Of Rats and Ratchets (2024)
This is going to be related to software engineering, pinky promise! I was re-reading Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak recently. It is a beautiful novel set in Russia during the revolutionary years before World War II. It focuses on the life of Yuri Zhivago, a doctor and a poet, while the Russian revolutions roar in the background. It is a poignant and topical tale of a country descending into blood-thirsty madness. Being a doctor, a literati, and a descendant of once wealthy family, Zhivago is not exactly welcomed in the new Russia. That’s why a significant part of the novel takes place far away from Moscow and St. Petersburg, in Siberia, where it is easier for undesirables to exist in a fragile truce with the state. What’s your first problem, if you are going to live in…
