Author

Varada

@varada

articles: 12
total claps: 247
top claps: 54
avg read: 6.3 min
paywalled: 11
active: 2025-07-21 → 2026-05-17

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PHI · Philosophy · 4 PSY · Psychology · 3 🚀 · Self Improvement · 3 HUM · Humanities · General · 3 EDU · Education & Learning · 3 🔧 · Data Engineering · 2 AI · AI · General · 2 🏛️ · Architecture · 1

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#critical-thinking ·3 #philosophy ·3 #self-awareness ·3 #language ·3 #intuition ·2 #cognitive-offloading ·2 #artificial-intelligence ·2 #wellbeing ·2 #habits ·2 #energy ·2

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Are We Losing the Ability to Intuit?

Notes on the Quiet Skill We Keep Handing Away

Apr 19, 2026 · 7 min read · 54 claps paywalled #intuition #critical-thinking #artificial-intelligence

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The Battery We Forgot We Were Carrying

There’s something quietly absurd about the fact that we spend years learning how to manage our time, our money, our relationships, and…

Mar 22, 2026 · 7 min read · 50 claps paywalled #self-awareness #wellbeing #habits

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The Trouble With Value: When x = 7 Grows Up and Gets a Job

The Comfort of Knowing What x Is

May 17, 2026 · 6 min read · 50 claps paywalled #language #corporate-jargon #mathematics

The Trouble With Value: When x = 7 Grows Up and Gets a Job

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The Thinking Crisis

Understanding What We Mean When We Say Critical Thinking Is Disappearing

Apr 12, 2026 · 5 min read · 50 claps paywalled #critical-thinking #philosophy #cognitive-skills

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The Kindness Calendar Nobody Gave Us

At some point, most of us have sat through a talk, read a book, or finished a conversation with a wise friend and thought, “Yes, I should…

Mar 08, 2026 · 9 min read · 41 claps paywalled #language #self-improvement #life-lessons

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The Difference Between Done and Done Right

There is a particular satisfaction in finishing something. The moment we close the laptop, set down the tool, or submit the file, something…

Mar 15, 2026 · 3 min read · 2 claps paywalled #productivity #quality #growth

The Difference Between Done and Done Right

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The Thing Your Coach Knew That Nobody Else Told You

There’s a particular cruelty to the track, the athletic kind. It’s a perfect oval, no hidden shortcuts, no convenient exits, no way to…

Mar 29, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps paywalled #self-awareness #wellbeing #habits

The Thing Your Coach Knew That Nobody Else Told You

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Rebuilding Intuition on Purpose

How to Grow the Quiet Skill Back, One Small Choice at a Time

Apr 26, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps paywalled #intuition #slowing-down #critical-thinking

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The Room at the Back of the Shop: On Solitude, Autonomy, and the Strange Architecture of Freedom

There is a particular kind of quiet that arrives only when no one is watching us, not even ourselves. It is in that silence, philosophers…

Apr 05, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #solitude #autonomy #freedom

The Room at the Back of the Shop: On Solitude, Autonomy, and the Strange Architecture of Freedom

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Understanding Deterministic Rule-Based Processes: A Complete Guide for Beginners and Experts

From expert systems to modern AI — exploring the foundation of predictable computing

Aug 08, 2025 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #machine-learning #rule-based-system #deterministic

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TIL: What Is an Interlocutor?

A Word That Sounds Like a Tax on Speaking

May 03, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps paywalled #vocabulary #etymology #language

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Understanding kWh Batteries

What’s All the Buzz About Batteries?

Jul 21, 2025 · 2 min read · 0 claps #battery #ev #kwh