Rishita Chaudhary

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.

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

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I have been thinking about growth and decay, the interplay between the two, the way all growth requires regeneration, which in turn requires a shedding, a composting, a reconstituting of old material. We don’t always know what needs to be shed, or what the optimal direction of growth is. This is where the “blind optimism” of a tree is helpful —... See more

• 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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History is not inert but contains within it a story that implicates or justifies political order... A political order is premised not just on who can vote but on what they can vote for, which is to say on what can be imagined. And our political imagination is rooted in our history, our culture, and our myths.

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Politics is the art of the

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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.

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The whole waiting until we get over the frictional ickiness that we have with offering something to the world or not having the perfect words for it – that was definitely a block for me. But it's just delaying the delivery of our gifts and our potential to the world. Like, you are good to go. You are ready. There won’t be a perfect moment or

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