
AI and Society
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
SludgeGPT and the Mirage of Machine Understanding
Artificial Intelligence
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
AI, Meaningful Work, and the Trust Collapse
Artificial Intelligence
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Anthropic Is Coming for Wall Street
Artificial Intelligence
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
A Calcutta Bengali’s Guide to the Various Schools of AI
Artificial Intelligence
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Depression as Mathematics: States, Switches, Attractors, and the Treacherous Algebra of Mood
Mental Health Systems
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Applied Multivariate Statistical Modeling in Healthcare IT Part 1
Healthcare IT
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
The Bright Smile of Overconfidence
Society
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Chronic Traumatic Nihilism From Calcutta
Personal Essay
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
AI Agents Will Not Democratize Power Neatly
Artificial Intelligence
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Political Promises and the Hard Floor of Reality
Politics
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
The Genie Is Out of the Bottle
Artificial Intelligence
The Range Limit of Kinship
The Range Limit of Kinship
Society
When Nothing Beats Something
When Nothing Beats Something
Technology
When the Office Learns to Beg
When the Office Learns to Beg
Society
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Facial Pleasure Receipts
Culture
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
OpenClaw and the Uneasy Arrival of Agents That Actually Do Things
Artificial Intelligence
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
The Mental Health System Will Meet the AI Wave at Its Weakest Joint
Artificial Intelligence
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
First Principles Thinking in Calcutta, Healthcare, and the Machinery of Reality
Useful Mental Models
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI and the Wrong Objective
Healthcare AI
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Mental Health Polypharmacy Needs Real Decision Support, Not Another Checkbox
Healthcare IT
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
The Epistemic Iceberg Effect
knowledge
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
HL7 vs FHIR, Explained Simply
Healthcare IT
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
Universal Basic Income in India After Work Stops Being a Promise
political economy
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
AI Health Insurance and Cruelty
healthcare ai
The Invasive Human Weed Species
The Invasive Human Weed Species
society
AI and Denial
AI and Denial
Artificial Intelligence
Databases and Data Warehouses
Databases and Data Warehouses
healthcare-it
India’s White-Collar Issue
India’s White-Collar Issue
india
The Aromatics of Stagnation
The Aromatics of Stagnation
Calcutta