The Pyrrhic Condition
Hospitals, platforms, universities, and economies all improve the metrics that define success while quietly eroding the…
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How to Smuggle an Idea
American Culture is Stored in the Tax Code
[Accept All] / [Reject All]
or, How to Unmask the Way You Read and Engage with Digital Platforms
Five Drills for Newsrooms
Cynicism is an Adjustable Shield
Stop Blaming Dopamine
The Pitfalls of Overcorrection and the Perils of Retreat
A Critique of Unprincipled Pragmatism in Light of Ash Sarkar’s Public Commentary
Emotional Horror, the movie genre
Defining an emerging genre we too often mislabel
Bridges and Islands
Ta-Nehisi Coates and Intellectual Incubation
I can tell you're masking from your Substack
What happens when you stop writing for approval?
How To Be Yourself Online
Might as well, you'll be here a while
Social Temperature: A New Measure of Masking Pressure
Characterizing the levels of social pressure exerted in various settings
Structural Failures of Alternative Journalism
Why Incremental Models Will Never Restore Our Right to Narrate
Consent Maintenance Pressure
Navigating Boundaries and Autonomy through Modifiable and Revokable Consent
Israel's Co-Option of Women’s Narratives
Exposing the Co-opting of Suffering and Peace-Washing in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Who I Write For and Why I Write
and a little bit about how I do it, too
Speculative Artifacts and Prefigurative Praxis
Weaving Fictional Realities into Cultural Critique
Writing for People Born Without Autism
Blending Seriousness with Wit for the Neurotypical Mind
Movies I Want to See: Reimagining the South Asian Diaspora on Screen
We Are Lady Parts and Monkey Man are scratching the surface of the work we need to do
How I Hope to One Day Parent
how will I help my children grow into their authentic selves in a way that minimizes external pressures and dissonance?
Existential Risk from AI is Ethnographic, Not Speculative
The most pressing dangers of AI are not confined to some future cataclysm; they are here now, embedded in the systems t…
Autism, Careerism, and Cultural Pressures as a Jain Indian American
Internalized ableism and its ties to South Asian American mental health awareness
Jonathan Haidt: The Intellectual Crutch for Avoiding Critical Thought
why otherwise smart people fall for this guy's drivel
Routes and patterns
Reading paths
Concept maps
Where the same pressure keeps reappearing
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Question-led archive pages
Focused pages that stay close to specific recurring pressures.
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