Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on why public funding in education should go to students, not schools: Poor parents also have voted with their small pockets and have said no to a “free” government option, because they know…
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Commerce For Wildlife Conservation
Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on how commerce enables wildlife conservation: India’s geography and wildlife is as diverse as its population – few other nations can match the richness and variety of the landscapes, flora and fauna on…
Design, Functionality and Aesthetics
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Revolution
The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.
Free Speech Absolutism
Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on the importance of absolute, unconstrained free speech: Free speech is about preventing the state both from forcing individuals to remain silent and from forcing individuals to say something they do not want…
The Global Innovation Challenge
Rising unemployment and income disparity has shaken democracies across the Western world in the last year. Unemployment among young people in particular has been persistent and pervasive — the United States saw the highest ever youth unemployment in 2011, and…
Scientific Inquiry
There is a truth, but none of us knows it – this is the central assumption behind scientific inquiry.
– Steven Pinker
False Views
False views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.
Inspiration Is Indefatigable Work
Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration … shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects…. All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.
– Friedrich Nietzsche