The Discipline of Selection
As competent work becomes easier to produce, the scarce human capacity is orientation: knowing what deserves commitment, what still touches reality, and what kind of life your abstractions assemble around you.
Aniket Gupta
Field Notes
Essays and notes on work, culture, and ideas that are still taking shape. All views and opinions are entirely my own.
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View archiveIkigai and the Real Work of Becoming
Reading Ikigai at the edge of adulthood did not hand me a perfect career answer. It gave me a more serious way to think about meaning, money, discipline, and the kind of life I want to build.
Where Does Intelligence Live?
If intelligence is what we attribute to organised responsiveness under constraint, its home may be less singular than we once assumed.
After Emergence
What I learned building PRISM is not that the world has levels. It is that levels are what remain when prediction stops caring about detail.