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Pratyush PandeyPratyush Pandey
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Welcome to my page.

I try to write what hasn’t already been said a million times before.

If you don’t know where to begin, you can try Value and Impact, Being (Un)Successful, Matters of Consequence, Choosing Plunges or Living in Third Person.

Email: prtyshpwp@gmail.com

Recent Posts

  • Lemons
  • The Stranger & the Prince
  • Irrationality
  • People as Things
  • Living in Third Person
  • Happiness, Unalike
  • Friendship, without Transaction
  • Ethics on the Assembly Line
  • Books that Wound
  • Character and Suffering
  • Writing Specifically, for No one
  • Checking Privilege Checking
  • Causality
  • Deliberation
  • Force
  • Chesterton’s Neighbour
  • Conditionality
  • Valuable Work
  • Votes
  • Faith Without a Point
  • Recognizing Value by Valuing Recognition
  • The Automation of Work
  • Brilliance via Adornments
  • Choosing Plunges
  • Irony
  • Sincerity With a Motive
  • Abstraction ≠ Objectivity
  • Taking Offence
  • The Ethic Hierarchy
  • Being (Un)Successful
  • The Problem of Scaling
  • The Group God
  • Being Your Own Light
  • Truth, Goodness & Usefulness
  • Narrow Pleasures
  • Strong Opinions
  • Individuals & Collectives
  • Friends v/s Acquaintances
  • Importance = Indispensability
  • Dissatisfaction
  • Pain and Indifference
  • Attachment and Caring
  • An Uncast Die
  • Symbolism
  • Formality
  • Black and White
  • Theory & Practice
  • Passion Projects
  • Chesterton’s Fence
  • The Weight of Meaning
  • Thinking Through the Tree
  • Transactions
  • Intentionality
  • Impactful Work
  • Autopilot
  • What Gets Measured Manages
  • Revenge
  • Victory without Truth
  • Willing as You Will
  • Evil without Ignorance
  • Probability and Worth
  • Competition
  • Faking Equanimity
  • A Case for Directness
  • Building the Future
  • Non-Zero Expectations
  • Stronger through Suffering
  • Matters of Consequence
  • Kafkaesque
  • Sacrifice
  • Relativism
  • Consequences and Intentions
  • Words
  • Thinking and Knowing
  • Choosing to Care
  • Consequences
  • Objectivity
  • Hype
  • Principles
  • Exams
  • Selling
  • Playing the Game
  • Don’t Count Time
  • Value and Impact
  • Disagree to Agree
  • Tracking Time
  • How To Make Friends
  • Writing Better
  • Premature Optimization
  • Convenience
  • Compounding
  • Costs, Benefits and Opportunities
  • In Defense of Ego
  • Finding What You Care About
  • Differentiation
  • Forgiveness
  • Self-Distortions
  • Double Standards
  • Will and the Locus of Control
  • Everything Upside Down
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