nikhil.io

A drawing of me by my buddy Mark Vollenweider of Iowa City

Hello!

I’m Nikhil Anand. I'm a student at the department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University where I'm learning to love and survive both graduate school and New York City as my wife and our diva husky send me good vibes from home in Iowa

Here’s a little more about me and what I’m up to now. I’d love to hear from you and hope you have a most splendid day 🖖🏽


Log

  • Surf RiderThank you, Almighty Algorithm, for this absolutely hypnotic piece of music, choreography, and camerawork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wducEKHKRvg More videos by the conservatory. Song by Il Est Vilaine, choreography by Martha Nichols, and came
  • 4 Hours of Calming Ambient Music by MobyWas looking for an alternative to my trusty “10 Hours of IceBreaker Idling in the Arctic” and found this. over the last couple of years i’ve been making really really really quiet music to listen to when i do yoga or sleep or meditate or panic. i
  • On Showing UpAdvice from a scientist I worked for and looked up to (and still do) at my very first job after college. Just showing up – on time, rested, clean, appropriately dressed, and well fed – is half the battle (50%). Having enthusiasm and maintaining a
  • Thought Apple's new iPhone Pocket looked familiar... (NSFW)I read “iPhone Pocket” and got very excited about the prospect of an updated iPhone Mini (the best phone I’ve used). But lo, a $230 mankini for your fucking phone from a very unserious group of people at Apple: “Courage” indeed.
  • I get around 8-10 calls from 1-8xx numbers every single day, most of them pertaining to financial scams (I get as many text messages as well). A few leave voicemail and the GIF at the end of this note shows about two weeks’ worth. I’ve taken to sile
  • On Desiging to Optimize for Ego (and Shareholder Value™)Saving some snippets here but Dave Snyder’s article is worth reading, bookmarking, and meditating over (cached). Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound quietly, making everything around them better, shade, value, be


Reading


Watching

  • Heretic
    Rating: B-
  • The Asset
    Rating: B-
  • Next Floor
    Rating: B+
  • House of Dynamite
    Rating: B-
  • Vertigo
    Rating: A
  • Andor
    Rating: A+
  • USS Callister (Parts I and II)
    Rating: A+
  • The Match
    Rating: C+
  • Saare Jahaan Se Accha
    Rating: B-
  • Witness for the Proscecution
    Rating: A+
  • Aapla Manus
    Rating: D-
  • Squid Game
    Rating: B+

Listening


      Playing

      • The Shivah
        Rating: A
      • Monument Valley III
        Rating: A
      • Sky Force: Reloaded
        Rating: A
      • Kids
        Rating: B
      • Art Plunge
        Rating: B
      • Frost
        Rating: B
      • Florence
        Rating: B+
      • Starman
        Rating: A

      CC BY-SA 4.0Drawing by my buddy Mark Vollenweider of Iowa City None of the views expressed on this website reflect those of any of my employers or affiliated . v3.10.1