My 2022 reading diet was composed entirely of self-help books. It's embarrassing to admit given their low-brow reputation. But after a year long binge, I’m vowing to not pick one up indefinitely!

How does one bid goodbye to a place they’ve been trying to escape since they arrived? I didn’t have an answer to that question even as I was packing up four years of my life in Bangalore.

As I stood on the edge of the boat, preparing to jump into the Arabian Sea at 5am, I only had one thought - it would be embarrassing to drown.

This essay is about how self improvement became my Sisyphean boulder - an endless task that I kept working on everyday but with no end.

My opinion on why Five Year Plans suck. They’re impractical because the “me”that was planning, could never have anticipated all the wonderful and not so wonderful ways that I would change as a person.

For a disproportionately large period of my life I have avoided hard things. Things where I had non zero odds of failing. 2022 exposed me to a good thing about hard things and this essay is about that!

Curiosity is complex. Having thought about it quite a bit, I’ve arrived at two laws which I think (sort of) explain how it works. Read on!

Popular advice suggests that when one is anxious, they should try and calm down. But there’s another option that’s easier to follow and also has better results. Read on!

Before I discovered Mise en place (Pronounced : me-zohn plahs) my life was a mess. Formal education fell short of teaching me how to handle a workload. It often felt like I was running as hard as I could just to stand still.

The ancient Persians had a very interesting approach to decision making. They made big decisions by discussing them twice : once while drunk and once while sober. This article explores the maxims proposed by Richard Zeckhauser on how to think analytically to make better decisions.