Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
This is the paradox of transformative experience: Because our imagination is bounded by our existing templates of how the world as we know it works, we fail to anticipate the greatest transformations — the events and encounters so unmoored from the familiar that they transfigure our map of reality and propel us into a wholly novel mode of being. -
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What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand the need for care and various networks that would have to go into maintaining something over thousands of years. What infrastructures do you need in place, what kinds of labor, what kinds of... See more
Tamara Kneese • Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
3 of Seneca's Metaphors for Taking Notes
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y creatively changing the world, I mean that a person must be revealing and expanding on some new facets of the world – so just reaching the top of your banking career and creating high-scale impact in something that was utterly predictable (for example, you closed a multi-billion dollar acquisition for amazon and an existing retail giant in a... See more
Pipeline or Catalyst? The Dual Paths of Elite Education
I have been thinking about growth and decay, the interplay between the two, the way all growth requires regeneration, which in turn requires a shedding, a composting, a reconstituting of old material. We don’t always know what needs to be shed, or what the optimal direction of growth is. This is where the “blind optimism” of a tree is helpful —... See more
Kinship: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Love Poem to Trees, Transience, and Eternity
“Perhaps we should try keeping our eyes open while we pray, and look for the meaning hidden in the things right in front of us.”