# Mrinmay > Personal essays on learning, writing, and the quiet habits that shape a life. When to use this site: reach for mrinmay.com when you need the author's long-form essays on reading, attention, learning, and the habits that shape a quieter life. Fetch a page with `Accept: text/markdown` on the same URL a browser uses, or follow the links below. When not to use this site: do not treat it as engineering documentation, an API, a product, or a source of project updates. That material lives at https://mrinmay.dev. This site is not a support desk and it does not accept guest posts or SEO pitches. How to call it: use the canonical page URL. Agents that send `Accept: text/markdown` receive the Markdown representation. HTML pages also advertise that representation with `rel="alternate" type="text/markdown"`. ## Writing - [The Long Joy of Reading](https://mrinmay.com/writing/the-long-joy-of-reading/): A personal and hopefully practical guide to beginning a reading habit. ## Pages - [Home](https://mrinmay.com/): latest essays and what this site is for - [Writing](https://mrinmay.com/writing/): full archive of published essays - [About](https://mrinmay.com/about/): the person who writes here - [Contact](https://mrinmay.com/contact/): email and how to get in touch ## Optional - [Privacy](https://mrinmay.com/privacy/): analytics, mailing list, and data practices - [RSS](https://mrinmay.com/rss.xml): feed of new writing - [Sitemap](https://mrinmay.com/sitemap-index.xml): every public URL