Rishita Chaudhary
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Rishita Chaudhary
People who like rocks see cool rocks everywhere.
People who like birds see interesting birds everywhere. The tree on your yard could be an exceptional specimen. The world around you could be amazing and magical, but you aren't enough of a nerd to see it.
Fractal Thinking and Pay attention to what you’re paying attention to
Gandhi calls ahinsa sadhan. The concept of sadhan does not map neatly into the western framework of means. Sadhana is part of a tri-partite framework. If you wanted to understand any purposeful action you need the telos, instrument and how to use the instrument. The procedure usually doesn’t come in the binary of the means-ends framework of the Wes
... See more- Many people have imposter syndrome about sharing their ideas through writing and think that the act of doing so is somewhat arrogant
from Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes by Anthony Pompliano
- This is what Camus meant when he said that "what gives value to travel is fear" -- disruption, in other words, (or emancipation) from circumstance, and all the habits behind which we hide. And that is why many of us travel not in search of answers, but of better questions. I, like many people, tend to ask questions of the places I visit, and relish... See more
Many of us have clear visions of what kind of world we don’t want to live in, but are struggling to imagine the kind of world we would live in - let alone how to build that world. We need new narratives to illuminate what’s broken in our society and hands-on solutions for a more sustainable, equal and resilient world.
from Designing the Future Using Science Fiction by Marjolein Pijnappels
The Trouble with Passion also raises more existential questions about the prioritization of passion among career decision-makers.
What does it mean to center paid employment in one's self-reflexive project?
How does it perpetuate a culture of overwork and close off other meaning-making opportunities? And in what ways might the popularity of the passi
... See more3 of Seneca's Metaphors for Taking Notes
In Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa describes Nepantla, a Nahuatl word for in-betweenness. A space where you are not this or that but where you are changing
