My friend Vamshi Krishna Samudrala shared this writing of his on love, just now on WhatsApp: Love is an endless … More
Category: Philosophy for Everyday Life
“Success is when you are happy doing what you are doing and you have total peace of mind”
Very mature and wise perspectives on leadership, success, burnout, values, courage, kindness, and WorkLifeBalance by Shweta Sinha — Raahuul Gupta … More
Zorba the Greek: A Philosophy of Living
Nikos Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek stands as one of the most vivid explorations of the tension between intellectual contemplation and … More
“What brings you to Ohio?”
“What brings you to Ohio?” He said, “Damn if I know.”
The Parable of the Three Unmarried Men and the King
A well-known spiritual parable appears in different forms in Indian bhakti, Sufi, and folk teaching traditions. It doesn’t belong to … More
Job Loss From AI? There’s More To Fear!
My dear friend and once my roommate at University of Florida, Gainesville, where we both were in the grad school, … More
Romantic Love
“Truth is the enemy of romantic love.”
On the Question of Self-Interest
It is a logical truism that everything we do, we do it for the sake of “our own” happiness (despite … More
Jaspers’ Concept of Boundary Situations
Karl Jaspers’ “boundary situations” (Grenzsituationen) are inescapable, extreme life experiences like death, suffering, guilt, and struggle/chance, which shatter everyday reality … More
“Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth”–Camus
For Albert Camus, “extreme truth” means confronting life’s inherent meaninglessness (the Absurd) by pushing beyond comfort, convention, and societal illusions, … More
Know Thyself 