Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
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
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
Sindhu Shivaprasad • commitment is an act of agency
Notes on Emerson’s Notes
Name your notebooks: the names we give our notebooks designate a relationship—sometimes aspirational—with literature and the world of ideas. I wonder how my relationship to my notebooks might change if I named them “The Wide World.” Would my ideas become more expansive?
Nothing’s truly new, but you should still develop a
... See moreIt is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.
The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia
3. It is very hard to change the world when you are broke. So don't apologize for chasing money.
4. Meet everyone. Say yes to everything. You narrow the field later.
5. Do it all. Because you’ll die eventually and life will make you slow down. But up until then, eat the world.
4. Meet everyone. Say yes to everything. You narrow the field later.
5. Do it all. Because you’ll die eventually and life will make you slow down. But up until then, eat the world.
Codie Sanchez • Tweet
Dylano on Substack
substack.com
Many of us have clear visions of what kind of world we don’t want to live in, but are struggling to imagine the kind of world we would live in - let alone how to build that world. We need new narratives to illuminate what’s broken in our society and hands-on solutions for a more sustainable, equal and resilient world.
Marjolein Pijnappels • Designing the Future Using Science Fiction
However, when a university over-relies on pipeline programs, it risks compromising its deeper societal role, shifting from a creator of knowledge and cultural progress to a narrowly focused supplier of workforce-ready graduates. There is nothing wrong with it but by merely focusing on workforce readiness the Universities eventually lose their value... See more