“Waste” of IIT/IIM
Why IIT/IIM before IAS isn’t simply “wasting” a seat, and why it doesn’t matter.
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- The Malady of Disenchantment
- Acceptance Without Understanding
- Truth from Facts
- An Untruthful Virtue
- Tolerating Liberty
- Uncertainly Unconventional
- Maxima
- ‘Management’
- The Myth of Revolution
- The Illusion of Obsolescence
- Moving on
- Winner’s Curse
- Unto the Last
- Faith & God
- 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