This weeknote is for last week, I’m almost a week late with it.
A new job
I joined my new job on Oct 22nd (Wednesday). I like the place (so far). I’m working on a product which helps companies manage their corporate group health insurance policies for their employees.
What has stood out most so far is the reliance on measurable metrics as a decision making tool, something which I found altogether missing in my previous job,
On dating apps
I created accounts on the various dating apps that be these days. I’m not convinced of their utility in the way they are advertised — that is, them being a place to find love and intimacy.
Dating apps can be useful nonetheless. For instance, if you have gotten out of a relationship recently (as I have), the act of making a profile and meeting new people can be the occasion for an internal narrative shift.
On film clubs
A club, of any kind, is a place where you meet new people and make friends. It is the social aspects of a club — the idea of community built around common interests — that makes a club a club.
Unfortunately no film club in Bangalore fulfills this role at the moment. Not even the one I’ve been part of for the last two years. The more time that passes, the more TPCC (specifically the Bangalore chapter) moves in a direction away from community building, and more towards gatekeeping an abstract idea of how films should be curated and watched. It is time for something new.