Sachin’s Semi-Insightful Scribblings

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Midwits and Meta-Contrarianism
An interesting mental model I’ve frequently found myself referencing is the Meta-Contrarian Midwit.
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Sachin Kesiraju
Subjective Passage of Time
Reflecting on my recent travels and in anticipation of the new decade I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how we experience the passage of time…
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Villainous Hero
With an increasingly polarized world comes the dangerous tendency to impulsively bucket people through the binary lens of the hero and villain…
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Sachin Kesiraju
Airbnb Supply Problem
Based on my past experience working with Airbnb hosts at my last startup and recent changing market conditions affecting the travel industry, I figured…
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People Mazes
I recently came across this @vgr tweet that got me thinking about the concept of people mazes.
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Cure for Fatalism
As we enter the new decade I’ve been thinking a lot about the public narratives that attempt to define our near future — climate apocalypse, impending…
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Dionysian Impulse
The Ancient Greeks knew of an important dichotomy woven into our existence — the Apollonian and the Dionysian.
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Land of the Free, Home of the Weird
The Internet used to be a weird place.
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Labor Power Laws
Inspired by this tweet from @balajis who introduces the term labor power laws — basically illustrates the asymmetry in outcomes not only in venture…
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Globalization Retreat and Tech Politicization
Last week, an important underreported release from the European Union Parliament detailed a plan to introduce a government controlled Internet similar…
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Aesthetic Revival
Given the current circumstances in the outside world, an interesting theory I’ve been playing with is that times of uncertainty and distress tend to…
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Invisible Authority
Contrary to the expected dynamic of a democratic society we are ruled by an invisible authority — one that governs our tastes, forms our opinions and…
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