Rishita Chaudhary

But this isn’t really about the software. It’s about what software promises us—that it will help us become who we want to be, living the lives we find most meaningful and fulfilling. The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and

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At watershed moments of upheaval and transformation, we anticipate with terror the absence of the familiar parts of life and of ourselves that are being washed away by the current of change. But we fail to envision the unfamiliar gladnesses and gratifications the new tide would bring, the unfathomed presences, for our imaginations are bounded by

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technologies narrated with commercial marketing terms like “artificial intelligence” are embedded in, and direct consequences of, human intention and political insistence.

But more significantly, we carry values and beliefs and news to the places we go, and in many parts of the world, we become walking video screens and living newspapers, the only channels that can take people out of the censored limits of their homelands. In closed or impoverished places, like Pagan or Lhasa or Havana, we are the eyes and ears of... See more

At best, what any of us can hope for with our creative work is to organize, clarify or more clearly convey the unnameable that lives within us.

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