Sindhu Shivaprasad
@sindhusprasad
content designer and strategist by profession. writing about agentic ways of living on readkindredspirits.com. digital gardening at sindhu.live
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when someone tells me to keep writing, it feels like a command to keep living.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • on not disappointing myself
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Conflict Resolution Diagram
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We think in questions. If knowledge is a complex web inside the mind, each node is a question, and each connecting line the information you’ve picked up on the journey from node to node. The pursuit of knowledge is the accumulation of questions. They shape our identity as much by being asked as by being answered.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
The textbook definition of a question is a sentence used to seek information, but it feels borderline criminal to reduce something as foundational as a question to something transactional.
“ Before you make an offer to someone, think about whether you’d like to have 10 times as many people like them in your company. ”
9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.
“There are 2 types of decisions: 1-way door decisions and 2-way door decisions. Be involved with the former, but less and less in the latter.” 1-way door decisions cannot be reversed, and if a mistake is made there, you’ll have to live with it for a long while, whereas with 2-way door decisions you can always go back and change path.
9 most useful piece of advice I’ve received
"...maybe something I write will spark something for a reader — a scholar or a writer or a pastor or teacher or who knows what — and become part of her DNA. Maybe she’ll never quote me — maybe she’ll never even realize that she wouldn’t have had that idea if she hadn’t read my essay — but in that way my thought will become part of someone else’s... See more
Alan Jacobs • DNA – Snakes and Ladders
Today’s huge levels of uncertainty – climate change, inflation, the nigh-impossibility of shared societal goals, the rampant polarisation making political moderation very difficult – have truly brought out the very worst in us. Yet if uncertainty is a feature of the world, and not just a story about the limits of human knowing, then we’d better
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“It’s better to have a hole in your org. than an asshole."