Category: Slowseeing
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No One Owns the Story
No one owns the story once sounded like a poetic reflection about media decentralization, but it now feels like the defining structural condition of our civilization, a redistribution of narrative authority across markets, corporations, cultural…
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V : Power
Power is usually described in moral language. It is called good, corrupting, legitimate, or abusive. It is also described in expressive terms as the ability to change the world or show the world who someone…
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IV : Sweet Before It Was Understood
In 1989, when a small Dinshaw’s ice cream shop opened near our engineering college hostel, it did not arrive with ceremony or symbolism, yet in retrospect, it marked one of those quiet transitions that reveal…
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III : Trusted Before It Was Tested
There was a period in my career when I genuinely believed we were standing at the threshold of meaningful change, not incremental improvement dressed up in new vocabulary, but a deliberate shift in how we…
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II : Observed Before It Was Explained
The first time I attended a ten-day Vipassana course at the Global Vipassana Pagoda in April 2024, it was not a spontaneous decision. The idea had been orbiting my life since 1992, when Vipassana was…
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I : Felt Before It Was Interpreted
In 1993 I won a radio contest and walked away with Metallica’s Live Shit: Binge & Purge box set, and I remember holding it as if it were something rare and almost ceremonial, something that…
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Stories From My life
Over the past two years, I have written about power, ambition, incentives, and the ways technology reshapes how we think and behave, but the personal experiences behind those ideas rarely made it onto the page.…
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IV : Time
Time is usually treated as a background variable, something that passes while other things happen. In practice, time is not neutral. It applies pressure, magnifies differences, and exposes what is real while eroding what only…
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III : Incentives
People often explain behavior in terms of beliefs, values, or intentions. Those things matter, but they are rarely decisive. What people actually do, especially over time and at scale, follows incentives more reliably than what…
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II : Effort
People talk about effort as if it were a preference. Something you choose to apply when motivated, and avoid when you find a better method. In practice, effort behaves more like a requirement. It shows…