Paul Graham suggests avoiding matters of money and disputes from taking up our mental bandwidth. This week had a bit of both.

We haven't served B2B customers on Screener because of two primary issues.
1. Data rights
2. Complexity

The raw data for personal use is costly. Data for commercial or website use is 20x costlier. And it still comes with certain restrictions. We wanted to have a clarity on these restrictions before we can serve B2B customers.

We also want to keep our team and code-size small. Adding people slows down software innovation and we …

We had a good family get together this week as one of my cousins entered courtship.

Progress on Concall Tools
I have been wanting to extract structured information from concall transcripts. We started by trying to extract the names of various call participants and their associated firms.
We made some progress last week. The algorithm is working pretty well with most concall transcripts now. We increased the test coverage and added 2 algorithms for extracting speakers.

Peoples module on Screener
The larger idea is to create a "people" module on Screener. A way to allow users to "follow" investors. …

This was a rather busy week. I was mostly catching up with the pending emails and logs.

Extracting data from Concall Transcripts
Concall Transcripts contain a wealth of information. I started working on a library to extract structured information from concall transcripts.

Initially, we are trying to understand how to proceed with PDFs. We started with a single function for extracting the names of various participants in a call. Along with the name of the firms they are associated with.

Would love to have contributions from anyone having experience or interest in this: Concall Tools on Github

[Book] Karma Yoga …

Hey, I missed last week's update. I was travelling to Guwahati.

Spirit of Entrepreneurship in Young India - A panel discussion
I was part of a panel discussion at IIT Guwahati. The purpose was to encourage today's youth toward entrepreneurship. I enjoyed the conversations with other panellists and moderator Jay.

Fun at Pobitora, Baithalongso and Guwahati
After the session, we went off to Pobitora to see some Rhinos.

From Pobitora, we moved to Baithalongo. We booked an AirBnB. …

It was largely a bug-fixing week. Not the best of the weeks.

Got a new coffee-making machine: Mukka Express
My brother and I are coffee addicts. Not the "black-coffee" kind, but the "instant coffee" ones who can't work without it.

We have been wanting to get a coffee machine for our office. I researched and came across Bialetti. Their Moka Pot is a traditional kitchen piece of Italy found in every house. But it makes only Espresso - a coffee without milk.

Bialetti also has a Mukka Express. Like Moka Pot, this too works with stove and …

This was a little hobby-works week. I got to play on some new toy projects.

Created a custom Django starter template.
Deploying and setting up a new Django project takes 3-4 days. Most of the time I am copying my setup and deployment scripts from other projects. This starter template reduces the setup time to 10 minutes.
It mainly splits up the setting and requirements files for different environments, sets-up pre-commit hooks, has a deployment script for Uberspace and set-ups 12-factor authentication (using Django-environ).

Started another toy project: get-things-done.com.
Last week I started reading David Allen's …

I love to read weekly notes of some of my favourite techies:
- Simon Willison
- Chir.ag
- Monica
- Dejal

It is a wonderful insight into their lives. We get a sneak preview of the things they are working on and how they are thinking.

I too hope to publish updates that often. Kind of an open life journal. Not because I have too many interesting things to share. But because I want to get back to writing.

I love blogging. But it is hard to think of a new topic each time. It also takes a lot of …