Re: [silk] On Lit fests

[maia]

because technical writing, like science communication, is sneered at by the
lit crowd

loosely in the cloud with typos

On 18 Oct 2017 15:28, "Venkatesh H R"  wrote:

> Intriguing question. I think because narrative non-fiction (which requires
> both a writer's skill and a journalist's eye) has become tremendously
> popular in the last 10-20 years? If you're talking just fiction, you won't
> find too many journalists, but the non-fiction field is dominated by
> current and former journalists.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Thaths  wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 2:12 PM Meera  wrote:
> >
> > > Why are literary festivals in India less about literature and more
> about
> > > journalism? That gets them the popularity of course, but where do
> writers
> > > congregate? What do you all think?
> > >
> >
> > Gets whom popularity? The journalists? The organizers?
> >
> > Having never been to a literary festival in India (or anywhere for that
> > matter) I have no useful answers.
> >
> > Thaths
> >
>
>
>
> --
> H R Venkatesh
> ICFJ Knight Fellow
> Founder, NetaData 
> Co-organiser, Hacks/Hackers New Delhi
> Ph: +91 9811824503
> Twitter: @hrvenkatesh
>

Re: [silk] win7 in bangkok?

[maia sauren]

thanks all. sorted.

loosely in the cloud with typos
On 4 Jul 2016 03:45, "Thaths" <tha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bangkok is Mecca for pirated copies of software.
>
> I recommend your friend go to one of the shops selling pirated software in
> places like MBK center to buy a Windows 7 disk.
>
> Alternatively, of your friends has a Microsoft Developer Network account
> here can download a copy of the image (iirc) from the main site.
>
> Thaths
>
> On Sun., 3 Jul. 2016, 2:34 pm Maia Sauren, <maia.sau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > odd request, i know. a friend of mine is in bangkok for a few weeks and
> > needs a win7 disc. (his computer started an auto update while he wasn't
> > watching, on trickle internet, and now it's bricked.) can anyone help,
> > please?
> >
> > loosely in the cloud with typos
> >
>

[silk] win7 in bangkok?

[Maia Sauren]

odd request, i know. a friend of mine is in bangkok for a few weeks and
needs a win7 disc. (his computer started an auto update while he wasn't
watching, on trickle internet, and now it's bricked.) can anyone help,
please?

loosely in the cloud with typos

Re: [silk] sanitary napkins in brown paper bag ...

[maia sauren]

buy a menstrual cuo, avoid the whole mess.

loosely in the cloud with typos
On 18 May 2016 13:52, "Rajesh Mehar"  wrote:

> Have you tried buying beef yet? :-)
>
> - the guy will either wrap it in
>
> > > a
> > > > newspaper or a brown paper bag before putting it inside a plastic bag
> > > (not
> > > > done for anything else)
> >
>

Re: [silk] Luck Matters More Than You Might Think

[maia sauren]

one of the aspects of luck is being born in environments that contain
opportunities. get born into the right set of circumstances and what luck
can do for you takes on a whole different meaning. sure, luck happens
everywhere - and probably equally - but the sizes of the lucky breaks are
different.

On 19 April 2016 at 11:38, Charanya Chidambaram <
charanya.chidamba...@gmail.com> wrote:

> True. I think we tend to simplify context,  environment, having met the
> right people at some time who end up helping later,  knowledge learnt in a
> continuum to - luck in the moment,  as it feels like it came together
> without effort.
> On 19 Apr 2016 10:28 a.m., "Shenoy N"  wrote:
>
> > Acknowledging that most, if not all of your achievements would never have
> > been possible had it not been for generous doses of luck is a lovely
> > practical philosophy and it is not difficult to see how it will result in
> > humbler and more compassionate individuals. However, there is the danger
> > that it could - and I've seen this in several members of my immediate
> > family - lead to a complacent "what will happen will happen"  view on
> life
> > which tends to dissuade anything in the nature of enterprise. So,
> > double-edged, imo, as most practical philosophies tend to be
> >
> > On 19 April 2016 at 09:41, Charles Haynes 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Strongly agree. I'm smart, but my success, such as it is, is more luck
> > than
> > > skill.
> > >
> > > That said - luck favors the prepared, and "the more I practice, the
> > luckier
> > > I get."
> > >
> > > -- Charles
> > >
> > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 at 11:18 Udhay Shankar N  wrote:
> > >
> > > > This strikes a chord. I work with early stage technology
> entrepreneurs,
> > > and
> > > > have done for over 2 decades (this includes the dot.com boom, a
> period
> > > > that
> > > > has special relevance to this topic) I have come across several
> people
> > > who,
> > > > through some confluence of circumstances, have made a lot of money.
> The
> > > > temptation (including for the people involved) is to imagine this is
> > > > because they were smart. This is almost certainly not true, as can
> > easily
> > > > be demonstrated by the fact that there are always many other people
> who
> > > are
> > > > demonstrably at least as smart who have not succeeded.
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Udhay
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/05/why-luck-matters-more-than-you-might-think/476394/
> > > >
> > > > Why Luck Matters More Than You Might Think
> > > >
> > > > When people see themselves as self-made, they tend to be less
> generous
> > > and
> > > > public-spirited.
> > > >
> > > > ROBERT H. FRANK  MAY 2016 ISSUE   BUSINESS
> > > >
> > > > I’m a lucky man. Perhaps the most extreme example of my considerable
> > good
> > > > fortune occurred one chilly Ithaca morning in November 2007, while I
> > was
> > > > playing tennis with my longtime friend and collaborator, the Cornell
> > > > psychologist Tom Gilovich. He later told me that early in the second
> > > set, I
> > > > complained of feeling nauseated. The next thing he knew, I was lying
> > > > motionless on the court.
> > > >
> > > > He yelled for someone to call 911, and then started pounding on my
> > > > chest—something he’d seen many times in movies but had never been
> > trained
> > > > to do. He got a cough out of me, but seconds later I was again
> > motionless
> > > > with no pulse. Very shortly, an ambulance showed up.
> > > >
> > > > Ithaca’s ambulances are dispatched from the other side of town, more
> > than
> > > > five miles away. How did this one arrive so quickly? By happenstance,
> > > just
> > > > before I collapsed, ambulances had been dispatched to two separate
> auto
> > > > accidents close to the tennis center. Since one of them involved no
> > > serious
> > > > injuries, an ambulance was able to peel off and travel just a few
> > hundred
> > > > yards to me. EMTs put electric paddles on my chest and rushed me to
> our
> > > > local hospital. There, I was loaded onto a helicopter and flown to a
> > > larger
> > > > hospital in Pennsylvania, where I was placed on ice overnight.
> > > >
> > > > Doctors later told me that I’d suffered an episode of sudden cardiac
> > > > arrest. Almost 90 percent of people who experience such episodes
> don’t
> > > > survive, and the few who do are typically left with significant
> > > > impairments. And for three days after the event, my family tells me,
> I
> > > > spoke gibberish. But on day four, I was discharged from the hospital
> > > with a
> > > > clear head. Two weeks later, I was playing tennis with Tom again.
> > > >
> > > > If that ambulance hadn’t happened to have been nearby, I would be
> dead.
> > > >
> > > > Not all random events lead to favorable outcomes, of course. Mike
> > Edwards
> > > > is no longer alive because chance frowned on him. 

Re: [silk] intro

[maia sauren]

did we decide on a time?

On 29 January 2016 at 19:13, Indrajit Gupta  wrote:

> PLEASE use something civilised like text messages. bonobashi
>
> On Friday, 29 January 2016 3:48 PM, Thaths  wrote:
>
>
>
>  Habanero would be perfect. I'd love to check out the Hyderabadi version of
> Mexican. Also, it sounds like it is quite close to Westin.
>
> Unfrotunately, I don't use Whatsapp. So gChat it has to be. I'll all send
> you an off-list[1] email with my number. Please feel free to sms on it.
>
> Thaths
> [1] So that it doesn't get stored in the Silk list web archive and get
> crawled by some some phone number harvesting spider.
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:31 PM Mohit  wrote:
>
> > That's practically every place in Hyderabad ;)
> > We're thinking of Habanero. Send your no. We'll add you to the Hyd
> > whatsapp group
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mohit
> >
> > > On 29-Jan-2016, at 01:34, Thaths  wrote:
> > >
> > > Monday evening it is. Now let's pick a place. My preference is
> > > somewhere I can easily Uber to/from the Westin.
> > >
> > > Thaths
> > >
> > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:17 PM Mohit  wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I can't do tuesday - also ghmc elections that day - let's do monday
> > evening
> > >>
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Mohit
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan <
> > >> kiran.karthike...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I'm up for a meetup in Gachibowli either Monday or Tuesday.
> > >>>
> > >>> Not sure if Hyderabad has dry days for Municipal elections, but this
> > city
> > >>> seems to be second only to Mumbai in dry days so I'm wary.
> > >>>
> > >>> Kiran
> > >>>
> >  On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:25 PM Mohit  wrote:
> > 
> >  I don't understand why anyone needs to go home before midnight ;)
> > 
> >  Regards,
> >  Mohit
> > 
> > >> On 28-Jan-2016, at 15:50, Ekta Bahl  wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Thaths  wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I am going to be in Hyderabad from mid-day Monday to late evening
> on
> > >> Thursday. Are people up for a silklist meetup in the Gachibowli
> > >> area?
> > >>
> > >> Monday and Tuesday both work for me. Mohit has indicated that he
> is
> > >>> good
> > >> for Monday. IG, 7:30 pm is not too bad. Come to the office and we
> > >> can
> >  head
> > >> to Gachibowli together.
> > 
> >  --
> > >>> Regards,
> > >>> Kiran
> > >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>

Re: [silk] intro

[maia sauren]

let's talk offline, varun.

On 5 January 2016 at 20:04, Varun Sahni <v...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Would love to learn more as am doing a lot of work in digital primary
> care, mobile health and digital health care platforms ...
>
> Regards,
>
> Varun
>
> > On 5 Jan 2016, at 14:16, maia sauren <m.sau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 5 January 2016 at 17:40, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> - things that are open, particularly around the intersection of
> software
> >> &
> >>> science, and lately, software and healthcare, mostly in and around my
> >> dayjob
> >>
> >> What is the day job, if I might ask? There's a number of folks here
> >> who might intersect with some portion of the above (including, in a
> >> few past lives, myself - I helped found the first Linux User Group in
> >> India, among other things.)
> >>
> >> certainly! i work as a business analyst for an international software
> > consultancy, currently on a project developing data tools for médecins
> sans
> > frontières.
> >
> > udhay, sounds like we definitely overlap one way or another. until
> recently
> > i was co-chair of the board of australian arm of open knowledge, for
> > example.
> >
> >
> >>> - food, at all stages of its formation and disformation
> >>
> >> This is now reminding me of a past thread on flatulence. :)
> >
> > is this the point where someone tells me the golden age ended before i
> got
> > here? :)
>
>

Re: [silk] intro

[maia sauren]

cool. i'll be in mumbai on feb 20th to speak at a conference. some time
around then?

On 5 January 2016 at 19:58, Venkatesh Hariharan <ven...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 7:48 PM, maia sauren <m.sau...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> great! i'd be up for a meetup if you're interested (any more in
> hyderabad?). i'll be travelling around india and beyond if anyone is
> interested in f2f.
>
> i'm all ears for suggestions of interesting places to visit/stuff to
> do/groups to connect with.
>
> Maia, I am in Mumbai. Ping me when you are here next.
>
> That reminds me, it's been a while since we have had a meeting of the
> Mumbai Silklisters :-)
>
> Venky
>

Re: [silk] intro

[maia sauren]

On 5 January 2016 at 17:40, Udhay Shankar N  wrote:

>
> > - things that are open, particularly around the intersection of software
> &
> > science, and lately, software and healthcare, mostly in and around my
> dayjob
>
> What is the day job, if I might ask? There's a number of folks here
> who might intersect with some portion of the above (including, in a
> few past lives, myself - I helped found the first Linux User Group in
> India, among other things.)
>
> certainly! i work as a business analyst for an international software
consultancy, currently on a project developing data tools for médecins sans
frontières.

udhay, sounds like we definitely overlap one way or another. until recently
i was co-chair of the board of australian arm of open knowledge, for
example.


> > - food, at all stages of its formation and disformation
>
> This is now reminding me of a past thread on flatulence. :)
>

is this the point where someone tells me the golden age ended before i got
here? :)

Re: [silk] intro

[maia sauren]

On 5 January 2016 at 17:44, Ekta Bahl  wrote:

> >
> > Nice to have one more Hyderabadi :). Welcome to Hyderabad.
>
> Ekta
>

great! i'd be up for a meetup if you're interested (any more in
hyderabad?). i'll be travelling around india and beyond if anyone is
interested in f2f.

i'm all ears for suggestions of interesting places to visit/stuff to
do/groups to connect with.

Re: [silk] intro

[maia sauren]

i'm away 17-26, can do before or after that.

i'll probably go to a few sessions at the hyderabad literary festival
 this weekend, if anyone's planning on going.

On 6 January 2016 at 10:54, Ekta Bahl  wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Mohit  wrote:
>
> > Ok. Habanero it is :)
> >
> > What about Fusion 9?
>

[silk] intro

[maia sauren]

hello all. i've been lurking for a few months. still not entirely sure what
this list is for, or about, but it seems lively and interesting, and
contains interesting people.

i've recently relocated to hyderbad from melbourne, here for a year (or
more - that decision is to be made later).

i do, among other things:
- things that are science, though the official parts of that are mostly in
my past life - used to be a biomedical engineering researcher
- things that are open, particularly around the intersection of software &
science, and lately, software and healthcare, mostly in and around my dayjob
- food, at all stages of its formation and disformation
- cryptic crosswords, hoping to graduate to languages other than english
- queer, feminist, non-cis-het life and activism
- knitting
- community building
- reading and writing all kinds of stuff.

nice to make your acquaintance.

cheers
maia