Short opinion.
The column where I write about the working life, the craft of sitting with a problem, and occasionally whatever I have been stewing on. Always in my own voice. Sometimes typed from blank, sometimes edited from a pipeline draft. Each piece is labeled.
Subtitles.
A few weeks of building a publishing pipeline I could not, alone, have written. On architectural awareness without technical fluency, and the third mode this revealed.
What professional colorists catch that ML engineers miss.
Three specific failure modes I see repeatedly in generative video, and why almost none of them are caught by evaluators without a post-production background. A short argument for domain expertise.
In defense of writing things down.
An argument for the SOP, the checklist, the pre-production docket, and every other piece of paper that a certain kind of person finds beneath them.
What Amarkantak keeps teaching me.
A short essay on the Narmada's source, the discipline of beginning quietly, and why I go back twice a year even though it inconveniences everyone who needs me.
The working life of an aspiring polyglot.
Five languages in, half a sixth on its way. Notes on what translation teaches about perception that no amount of monolingual attention can.