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Aashay Mody

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On the art of disagreement

How we should aim to argue: Donald Trump has a history of making false claims. For example, in a 2021 interview, he claimed that “there were no guns whatsoever” at the Capitol riot on Jan 6th, which is central to his assertion that the riots were not an armed insurrection.

On preference falsification

Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few

On optimistic nihilism

I grew up in a deeply religious family in India. For most of my early life, I didn’t really question any of the traditions I participated in or the dogmas I took for granted. With exposure to new ideas and a desire to think more independently in my late

On flow

Flow is the state in which you becoming completely immersed in an activity with effortlessness. Everything else seems to disappear. It’s the feeling that’s sometimes described as being “in the zone” by athletes. Here’s legendary Formula One driver Ayrton Senna describing one of his experiences: I was

Political Philosophy

On the Overton window

The Overton window, sometimes called the window of discourse, is a political theory that describes the range of policies or ideas that are considered acceptable by the mainstream population at a given point in time. It’s a useful way to filter for the ideas that politicians in democracies are

On Russell conjugation

Russell conjugation, named after philosopher Bertrand Russell, is a concept that describes our tendency to portray things we agree with more generously than those we disagree with, using emotionally charged or loaded language. Here are some examples that Russell referenced back in 1948 on a BBC show: I am firm,

On starting a blog

I recently decided to take a step back from the startup I co-founded, Edgi Learning, to take a sabbatical. I’ll write about my startup journey in more detail at some point, but perhaps the biggest reasons for my decision were to find more balance in my life and a