Tag: Knowledge and Learning
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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 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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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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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,…
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V : Lessons the Body Never Forgets
As a kid growing up every summer, I enrolled in the same hockey training camp, and although at the time it felt less like a camp and more like a carefully structured exercise in exhaustion,…
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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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What I Ended Up Doing This Year
People occasionally ask what I do. It’s a fair question. It just doesn’t have a neat answer. This year was a mix of writing, running, learning, investing, and paying attention in places that don’t compress…
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When Form Falls Behind Reality
Across very different parts of life, I kept noticing the same quiet pattern. Things could look correct, sophisticated, and well-structured, yet still feel slightly off. Not broken in an obvious way, but misaligned; where the…
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The Unchosen Life
I’ve often caught myself wondering why people rarely stop to ask the hardest questions. It is not about politics or work, but about themselves. Why do we do the jobs we do, why do we…