6 posts
10 minutes read15 Jul 2026
I read Henrik Karlsson ‘s Looking for Alice essay recently. In fact, I loved it so, so much that I wanted to make both the message, and the medium beautiful. So I compiled his Substack series of essays into a joyous medium of an EPUB file, to read it on my Kindle. The end of each essay, felt more like a stop at the railway station, a brief interlude to pause and reflect on the ideas that were...
9 minutes read02 Jul 2026
When we see two events, A and B, our natural tendency is to place a succinct left-to-right arrow —>, in between two events A and B. It hardly crossed my mind sometimes that A and B could be feedback loops. A could effect B, and B could effect A, and the effect of B effecting A, could effect the effect of A effecting B…. . Why complicate things isn’t it? We will just leave it as it is, after all...
4 minutes read07 Apr 2026
One of my favorite ideas from Shane Parrish’s Mental Models book which I read recently is this: The map is never be the territory. Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) In other words, the “description” of the thing, is not the thing in itself. It’s so applicable, that it doesn’t exist to me as this abstract idea anymore. So, the Argentinian writer Luis Borges, in his...
13 minutes read06 Apr 2026
You have an interesting thought in your head, and you want to get it out there, open, out in the internet. It's spiky, and has all the right characteristics for titillating the audience, hoping to convince the reader of an opinion. When you're in the heat of the moment, and having this word-burst moment, you ask yourself to think twice before you hit publish, and now that you think about, it does...
4 minutes read17 Jan 2025
We lack frequent usage of the future past tense in modern discourse. When I was recently drafting my new year resolutions, I noticed the use of 'I can', and 'I will', and found myself questioning the format, especially when I see that I'm good at making promises, but end up being miserable at keeping them. I also observed that when I write "I achieved..." instead of "I will achieve..", I can...
30 minutes read15 Aug 2020
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