Truth from Facts
Seeking truth from facts
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