Doing Nothing
Recently I found myself napping in the sun without an alarm. Meandering in the grocery store and taking a long time between sets at the… Read More »Doing Nothing
Anuj
4500 Hours in Gielinor
A childhood playing one of the world’s greatest video games has made IRL (in real life) strangely familiar. Video games are the greatest educational technology since the written word, and there are a handful of online multiplayer games from the 2000s and 2010s, including RuneScape, that cumulatively served as the training grounds and inspiration for today’s most ambitious young people. How we played these games is an underrated signal for how we’re playing the modern, digitally native, “massively multiplayer role playing game” of life.
Old School Man of the World
84 days ago, Papa (my dad) and I sat on the rainy banks of Ganga, completely bald save a small knot of hair at the top back of each of our heads, the rest lying at our feet. According to our Hindu tradition, men in the family shave their heads after the passing of an elder, marking a period of mourning and remembrance and instilling humility for the soul’s next journey. Today is that soul’s – my Dadaji’s – 88th birthday.
Living romantically
A year ago, I decided on a mantra for senior year of college, dropped my Econ major (there were two classes left for my degree… Read More »Living romantically
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Titans of Investing is a semesterly program focused on building a life of significance (not just success). Each student produces a brief covering a top book. This is mine from Fall 2021 on The Ministry for the Future, a climate fiction novel by Kim Stanley Robinson.
My Badepapa
Om. Two days ago, my dad lost his eldest brother – my Badepapa – to COVID, in India. I want to share my stories of one of the kindest and happiest people I was blessed to be loved by – someone that loved despite suffering an extraordinary allotment of life’s pain.
Long Twilio ($TWLO)
At UT, I was part of an student investment team called TUIT, where among other things, we pitched public equity investing ideas. In April 2020, me, Emory, and Carson (two other members of my pitch team) pitched long $TWLO at ~$84 a share. Below is the report we wrote on why.
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Bullshit Jobs is a 2018 book by the late anthropologist David Graeber. It is a thoroughly unique take on the questionable economic and social condition of the Western world… Below is an article-style takeaway of my thoughts from reading and reflecting on the book.