Rishita Chaudhary

What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand the need for care and various networks that would have to go into maintaining something over thousands of years. What infrastructures do you need in place, what kinds of labor, what kinds of... See more

the attention economy erodes trust. It rewards the most dramatic claims, the most outrageous behavior, the most compelling narratives regardless of their relationship to truth or long-term consequences.

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

But obsession is intoxicating. And anyone who has been obsessed knows that. Obsession pulls you in like quick sand. It immerses you. And the most startling part is that you go willingly. If you wanted to resist it, you could. But there’s that moment, that line, where you let

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We can define rituals as symbolic techniques of making oneself at home in the world. They transform being-in-the-world into a being-at-home. They turn the world into a reliable place. They are to time what a home is to space: they render time habitable. They even make it accessible, like a house. They structure time, furnish it. In his novel

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We navigate the unknown frontiers of the social universe through a sextant of existing relationships — nearly every new person we meet is within only a few degrees of separation from someone we already know. But every once in a while, pure chance intercedes to remind us that whatever structures of control we may put into place, however much we may

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• Content creators and artists have different needs . Most tech headlines about AI have been about the impact on content creators and the insatiable desire and demand for content of all kinds. The majority of venture capital has been invested in tools for the “creator economy” – making ads, making endless amounts of YouTube and TikTok content,

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You have no idea how much life success comes from having the raw audacity to ask for things and just working with a diligent focus to be competent.

People inherently respect those traits so much that they feel a moral obligation to provide opportunities for you.

Some folks have difficulty with Peck's definition of love hecause he uses the word "spiritual." He is refering to that dimension of our core reality where mind, body, and spirit are one. An individual does not need to be a believer in a religion to embrace the idea that there is an animating principle in the self—a life force (some of us call it

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