# Bhuvan > Essays, notes and small websites by Bhuvan, from Bangalore: money, technology, history, books, and whatever rabbit hole he fell into this week. Bhuvan lives in Bangalore, India and works at Zerodha on markets, data and curation. This site holds his long essays (/blog/), short notes and links (/notes/, a commonplace book that used to live at rabbitholes.garden), the small websites he builds (/projects/), the books he reads (/books/) and a /now page. Every essay and note is also available as plain Markdown at the same URL with index.md appended. The full text of every essay is in https://bebhuvan.com/llms-full.txt. ## Essays - [Defend Their Right to Protest. Especially If You Hate Them.](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/defend-their-right-to-protest/): If you support the ruling party and think the protesters are idiots, you should still defend their right to protest. - [A Rare Disease Is Spreading Through India’s Finance Commentariat](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2026-06-15-a-rare-disease-in-indias-finance-commentariat/): A public-health bulletin on the rare anatomical disorder spreading through India’s finance commentariat. - [Watching Train Dreams in the Age of AI](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2026-05-16-watching-train-dreams-in-the-age-of-ai/): What a quiet movie about a Pacific Northwest logger taught me about living through a world being remade. - [Before we had answers, we had stories](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2026-05-02-before-we-had-answers-we-had-stories/): A few thoughts after rereading Stephen Fry’s Mythos. - [Fuck around while you still can](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2026-04-18-fuck-around-while-you-still-can/): The permanent underclass is coming. Fuck around anyway. - [Start the damn blog](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2026-04-07-start-the-damn-blog/): On writing, doing, and the momentum of small things. - [A few fragmented thoughts on AI](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-11-15-a-few-fragmented-thoughts-on-ai/): A collection of working notes on AI, writing, work, and what it means to actually use these tools - [Escalate your reading](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-11-08-escalate-your-reading/): Against easy reading. - [Introducing Dhwani: A directory of Indian public domain works](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-11-02-introducing-dhwani-directory-indian-public-domain-works/): Why I’m collecting links to books no one will read - [On having a philosophy of money](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-10-25-on-having-a-philosophy-of-money/): On people doing dumb shit with money - [Who are you without a job?](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-10-14-who-are-you-without-a-job/): Thinking about one’s identity In the shadow of AI. - [A ripple and then a rabbit hole](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-09-27-a-ripple-and-then-a-rabbit-hole/): An exploration of intellectual “rabbit holes” as the essence of a life well-lived. - [Philosophy of life and Seneca’s letters](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-09-21-philosophy-of-life-and-senecas-letters/): A site for Seneca’s letters. - [Speculation is like water—it always finds a way](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/2025-08-30-speculation-is-like-waterit-always-finds-a-way/): I argue that speculation is like water—it never stops, it just finds new channels. - [A world without news](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/a-world-without-news/) - [Broken news](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/broken-news/): “Good times become good memories, but bad times become good lessons.” Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender. - [Dear influencers, please stop hurting India](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/dear-influencers-please-stop-hurting-india/) - [Death to the banks; central bank accounts for all](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/death-to-the-banks-central-bank-accounts-for-all/): Throughout the history of modern banking, two narratives have been constant: “Banks are dead” and “Why do we need banks?” - [It’s your grandfather’s banking crisis](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/its-your-grandfathers-banking-crisis/) - [Stories that cause bank failures and the scars they leave](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/stories-that-cause-bank-failures-and-the-scars-they-leave/) - [Institutional investors are just as stupid as retail investors](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/institutional-investors-are-just-as-stupid-as-retail-investors/) - [No, it isn’t](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/no-it-isnt/) - [‘Revolution in a box: The extraordinary story of the ordinary shipping container’](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/revolution-in-a-box-the-extraordinary-story-of-the-ordinary-shipping-container/): Can you think of some of the greatest inventions and innovations in human history? - [Dear fintechs, please stop hurting India](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/dear-fintechs-please-stop-hurting-india/) - [So long, and thanks for all the fish](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/) - [The boy who cried wolf about an emerging markets sovereign and corporate debt crisis](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/the-boy-who-cried-wolf-about-an-emerging-markets-sovereign-and-corporate-debt-crisis/) - [What’s old is new again](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/whats-old-is-new-again/): A few things that made me go, _ooh, that’s interesting_. - [SPACtacular](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/spactacular/): A few things I learned this week. - [Yield curve meets Munger](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/yield-curve-meets-munger/): Here’s what I learned this week. One thing is that I’m going to be poor, but here are a few other things. - [Making sense of the Russia-Ukraine conflict](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/making-sense-of-the-russia-ukraine-conflict/): If you had the power to bring back someone from the dead, who would it be? I’m guessing a dear one, favorite actor, musician? - [Go curate yourself!](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/go-curate-yourself/) - [Niall Ferguson on money and cryptocurrencies](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/niall-ferguson-on-money-and-cryptocurrencies/) - [There’s too much of everything](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/theres-too-much-of-everything/) - [What a time to be in the markets](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/what-a-time-to-be-in-the-markets/) - [Miser and miserable](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/miser-and-miserable/) - [Never better or getting worse?](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/never-better-or-getting-worse/) - [Stop Zuckerberg!](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/stop-zuckerberg/) - [‘Work from home: good, bad, or ugly?’](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/work-from-home-good-bad-or-ugly/) - [Trillion dollar problems](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/trillion-dollar-problems/) - [Hello, world!](https://bebhuvan.com/blog/hello-world/) ## Projects - [Seneca’s Letters](https://seneca.ink/): All 124 of Seneca’s letters to Lucilius, set to be read one at a time, the way they were written. - [Paper Lanterns](https://paperlanterns.ink/): Letters, speeches, essays and lectures from the public domain, from Thoreau on walking to Bacon taking all knowledge for his province. - [Collections](https://collections.paperlanterns.ink): Whole books of letters from Paper Lanterns, read in order: Gandhi, Nehru writing to his daughter, Dostoevsky, Tagore. - [Akshara](https://akshara.ink/): Rare Indian books rescued from bad scans. OCR and language models pull out the text, which is cleaned up and published to be read. - [This Indian Life](https://thisindianlife.today): How India lives, one number at a time: sourced charts and plain-language answers to big questions about Indian life. - [Life in India](https://lifeinindia.org/): A slow record of how most Indians live: people and reports seen close up, and the subjects the news passes over, followed over years. - [Measure of India](https://measure.thisindianlife.today/): What the latest official figures say about prices, growth, factories and jobs, with a plain-language guide to every statistic. - [Tipsheet](https://tipsheet.markets): Indian markets at a glance: returns, trends and valuations for every NSE index, sector and theme. - [Hope & Despair](https://hopeanddespair.world): Is the world getting better or worse? A living atlas that answers one question at a time with open data, read at two distances: the long arc of the centuries and the year we’re living through. - [Soochi](https://soochi.fyi): A searchable index of the data, tools, organisations and research that people working on public problems actually rely on. - [Smallweb](https://smallweb.blog): A reading room for the unhurried web: hand-picked essays from independent writers, with nothing ranked, scored or chosen by an algorithm. - [From the Dumpster Fire](https://fromthedumpsterfire.com): An irregular magazine of things worth pulling out of the internet and the archive before they burn. - [Let Me Walk](https://letmefuckingwalk.com): A public index of Bengaluru’s broken, missing and occupied footpaths, photographed by the people who walk on them and kept until each one is fixed. ## Notes - [All notes](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/): 468 short notes and links, newest first - [Notes feed](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/rss.xml) - [Thank you, Perry](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-14-thank-you-perry/) - [The real change India needs](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-14-the-real-change-india-needs/) - [When facts change I change my mind. What do you do sir?](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-13-when-facts-change-i-change-my-mind-what-do-you-do-sir/) - [Twitter is annoying, frustrating, but still awesome](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-12-twitter-is-annoying-frustrating-but-still-awesome/) - [William Hazlitt on Jeremy Bentham](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-09-william-hazlitt-on-jeremy-bentham/) - [The times, they have changed.](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-07-the-times-they-have-changed/) - [The rage economy](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-06-the-rage-economy/) - [AI videos are crazy](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-05-ai-videos-are-crazy/) - [On brain rot](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-04-on-brain-rot/) - [Gandhi vs Ambedkar](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-03-gandhi-vs-ambedkar/) - [Sukumar Sen and India’s First Election](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-02-sukumar-sen-and-indias-first-election/) - [A tale of two Chinas](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-10-01-a-tale-of-two-chinas/) - [Indian government sucks at industrial policy](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-30-indian-government-sucks-at-industrial-policy/) - [Sales of weight loss drugs in India](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-30-sales-of-weight-loss-drugs-in-india/) - [Begum Aizaz Rasul](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-29-begum-aizaz-rasul/) - [How much foreign investment did India attract?](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-27-how-much-foreign-investment-did-india-attract/) - [NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Diarization](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-25-nvidia-nemotron-3-diarization/) - [Galbraith’s Antidote to Economic Dogma](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-24-galbraiths-antidote-to-economic-dogma/) - [Coding from my phone is absurd](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-23-coding-from-my-phone-is-absurd/) - [Mancur Olson on collective action](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-22-mancur-olson-on-collective-action/) - [How to value companies when you’re a cokehead](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-21-how-to-value-companies-when-youre-a-cokehead/) - [Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash and Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-20-qwen38-omni-flash-and-qwen38-livetranslate/) - [We were sloppy we’ll before AI](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-20-we-were-sloppy-well-before-ai/) - [Notes from messing around with vision, text, and audio models](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-19-notes-from-fucking-around-with-vision-text-and-audio-models/) - [Why Japan matters](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-17-why-japan-matters/) - [Reading list on open source AI](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-16-reading-list-on-open-source-ai/) - [Hidden chokepoints](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-15-hidden-chokepoints/) - [The price of Trump’s stupidity](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-14-the-price-of-trumps-stupidity/) - [What does it mean to think in the shadow of AI?](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-13-what-does-it-mean-to-think-in-the-shadow-of-ai/) - [What GDP Doesn’t See](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-13-what-gdp-doesnt-see/) - [There is still Alpha to be had in good training data.](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-12-there-is-still-alpha-to-be-had-in-good-training-data/) - [DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Vision is surprisingly good](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-11-deepseek-v41-flash-vision-is-surprisingly-good/) - [We are the stories we tell](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-08-we-are-the-stories-we-tell/) - [Feelings that defy language](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-07-feelings-that-defy-language/) - [Sweden’s crime problem](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-07-swedens-crime-problem/) - [India after Gandhi](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-06-india-after-gandhi/) - [Visualizing the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-05-visualizing-the-openai-hugging-face-incident/) - [Research on the wealth effect](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-04-research-on-the-wealth-effect/) - [The bear case for AGI](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-04-the-bear-case-for-agi/) - [I got some links for you](https://bebhuvan.com/notes/2026-09-03-i-got-some-links-for-you/) ## Optional - [Now](https://bebhuvan.com/now/): what he is doing at the moment - [Books](https://bebhuvan.com/books/): 3 books, with notes - [Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas](https://bebhuvan.com/books/fluke/) - [Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman](https://bebhuvan.com/books/four-thousand-weeks/) - [Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama](https://bebhuvan.com/books/liberalism-and-its-discontents/) - [Topics](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/): [ai](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/ai/), [china](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/china/), [poetry](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/poetry/), [economics](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/economics/), [philosophy](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/philosophy/), [reading](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/reading/), [work](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/work/), [books](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/books/), [writing](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/writing/), [literature](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/literature/), [geopolitics](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/geopolitics/), [social media](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/social-media/), [life](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/life/), [trump](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/trump/), [a little less dumb](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/a-little-less-dumb/), [musings](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/musings/), [technology](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/technology/), [history](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/history/), [politics](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/politics/), [psychology](https://bebhuvan.com/topics/psychology/) - 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