Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
we open each meeting by asking a simple question: what is keeping you alive today? this allows us to revel in the sometimes small motions that get us to the Next Thing. yes, i did not want to get out of bed this morning, but there was one single long shard of sunlight that stumbled in through a tear in my curtains, and the warmth of it hitting my... See more
The Harvard Study of Adult Development has assessed the connection between people’s habits and their subsequent well-being since the late 1930s.... See more
The happiest, healthiest people in old age didn’t smoke (or quit early in life), exercised, drank moderately or not at all, and stayed mentally active , among other patterns. But these habits pale in
Patricia Mou • [non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.34
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
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
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 moreAlthough we believe that there are things outside consciousness, we have direct evidence only for those that find a place in it.
A collection of intentions form hierarchical structure of attention that shapes consciousness and because consciousness is nonlinear the hierarchical structure of attention is itself shaped by consciousness.
The self is a
... See moreEbook of Good with Words: Writing and Editing
fulcrum.org
“This is the entire essence of life: Who are you? What are you?” the young Leo Tolstoy distilled the eternal quest in his diary as he wrestled with moral development and the search for selfhood — a search that begins as soon as we become conscious, reaches a crescendo in the formative years of adolescence and young adulthood, and continues until... See more
Maria Popova • 15-Year-Old Susan Sontag on the Explosive Elasticity of the Self
Think about this: What corner of reality is waiting for the weight of your seriousness?
committed seriousness creates its own gravity
But the novels of Dostoevsky "are composed purely and wholly of the stuff of the soul. Against our wills we are drawn whirled round, blinded, suffogated, and at the same time filled with a giddy rapture. Outside of Shakespeare, there is no more exciting reading." Ultimately, Russians realize,
"we are souls, tortured, unhappy souls; whose only
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