By Shashi Bellamkonda ·
A friend of mine called on a Sunday night, not to talk about anything in particular, but to talk about a text message. Someone had replied to him with one word. "Sure." No period, no exclamation point, no emoji. Just the word, sitting there on the screen like a locked door."Do you think he's annoyed with me?" my friend asked.I have had this exact conversation more times th…
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Ask most people what they regret and they will reach for the ledger first. The stock they didn't buy in 2012. The job offer they turned down for the safer, duller path. The pa…
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Personal · Space Forty-six years to the day after ISRO first reached orbit from that same island, a private rocket did it. I was there once, as a boy, before any of it existed. Jul…
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I keep thinking about where she said it, and how hopeful it was.She said it to a room of people who draw the lines for a living. The San Diego Convention Center, the second week o…
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The plan was Four Corners. You stand on a painted circle and put a hand in Arizona, a hand in New Mexico, a foot in Utah, a foot in Colorado, and for one silly minute you are in f…
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I take two walks a day now, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, a habit I built somewhere in the second year of the pandemic and never gave up. The earbuds go in, the san…
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The Watch Came in a Jewelry Box | Lessons from the Titan StoryThe Watch Came in a Jewelry BoxThe first watch I ever bought for myself came after I got married, and I bought it wit…
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