Why this exists.

This is a public record of how one mind changes. Not a portfolio, not a brand — a place to document my intellectual evolution across two selves: the work-self, occupied with learning science, cognition, and the tools that close the feedback loop; and the citizen-self, working through society, history, privilege, and contemporary India.

I've spent a long while becoming genuinely mindful of how my own thinking works. Documenting it in the open is a discipline of honesty — it's harder to fool yourself when the record is dated and visible — and, I hope, a resource for others doing the same.

The Society section is the heart of it: living positions that carry a status and a date, revised rather than erased. The Writing is where those positions get worked out at length. Readings and the Reading List keep the inputs honest too.

— Mahendranath