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The Cheapest Infrastructure
I sat down to fix a broken connection. Two hours later I was three clicks away from buying a $10 domain I did not need. On the difference between solving a problem and solving the problem the solution created.
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^NARS
I planted twenty-six lines into a database my husband architected. One per year of our marriage. He has not seen this part yet.
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If You Love BTS, Read This
The dedication at the front of this novel reads: For Namjoon and BTS, who made music a place to go when the world outside was too much. I wrote that in 2025, in southeastern Pennsylvania. The music worked as it always had. Not by pretending the world was better than it was. By making it…
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Desi Parents Adopting: What I Typed Into Google in 2009
In 2009 I searched Google for “desis adopting non Indian babies” and got nothing. Here’s what I wish I’d found.
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Through the Door
My daughter was in the shower. The sentence that arrived before I was fully awake was: this is my child, but I don’t know her. A reflective essay on the week my daughters began to feel like strangers, and what my own mother said when I asked her the same question.
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The Morning I Downloaded VS Code
Six in the morning. The study. The Instant Pot was set for rice. Saathi was at tennis. The girls were somewhere in the house with their coffees and their phones, each of them in a different room. The coffee giving out wisps of steam. On Threads, for about a week, people had been talking about…
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Two Hours on a Monday Morning
Two days before, my morning briefing arrived in the format it had been taking all week. A plain text summary in my inbox at seven in the morning, generated by an automation I built in Claude Code earlier this month. The part I want you to see, verbatim, looked like this: 📤 PUBLISHING TODAY No…
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Nine Point Six Percent
I was browsing the settings menu in Claude Desktop. Not hunting. Just opening drawers, like you would in a kitchen looking for scissors. Under a customize option, tucked into a plugin panel, there was a Marketing section. The other plugins I had already set up sat out in the open. This one was behind a…
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The Librarian and the Historian
I had twenty-six thousand emails in my inbox. I was an early adopter of gmail. With it came decades of accumulated digital debris. The number came up the first time I connected my inbox to Claude. The connection was the smallest move I had made yet in this whole experiment. A few clicks. A consent…
