Telos by Shrikant Kumar
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  1. The Library in the Air
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  3. The Blue Dot
  4. Paying a Stranger
  5. A Computer of One’s Own

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Software for work, and the picture of work it carries inside it.

5 products · latest update first

A small dashed square with a circular arrow at the centre of a dark field, surrounded by a widening elliptical spiral of small amber dots, one for each monthly payment, with brighter dots once a year forming a vertical line.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1960s → 2026

Subscription Software (SaaS)

Software You Never Own

47 min read Productivity Tools Systems Design
Irregular amber lines wander from scattered points on the left of a dark field and converge into a rigid violet grid of identical square cells on the right. A few small dashed amber circles float between them, belonging to neither.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1911 → 2025

Enterprise Software (ERP)

The Company Inside the Machine

33 min read Systems Design Data
A dark grid of cells receding into the distance, with one amber cell at the centre glowing and thin violet lines of dependency running from it to dozens of other cells, which brighten as the change ripples outward.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1494 → 2023

Spreadsheets

The Machine for Asking What If

42 min read Productivity Tools Data
A lit manuscript page with rows of text bars, one word struck through in red and a replacement underlined in violet, a blinking amber cursor, a margin comment, and five earlier drafts fanned out in shadow behind it.
Updated 22 Oct 2026

1874 → 2025

Word Processors

Ink That Never Dries

28 min read Writing Productivity Tools
Numbered index cards scattered around a lamp-lit centre, joined by curved lines, with one larger glowing card in the middle.
Updated 19 Oct 2026

c. 370 BC → 2024

Note-Taking Apps

Notes That Talk Back: The Long Search for a Second Brain

29 min read Productivity Tools Mind & Tools

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