Life
The great "want" audit
You can't shop for authenticity at Whole Foods, and you can't download it from the App Store
Dev Das
Travel
Painted in glass and time
The colours of Murano told their stories most eloquently along the water. The reflections in the water below created perfect mirror images, broken only by the gentle wake of passing boats.
Travel
Into the delicious gloom
Through the leaded windows of Cotswald's cottages, I saw warm lights flicker on, one by one, like fireflies waking at dusk. The light spilt onto the rain-slicked cobblestones, creating pools of gold that mirrored the sky's own tears.
Travel
Pienza: Where time drips like honey and the cheese tell stories
The pecorino, aged in walnut leaves, smelled like the earth after rain. "Signore," he said, pressing a small wedge toward me, "questo è il sapore di Pienza." This is the taste of Pienza.
creative writing
Whispering with my ink
This is the writer's task: to make sense of the senseless, to find order in disorder, to create something eternal from the ephemeral.
Life
Wisdom was paved in the criticisms I feared
This iterative process of testing and adjusting your ideas isn’t a betrayal. It’s a process of refinement, discarding what no longer works and embracing a better version of the truth.
Rorshach test
Life is a Rorschach test
Reality is like a Rorschach test. The irony of its realism is revealed only through perception.
Life
What is your calling
Your calling is not waiting to be found. It's waiting to be recognised.A forest doesn't grow overnight. Neither does a sense of purpose. Be patient with yourself.
Life
Why Moneyball is creating the age of average
This fixation on metrics in cultural spheres is creating a world where everything is optimised but nothing is truly brilliant
Life
Effort is like Schrodinger's cat
The student burning the midnight oil, the entrepreneur weathering another setback, the artist facing a blank canvas - their efforts are simultaneously fruitful and futile until the moment of reckoning
Life
These are a few of my favourite things
In a world that often prioritises expertise, there's a refreshing authenticity in allowing ourselves to be novices.
Life
How to be imperfect ?
The pigeon’s dream wasn’t the windowsill but here we are, Me, lost for words and the pigeon lost in flight.