Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
Cognitive endurance refers to the capacity of independent engagement with a challenging problem, in the presence of accessible solutions. For example, a student’s cognitive endurance regulates how long they struggle with a math problem before looking up the solutions in the textbook’s appendix.
Like athletic endurance, cognitive endurance can be tra
... See moreGandhi calls ahinsa sadhan. The concept of sadhan does not map neatly into the western framework of means. Sadhana is part of a tri-partite framework. If you wanted to understand any purposeful action you need the telos, instrument and how to use the instrument. The procedure usually doesn’t come in the binary of the means-ends framework of the Wes
... See moreAnd indeed the sense that we are are unfinished — as individuals and as a species, in our personal development and our interpersonal relations and our evolutionary trajectory — may be the single most hopeful thing about being alive, the truest grounds for faith.
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
Since in India, more than in any other part of the world, food has been invested with meaning as a marker of identity. The corollary of “You are what you eat” is “You eat what you are”
Buddhists, Jains, Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims and those adhering to other religions have their own food prescriptions and proscriptions. Feasts to celebrate festivals and
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To give someone control in a video game is to enable them to make mistakes, horror comes from simply living with the consequences.
Jacob Geller
“Yes, I’m ambitious,” a friend told me recently, “but climbing the corporate ladder does not interest me like it used to. A title, a bump in pay—it’s not satisfying. What I need to feel successful and fulfilled is completely different. Am I doing something that brings satisfaction? Do I feel like I’m learning? Do I feel like I’m contributing? Do I ... See more
Patricia Mou • [non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.34
“Even if, as I believe, the vitality of matter is real, it will be hard to discern it, and, once discerned, hard to keep focussed on,” Bennett writes. “I have come to see how radical a project it is to think vital materiality.” It’s not just that concentration can be wearisome. Bennett had shown me that picture of the dead rats for a reason: being ... See more
Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
The Trouble with Passion also raises more existential questions about the prioritization of passion among career decision-makers.
What does it mean to center paid employment in one's self-reflexive project?
How does it perpetuate a culture of overwork and close off other meaning-making opportunities? And in what ways might the popularity of the passi
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