Philosophy

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Daal Chawal Happiness

All happiness is small. On cooking my mom's daal chawal, the fleeting nature of every joy — from new sneakers to dream cars — and why the mind keeps fooling us into ranking them.

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Numbers Don't Bleed. Stories Do.

Statistics fade from memory, but stories preserve the human emotions behind historical tragedies. Why we must collect, live, and pass down narratives that capture what numbers cannot—the grief, courage, and moral choices that define our shared humanity.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics

Eugene Wigner · dartmouth.edu

1960 essay — the question hasn't been answered, only deferred.