Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
It’s been humbling at times, learning how I might come across to people who don’t yet know me, and also exhilarating to realize that there are still so many more people to meet who can make life feel bigger and more interesting.
tiya’s love letters
Soares himself is privy to the largest literary ambition there is “to feel everything in every way”.
Books to give you hope: The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
In “Nature” — perhaps his finest essay, for being the most all-encompassing and spiritually lucid — he considers what solitude actually means, refuting the common conception of it as a kind of self-isolation from other selves behind the walls of seclusion, for even the thinking mind, the writing mind, the creating mind is a symposium of outside voi... See more
Maria Popova • Emerson on How to Trust Yourself and What Solitude Really Means
Dear Mr. Nadeau:... See more
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.
Sailors have an expression about the weather:
E.B. White • E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity
There seems to be less discussion or interest in funding technologies that are supposed to make life easier if you are experiencing disability. Say, new ways or spaces to build community if you’re isolated or elderly, or somehow make the world and your life more accessible than it otherwise would be if you’re disabled.
Tamara : It gets back to that ... See more
Tamara : It gets back to that ... See more
Who Gets to Live Forever? A Conversation about Biotechno-solutionism with Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez
In the Neo Futurist Dinner series, Mediamatic invites different artists and cooks to present their vision for the food of the future. Along these lines we question the way in which food, art, science and politics intertwine.
How can each piece of ‘writing’ be more than the sum of its parts? In broadening this view of time, I find particular resonance in the text 10 Theses on the Archive, written by founding members of the Public Access Digital Media Archive (Pad.ma). “Don’t wait for the archive,” they say to us, because: “To not wait for the archive is to enter the riv... See more
To care about the etymologies of words is to care about the origins of the world’s story about itself. To broaden and deepen the meanings of words, to celebrate — as David Whyte did — “their beautiful hidden and beckoning uncertainty,” is to broaden and deepen life itself. It is of words that we build the two great pylons propping up our sense of r... See more
Maria Popova • The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable About the Difficult Question of How to Be Yourself
Practical things you can do to make your text clearer.
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more
Open two copies of the same document and put them side-by-side. Edit in one, while referring to the other.
Rewrite your first draft using this rule: no significant words from the first draft are allowed in the second draft.
If your sentence has more than two commas in it, it’s probably too long.
I... See more