Blog · September 2026

13 essays, written until the idea sits still.

Psychology, science, culture, and the occasional product built because looking up felt under-served. This is the writing — the Hashnode archive, redesigned, with the same URLs.

Essays: 13
Culture: 4
Science: 4
Building: 1

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Culture

A Man in Rain

Rain does not mean sadness. It means uncertainty. On weather, mood, and why an unreadable figure stays with you.

20 Jun 2026 · 12 min read

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Showing 13 essays.

01 / Culture
A Man in Rain
Rain does not mean sadness. It means uncertainty. On weather, mood, and why an unreadable figure stays with you.
20 Jun 2026 · 12 min read
02 / Building
SkyStory: Built to Make You Look Up
The story behind SkyStory, and why I wanted the sky to find me first.
19 Jun 2026 · 7 min read
03 / Science
The Intelligence Metric That Does Not Exist
What IQ actually measures, and why the intelligence that changes your life cannot be tested.
13 Jun 2026 · 13 min read
04 / Science
The Walls Have Been Talking
On color, light, green spaces, and the invisible design of your emotional life.
9 Jun 2026 · 9 min read
05 / Culture
Good at Looking Good
On moral performance, the psychology of public correction, and why doing visible small things can replace doing meaningful large ones.
7 Jun 2026 · 11 min read
06 / Thinking
The Smartest Person in the Room Can't Always Figure Their Way Out of It
On structured problems, wicked problems, and why speedcubing exists but speed-startups don't.
6 Jun 2026 · 11 min read
07 / Culture
The Quiet Crisis of the Comfortable
On frictionless lives, hollow mornings, and the strange comfort of washing your own dishes.
4 Jun 2026 · 11 min read
08 / Work
AI Won't Replace You. Until It Does.
The limit is not intelligence. It is judgment. On AI, junior hiring, and what becomes valuable when intelligence gets cheap.
30 May 2026 · 8 min read
09 / Philosophy
Detachment in an Age of Metrics
Siddhartha left a life that was already winning. On late-night self-audits, Govinda's tragedy, and what we count instead of seeking.
30 May 2026 · 8 min read
10 / Science
You Dream Every Night. You Just Do Not Remember.
On what dreams actually are, what Freud got embarrassingly wrong, and why forgetting them might be by design.
3 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
11 / Psychology
Loud Inside
The inside of a quiet person's head is not quiet. On introversion, longer neural pathways, and why silence is a different kind of presence.
30 Jul 2026 · 8 min read
12 / Science
Voices Inside the Head
What happens to the brain — and to love — when you live in more than one language.
26 Jul 2026 · 7 min read
13 / Culture
you are still a kid
Calling someone a kid is not a description. It is a power move. On gerontocracy, freedom, and the first generation with the language to push back.
25 Jul 2026 · 8 min read