20267 essays
- Be More Ambitious, Fail MoreNot being ambitious in 2026, and not letting that ambition grow as the models get better, is to commit the sin of sloth.
- Defend Their Right to Protest. Especially If You Hate Them.If you support the ruling party and think the protesters are idiots, you should still defend their right to protest.
- A Rare Disease Is Spreading Through India’s Finance CommentariatA public-health bulletin on the rare anatomical disorder spreading through India’s finance commentariat.
- Watching Train Dreams in the Age of AIWhat a quiet movie about a Pacific Northwest logger taught me about living through a world being remade.
- Before we had answers, we had storiesA few thoughts after rereading Stephen Fry’s Mythos.
- Fuck around while you still canThe permanent underclass is coming. Fuck around anyway.
- Start the damn blogOn writing, doing, and the momentum of small things.
20258 essays
- A few fragmented thoughts on AIA collection of working notes on AI, writing, work, and what it means to actually use these tools
- Escalate your readingAgainst easy reading.
- Introducing Dhwani: A directory of Indian public domain worksWhy I’m collecting links to books no one will read
- On having a philosophy of moneyOn people doing dumb shit with money
- Who are you without a job?Thinking about one’s identity In the shadow of AI.
- A ripple and then a rabbit holeAn exploration of intellectual “rabbit holes” as the essence of a life well-lived.
- Philosophy of life and Seneca’s lettersA site for Seneca’s letters.
- Speculation is like water—it always finds a wayI argue that speculation is like water—it never stops, it just finds new channels.
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20235 essays
- Broken news“Good times become good memories, but bad times become good lessons.” Uncle Iroh, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Dear influencers, please stop hurting India
- Death to the banks; central bank accounts for allThroughout the history of modern banking, two narratives have been constant: “Banks are dead” and “Why do we need banks?”
- It’s your grandfather’s banking crisis
- Stories that cause bank failures and the scars they leave
202213 essays
- Institutional investors are just as stupid as retail investors
- No, it isn’t
- ‘Revolution in a box: The extraordinary story of the ordinary shipping container’Can you think of some of the greatest inventions and innovations in human history?
- Dear fintechs, please stop hurting India
- So long, and thanks for all the fish
- The boy who cried wolf about an emerging markets sovereign and corporate debt crisis
- What’s old is new againA few things that made me go, _ooh, that’s interesting_.
- SPACtacularA few things I learned this week.
- Yield curve meets MungerHere’s what I learned this week. One thing is that I’m going to be poor, but here are a few other things.
- Making sense of the Russia-Ukraine conflictIf you had the power to bring back someone from the dead, who would it be? I’m guessing a dear one, favorite actor, musician?
- Go curate yourself!
- Niall Ferguson on money and cryptocurrencies
- There’s too much of everything