Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
Rückkehrunruhe n. the feeling of returning home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness—to the extent you have to keep reminding yourself that it happened at all, even though it felt so vivid just days ago— which makes you wish you could smoothly cross-dissolve back into everyday life, or just hold the shutter
... See moreWe're looking to play with practices. Play doesn’t mean to treat it carelessly but play like how we play an instrument or a game where you're serious without being severe and sincere without being dogmatic. Ultimately this serious play is how we learn things, how we enjoy the process of living meaningfully without stressing about whether we get it... See more
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On Serious Play
Suppose that you sign up for a classical-music-appreciation class, in which your first assignment is to listen to a symphony. You put on headphones, press Play-and fall asleep. The problem is that you don't actually want to listen to classical music; you just want to want to. Aspiring, Callard thinks, is a common human activity: there are aspiring... See more
how to change your life, part 2: agnes callard's aspiration
Whether you’re a builder or a creator of any kind, double-down on what makes us human - the stories we have to tell, our care for craft, our empathy and taste, and our ingenuity, and our stubborn desire to find a better way. And, as always, be mindful of the responsibility to keep asking the tough questions. Be creative about what can go right AND... See more
12 Outlooks for the Future: 2026+
And what have Russian boys [like us] been doing up till now, some of them, I mean? In this stinking tavern, for instance, here, they meet and sit down in a corner. They've never in their lives before and, when they go out of the tavern, they won't meet again for forty years. And what do they talk about in that momentary halt in the tavern? Of the
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The Little Gardener: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Purpose and the Power of Working with Love
he power in consumer AI will shift to tightly coupled hardware and operating system providers . The desire for local AI (like ambient listening and summarization, noted above) will coincide with the shift to AI privately running on your device. As (1) open-source models that you can download, change, and run “locally” on your device become more... See more