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Since my days in Bombay are numbered now, who'd be interested in a thread on some of Bombay's best restaurants/eateries? Promise you I am going to put
Every Mouth Needs Filling is a curatorial collaboration between Elisha Fall (they/she) and Caitlin Fleming (they/them), exploring the intersections of
Part of this orientation involves identifying some of feminism’s hazards. The sexual revolution, she writes, did not give women more freedom so much a
One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the r
We need to value nuance more than ever before. We’re getting more tribal these days and, as a consequence, losing our search and appreciation for nuan
People are becoming more average over time because we’re all consuming the same content curated for us by TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and so on. Thi
This shift towards a global sameness, driven by digital platforms' algorithms, challenges the very notion of personal taste. As these platforms priori
You don’t need a vacation — you need 6 months of ambitious underemployment, of relaxed discipline, of productive exploration, of intentional meanderin
To relationships, I commit easily, almost instinctively, digging channels so deep they’re visible from space. I find endless fascination in the daily
But the most exciting outcome was this: I became someone who could just come up with an idea for a post, start writing, and finish. For most of my lif
tech journalist Max Read notes, some of the best newsletters offer “a particular attitude or perspective, a set of passions and interests, and even an
But the same dynamics that turn a slightly lonely young man into a seething misogynist—recommendation algorithms; social contexts that concentrate and
we open each meeting by asking a simple question: what is keeping you alive today? this allows us to revel in the sometimes small motions that get us
Questions revolving around the economic inequalities hardwired into marriage by the collusion of social convention and the law Maria popova, Figuring
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha
Do you have a writing routine? I meditate first thing in the morning, then work out. I do much of my reading at the gym – something about the kinetic
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Perfect Mind: The Gnostic Field Guide to Wholeness and Hearing the Voice of Truth
In Woolf's words, it made us ask: "But why live at all” For those who had lost religious faith, Russian literature became the place to contemplate ess
Each word is a portable cathedral in which we clarify and sanctify our experience, a reliquary and a laboratory, holding the history of our search for
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The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
It takes a particular kind of courage to pour energy and attention into something that you can't yet fully explain or justify to others. Committed ser
I’ve come to realise that recognising opportunities for what they are calls for more than just keen observation; it needs a fundamental shift in how y
When someone takes an idea seriously enough, it begins to acquire its own gravity. This is usually my first thought when I encounter a piece of modern
Subconsciously, we cling to the belief that the game is pre-defined. We have no control over who we’re born to, where we’re brought up, our quality of
To wait for something is to value it, to want it, to yearn for it, but to face its absence, its attainment forestalled by time and circumstance. All t
varda reveals the importance of three things in this journey: inspiration (the motivations, ideas, circumstances and happenstance that ignite the desi
You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen. Anne Bogart
a meditative yet exuberant journey through the world within and the world without, inspired by the Japanese notion of tsuumogami: the soul, or spirit,
"To the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of 'real materials'- to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time the
The person those entries were about hasn’t crossed my mind in months. But, at the moment, it was potent. It was real to me. Now? I couldn’t even tell
How can each piece of ‘writing’ be more than the sum of its parts? In broadening this view of time, I find particular resonance in the text 10 Theses
Collecting and archiving are ways to reclaim and own our attention—they are acts of meaning-making. These practices are rituals: habits and skills tha
It was from Augustine that she borrowed the phrase amor mundi — “love of the world” — which would become a defining feature of her philosophy. Occupie
For all of the political and philosophical wisdom she draws from it, Augustine’s Confessions is animated by his experience of personal love — that ete
In the end, the boy discovers what we all must eventually, if we are to grow into the full bigness of the heart: that in every relationship of trust a
Recipes, the elementary forms of the culinary life, are missing in the great tradition of Hinduism. While there is an immense amount written about eat
Most of those old ladies never really thought in terms of recipes. They tended to think about cooking in terms of broader ratios of ingredients, acids
tiny internets is a research inquiry attempting to answer the question: What does a more natural, soft, and quiet internet look like, one where the pu
I must hope that those who barely remember life before the internet, or never knew it at all, will find their way through the dazzle and disappointmen
At the same time, like all forms of techno-optimism, the pursuit of perfection through technology at all costs betrays a certain nihilism about doing
Let’s imagine that a radical life-extension startup succeeds at developing a product for our deeply flawed, often inaccessible healthcare market, and
What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand th
Unless there are massive changes in terms of who is controlling the technology, deciding where resources should be funneled, and what kinds of product
There is a problem with conceiving of death as something you can protect against through behavioral changes. There are certain things that do correlat
At the same time, like all forms of techno-optimism, the pursuit of perfection through technology at all costs betrays a certain nihilism about doing
Let’s imagine that a radical life-extension startup succeeds at developing a product for our deeply flawed, often inaccessible healthcare market, and
The idea that someone’s personal proclivities attached to a particular stage in life can shape an entire ecology of investments, philanthropy, and res
The idea of cognitive bias in psychology works in an analogous way. A cognitive bias is a systematic error in how we think, as opposed to a random err
But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find
This is what Camus meant when he said that "what gives value to travel is fear" -- disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, an
In Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa describes Nepantla, a Nahuatl word for in-betweenness. A space where you are not this or that but where yo
There are two modes of experience : appreciative , and evaluative . Concrete example: let's say you're listening to a piece of music. Are you sinki
In any case, I stopped believing that "theo-ry" had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved
Difference between Propositional and Perspectival Knowledge Propositional knowing: knowing that is something the case Persperctival knowledge - know
Difference between Imaginary and Imaginal Imaginary is something that takes you away from reality like you imagining a pink elephant. Imaginal is som