Barun Pandey

The mimetic urge to simply ‘acquire Taste’ reveals why it does not come naturally to many. It’s oxymoronic.

Taste, like wine, demands terroir: the grit, the grind, and the unglamorous labour of digging deeper

At its core, taste is a love letter to effort.

“Pride is the enemy of learning... great artists always have an ability to start over.”

Naval Ravikant

"Phones mean that solitude is more crowded than it used to be, and crowds are more solitary. 'Bright lines once separated being alone and being in a crowd,' Nicholas Carr, the author of the new book Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, told me... Now our social time is haunted by the possibility that something more interesting... See more

Microsoft, for example, licensed its operating system (OS) to hundreds of computer hardware manufacturers, commoditizing the hardware. Cheaper hardware then meant more demand for computers which meant more demand for OSes.

Film director Kevin Smith tells a story of his father who lived his life playing by the rules:

‍ "My father was a good guy. Not many good men in the world, but this was a good guy. He worked at a post office, canceling your stamps - what a soul-killing, horrible job that is - for years, just to pay for a family. Who knew if he had dreams?...

I get a... See more