Rishita Chaudhary

people building tech products so often miss the point

the point is to help people live a good life, not an efficient life

the point is resonance, not scale

the point is to deliver comfort, not just convenience

the goal is not technology - the goal is human flourishing

There seems to be less discussion or interest in funding technologies that are supposed to make life easier if you are experiencing disability. Say, new ways or spaces to build community if you’re isolated or elderly, or somehow make the world and your life more accessible than it otherwise would be if you’re disabled.

Tamara : It gets back to that... See more

As you let the possibility of merging your career and your passion live in your mind, I’ve tried to distill the patterns that I’ve observed into a series of questions:

Will you use this opportunity to grow and evolve or will you use it to beat yourself up?

How will you avoid insecurity work?

Can you learn to enjoy the process as the end in itself,... See more

The older I grow, the more convinced I become that commitment generates a kind of experiential wealth that can't be brute-forced into existence. There's this fascinating fractal effect that occurs, where constraint transmutes into focus, revealing layers of complexity a dabbler would miss entirely. It's not a limitation, because even that word... See more

The world is combinatorially weird and fractally interesting. And therefore, omnivorous curiosity is the only proper response. ... let’s optimize instead for the interesting, the strange, and the weird. Ideas and topics that ignite our curiosity are worthy of our attention, because they might lead to advances and insights that we can’t anticipate.

There is a problem with conceiving of death as something you can protect against through behavioral changes. There are certain things that do correlate, but if you’re living in a place where you’re exposed to various toxic chemicals, if you’re a worker at a plant where you’re exposed to carcinogens, you lack control. Transhumanists’vision of life... See more

We relate to each other through the digital interface, and yet there can be discomfort and anxiety around how technology intersects with dance. This happens particularly when technology is read as a replacement for embodied knowledge, for muscle memory, for the body becoming an archive of practice. If you could record what you have learned, does... See more