The trick is to keep a low effort bar to increase adoption, a low intellectual bar to drive consumption, a thorough marketing effort that can only be called cultural carpet bombing, and then topping it off with engineered addictiveness. It’s great for business but terrible for conversations. …

Millennial readers are too familiar with conflict literature. Maybe not of past or contemporary wars but also ones of the personal kind for sure. The biggest democratising effect of the internet has been to spotlight personal narratives of trauma of ordinary people and fuel revolutions the moment the accrued personal…

Embracing Radical Truth and Radical Transparency can free you up from avoidable, time-draining conflicts and let you focus on what’s important. — ‘Radical truth’ and ‘Radical Transparency’ are terms I encountered in Ray Dalio’s 2017 book Principles. While I had witnessed first hand and knew the value of adopting these two ideas in businesses, I found Mr. Dalio’s case for adopting these principles in my personal life too equally persuasive.

It has two core offerings: unpretentious interviews with serious comedians and, the inexhaustible charm and sociopathic compassion of Jerry Seinfeld. — Common folk must in trivial conversations muse about things they would do if they had complete creative freedom. The fact is many of us wouldn’t know what to do with it. Jerry Seinfeld does, and he has gone on to exploit that freedom to make two shows now about ‘nothing’…

Women’s share of voice in public discourse is certainly increasing. Yet, women are not reclaiming the public space to a proportional degree because public spaces in India are not designed keeping women in mind. The open platform provided by social media catalyzed the #MeToo movement and became a safe space…

Exploring Stoicism and Epicureanism, and their parallels in Economics — Friedrich August Hayek and John Maynard Keynes were both celebrated economists who had rival economic theories for handling boom and bust cycles in an economy. Distilling those theories for our purposes of social commentary, it can be said that Hayek argued that left to themselves, systems stabilise and fall back…

There’s a neat little theory in Psychology called the Level of Aspiration theory, and it is used to explain how humans choose their romantic partners. The Level of Aspiration theory says there are two factors that influence your pick of romantic interests — the desirability of that person and the…

Reni Eddo-Lodge, a journalist, published a post on her blog titled “Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race” and followed it up with a bestseller of the same name. When I was reading her book, I related it to my own experience of trying to talk about…