Sunil Nair
@spuriousmallu.bsky.social
Remote customer support to a 19 year old daughter and onsite on demand slave to a 8 year old cat.
In my free time I help build www.clairva.ai
I have also written a few children's books https://www.amazon.in/-/hi/Sunil-Nair/dp/8193631803
In my free time I help build www.clairva.ai
I have also written a few children's books https://www.amazon.in/-/hi/Sunil-Nair/dp/8193631803
In mumbai around the time the #metoo movement took place most discussion was not about the problem it uncovered but about only people in power being accused. Ergo u are not accused, you are a nobody. Something like that taking place globally now.
February 6, 2026 at 1:44 AM
In mumbai around the time the #metoo movement took place most discussion was not about the problem it uncovered but about only people in power being accused. Ergo u are not accused, you are a nobody. Something like that taking place globally now.
The Emipre's new clothes.
February 4, 2026 at 5:58 AM
The Emipre's new clothes.
I just published Thank You For All the Fish (For Now) medium.com/p/thank-you-...
#startup #founder #singapore
#startup #founder #singapore
Thank You For All the Fish (For Now)
I did not set out to write approximately seventy thousand words. No one in their right mind does. You do not wake up one morning, stretch…
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January 31, 2026 at 1:45 AM
I just published Thank You For All the Fish (For Now) medium.com/p/thank-you-...
#startup #founder #singapore
#startup #founder #singapore
If you are a creator or someone involved in creating ads or movies the traditonal way and are worried about AI taking over parts of your jobs please come join the discussion luma.com/fhv61hmg #ai #genai #jobs #singapore #india
GenAI vs. The Creator: Redefining the Creative Workflow · Luma
Generative AI has rapidly entered the creative space and is raising an uncomfortable question: will it replace, redefine or evolve what creativity is?
As GenAI…
luma.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:51 AM
If you are a creator or someone involved in creating ads or movies the traditonal way and are worried about AI taking over parts of your jobs please come join the discussion luma.com/fhv61hmg #ai #genai #jobs #singapore #india
A day where nothing happened.
No crisis. No breakthrough. No lesson to screenshot.
Just routine, administered efficiently, with minor side effects.
If this feels familiar, congratulations.
You are living a perfectly functioning life.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
#startup #culture #singapore #bombay
No crisis. No breakthrough. No lesson to screenshot.
Just routine, administered efficiently, with minor side effects.
If this feels familiar, congratulations.
You are living a perfectly functioning life.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
#startup #culture #singapore #bombay
A Piece About Nothing
At some point in middle age, life stops making dramatic entrances.
medium.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:36 AM
A day where nothing happened.
No crisis. No breakthrough. No lesson to screenshot.
Just routine, administered efficiently, with minor side effects.
If this feels familiar, congratulations.
You are living a perfectly functioning life.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
#startup #culture #singapore #bombay
No crisis. No breakthrough. No lesson to screenshot.
Just routine, administered efficiently, with minor side effects.
If this feels familiar, congratulations.
You are living a perfectly functioning life.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
#startup #culture #singapore #bombay
Dont look at the main character in the Greenland story, look for the enablers. Qhttps://medium.com/@spurious-mallu/the-quiet-betrayers-a-history-of-enablers-41808b2928a3
The Quiet Betrayers: A History of Enablers
There are silences in history that weigh more than words. They lie between the lines of victory, in the pauses of oaths, in the small acts…
medium.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Dont look at the main character in the Greenland story, look for the enablers. Qhttps://medium.com/@spurious-mallu/the-quiet-betrayers-a-history-of-enablers-41808b2928a3
At this rate Quebec may as well become the 51st. It's a great strategy, ask for something big, they panic and agree to what he really wanted.
January 22, 2026 at 10:26 PM
At this rate Quebec may as well become the 51st. It's a great strategy, ask for something big, they panic and agree to what he really wanted.
TIL about the 1905 Japanese victory over Russia. Amazing narrative @empirepoduk.bsky.social . The global south needs more such narratives.
January 19, 2026 at 4:26 AM
TIL about the 1905 Japanese victory over Russia. Amazing narrative @empirepoduk.bsky.social . The global south needs more such narratives.
Some cities are occupied.
Others are learned.
This is about the moment a place stops being provisional. When belonging is no longer argued, only assumed. When staying becomes ordinary, and therefore permanent.
This is my 50th essay.
#singapore #india #Expats #society
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Others are learned.
This is about the moment a place stops being provisional. When belonging is no longer argued, only assumed. When staying becomes ordinary, and therefore permanent.
This is my 50th essay.
#singapore #india #Expats #society
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Unremarkable Art of Staying
There are those who arrive in the city-state with suitcases that never fully unpack. Their lives are arranged around departure. Leases are…
medium.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Some cities are occupied.
Others are learned.
This is about the moment a place stops being provisional. When belonging is no longer argued, only assumed. When staying becomes ordinary, and therefore permanent.
This is my 50th essay.
#singapore #india #Expats #society
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Others are learned.
This is about the moment a place stops being provisional. When belonging is no longer argued, only assumed. When staying becomes ordinary, and therefore permanent.
This is my 50th essay.
#singapore #india #Expats #society
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
This era will be known as the post decentiam era hence forth
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 AM
This era will be known as the post decentiam era hence forth
Reposted by Sunil Nair
Hesitation, risk of embarrassment, & even politeness add friction when we face another human while buying from them. Non verbal cues help with judgment to prevent fraud, & second thoughts (removing something from our cart) act as informal safeguards in commerce. When AI agents buy on our behalf +
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Hesitation, risk of embarrassment, & even politeness add friction when we face another human while buying from them. Non verbal cues help with judgment to prevent fraud, & second thoughts (removing something from our cart) act as informal safeguards in commerce. When AI agents buy on our behalf +
2025 suddenly looks mild. 2026 is going to whip our collective arse
January 12, 2026 at 2:00 AM
2025 suddenly looks mild. 2026 is going to whip our collective arse
Reposted by Sunil Nair
I wrote recently about how Meta acquired Manus to close an execution-layer gap, not to win the AI model race: Meta already had distribution, data, and business context through Ads, WhatsApp, and Messenger, but lacked a production-ready orchestration layer. Manus supplies +
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January 10, 2026 at 5:14 AM
I wrote recently about how Meta acquired Manus to close an execution-layer gap, not to win the AI model race: Meta already had distribution, data, and business context through Ads, WhatsApp, and Messenger, but lacked a production-ready orchestration layer. Manus supplies +
The world did not lack knowledge. It lacked a marketing department.We like our history tidy. One centre. One arc. One author.Reality was never that polite. Civilisations thought deeply long before they were footnoted. This is about how progress learned to brand itself.
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A Brief History of Who Gets Credit
As I grew older, I began to notice a strange asymmetry.
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January 10, 2026 at 2:46 AM
The world did not lack knowledge. It lacked a marketing department.We like our history tidy. One centre. One arc. One author.Reality was never that polite. Civilisations thought deeply long before they were footnoted. This is about how progress learned to brand itself.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The hand wringing going on across nyt wrt US policies in Americas is hilarious. Similar to grave condemnation that rings out of UN. 🤣
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
The hand wringing going on across nyt wrt US policies in Americas is hilarious. Similar to grave condemnation that rings out of UN. 🤣
Greenland or Canada ?
January 5, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Greenland or Canada ?
Reposted by Sunil Nair
Reposted by Sunil Nair
This is great.
There are two Singapores.
One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan.
The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are.
I am increasingly loyal to the second one.
#Singapore #culture
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One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan.
The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are.
I am increasingly loyal to the second one.
#Singapore #culture
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Singapore That Wears Flip-Flops to Breakfast
There are at least two Singapores, and they coexist with the politeness of people who have learned not to ask awkward questions in lifts.
medium.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 AM
This is great.
Reposted by Sunil Nair
I don't know if 'small emotional loan' was an autocorrect typo as it's different in the article, but it makes perfect sense to me because indebtedness caused by conspicuous consumption is a perfect vector for intergenerational trauma
January 3, 2026 at 3:41 AM
I don't know if 'small emotional loan' was an autocorrect typo as it's different in the article, but it makes perfect sense to me because indebtedness caused by conspicuous consumption is a perfect vector for intergenerational trauma
More like hurtling into another year.
Flying into the new year like. #HappyNewYear2026 #CalvinandHobbes
January 3, 2026 at 2:03 AM
More like hurtling into another year.
There are two Singapores.
One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan.
The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are.
I am increasingly loyal to the second one.
#Singapore #culture
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan.
The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are.
I am increasingly loyal to the second one.
#Singapore #culture
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Singapore That Wears Flip-Flops to Breakfast
There are at least two Singapores, and they coexist with the politeness of people who have learned not to ask awkward questions in lifts.
medium.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:28 AM
There are two Singapores.
One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan.
The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are.
I am increasingly loyal to the second one.
#Singapore #culture
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
One requires a reservation and a small emotional loan.
The other wears a black T-shirt, eats breakfast for under five dollars, and knows exactly where the good curry puffs are.
I am increasingly loyal to the second one.
#Singapore #culture
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Reposted by Sunil Nair
I AGREE! #CalvinandHobbes #HappyNewYear2026
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I AGREE! #CalvinandHobbes #HappyNewYear2026
I have reached an age where my knees introduce me before I do, and my face carries the authority of a man who might apologise before committing a crime.
Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
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Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Notes from an Incidental Threat
I have reached the age where my body has begun issuing apologies on my behalf.
medium.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I have reached an age where my knees introduce me before I do, and my face carries the authority of a man who might apologise before committing a crime.
Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Which is how I discovered a role I never applied for: incidental threat.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...