True stories and imagined ones.
All begin from ordinary life.
A software engineer meets an old friend unexpectedly at the gate of an office building. Within a few seconds, he is not greeting him — he is calculating how much time the meeting will take, whether it fits the afternoon, whether there is a way to optimise it. The friend is standing right in front of him. He does not notice that he is calculating. That is the story.
In the book Read on AmazonA father drives his fifteen-year-old son home after midnight, asking questions in the car — the careful, leading kind. The son listens. Then, in the dark, he says eight words: “Appa, you are prompting me to get your desired answer.” The father does not know what to say. Neither does the story, for some time.
In the book Read on AmazonA senior accountant comes to see a doctor six months after her mother’s death. She is not overwhelmed. She is not unable to function. She cannot locate her grief. “My brain pre-empts the grief,” she says quietly. “It decided grief was inefficient. And now I cannot find it.”
In the book Read on AmazonThe published book contains three stories. The notebooks contain many more — observations from clinical practice, family life, and the ordinary places where technology and human emotion quietly meet. These will be published here over the coming months, freely and without paywall. There is no algorithm deciding what you see next. Only the next page, waiting to be turned.