I love doing things on the computer. I love playing games, surfing the net etc. I also like programming. So I learnt the basics of programming. I wanted to learn the basics of programming so that, when I grow up I will be able to write my own programs. I think in another 2 or 3 years I will know everything about programming and I will be able to write my own programs.
I wrote this in May 2026 and then left it sitting in my drafts for six weeks. Partly because it feels more personal than what I usually put online. Partly because writing honestly about uncertainty is uncomfortable when most of us are busy performing certainty. And partly because I wasn’t entirely sure I believed all of it yet. I’m still not sure. But perhaps that’s the point. So, here goes. ----- May 2026 Two years ago, I moved back to India. I hadn't planned on it. In fact, if you'd told me in 2020, when I packed my bags and left Bangalore for France, that I'd be back in four years, I'd have laughed it off as a failure of imagination. The plan had always been to stay abroad and build a career in Europe. The universe, well, had other plans. Four years abroad had been, by most measures, a good run. Two years in France at Sciences Po, a well-paid summer internship in Paris, the youngest funded researcher on a research project between Princeton, Columbi...
dear Sanjith,
ReplyDeleteI love your positive spirit.
You have the intelligence to be the world's youngest programmer so GO FOR IT....
love you
Chikks
I must congratulate both you and your sister for having started off in a great way with programming.
ReplyDeleteDid you know that the language you are learning - Lisp - is one of the oldest computer programming languages and is often jokingly called as (L)ots of (I)rritating (S)tupid (P)aranthesis. You can explain to your readers more about this and why it is called so.
POP
Is this for the day when you intend to take over 4d-tech and call it 5d-tech!!!
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