Selling To The World - Shuttles Through Warp (20)
Dear all, A long one, this week. The first time I ever sold something for money, I was about 20 years old. I was working for Dastkar Andhra for the princely...
My Heart Is A Fish - Shuttles Through Warp (19)
Dear all, I remember reading Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice when I was about 21. My friend sent it to me after his father sent it to him. I’ve always been a...
Begging The Fleet-Captain's Indulgence
Dear all, Apologies for the delay and the lack of mail this week. Due to a week of selling, being exhausted, selling, and generally being under the weather,...
In Perfection - Shuttles Through Warp (18)
Dear all, A visual letter this week as every time I try and explain this, words fail me. I was once in the blockprinting workshop of Dr Ismail Khatri in...
Oeuvrology - Shuttles Through Warp (17)
Dear all, After a week of sitting in my parents’ house and eating maggi, I emerge from my cocoon. I have transformed from the ugly caterpillar who struggled...
Foiled by the Streptococcracy
Dear all, I have a terrible flu and I am unable to write anything. I hope to write to you next week. In lieu of anything else, I offer to you Ogden Nash’s...
I/P (Pt. 1) - Shuttles Through Warp (16)
Dear all, Writing this as protests erupt across the country feels like the kind of thing I’d regard as heavy-handed, if I hadn’t already said I would do it....
Playrolling - Shuttles Through Warp (15)
Dear all, Just a little bit of fun this week - not that I claim to manage profundity on the reg, but that this one doesn’t even make the attempt. Like many...
The Language Deceit - Shuttles Through Warp (14)
Dear all, Apologies for the late letter this week. Last night was the end to a role-playing game campaign I’d been running since about March, and I spent all...
Design Practice - Shuttles Through Warp (13)
This newsletter is actually rescued from the wreckage of one I wrote in October 2023. Which means it’s been at least that long that I’ve been thinking about...
A Maze, A Thirst - Shuttles Through Warp (12)
Dear all, How exciting to have written a letter every week for the last three months. If I keep going like this, I’ll hit 100 in just 88 more! (This is my...
The Price is Trite - Shuttles Through Warp (11)
Dear all, Before I can really talk about debt, which will lead us to bonds, I wanted to spend a little time thinking about one of the very strange properties...
Simplicity in 3D - Shuttles Through Warp (10)
Dear all, Growing up, I was very familiar with the borders of my father’s veshtis and mother’s sarees having what is called a temple border. Small, delicate...
When Temptation Comes - Shuttles Through Warp (9)
Dear all, There is a post-script to this letter which makes it a bit longer than normal. Apologies. A few weeks ago, the Nobel-prize winning writer Olga...
Saxophone Giant - Shuttles Through Warp (8)
Dear all, I will write my AI screed next week, as earlier this week the saxophonist Sonny Rollins passed away at the age of 95. More than 10 years ago, I...
An Invitation to Blue - Shuttles Through Warp (7)
Dear all, In the Qawwal Bacchon Gharana, founded by Amir Khusro, there is a story about colour. The singer Hamza Akram of this tradition recounts it in Urdu...
Murder, I Read - Shuttles Through Warp (6)
Dear all, I’ve read a few fantasy murder mysteries in the last few months. Antonia Hodgson’s The Raven Scholar, Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Drop of...
Mapping Money - Shuttles Through Warp (5)
Dear all, Because I’ve moved to a different service, the issue number in the subject line does not match the issue number at the bottom of this email. There...
Money For Nothing - Shuttles Through Warp (4)
Dear all, You may have already received this mail, in which case feel free to skip. I’m trying a new service that will hopefully not go directly into your...
Changing Course - Shuttles Through Warp (3)
Changing Course - Shuttles Through Warp (3) Dear all, It is Thursday, April 23, 2026. I was going to write about bond yields, but I am once more waylaid on...
