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2 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
How has the lockdown changed your sleep patterns?

I'll start. I now sleep in 2 sessions. Most nights I'm asleep at 9/10 pm and up at 3/4 AM. Then I get a lot of research work & teaching prep done. I'm at my most productive at that hour. Then sleep a couple of hrs 6am-ish.
Fun fact. I tweet the most when I'm doing cognitively demanding work. Which seems weird but that's how my brain is wired. Different thoughts keep popping up. So when I am working and an errant thought pops up, I tweet it to get it out of my brain, and return to work.
So when you see an avalanche of tweets or a long thread from me, you might think, arre Sabnis seems to have free time.
It's the opposite! I'm at my busiest. Tweeting is, weirdly, a productivity tool for me.

When I have free time, I'm not on Twitter. I'm living life. 😌
So yeah, now that I've tweeted this out, I will get back to editing my PhD student's first year qualifying paper draft.

But in a while (19 minutes 🤭), if some thought pops into my head and weakens my focus on her paper, I'll come here and tweet.
Ooooh, I have to train her on Twitter analytics as well as longitudinal data visualization anyway. Maybe I should have her analyze how the frequency of my tweets by time of day has changed in the last 11 years I've been active here. 🤣🤣🤣

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2 Dec
Not just "overrated". Downright dangerous and we are still paying the price. So many of the problems in US & all over the world today can be traced back to Reagan. Even the Aryan Khan case!

He was in the right place at the right time, gets random credit for USSR collapse.
The most evil and destructive legacy of Reagan is criminalizing the possession of drugs, often with mandatory minimum sentencing disproportionately targeting minorities. And then going around the world forcing countries, including India, to criminalize drug possession too.
Most of us have grown up in a world fed on Reagan initiated alarmism about drugs. So we take it as a default that yes, if you have marijuana or cocaine or ecstasy or whatever in your possession, cops can arrest you.

Ever stopped and wondered... Why? Why is possession a "crime"?
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2 Dec
This message is love. It's cool, my friend, if you happen to read this. It's rare to find love and friendship of such intensity. Hope your best friend cherishes yours.
BTW I do remember feeling a significant resentment.... Not quite rage... But resentment at the US after college, because almost all of my close friends from childhood went to the US for masters. And I had no plans then of leaving India. So I too would look at US and go
My reply, in case it doesn't reach you via DM.
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1 Dec
Since India trip isn't happening this winter break, I'm thinking of using the free time to compile my long threads that got the most responses, turn them into short stories or essays, put them on Kindle for like $3 each. All proceeds going to a cause.

What do y'all think?
My long threads are spontaneous streams of consciousness. Like a steam valve for my brain which is always bubbling with thoughts and stories and memories. And I do like telling stories. And I believe I'm good at telling stories. The threads come out of that. And some resonate.
The thing is, I "write" for a living. Academic papers. That only a few hundred might ever read. But much of my work day is still writing. Very enjoyable writing BTW. I truly enjoy academic writing. The argument building, hunting for cites, pre-empting reviewers. It's fun!
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1 Dec
At work dinner talk turned to covid travails.

Me: 90 yo bedridden gran, I used to fly every few mths to help parents. Thankfully sister, cousins, uncles, aunts the to help.

Chinese colleague: that's nice. Sister, cousin, aunt...are theoretical concepts for us.

Me: 😳😳😢
Colleague: I'm the one child of two parents who are also both one child. That's pretty much my generation. We know of sisters, uncles, aunts in theory. But for a billion of us, no personal experience. We each only have 2 parents, 4 grandparents.

Never thought of it like that!
We all know of the One Child policy but rarely do we think about what it means for life on a day to day basis or even generation to generation basis. No brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles, aunts. For a sixth of the world's population.
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30 Nov
I wish there were detailed studies like these from the IFS about the almost near extinction of sparrows from Indian cities. They were everywhere when I was growing up in Pune and Bombay. Now they are gone.

Hope there's actual research on why, not just tweets and blogs.
I notice the sparrow deficit on every India trip cos NYC has sooooooo many sparrows! Literally every traffic light pole has a sparrows nest. So chirping sparrows are background noise for me in NYC. Like they were in 20th century India.

But in today's India, they are missing!
If you google "Indian sparrows gone", you will find a lot of social media and newspaper and news site coverage.

But not much in terms of actual research on why. Disappearance of Indian urban sparrows should get more research funding than random vedic urges, no? @ParveenKaswan
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30 Nov
Unless you're an unabashed ethno-nationalist, explain to me why "too much diversity" is bad. I know several Indian immigrants who immigrated here, got green cards, became citizens and now want to pull up the ladder. That's an American tradition. But what is "too much diversity"?
If you cut the crap, what they are basically saying is "hey, we came to the west to mostly live with white people and cool black people here because of history and a handful of the other kinda Indians, so what are these other people doing here?".

That's the weird mentality.
I want to separate out, like in a biology lab, the "we are quasi-white" mentality that makes so many Indians fans of Trump and Hitler, from the more general American tradition and mentality of pulling up the ladder.

This bit from Bryson is very much like Douglas Adams on tech. Image
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