Episode 52

Ep52: An anniversary, escaping an arranged marriage, and poker

Welcome to our One-Year Anniversary! In this special milestone episode of Tales Under the Cat Tree, we look back at a remarkable year of profound global change and incredible conversations. From history and pop culture to role-playing games and war photography, we’ve explored it all. We reflect on what it means to embrace being an eclectic "audio magazine" in an algorithm-driven world. Thank you for being one of the 4000+ unique listeners to the podcast over this past year!

In this episode:

  • A Year in Review: Reflecting on the diverse voices, topics, and human exploration we've shared since May 2025.
  • Escaping an arranged marriage: Originally published some 20 years ago in Canada
  • Hold'em: An original short story.
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Tales under the cat tree: Conversations on Imagination, Tech & Human Adventure
Hosted by tech leader and storyteller Duleepa Wijayawardhana, this podcast explores the intersections of technology, fiction, and human adventure. Words create the worlds we live in—join us for weekly conversations that spark your imagination.

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Duleepa Wijayawardhana

It started with late nights, glue sticks, and a university newspaper / radio.

That early obsession with how words reach people took me from student journalism to a career spanning the globe. I’ve gone from designing newspapers and having radio shows to building systems at BioWare (yes, the RPG legends), managing data at MySQL, and now leading tech at Supermetrics in Helsinki.

But at my core, I’m still that geek who believes writing is just code for the human mind.

While a computer chip executes code exactly, your imagination runs stories based on your own unique wiring. Tales under the cat tree is where we run those programs together. Whether we're exploring the fiction that inspires us or the tech that defines us, my goal is to spark your imagination and—most importantly—never make you go "meh."

Words create the worlds we live in. Let's explore them.