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No rush. There's something here for every curious mind.
One curious human. Many interconnected worlds. No account needed to explore.
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What happens when curiosity refuses to stay in one department? Research becomes writing. Writing becomes websites. Ideas become fragrances. Ordinary life becomes a laboratory.
You don't need to know the creator. Choose a question that sounds interesting, and follow the thread.
Consciousness, identity, attention and the strange fact that the investigator is inside the experiment.
EXPLORE CONSCIOUSNESS → 02 · STORY ↗A personal account of careers, detours, a family shop and the art of becoming without arriving.
READ THE STORY → 03 · PERFUMERY ↗The Venusian Arts: fragrances organised around courage, boundaries, connection and agency.
ENTER THE HOUSE → 04 · EDUCATION ↗Questions about human capital, emotional literacy, learning and the capabilities we ought to cultivate.
EXPLORE EDUCATION → 05 · CREATIVE PRACTICE ↗Describe a person, place, feeling or moment; explore how a fragrance brief becomes a composition.
BOTTLE YOUR MOOD → 06 · AGENCY ↗A monkey-friendly introduction to locus of control, self-efficacy and taking the next action.
FIND THE STEERING WHEEL →Formal education. Professional practice. Self-directed philosophy. AI-assisted building. None of these is the whole story; together, they explain the work.
Read widely.
Question assumptions.
Build something.
Test it in the world.
Learn. Repeat.
Inspired by the build-and-iterate culture of technology, grounded in behavioural inquiry and everyday Indian life. No claim to be a Silicon Valley founder. Just a growing body of publicly inspectable work.
Essays and reflections from the writing archive. Follow an idea, disagree with it, or use it as a starting point for your own.
On music, influence, discernment and what education could make room for.
READ ON MEDIUM ↗ 02 · BEHAVIOUR & IDENTITYA personal inquiry from the writing archive into experience as material for observation.
FIND IN THE MEDIUM ARCHIVE ↗ 03 · SOCIETY & MEANINGA reflection on what comes after survival becomes less consuming.
FIND IN THE MEDIUM ARCHIVE ↗Selected commentary on organisations, technology, human behaviour and the questions we carry into our careers. Read the original pieces on LinkedIn.
On changing our minds, career transitions, intellectual humility and remaining accountable while learning.
READ ON LINKEDIN ↗AI & EMPLOYMENTTechnological displacement, work, education and the economic realities behind an anxious question.
READ ON LINKEDIN ↗POWER & ORGANISATIONSA childhood cartoon becomes a case study in informal authority, information brokerage and organisational politics.
READ ON LINKEDIN ↗PERCEPTION & AGENCYUnderstanding the interfaces of culture, institutions, technology and interpretation.
READ ON LINKEDIN ↗INTELLIGENCE & VALUEAs AI makes production easier, what happens to expertise, judgment and meaningful contribution?
READ ON LINKEDIN ↗WEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENTA multidimensional view of wealth: time, cognition, relationships, health, emotion and curiosity.
READ ON LINKEDIN ↗Smaller experiments, ideas made tangible, and places to keep exploring.
For a thoughtful disagreement, a collaboration, an unexpected connection, or just a note from one curious person to another.
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