> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://journal.jatan.space/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Newsletter for friends #02: Stuff from mostly July - URL: https://journal.jatan.space/newsletter-for-friends-02/ - Published: 2024-08-04T11:42:29.000Z - Updated: 2024-10-06T17:59:10.000Z - Author: Jatan - Tags: Life slices Hello friends, Thank you for your great response to my [first newsletter for friends](https://journal.jatan.space/newsletter-for-friends-01/)! Continuing to embrace a [calmer digital life](https://journal.jatan.space/digital-detox/) against the slurp of social media, I’m sharing with you another web letter of notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed circa July. ### Reading - [The moving monument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi-Topra%5Fpillar) - [How LinkedIn treats us like monkeys](https://tedium.co/2024/07/23/linkedin-complex-linking-schemes/) - [Studying space samples in India](https://theprint.in/ground-reports/ahmedabad-moon-lab-is-waiting-for-chandrayaan-4-samples-it-has-already-studied-apollo-rocks/2170769/) - [(Not) seeing like a data structure](https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/seeing-data-structure) - [Casual racism](https://microblog.pratikmhatre.com/2024/07/08/casual-racism.html) - [You’re allowed to be interested in particle physics](https://rootprivileges.net/2024/07/02/youre-allowed-to-be-interested-in-particle-physics/) - [Accessibility features are just features](https://blog.elementary.io/accessibility-features-are-just-features/) ### Writing - [How ISRO will go from Chandrayaan 3 to an Indian to the Moon](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-183/) - Published editions [#181](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-181/), [#182](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-182/), [#183](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-183/), [#184](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-184/) and [#185](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-185/) of my Moon Monday blog+newsletter, covering lunar exploration updates from China, India, Japan, the US, South Korea, and Canada! - I didn’t like writing this article but I had to: [Diving deeper into NASA’s CLPS conundrum that led to VIPER’s cancelation](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-186/) - Published [Indian Space Progress #18](https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-18/), covering ISRO’s space budget and efforts to amp up its rockets - [Moon Monday but in video!](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-184/#moon-monday-but-in-video) ### Space, personally - [I’m an Open Lunar Affiliate!](https://jatan.space/open-lunar-affiliate/) ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/moon-like-view-from-atacama-desert-chile-by-alexandre.jpg) Lovely gift from a [new friend and reader](https://alexandre-arminjon.com/). A view from the Atacama desert in Chile that looks like it’s from the Moon. ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/me-after-a-conference.gif) Me after a conference. ### Snark.. - [How to have sustainable conferences](https://journal.jatan.space/how-to-have-sustainable-conferences/) - [What will make me take LinkedIn seriously](https://journal.jatan.space/when-to-take-linkedin-seriously/) - It’s [important to be on social media](https://journal.jatan.space/rules-to-effectively-use-social-media/) because it’s useful to know what mediocrity and human gullibility is like ### Notable microthoughts - WhatsApp is a better social network than Meta’s supposed social networks. Unlike on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, your contacts actually see your WhatsApp posts instead of sponsored, suggested, or algorithmic content. There are minimal ads, and you get direct replies! Most importantly, muting works. - Writing headlines in the style of “Friends” is [fun](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-183/) - My life’s mission: Write words that matter, and age well ### Pictures ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/glen-s-bakehouse-mocha.jpg) Mochas have been my preferred companion during Kindle reading sessions on weekends. I much prefer getting coffee from indie cafés or small brands instead of the Starbucks of the world, and Glen’s Bakehouse near me is one of the best. ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/smash-your-worries-away.jpg) Smash your worries away. ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/feroz-shah-kotla-delhi-topra-ashoka-pillar.jpg) Visited the moving monument that is the [Topra Ashoka pillar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi-Topra%5Fpillar). > A 42-wheeled cart was used to transport it to the river bank, where it was loaded onto a large boat. The cart required 8,400 men to move it, 200 to each wheel. \[[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi-Topra%5Fpillar#Transportation%5Ftechniques)\] ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/moon-man-restaurant-chennai.jpg) An eerily specific restaurant in Besant Nagar, Chennai for eerily specific humans. ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/moon-man-restaurant-chennai-2.jpg) ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/me-isc-2024-gslv-mk-iii-model.jpg) Next to the rocket I’ve seen take to the skies twice. Model for representation purposes only. Actual rocket sizes may vary. I’d [love to hear](https://jatan.space/connect) what you’ve been up to. Don’t know what to say? Reply with an interesting link! Let’s not live [an internet without intent](https://journal.jatan.space/an-internet-without-intent).