---
layout: default
---

<section class="home-intro" aria-labelledby="intro-title">
  <h1 id="intro-title">Nikhil Raghavendra<span class="name-period">.</span></h1>
  <p class="intro-description">Studying intelligence, artificial and otherwise</p>
  <a class="quiet-link" href="{{ '/about' | relative_url }}">A little about me {% include icons/arrow-up-right.svg %}</a>
</section>

<section class="writing" id="writing" aria-labelledby="writing-title">
  <header class="section-heading">
    <h2 id="writing-title">Writing</h2>
    <span class="small-label">{{ site.posts.size }} essays</span>
  </header>
  {% assign years = site.posts | group_by_exp: 'post', 'post.date | date: "%Y"' %}
  {% for year in years %}
    <section class="essay-year" aria-labelledby="year-{{ year.name }}">
      <h3 class="year-label" id="year-{{ year.name }}">{{ year.name }}</h3>
      <ol class="essay-list">
        {% for post in year.items %}
          {% assign words = post.content | strip_html | number_of_words %}
          {% assign minutes = words | plus: 199 | divided_by: 200 %}
          <li class="essay-row">
            <h4><a href="{{ post.url | relative_url }}">{{ post.title }}<span class="essay-arrow">{% include icons/arrow-up-right.svg %}</span></a></h4>
            <p>{{ post.dek | default: post.excerpt | strip_html | normalize_whitespace | truncate: 210 }}</p>
            <div class="essay-meta">
              <time datetime="{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}">{{ post.date | date: "%b %-d" }}</time>
              <span class="meta-dot" aria-hidden="true">·</span>
              <span>{{ post.category }}</span>
              <span class="reading-time">{{ minutes }} min read</span>
            </div>
          </li>
        {% endfor %}
      </ol>
    </section>
  {% endfor %}
  <a class="subscribe-link" href="{{ '/feed.xml' | relative_url }}">{% include icons/rss.svg %} Follow new essays via RSS {% include icons/arrow-up-right.svg %}</a>
</section>