Essays

Some essays that have shaped and changed my thinking.

• Big Ideas from Rationality I’ve Found Repeatedly Useful
• Lessons From the World’s Longest Lived
• Searching for outliers
• Contemplating a world of linear growth
• Why Sports Fans are Sports Fans
• You Probably Shouldn’t Work at a Startup
• Why I Love Working at Startups
• Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard
• Hunting for Love – A Fallacy
• A list of curated lists for CTOs & Engg Managers
• How Will You Measure Your Life?
• How To Be Successful
• how to avoid half-heartedness
• The Looking Glass: Reader Empathy and Weird People
• I’m a very slow thinker
• Things you’re allowed to do
• Making Normal Conversations Better
• commitments
• 100 Tips for a Better Life
• Why AI Will Save the World
• The Trouble with Optionality
• Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
• The days are long but the decades are short
• How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 1
• How to Pick Your Life Partner - Part 2
• The Marriage Decision: Everything Forever or Nothing Ever Again
• Buy wisely
• Putting Ideas into Words
• The Strength of Being Misunderstood
• Happy, Smart, and Useful
• On lucidity
• complementary
• Advice That Actually Worked For Me
• Six definitions of love
• Notes on “Taste”
• Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing