Category: Slowseeing
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The Taste of Conversations
We speak about acquiring a taste for food because it helps us recognize ourselves changing. As children, we reach for sweetness, shy away from bitterness, approach unfamiliar flavours with suspicion, and measure every meal by…
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The Ethics of Reading
A conversation around a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti left me thinking about something I had not noticed before. The discussion began with his words but wandered into his life instead, into the contradictions people believed…
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The Case for Slowseeing
There is a strange thing that happens to places we know well. The road we take to the office, the park in the neighborhood, the face of a person who has lived beside us for…
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What is an essay
I The word essay has been used very loosely, as we have started using it for reflections, travelogues, reviews, criticisms, opinions, and memoirs. We call any collection of sentences an essay. The boundaries have dissolved…
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The Small Web
The Wrong Problem The architecture of the social internet taught us to mistake attention for relationships. Every era leaves behind a few essays that continue to illuminate the decades that follow. They possess the unusual…
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Social Gravity
The Pattern Human beings create communities, but over time, communities quietly begin creating the human beings within them. It begins with diversity. People arrive with different experiences, different opinions, different ways of speaking, and different…
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The Waari Calls Whom It Calls
The first time I experienced the Waari, it overwhelmed me. The rhythmic beat of the taal and the mridang, the saffron flags stretching as far as the eye could see, the chants, the dust, the…
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Fear, AI, and the Architecture of Consequences
We usually think of fear as an emotion. Evolution may have understood it very differently. The more I thought about it, the less fear resembled a feeling and the more it resembled an answer. That…
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The Voice an Institution Cannot Have
Every year, some of the world’s smartest organizations publish thousands of pages of writing, yet only a tiny fraction survives in their readers’ memory. Many of the world’s leading organizations attract exceptional people, invest heavily…
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The Mentor Illusion
The modern obsession with mentors is not really about mentors. It is another chapter in humanity’s long search for someone else to carry the burden of certainty. It has become almost impossible to discuss careers,…