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

A few weeks ago, the Scottish American philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre died, aged 96. His best known work, After Virtue , is an extraordinary book. Despite its considerable impact over the past few decades (it was published in 1981), it still reads as a startlingly original, radical critique of modern society, and of moral philosophy itself.... See more

It was from Augustine that she borrowed the phrase amor mundi — “love of the world” — which would become a defining feature of her philosophy. Occupied by questions of why we succumb to and normalize evil, Arendt identified as the root of tyranny the act of making other human beings irrelevant. Again and again, she returned to Augustine for the... See more

the faster that you do the hard things you want to avoid, the faster you will receive the good things you actually want.

demonstrating all the varied ways that child care supports strong families and strong communities that go beyond just helping parents work or helping kids know their alphabet before Kindergarten. That’s how we’re going to get the mindset shifts we need to win the big policy victories. Let’s talk about the ways that child care programs are sources... See more