
Anjor Kanekar
Building elite technical organizations and FDE-style structures
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Hiring Assholes
November 13, 2025An article exploring the distinction between conviction and ego in hiring, arguing that effectiveness comes from conviction, directness, and ambition, not from toxicity or cruelty.
Building a Gyrokinetics Code Without Reading a Single Line: The Development Log
November 11, 2025A development log detailing the process of rebuilding plasma physics simulations using AI assistance, outlining the workflow, successes, and challenges, and observing that AI generated 100% of the code.
Testing the Intelligence Explosion: Can AI Turn One Physicist into a Research Team?
November 5, 2025An exploration into whether AI can significantly accelerate research velocity in physics by assisting in complex tasks like rebuilding plasma physics simulations.
Case Study: Building a Hiring Process for Northslope
November 20, 2024A case study on building a bespoke hiring framework for Northslope Technologies, focusing on defining cultural traits versus role competencies.
Comand AI: A Hiring Case Study
September 28, 2024A case study detailing the design of a hiring process for mission-driven engineers at Comand AI.
Context Matters: Hiring is Not Fungible
August 27, 2024An article discussing why generic hiring processes often fail and the importance of context-specific hiring strategies.
Fluidization of collisionless plasma turbulence
January 1, 2019A scientific paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Viriato: a Fourier–Hermite spectral code for strongly magnetized fluid–kinetic plasma dynamics
January 1, 2016A scientific paper on a spectral code for plasma dynamics.
Fluctuation-dissipation relations for a plasma-kinetic Langevin equation
January 1, 2015A scientific paper on plasma-kinetic Langevin equations.
Phase mixing in turbulent magnetized plasmas
January 1, 2014Anjor Kanekar's PhD thesis from the University of Maryland, College Park.
crash2: coloured packets and other updates
January 1, 2009A scientific paper on astronomical observations.
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