We are 96% ape. If that astonishes you, here's something that won't: we are a 100% one another. Not to burst your I-am-the-chosen-one bubble or anything, but you are the most mainstream thing on earth. Humanity's progress has been determined by how discontent it has been with itself. Because we all have a deep-rooted desire … Continue reading Get one free
The principled virtues of your existence helping or hindering your edification depend on moral traits that the common populace upholds toward its own enlightenment. Dawn, thus comes upon the few who have no such virtues. Sophistication comes from Greek 'Sophistry'. Sophistry comes from the Latin 'Sophist'. Sophist comes from English 'Jackass'. Sophistry is a style … Continue reading For whom the bell trolls: Talking on the Internet
What happens when you wrap excuse, escape, entitlement and exaggerated self-importance into one taco? This alliterative junk food has many names. Psychology, the gentlemanly cigar-smokin uncle that it is, calls it bias. Self-help, the nauseous, processed food that it is, calls it the story you tell yourself. Of course, I, the cosmic vastness that is my vocabulary, … Continue reading Secret(a)
There's an elusive answer with your name on it. You conduct an almost rabid search for it. In books, experiences, travel, music, money, and mountains. Along the way, you join a cult. Or, better, you start one. You will do whatever it takes to find out the answer to the mysterious quirk that is your … Continue reading What should I do with my life?
Can you get to the right place at the right time -- some other time? I wanted to write this essay a month back. I didn't do it because I can undisputably, not uncommonly point to the fact that some other things came up. Procrastination is a pathological condition of productivity. Its symptoms are as mild … Continue reading Allow me to transform your life
Passion is unforgiving. Get it wrong and it will haunt you like the ex-girlfriend who needed your love to come out of the closet. We've been forever fraught with the find your passion counsel but never been briefed of all the ways it can go wrong. Most people never find their passion. Society, economics and your … Continue reading Giving your life to something
At 5:36 PM on Jan 26, 2016, I rang the doorbell to my Apartment. No one got the door. I rang again. No response. I was sure there was music coming out of the house, so I pulled out my phone to call my flatmate. As I dialed his number, I heard an explosion. Dust … Continue reading The day I met Snoop Dogg, Serena Williams, and The Rock
From the earliest I can remember, I have had an uninhabitable urge to go west. And I will admit it took some balls for the desire to eventualize. For some time now, I have left my 'quit the job to travel the world' romcom unplayed because it felt wrong to talk about something so individualized, … Continue reading Travel
You don't know Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn. Maric changed the face of contemporary science and you have no clue who she is. In fact, no one really knows what happened to her, which is both a shame and apropos of our existential legacies. Mileve Maric was a nerd, a mathematician and a physicist. At 22, she was … Continue reading The face with a thousand heroes
To fool people is assolery. To fool yourself is thievery. Of the former, the world reeks. The latter is what prompted this essay. When you fool yourself, you rob yourself of the truth. It's the beginning of everything from cults to superstitions. You may have steered clear of grand crap-canoes like those, but there's something … Continue reading Fooled by certainty
