Essays

On how the places we visit become part of us, even after the memories fade.

The three voices you need to make anything — and why letting them work at the same time means nothing gets made. On sequencing creation, critique, and editing instead of letting them clash.

All happiness is small. On cooking my mom's daal chawal, the fleeting nature of every joy — from new sneakers to dream cars — and why the mind keeps fooling us into ranking them.

Statistics fade from memory, but stories preserve the human emotions behind historical tragedies. Why we must collect, live, and pass down narratives that capture what numbers cannot—the grief, courage, and moral choices that define our shared humanity.

As AI makes thinking effortless, what happens to judgment, taste, and human creativity? A reflective essay on resisting cognitive outsourcing in the age of LLMs.