Ordinary Analysis

The Coach vs The Friend: An LLM Experiment

Sitcom dads, life prompts, and testing whether ChatGPT and Claude adopt different conversational roles.

Oct 8 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

Small Cuts, Big Realisations

Finding perspective in the chaos of Sunday markets

Oct 1 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

September 2025

Help Me Pick: Applied Stats + Product-Strategy Books

The inability to ask questions troubles me, especially in business contexts.

Sep 24 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

Catenaccio, Calcutta Biryani, and the Illusion of Replicating the USP

Why mimicking success by only replicating the most visible part is a recipe for disaster.

Sep 21 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

August 2025

On the Continuity of Friendships

A mathematical perspective on the ever-changing nature of companionships.

Aug 31 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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Back to Kolkata, Then Back Again

Notes on flights, high-rises, food, and the strange inertia of coming back from 'home'.

Aug 17 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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Women, Work, and the West

Exploring the role of the "Default Homemaker" and how it influences work-life balance

Aug 10 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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July 2025

Lost in Translation and Presentation

The fine art of not overwhelming your audience (or yourself)

Jul 27 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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The Comfort of Belief and the Weight of Reality

Reflections on faith, doubt and the festivals that multiply in hard times

Jul 13 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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June 2025

Content Without the Journey

Conditioning runs deeper than we think - even in the smallest choices we barely notice.

Jun 19 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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May 2025

Hyderabad, One Year In: Some Ordinary Analyses

Observations on food, roads, people, and the peculiar charm of India’s most confusingly nice city.

May 22 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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Therapy, Meaning, and Education

On finding purpose in a system that rarely asks who you are

May 18 • 

Shibaprasad Bhattacharya

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