Everything Else

Seeking truth from facts

Modesty, a virtue the greater for its deviation from truth

Liberty and tolerance

Uncertainty, rather than glory, accompanies unconventionality

Global and local maxima

Wanting to do something v/s Having to do something

Why do revolutions end up as the opposite of what they ostensibly set ought to do?

Does skill and effort ever become obsolete with technology?

Improving enough to not be plagued by always needing to improve.

Sometimes, the price one pays is more than what something is worth.

Whether to treat the last the same as the first.

The market for lemons at work.

Two familiar books, that weren’t actually that.

Difference of thought is too easily written off as irrationality.

The beginning of sin.

The performativeness of the third person POV

Happiness need not be alike.

Friendship, devoid of transactionality..

What is rational, optimal and even ethical in an ordinary interaction is rarely so on the assembly line of interactions.

The relation between the unhappy and the interesting in writing.

Whether character comes from suffering, and whether it’s worth suffering for.

Writing on narrower themes, for no one.

The implications of privilege, and its checking.

Causality precedes prescription