Philosophy

If superintelligence has already been commoditized and neatly packaged into the workforce, what would our renewed "mediums of message" look like? To understand the shape + form of medium 2.0, we might need a quick detour through the history of mediums and 'what has been.' We've experienced revolutions and centuries of evolution in how we communicate — In ancient times, communication was primarily...

A memory I’ve been longing to create virtually — is this experience of inviting your guests home, and showing them your bookshelf. The guest then comes across a book of common interest and we end up sprawling other adjacent topics while I try my best to connect them with the books on my bookshelf. After moving across a couple of continents, and work locations, the longing for recreating this...

I was listening to a talk by Debbie Mcmahon from Financial Times recently at Productcon recently and I was surprised by the fact that even in journalism we're seeing tailwind trends more and more computational skills required — genAI is now used to spot stories, and to spin up newsworthy headlines and narratives around these stories. They are now, 'computational journalists'...who are equipped...

My attempt towards discovering epistemology, as a philosophy discipline initially started with a benign question — How do I know with certainty what I believe is true? In this attempt, I had to meander around various schools of thought that discussed this topic in depth — from dogmatism, skepticism, empiricism, relativism and finally, critical rationalism. I wanted to know the truth about truth,...

We lack frequent usage of the 'future past tense' in modern discourse. When I was recently writing some 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 was very bad at keeping them (atleast the new year resolutions). When we write "I achieved..." instead of "I will achieve..", we...

Writing is thinking. My blog has had a median of 0 visitors per day for almost two years (nowadays, it's only a marginal improvement). And I don't care. As Alexey Guzey points out, perhaps the best indicator of your online writing having benefits is when you are not too embarassed to tell people, "Oh, BTW, I wrote about this/collected some things on this topic on my blog", the purpose of your...

I decided to revive a long-lost interest and try my hand at cartooning. But it was an unlikely dream, given my complete lack of artistic talent and the rarity of success stories in that business. So I decided to try something called affirmations, which I will describe in more detail later in the book. I bought some art supplies, practiced drawing every morning before work, and wrote my...