A dear professor died yesterday. I owe him so much. I would not be in the States today if it weren’t because of him. He offered me a job that allowed me to keep a foot in school in the midst of a personal crisis —in the middle of the pandemic. What first began as…

When the bold and irreverent Tina Brown became editor of the New Yorker, she remarked:“our job is to make the sexy serious and the serious sexy”.

Today I had a below average day. It has been like this for the last few weeks: I have felt like I am constantly walking on thin ice, alone, with no compass or sense of where to step, a single mishap can plunge me into the unforgiving sea. After work, I went to the gym…

“Why do you give a damn, Alfred? It is not your house.” Alfred responds poignantly, “I give a damn because a good man once made me responsible for what was most precious to him in the whole world.”

There is a certain arrogance in thinking that, of the entire timescale of the Universe, one happens to be living at the precise point in time where one saw the rise of the personal computer. What are the odds that one happens to be born at a time when civilizations start to create simulations of…

This weekend I went to a massive book estate sale in the Rittenhouse neighborhood. A prominent lawyer who was really a polymath had passed away and an estate agency was selling his collection. His collected books reflected his interest in poetry, philosophy, ethics, political theory, classical art, history, and, perhaps more interestingly, botany, geology, the…

The more time I spend listening to people in daily life, the more I am convinced about the importance of sound logical reasoning in the general conversation. So much of our divisions would be cleared out if we were more cognizant about inductive reasoning, deductive thinking, cognitive biases, and recognizing non-sequiturs and logical fallacies. Functioning…

Today, after a run with Queer Run, I decided not to listen to podcasts during my morning routine. Thoughts started to appear in consciousness. I felt a sense of freedom from constantly consuming content. An idea emerged: the constant input of information of the modern digital era is very much like doing squats at a…

As someone holding a leadership role, I am starting to recognize that calm, slow days are meant to be approached with even greater caution than regular, busy days. These days are very easy to approach as time for relaxation. Yet, it is here where the opportunity emerges to focus on preventive maintenance that prepare your…

There is something so electrifying of the New York City skyline at dusk. The newcomers piercing the sky, One Vanderbilt, 270 Park Avenue, and the mobsters of 57th Street, all serve as a reminder that New York is constantly evolving. Relentless. Full of energy. Delirious.