The title has nothing to do with the blog post, which, unlike this sentence, is going to be short and to the point. I just was resisting the urge to re-watch all nine seasons of Seinfeld for the second time in a year. The post also happens to be about art. I didn’t get much…

For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Caste System. Of course, I always knew that caste is an oppressive system that has and continues to exist in India. Though there was a caste-discrimination California lawsuit relatively recently, I wasn’t really aware of how caste manifested in the US. This is…

In Math Without Numbers, author Milo Beckman wrote the following about abstract math: “we don’t have to constrain ourselves to this arbitrary world we happen to live in.” Beckman, a mathematician and über-genius, likens math to a language: a way of describing the world, communicating ideas, and solving problems. Abstract math is a way more…

I’m always surprised when people confidently say: “I don’t believe in aliens.” Agnosticism, I get; but how can you be so confident that something doesn’t exist? Just because they haven’t arrived yet doesn’t mean they aren’t out there… There’s a few reasons why I believe in aliens, but I won’t try and prove they exist.…

The title is one of the taglines for Night at the Museum, one of my favorite film franchises. I’m actually partial to the sequel, Battle of the Smithsonian, which is comedy gold. Anyone saying otherwise should be muted, blocked, or otherwise removed from your life immediately. I recently watched Night at the Museum because I…

It’s a humbling feeling. One day, you have it all together: your 7am yoga routine, your perfectly calibrated to-do list, your soundness of mind and body. And then something happens. Not anything serious like a freak tornado or assassination attempt, but something smaller, like a trip or a few days out with COVID-19. This seemingly…

“I just need a good way to kill someone,” I said, sitting in our friendly neighborhood Starbucks. My sister looked around and confirmed that everyone was too distracted with their phones and laptops to take notice. It’s always been a dream of mine to write a mystery novel. I was telling her about how my…

I’m a big fan of Scott Adams’s essay “The Day You Became A Better Writer”. It helped make my writing clearer. I think most people, at least those who write in English, would benefit from reading it. In all my years of peer-editing, I recognize that most people could improve their essay-writing skills considerably if…

Not really how to be sick, because everyone knows we don’t need any extra help contracting an illness during the fourth (fifth?) wave of a global pandemic. Rather, this post is more on how to be when sick. After two years of remaining covid-free during the pandemic, my body finally decided to capitulate to the…

I recently published my first article on Broke Ass Stuart. This blog entry is mostly stuff that didn’t make it on the final version of the article. I still wanted to share it, though. While you have to give up some of your original content when you write on other platforms, I can put whatever…