About me

Hi,
I’m Ajay Mishra, System Software Engineer at NVIDIA. I blog about system science, philosophy, and other random stuff.

Most of the original ideas are based off from books or talks or blogs. My goal is to get involved in the process of summarizing and thinking about the consequences of these ideas and get a more coherent, complete and in-depth understanding/insight on the topic. Other than that I like to write when things are out of control, check out my post on writing.

Interests

People

  1. Friedrich Nietzsche: because of his ideas on individuality, solitude and non-conformity, meaningfulness, inner chaos and how to interpret its meaning and directionality

  2. Ralph Waldo Emerson: because of his ideas on individuality, self-reliance, transcendentalism, the importance of nature, and how to live

  3. Daniel Kahneman: because of ideas on human biases contributing to irrationality, works on relative weights of factors involved in decision making and all of which is neatly articulated in the book Thinking Fast and Slow

  4. Douglas Richard Hofstadter: because of his books Godel, Escher, Bach and Surfaces and Essences. Also for his ideas on what constitutes meaning, language and analogies

  5. Richard Philips Feynman: because of his way of thinking, curiousity of even the most of simplest of things and extracting the beauty of mechanism out of it.

Talks

  1. Systems Thinking, Learning, and Problem Solving by Russell L. Ackoff
  2. Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence | John Searle | Talks at Google

Articles

  1. Before you can be others, first learn to be alone
  2. Embracing Complexity
  3. The Art of listening

Blogs

Paul Graham’s | Sam Altman’s | Michael Nielsen’s | Peter Norvig’s | Naval Ravikant’s

Websites

  1. Complexity Explorer

Quotes

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

“The system that will evolve most rapidly must fall between, and more precisely on, the edge of chaos—possessing order, but with the parts connected loosely enough to be easily altered.The system that will evolve most rapidly must fall between, and more precisely on, the edge of chaos—possessing order, but with the parts connected loosely enough to be easily altered.”