> ## 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 #03: Stuff from August & September - URL: https://journal.jatan.space/newsletter-for-friends-03/ - Published: 2024-10-05T12:49:13.000Z - Updated: 2024-10-05T12:49:13.000Z - Author: Jatan - Tags: Life slices Hello friends, Here’s another web letter of notable things I’ve been up to or enjoyed recently. A lot has happened over the last two months, and below are slices from both the spacey and non-spacey parts of my life. ### Reading - [Why research paper DOIs don’t work sometimes](https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/09/dois-and-their-discontents/) - [One paragraph a day](https://coleb.blog/posts/just-one-good-paragraph) - “[Every email that lands in my inbox is like a little mini Turing test](https://adactio.com/journal/21241)” - [China’s Great Wall of Villages](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/10/world/asia/china-border-villages.html) - [Voter apathy in the US](https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/news-polls/medill-npr-nonvoters-2020) - “[I don’t want to bastardize the art of storytelling to mask sales copy as stories, narratives, and articles.](https://archive.is/20240507140851/https://medium.com/the-pub/why-im-returning-to-old-school-blogging-2e78453d79c4)” ### Writing deep dives on Chandrayaan - [On the importance of the Chandrayaan 3 rover and its contribution to learning about our Moon’s origin](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-190/) - [Chandrayaan 4, India’s plan to bring samples from the Moon](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-194/) - [On (not) celebrating Chandrayaan 3’s Moon landing, or that of Apollo](https://jatan.space/on-celebrating-moon-landings/) ### More space writing - When your writing is so niche that your entire article is [about a cave on the Moon](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-187/) - [First look at samples from the Moon’s farside brought by China](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-194/#prepping-lunar-farside-samples-for-scientific-studies) - [How China repurposes Moon missions to enable deep space exploration](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-193/) - Continued covering NASA’s VIPER rover cancellation: [Moon Monday #188](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-188/) and [#192](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-192/) - The next Moon missions by Intuitive Machines: [Mission 2 and 3](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-189/), and [Mission 4](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-191/) - [Europe’s new test facility brings the Moon vibes on Earth](https://jatan.space/moon-monday-issue-195/) - [On India’s newest rocket](https://jatan.space/indian-space-issue-19/) ### More videos based on Moon Monday! - [India’s increasingly complex upcoming Chandrayaan Moon missions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv0YTtEcKVU) - [The next Moon landing missions by Intuitive Machines for NASA CLPS](https://jatan.space/the-next-moon-missions-by-intuitive-machines-for-nasa/) ### Space, personally - I’m conducting a study on Indo-US lunar exploration [as an Adjunct Scholar](https://takshashila.org.in/team) at the Takshashila Institution. Our aim is to identify specific collaborative avenues that will elevate lunar science & technology capabilities of both countries in line with their independent goals. 🇮🇳🌗🇺🇸 - Sometimes when people ask me which company I represent, and don’t understand that I’m an [independent writer](https://jatan.space/about), I’m tempted to say that I’m a bootstrapped one-person startup that’s revenue positive from day one. ### Thoughts - [LinkedIn Newsletters are spam and a scam](https://journal.jatan.space/linkedin-newsletters-are-spam-and-a-scam/) - Screw shortform. Live longform. Go [slowcial media](https://journal.jatan.space/digital-detox/). - If you’re too obsessed with context, you’ll end up wanting to become a cosmologist. - All I’m asking for is a bluetooth watch with an e-ink display for excellent sunlight legibility and long battery life, a flat-strip just thick enough to house a USB-C port, solar cells or little dynamos on its band, call notifications, and basic fitness tracking. Instead of whatever bulky power hungry non sense these modern smart watches are. ⌚︎ ### Life - Moved houses [within Bangalore](https://journal.jatan.space/mumbai-to-bangalore/) and dealt with some personal things - [A focused phone experience with Archaic Intelligence](https://journal.jatan.space/a-focused-phone-experience/) - My medu wada guy in Mumbai remembered my chutney-sambhar preference and simply handed over a plate to me after a quick head confirmation despite seeing me after four months. This is what local niceties look like. ^\_^ - A daylong train ride is a one-day vacation with the self if you want it to be. Immerse yourself in reading something new, and it might as well be a trip. ### Pictures ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/fly-every-way-you-can.jpg) Fly every way you can. Mahim Bay, Mumbai, with the Worli sea link in the background. ![](https://journal.jatan.space/content/images/2024/10/btm-lake-ripple-reflection-birds.jpg) Ripples, reflections, a glide and a slide at BTM lake, Bangalore. --- 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).