Shasank Nagavarapu

UX Research Lead

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

My thoughts on the seminal "Drive My Car".

A 3 hour movie that I wish lasted a lot longer. A heartbreaker and a healer all at once.

Also, best car movie ever. A thread (🧵)

[The Saturday Morning Movie Club @SatMngMovieClub]

Movies are about intents, conflicts, and resolutions. When we watch movies, we’re seeking stories - of triumph, sorrow, squalor, or redemption. When the movie ends, we go home, treating the characters as memories frozen in time and space.

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

My life will remain more complex and complete owing to interactions with these Lynchian artistic universes and their sheer depth. Thank you David Lynch. And Godspeed. Hope there are sunny blue skies wherever you are!

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

I first discovered David Lynch at a pivotal time in my life. Over a summer in grad school, in a country far from home, pursuing a career that offered few promises, and completely lost on life's purpose. In that ambiguity, I stumbled upon "Twin Peaks" on Netflix.

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

The next time I had a similar rendezvous with his art was during another pivotal time of my life - in the aftermath of my mom's passing in 2017. That spring/summer, Twin Peaks: The Return took me down a thematic sojourn, helping me explore my own grief and loss.

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

@theVidaLaw lol back only to vent about this 😭

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

Visiting India after 5 years - needed to change the phone number on my bank account so I can use UPI. The list of documents needed for the change keeps growing everyday, & they need scanned copies versus simple high-res images for the docs. Somethings truly never change...

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

@GatewayFC Please do this! You can't be arguably one of the best indie film centers in the US and not screen "All We Imagine as Light"!

[Payal Kapadia @PayalKapadia86]

Many of you are asking for screenings in your cities. If you want the film to come back, please tag a cinema near you that has social media. It would help a LOT!

[Amit Varma @amitvarma]

You would understand if, in this moment of great emotion, @DGukesh did not reset the pieces after the game.

But how you do the small things is how you do the big things.

That's where greatness comes from.

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

@PayalKapadia86 Pls make it happen in Columbus, OH @GatewayFC

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

@PrayRona_ The Telugu version of this song has Sarthak Kalyani's vocals and is far better :)

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

@suryavangala530 hey! incredibly thrilled for you on the release of #Brinda Been reading great things about it! Way to go 🙌

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

Hometown blues! Going to the beach from certain directions, you don't really see it coming until you crest a hill top, and lo and behold, the mighty bay a quarter mile away from you ~ always managed to take my breath away....

[Raunaq Mangottil @RaunaqMangottil]

gotta go vizag asap

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

2024 update: me everytime I see MY ND Miata soft top in the parking lot from my bedroom window.

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

Me everytime I see an ND Miata soft top on the road

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

Have to come out of twitter retirement to post how the Tifosi are feeling after waiting for eons for this Ferrari 1-2
#AustralianGP

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

@RaunaqMangottil It was so painful to sit through that one, even for the first 30 minutes...

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

I reckon that's what my Twitter will be, for the most part, going forward - to give a platform to and enable better visibility for the good things in life - the music, visuals, thoughts, art, and work that needs celebration! This platform could always use some positivity!

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

Recently, my disillusionment with all things social media hit a new peak - fueled partly by my own lack of any positive resonance here, and partly by the theories and evidence around the psychological harms various social media have engineered within...

[Shasank Nagavarapu @NomadUnplugged]

To this question, I find myself going to the one fundamental and simple answer I have always known - one purpose that has always felt worthwhile and organic.