The UNIX Episode | Episode 32 | Everything is Everything

Unix is the backbone of the world's technology. It is also a way of living that can help us discover purpose and beauty.

Welcome to Episode 32 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.

This is the long-awaited episode in which Ajay explains to the world, with an incredible screencast, how to use Unix. But before that, Ajay and Amit discuss the history and philosophy of Unix -- and why it contains life lessons that are priceless.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 Packaging
00:13 Introduction: Down by the Jungle
00:50 Chapter 1: Bell Labs – A Special Place at a Special Moment
11:49 Chapter 2: Ajay Lays the Ground
19:32 Chapter 3: The History of Unix
45:37 Chapter 4: The Philosophy of Unix
1:16:53 Chapter 5: A Space For Freedom
1:27:06 Chapter 6: Ajay’s Unix Screencast
2:08:41 Chapter 7: Ajay’s recco

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Produced by Amit Varma

[kpanyam]

I never thought I would hear an economist talk about 'awk'! I have been using the "command line" for 35 years and it is so amazing.

[zoondub]

In late eighties/early nineties you were either a Unix person or god forbid a DOS person. Unix people were considered cool. My first job out of school had me working for a guy who was the first to port Unix in India. Fun times.

The book "C programming language" by Ritchie is one of the finest books ever written. And I don't mean just as a technical book, across all categories. Not one single word feels unnecessary in that book.

I have a book recommendation for Ajay - The Dream Machine by Waldrop. It's about J C R 'Lick' Licklider. The guy who bootstrapped the ARPA project. I think Ajay will enjoy it.

[jvbenjamin]

The way Amit frames his questions is just so good. Thanks, Amit.

[bhaskarvishwajeet]

Among all the 0s and 1s, here, I am 1(st).

[anshulsingh]

Thank you so much for bringing these every week, i stay at home most of the time to study and this has become my way of engaging in conversations and perspectives which are very different and i feel much more nuanced than what is available.Also the topics you choose for every week itself are so diverse that you can never guess what is up for the next week.Enlightening, precise, and engaging. Thank you

[gk-qr]

The two of you have been larger modellers of desire for me to learn and improve than most of my teachers 🙏 (yes, I just read Wanting by Mr. Burgis)

[AtulKumarMobius]

Great episode. I love how Amit-Ajay are dedicated to the craft of making good videos that you're putting out videos of two people talking in 4K!

[AgroPrawn]

I think Ajay has found a nice explosion-free movie/web-series idea in the Unix story. An underdog genius taking on the squares and sparking a revolution!

[abhimailutube]

Beautiful episode! Many thanks for doing it. Maybe another one on data analytics?

[srvhs]

Another Great ONE Amit & Ajay. Watching you both is Meditative...

[cyberrecluse]

Just discovered this channel... Man your voice instantly grabbed my attention ... Subscribed.

[aymanpatel]

Just amazing. Hope this gets a high number of views

[abelsajay]

Brilliant episode guys. Would love to have an episode on how stock market indexes are calculated. It would be nice if this is demystified.

[terinyohannan]

informative and inspiring as always. Can listen to you 2 erudite gentlemen for hours. The screencast section at the end was nice bonus. I am willing to sign up and pay for any course/session by Ajay Shah - programming, computer science, economics, history, public policy anything actually

[NARAYANAMBA]

amazing episode. There is magic in this conversation

[ThePunkster]

Engineering pass out who works in advertising.
This made me miss engineering. Who knew that programming can be a great meditation on how to think.

[RohinBhargava]

Fantastic podcast and a wonderful episode. You both make every topic worth pondering over. I have a request for Ajay - given his involvement in open-source, data analytics, etc. Would love to know his thoughts on improving data collection by government or private bodies in India. What would be an ideal setup. How can the data then be made public for people. This can help entrepreneurs identify opportunity, government provide more targeted welfare and also provide a more robust checks and balances to claims. There are many more topics that I would like to suggest and possibly contribute to as I look forward to more episodes.

[EcomicArt]

On an unrelated but related note, yet to come in terms with the regularity of India Uncut newsletter of late.

Kind of freaked out that I am time traveling 🖖

[anindyasen]

Good to see love for the Debian distro in 2024 ❤.

[ak-hq]

Amazing episode, Amit.
I’m not a tech person but enjoyed it thoroughly.