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Philosophy

On learning, identity, perspective, and the examined life.

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June 16, 2025 · 4 min read

Healthspan vs Lifespan

The average Indian lives to 72. But only about 58 of those years are spent in good health. That 14-year gap is not inevitable — and most of us are not thinking about it at all.

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May 12, 2025 · 4 min read

Active Waiting

Most people think waiting is passive. The best version of it is the opposite — you are preparing, building, becoming the person who can hold what you're waiting for.

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Philosophy
January 20, 2025 · 4 min read

What Was I Wrong About?

The question is more useful than it is comfortable. Which is probably why most people avoid it.

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August 14, 2024 · 3 min read

Learning From People

The most underrated form of education is the one that happens in conversation — and most of us are not paying enough attention.

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August 3, 2024 · 4 min read

What Changed My Mind This Year?

Updating your beliefs is not a sign of weakness. It is what careful thinking looks like over time.

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Philosophy
June 21, 2024 · 4 min read

What Am I Learning?

The most important learning does not announce itself. It accumulates in the gaps between what you expected and what you found.

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Philosophy
April 2, 2024 · 3 min read

Tourism as an Economic Engine

Tourism is often treated as a soft economic story. The numbers tell a different one.

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May 11, 2023 · 4 min read

The Evolution of My Thinking

The beliefs worth holding are the ones that survive contact with new evidence. Most of mine have changed at least once.

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January 17, 2023 · 3 min read

People Are More Similar Than Different

The surface differences are real. The depth of similarity underneath them is consistently surprising.

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Philosophy
November 15, 2022 · 4 min read

One Year Later

What a year of building, failing, and learning actually produces — if you are paying attention.

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August 18, 2022 · 3 min read

Midnight Calls and Invisible Sacrifices

The version of work that the world sees is never the whole version. What stays invisible is usually the part that costs the most.

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August 1, 2022 · 3 min read

Long-Term Thinking in a Short-Term World

The advantages of thinking long are real and underutilized. The difficulty is that almost everything in the environment is pushing the other way.

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May 13, 2022 · 3 min read

Have They Done This Before?

Past experience is a reasonable signal. The question is which experience actually predicts what you need.

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March 26, 2022 · 3 min read

Contentment vs. Success

The tension between the two is real. But the framing that treats them as opposites misses something important.

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