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  1. Puzzle Lab / Logic Puzzles / Puzzles The Blindfolded Cards

    You cannot see the cards. You still need to make two piles with equal face-up cards.

    Beginner 5 min Evergreen
  2. AI Lab / AI Failures And Evals / Puzzles Prompt Injection Museum Guard

    An AI reads a web page. The page tries to trick it. What should the AI ignore?

    Intermediate 8 min Active
  3. Puzzle Lab / Probability Puzzles / Puzzles The Infinite Startup Payout

    A game has infinite expected value on paper. You still should not pay infinite money to play it.

    Intermediate 10 min Evergreen
  4. AI Lab / AI Mechanics / Puzzles Tokenizer Trap

    LLMs read chunks of text called tokens. That makes some simple-looking counting tasks harder.

    Beginner 6 min Active
  5. Puzzle Lab / Logic Puzzles / Puzzles The Parity Party Switches

    Some operations change many things, but one parity fact stays fixed.

    Beginner 7 min Active
  6. AI Lab / AI Learning Tracks / Tracks LLM Builder: Zero to Shipped Agent

    Learn how to build a small AI app that works outside a demo.

    Beginner 6 weeks Active
  7. AI Lab / AI Learning Tracks / Tracks LLM From Scratch, No Incense Required

    Build a tiny language model and understand the main parts.

    Intermediate 8 weeks Seed
  8. Student Kit / Student Careers / Tracks Student to Strong CS Intern

    A student-friendly plan for becoming a stronger CS internship candidate.

    Zero 12 weeks Active
  9. Student Kit / Quant Prep / Tracks Quant Research Prep

    A study path for students curious about quant research roles.

    Intermediate 10 weeks Seed
  10. Student Kit / Scholarships / Resources Scholarship Radar

    A place to find scholarships and check whether they are real and current.

    Zero living index Seed
  11. Solution Kit / Utility Recipes / Resources Long-Distance Movie Setup

    How two people in different places can watch the same movie together.

    Zero 10 min Seed
  12. Travel And Places / Travel Stories / Essays Recent Travel Journal

    A blog-adjacent travel page for recent photos, captions, short stories, and privacy-reviewed field notes.

    Zero photo journal Seed
  13. Curiosity Cabinet / World Before / Now / Media World Before / World Now Video Archive

    A collection of videos and maps that show how the world has changed.

    Zero rabbit hole Seed
  14. Curiosity Cabinet / Math And Physics Awe / Essays How Did They Measure The Moon?

    A starter note about how humans estimated huge distances with simple observations and geometry.

    Beginner 12 min Seed
  15. Curiosity Cabinet / Math And Physics Awe / Essays Godel's Incompleteness Theorems

    Some formal systems are powerful enough to talk about arithmetic, but cannot prove every true statement...

    Intermediate 14 min Active
  16. Curiosity Cabinet / Debate Clarity / Essays Arguments I Want to Lose Properly

    A list of debate topics where the goal is to understand the other side well.

    Beginner living list Seed
  17. Grey Areas / Grey-Area Method / Essays Grey Areas Field Guide

    A section for unfinished views on complicated human topics, written as questions and reflections rather...

    Beginner living series Seed
  18. Grey Areas / Grey-Area Method / Resources Grey Areas Dilemma Cards

    A planned interactive format where readers answer carefully before seeing another lens.

    Beginner interactive seed Seed
  19. Grey Areas / Trust And Repair / Essays Trust, Cheating, and Repair

    A careful starter note for relationship-adjacent dilemmas: trust, cheating, forgiveness, distance, and...

    Beginner seed essay Seed
  20. Grey Areas / Identity And Dignity / Essays Identity, Dignity, and Language

    A Grey Areas note for identity and language where dignity is the first rule.

    Beginner seed essay Seed
  21. Grey Areas / Ambition And Belonging / Essays Ambition, Loneliness, and Belonging

    A careful starter note about ambition, loneliness, friendship, desire, shame, and belonging.

    Beginner seed essay Seed
  22. Travel And Places / Travel Destinations / Resources Travel Destination Atlas

    A travel map for destinations with nature, history, food, science, architecture, or unusual human stories.

    Zero living map Seed
  23. Travel And Places / Activity Atlas / Resources Activity Menu For Bored Curious People

    A list of practical activities for weekends, dates, friends, solo wandering, fitness, and learning.

    Zero living menu Seed
  24. Play Shelf / Bored Games / Resources I Am Bored Play Shelf

    A playful section for short games and puzzles when someone is bored but still wants something with taste.

    Zero 2-10 min Active
  25. AI Lab / Exciting Tech Watch / Essays Exciting Tech Watchlist

    A watchlist of technologies that seem exciting, useful, strange, or worth understanding.

    Beginner monthly watchlist Seed
  26. AI Lab / AI Failures And Evals / Essays Agent Failure Zoo

    A list of common AI-agent failure modes and how to test for them.

    Beginner series seed Active
  27. AI Lab / AI Source Boundaries / Resources RAG Source Boundary Checklist

    A checklist for building AI search or RAG systems that know which sources they are allowed to trust.

    Beginner 20 min Active
  28. AI Lab / AI Failures And Evals / Essays Evals Before Agents

    Before building an AI agent, write the checks that would prove it is helping and not taking confusing...

    Beginner 10 min Active
  29. AI Lab / AI App Hosting / Resources AI App Hosting Map

    A guide for deciding where to host small AI apps and utilities without slowing the main website.

    Intermediate 25 min Seed
  30. Student Kit / Quant Prep / Resources Quant Research Interview Map

    A study map for quant research interviews, focused on probability, statistics, coding, and research taste.

    Intermediate study map Seed
  31. Curiosity Cabinet / CS As Art / Essays Computer Science As Art

    A note on the beauty of computer science ideas, written for people who think art only lives in paintings...

    Beginner essay seed Seed
  32. Art, Poetry, Music / Poetry, Art, Music / Media Poems That Churn or Chirp

    A place for poems and words that make you feel something.

    Zero slow Active
  33. Art, Poetry, Music / Poetry, Art, Music / Media Music That Holds a Mood

    A curated music shelf organized by state of mind, not by genre.

    Zero slow shelf Seed
  34. AI Lab / AI Views / Essays Using AI Without Losing The Plot

    How to use AI for learning while keeping your own thinking visible.

    Zero series Seed
  35. Student Kit / Student Careers / Resources CS Internship Radar

    A place to find CS internships, track applications, and avoid stale role links.

    Beginner living index Seed
  36. Student Kit / Applications / Resources MS Application Resource Map

    A clear map for graduate-school applications, especially for students who need structure.

    Beginner seasonal guide Seed
  37. Student Kit / Applications / Resources Student Application Packet

    A checklist and template for students applying to programs, internships, scholarships, or mentors.

    Zero 45 min setup Active
  38. Curiosity Cabinet / Debate Clarity / Resources Debate Topic Atlas

    A searchable list of debate topics with both sides treated seriously.

    Beginner rotating atlas Seed
  39. AI Lab / AI Failures And Evals / Resources Break The LLM Challenge

    Small challenges that teach how AI systems fail.

    Beginner challenge shelf Seed
  40. Student Kit / Student Life / Essays Fitness Journey Field Log

    A personal fitness journey and the habits that helped.

    Zero personal series Seed
  41. Inner Work / Spirituality And Psychology / Essays Inner Work Notes

    A personal shelf for questions about how to live, think, notice, choose, and stay sane while being...

    Beginner living notes Seed
  42. Inner Work / Attention Systems / Essays Attention Operating System

    A personal framework for protecting attention without pretending life is a productivity spreadsheet.

    Beginner series seed Seed
  43. Student Kit / Applications / Resources Student Application Operating System

    A structured way for students to manage applications without losing deadlines, versions, documents, or...

    Zero living kit Seed
  44. Puzzle Lab / Puzzle Techniques / Resources Puzzle Technique Atlas

    A categorized guide to puzzle techniques so readers learn the trick, not only the answer.

    Beginner living atlas Seed
  45. Curiosity Cabinet / Media Curation / Media Curated Video Archive Protocol

    A way to add interesting videos to the site with source, rights, transcript, and lazy-loading rules.

    Zero protocol Seed
  46. Art, Poetry, Music / Newsletter Curation / Essays Ishu's Dispatch

    A web-first newsletter plan that collects the best new things from the site without becoming noisy.

    Zero monthly Seed
  47. AI Lab / Radar Source Packets / Resources Radar To Page: Source Packets

    A pipeline for finding links, checking them, composing summaries, and publishing only reviewed content.

    Intermediate workflow Seed
  48. Inner Work / Quotes With Context / Resources Quotes With Context Shelf

    A quote collection that keeps source, context, translation, and a short reflection with every quote.

    Zero curated shelf Seed
  49. Work And Systems / Work Projects / Projects BhumiSahayak

    An AI helper for understanding rural land records.

    Deep active Active
  50. Solution Kit / Utility Recipes / Projects Common Problems Index

    A searchable list of common problems and solutions that work.

    Zero living project Seed
  51. Work And Systems / Work Projects / Projects AI Student Helper System

    A planned AI helper for students that focuses on verified sources, deadlines, and practical next steps.

    Intermediate project seed Seed
  52. Solution Kit / App Tools / Projects Micro App Garden

    A way to host small tools and experiments without slowing down the whole website.

    Intermediate platform seed Seed
  53. Guest Shelf / Guest Collaboration / Guest notes Bastar Student Field Note

    A place where people from the education work can share what helped them.

    Zero guest series Seed
  54. Guest Shelf / Guest Collaboration / Guest notes Builders Who Changed Their Mind

    Short guest essays about changing your mind after building something.

    Beginner guest series Seed
  55. Student Kit / Bastar And Education / Gallery Bastar Field Notes

    A future photo story about education work in Bastar, only using safe and approved images.

    Zero photo essay Seed
  56. Curiosity Cabinet / World Before / Now / Gallery World Before / World Now

    A visual collection showing how places and life changed over time.

    Zero visual shelf Seed
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Small builds, failure explainers, and AI literacy pieces that end in artifacts.

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Awe, science history, math, travel, debates, and playful things for bored minds.

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Short puzzles with permanent URLs, hints, and solutions that teach one trick cleanly.

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Student help that is useful, sourceable, and not hidden under curiosity metaphors.

Art Queue

Poems, music, movies, travel stories, and the state of mind behind art.

Inner Work Queue

Spirituality, philosophy, psychology, attention, and Grey Areas with care.

Guest Shelf Queue

Collaborative pieces where invited people add field notes, arguments, and lived context.