Rishita Chaudhary

Pessoa is the Portuguese word for “person,” and there is nothing he less wanted to be. Again and again, in both poetry and prose, Pessoa denied that he existed as any kind of distinctive individual. “I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist,” he writes in one poem. “I’m the gap between what I’d like to be and what others have made of me. . . . T... See more

She is interested in the relationship between care, intuition and guts; what we eat and how we feel; and how we digest feelings and food. How can food and art relate to the inside feelings that shape our social behaviors and decision-making?

author and essayist Charles Eisenstein discussed how productivity can be counterproductive when we take it to an extreme: “When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we don’t think to measure drain away. Bedazzled by quantitative abundance, we might... See more

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 disappointments of technology, the seductions and the traps. I have to trust that, as they await future wonders, they will also look back to see the world as it was before this moment of the internet, and find gui... See more

We'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

I’ve always had this sense that if you build a container for something, you will make things to fill it. What I frequently do is try to figure out different containers. A website is a container.