Sriya Sridhar

I do like the rush of rushing. And to an extent, I am quite good at rushing—at doing things in a high-intensity, high-pressure way. But my sense is that I am much better off when I enjoy the pause, slow down, be where I am, and build strength patiently. I’m better off when I remember to take my time, to realize that the journey is long and it... See more

Ambition is about the echoes you want to leave reverberating in the world around you. It's about finding the place in The Current where your heart, mind, and gut resonate with creation. Ambition is about living life as an art of devotion to the Process and Pattern, making reality more beautiful with your participation than it would be without it.

“People aren't longing to be impressed; they're longing to feel like they're home. If you create a space full of love and character and creativity and soul, they'll take off their shoes and curl up with gratitude and rest, no matter how small, no matter how undone, no matter how odd.” ― Shauna Niequist

“The cure for imposter syndrome is to realize that all the other people are just convincing imposters, too.” – Alison Gopnik

Regulation that fails to interrogate the manipulative logics of interface design does not merely risk incompleteness; it risks legitimising exploitation. To prevent this, the framework must evolve from content-centric mitigation to design-centric accountability , embedding architectural manipulation into the core of risk assessment and requiring... See more

So the first one is this Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1933 essay, “In Praise of Shadows.” And this is a very small book, or a very long essay, in which Tanizaki kind of muses on his own taste, and why he designed his house in a certain way, and why he chooses food in a certain way or installs lamps in a certain way. And the point at... See more

Regulating outputs without confronting the architecture that generates them is fighting symptoms while ignoring the cause. Protecting children online demands a shift from content oversight to interactional governance, a move that recognises interface design not as neutral scaffolding but as a potential vector of systemic harm

“in the process of trying to attain a few moments of bliss,” Rinaldi explains, “I experience something else: patience and humility, definitely, but also freedom. Freedom to pursue the futile. And the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory.” Results aren’t everything. Indeed, they’d better not be, because results always come later—and later is... See more