Bhuvan

Bhuvan.

Doer of random things. Diver of weird rabbit holes.
Sharer of weird and fascinating things. Writer of things nobody reads.

work Zerodha — markets, data, thinking about curation
now OCR pipeline for 1860s Kannada texts at Akshara. Reading Borges again.
made seneca.ink · akshara.ink · paperlanterns.ink
ideas, loose threads, and the occasional rabbit hole
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Writing

Nov 15, 2025 latest

A few fragmented thoughts on AI

A collection of working notes on AI, writing, work, and what it means to actually use these tools

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Escalate your reading Nov 8
Introducing Dhwani: A directory of Indian public domain works Nov 2
On having a philosophy of money Oct 25 · Money
Who are you without a job? Oct 4 · AI
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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.
— Seneca, Letter I · from seneca.ink
built a whole website for this guy ↗
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Marginalia

Aug 31

I learned that the famous line “The heart wants what it wants” is from a famous letter by Emily Dickinson and not Woody Allen.

The full line:

Dear Mary -

When the Best is gone - I know that other things are not of consequence - The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care -

You wonder why I write - so - Because I cannot help - I like to have you know some care - so when your life gets faint for it’s other life - you can lean on us - We wont break, Mary. We look very small - but the Reed can carry weight.

Read the letter here.

Aug 27

I built Paper Trails to aggregate RSS feeds from some of the blogs and newsletters I enjoy reading. It’s become a wonderful place for me to find new rabbit holes 🐰 🕳️ and you may too. Check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions.

I add a possibly dumb yet genius new feature called “Random Digest.” Twice a week, the site automatically pulls 10 links randomly from different categories and creates a digest in case you want to randomly read something.

What do you think?

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Trails

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Rabbit Holes The profound pleasures of simple things
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Rabbit Holes AI diffusion can't and won't be rapid
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Rabbit Holes Alexis de Tocqueville on despotism
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Rabbit Holes Code is cheap
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Projects

Seneca's Letters
seneca.ink
A beautiful digital collection of Stoic philosophy. All 124 moral letters to Lucilius, designed to be read the way Seneca intended — slowly, carefully, one at a time.
↩ my proudest project — the one I'd want to be remembered for
Akshara
akshara.ink
Using OCR and LLMs to digitize Indian public domain books — Kannada, Sanskrit, texts that exist in exactly one crumbling copy somewhere in a government archive.
Paper Lanterns
paperlanterns.ink
A curated archive of historical letters, speeches, and essays from the public domain. Nehru writing to his daughter. Gandhi's midnight letters. Speeches that changed the course of history.
↩ Nehru's letters to Indira still destroy me every time
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
— Borges, Ficciones
same, honestly
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Books

Oliver Burkeman Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief.
Francis Fukuyama Liberalism and Its Discontents
Liberalism and Its Discontents Liberalism is under threat precisely because it has been so successful.
Brian Klaas Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters We are all flukes — the product of an unfathomable number of unlikely events.
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