Nikhil Anand — Des Moines, Iowa

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 🖖🏽

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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
Frankenstein by Guillermo del ToroThe words that came to mind when I saw this poster were exquisite and breathtaking. Wow.
I would be very dismayed if I spent my creative and professional energies on a half-baked abjectly unnecessary UI and UX abomination that neither adds to nor improves my users’ lives, causes confusion and squinting in many, elicits "meh"s
On What MattersBy Alan Lightman, from the very lovely documentary A Trip to Infinity. I fog up every time I start seeing this. His smile towards the end is an emotional nuke and I’m a blubbery teary happy mess. I think of the Love I have
Goldfish for SaleI found this short story on my laptop and have no idea who sent it to me or where I might have downloaded it from. It’s funny and I imagine it would make for a nice children’s book and/or cartoon adaptation. The document says it’s by Kyr Bylychev.