Blasphemous Aesthete

Here, I talk to myself in the echo-chambers of nominal, virtual existence.

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

@arc1471 Reminds me reading about how Chung Ju-Yung created Hyundai. :)

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

@tushar9590 Haven't watched it, but I'm a bit of a forward looking old school. I fancy analog mechanical watches with some smart tech features - hence hybrids.

Withings, for example :)

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

@RaminNasibov Command and Conquer, Commandos, Age of Empires, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Caesar III, Zeus - Master of Olympus, House of Dead, Silent Hill, Dino Crisis, Tekken 3, Soul Blade 2, CS 1.6, NFS MW, GTA-II, Midtown Madness, and a lot more. :-)

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

Its 42 degrees and mosquitoes are still here. What gives?

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Now showing.

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@zerodha Funds added not getting reflected in the account today. Trasaction is successful, I've received the email from Zerodha as well, but the account still doesn't reflect that. Please fix.

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

@SafariBagsIndia I want to claim warranty of my trolley bag, but I no longer have the warranty card (but I do have the invoice). Your website does not allow me to submit form without a picture of the warranty card. Please help!

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

Why call it intercaste when you could call it intercom?

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

Looks like the big dog is baiting the other dogs to join the hunt by letting them get maimed.

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

For peace, somebody please give em a Nobel!

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

@amazonIN Why are none of my past orders visible in my profile since the past half day?

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

@Prabinmen Also please note that the stock splits tomorrow. :)

[Akine Coco @akinecoco987]

Like a scene from an Anime.

[kepano @kepano]

What can we remove?

Our bias is to always add more. More rules, more procedures, more code, more features, more stuff. Interdependencies proliferate, and gradually strangle us. Systems want to grow and grow, but without pruning, they collapse. Slowly, then spectacularly.

When a piece of trash drifts across the beach, it is our duty to pick it up so the next person can enjoy a pristine shoreline. When a thousand pieces litter the beach, it is too late. We can only lament the landscape. That’s just how beaches are now.

A good system is designed to be periodically cleared of cruft. It has a built-in counterbalance. Without this pressure, our bias drives us to add band-aid after band-aid, until the only choice is to destroy the whole system and start from scratch.

Why is it so much easier to add than to remove? Maybe because we attach our identity to what is visible. But there is a difference between the ornamentation that defines our style and the vestigial burdens we carry.

Remember those who did the invisible work of removing. Their legacy was not to build a sand castle, but to care for the beautiful beach on which we play.

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

Not just for Ortho surgeons, but to others, ourselves, as well :)

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

Thirty Years of Ortho: What I’d Tell the Next Generation
I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for three decades. Long enough to see techniques come and go, implants rise and fall, and the pendulum of “standard practice” swing back and forth more times than I can count.

What hasn’t changed are the pressures that come with the job… and the quiet lessons you don’t fully understand until you’ve liv,ed them.

If I were talking to the next generation—residents, fellows, the young attendings just getting their legs under them… this is what I’d tell them.

You can’t build a meaningful career on RVUs. You can meet every target and still feel empty. A career that lasts is built on trust, judgment, and relationships. You don’t measure that in productivity metrics.

A good surgeon listens more than they talk. People think surgery is a technical field, but the real work is in understanding what someone is actually asking of you. Most patients are just scared. They don’t need your scalpel, no matter what the MRI shows. Half the mistakes in this profession start with bad listening.

Master the anatomy. Master the craft. But learn the limits too. Early in your career, you’re focused on what you can do. With experience, you start to appreciate what you shouldn’t do. Judgment is a superpower.

Protect your time, or the system will take every minute you allow it to.

Learn to say no!!! There’s no shortage of demands. Notes. Inboxes. Meetings. Every one of them feels urgent. Some of you might actually feel important when you go to meetings... But... None of them is worth sacrificing your sanity or the people waiting for you at home.

Seek colleagues, not titles. Promotions and committee seats feel important for a season, but it’s just fluff, and nothing gets accomplished in those meetings anyway.

Your strength matters more than you realize. Not your technical strength—your physical and emotional strength. You can’t take care of people if your own health fades. Move, lift, sleep, and protect your energy. A worn-out surgeon becomes brittle.

Be the doctor you’d want for your family.

You need a life outside the operating room if you want a long life inside it. The surgeons who last aren’t the ones who work the most—they’re the ones who stay grounded. They have people they care about, interests that pull them away from medicine, and enough perspective to know that identity and work are not the same thing.

Thirty years in, the operations are only part of the story. What keeps you going is the purpose behind the work—helping people move, reassuring them when they’re scared, giving them back pieces of their life.
That’s the part that never gets old.

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

'The Silent Patient' by @AlexMichaelides. Book review: The boundaries between storylines often blur. There are subtle well executed misdirections to throw the diligent readers off the smell. Feels like a lot of it had been a long time coming. Good read!

https://t.co/CrfjP1K7Sn

[Blasphemous Aesthete @anonymoussum1]

@moge_oye Ban Trumpets

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@moge_oye Boycott Trump towers?

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@moge_oye Is my math not mathing (giving 1 cr to every Indian and still having a 100 cr) or you mean giving a T-shirt each to 150 cr Indians?

[DRDO @DRDO_India]

A breakthrough has been achieved by demonstrating quantum entanglement based communication in an experimental setup through DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE), IIT Delhi. The free-space quantum secure communication using quantum entanglement over a distance of more than one km was shown via a free-space optical link established on the IIT Delhi campus.

https://t.co/nNYU1zRggY