// Playground
Some ideas leave.
Some don’t.
These are the ones that didn’t.
— Nagendra Bommasani
Tuesday · 18 June
10:23
today · 1 thing
Submit GST return by 4pm
I kept losing the one task each day that actually mattered. My home screen wasn’t doing it — I’d swipe past it on instinct without registering. So I made a thing that pins one task to the lock screen. I still use it.
“I keep wanting a thesaurus that knows the difference between prepone and schedule earlier.”
— me, three years running. nobody has built it yet.
Walked into a government primary school in Telangana for a family thing. The teacher was taking attendance on paper because the official app required smartphones the parents didn’t own. So I wrote her a WhatsApp bot — she texts a class number, it pings each parent for a one-letter reply, P or A. Eleven classrooms now. No plan to do anything more with it.
Teacher · redacted
online
4A attendance 09:15?
9:14
Priya M ✓
9:15
Arjun K ✓
9:15
Suresh R absent
9:16
Lakshmi P ✓
9:16
Ramesh G ✓
9:16
notes / 2023
resume_recon: tool that highlights the 3 sentences
a recruiter actually reads on a resume.
built it for cousin. sent to 5 friends.
shelved when openai costs grew.
would rebuild if math changes.
also: nobody seems to notice that the average resume
gets ~7 seconds. that's not enough to fail anyone fairly.
why is this still ok.