I don’t quite know how to make or keep friends. I’m incredibly clumsy at it, and my general lack of competence or finesse occasionally results in me coming off as rude or uninterested in forming connections. As a kid, I operated as a loner leading a somewhat solipsistic life, and…

Digital Rights Management, or DRM, enables secure transmission of media such that no entity besides its intended recipient is able to access it meaningfully. Vimeo is in the business of providing access to video, and as we support bigger studios via our Vimeo OTT service, license holders want to exercise…

Honeymoon in Tehran is an interesting title because not only does it describe the sequence of events in the story around Moaveni marrying an Iranian man, starting a family in the midst of reporting on local affairs and geopolitics of the middle-east, but it also does a great job of…

Usually, upon discovering that I’m a musician, people ask me what kind of music I make. Always a moment of stammering followed by me getting flustered as I mentally put together an answer that best suits the context. …

In April, succumbing to the anxieties over lost time during the quarantine, I signed up for Farsi lessons at the New York Persian Center. It turned out to be a great decision. I’ve been told I’m “good with languages”. While I don’t really know what that means, it is hard…

I’ve come to depend a substantial amount on taking notes. This has supplemented my general creative tendencies around interpreting one thing in the context of something else. …

Trains can be incredibly unwieldy. Freight trains can often be a mile long, if not longer, passing at once through varying terrain, subject to conflicting forces in different sections and hauling several thousand tons at 50 miles an hour. Stopping a moving train is a perennial problem with various solutions…

An inclined plane is a simple machine — so, obviously, it’s everywhere. If one needed to go from elevation A to elevation B, it would be rather easy to build a steep path than a shallow one since it would occupy less area. But it would be that much harder…

I had an eventful Fall in 2019 and have decided that it needs to be documented. This little series of blog posts will go over the various things I did in the last few months, and perhaps talk about how I feel now. Earlier this year, I put out an…