Random musings, pseudo-advice, how-tos. Core dumped.https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/on-career-choices/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/on-career-choices/Tip A version of this article was featured in A Lesson from IIT , a column on the Indian Express. The link to the column is here, and this is the link to the present article. Ma...Fri, 26 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/iit-rankings/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/iit-rankings/Don't like the ranking? Try again . Tip Methodology: adapted from here. The program takes all the available knowledge in the universe and extrapolates a score for each IIT using...Thu, 24 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/2022-tracker/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/2022-tracker/The Leaderboard The Tweets What was this about again? You can find the original announcement here and more specifics clarifying the format (or the lack of it) here. Here's the s...Fri, 07 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/skj/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/skj/This is the text of a short speech I gave at the farewell event for Prof. Sudhir Jain as he left IITGN for BHU. You can find out more about Prof. Jain's own take on the cultural...Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/on-teaching/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/on-teaching/Note These are some parts of the teaching statment that I wrote roughly seven years ago, updated slightly in the interest of clarity and additional context. ::: -- A teacher doe...Mon, 05 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/eight-self-sabotaging-behaviors/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/eight-self-sabotaging-behaviors/Putting this thread in one place. — 🧵 @fortelabs recently finished the opening keynote on the Second Brain summit, which incidentally has a great lineup including a panel dis...Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/2021-tracker/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/2021-tracker/The Leaderboard The Tweets What was this about again? You can find the original announcement here and more specifics clarifying the format (or the lack of it) here. Here's the s...Sat, 25 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/about/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/about/In a massively impulsive move nudged by some Twitter feedback, I recently launched the Exportober challenge. The TL;DR version: - Put up a piece of content everyday between 27th...Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/2021/https://reflections.neeldhara.blog/exportober/2021/Note 📝 Update: You can now track everyone's progress from here! Tip You can also check out a little more about the format, intent and background here. As you can see — at least...Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT