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3 minutes read08 May 2026
Recently I had made a digital painting on Procreate, this was describing the Hindu deities in the Kerala mural art style. What I painted doesn’t matter much for this story, but what I wanted to share was the way in which this digital painting was printed and framed. Naturally, I was interested to get a quote from multiple printing vendors in my hometown, Thrissur, to compare the prices and see...
4 minutes read07 Apr 2026
This is one of my favourite ideas from Shane Parrish Mental Models book which I read recently, and it’s so applicable, that it doesn’t exist to me as this abstract idea which seldom translates to the reality.. it’s very tangible.. The map is never be the territory. In other words, the “description” of the thing, is not the thing in itself. So, the Argentinian writer Luis Borges, in his brilliant...
4 minutes read05 Apr 2025
It took me a long time to realize that arguments we argue about — aren’t always about facts. They are about values. And we mostly argue, very passionately, when the values have a conflict. We can live with a conflict of facts, but not with a conflict in values. A conflict in values doesn't sit comfortably in our minds, and even if it does, it dries to dismiss the contradictions. Reading Jonathan...