Thoughts / Alankar Chaturvedi
Ideas about what makes progress possible.
Essays on companies, cities, innovation, ambition, progress, and human nature.
Creative Gravity
Why a handful of cities repeatedly become places where talented people find one another, raise the standard, and make more ambitious work possible.
- Human Nature
Criticism Is Cheap. Support Has a Cost.
Pointing out a flaw takes seconds. Staying close enough to help improve the work usually costs attention, time, effort, or a little bit of your own reputation.
4 min read - Human Nature
The Room Is Not a Stage
Our own mistakes feel enormous from the inside, which is why we often imagine that other people noticed far more than they actually did.
3 min read - Human Nature
Enough Is Not the Enemy of Ambition
Contentment and ambition can coexist. The important distinction is whether the next goal comes from curiosity and purpose or from a hope that achievement will finally make you feel sufficient.
4 min read - Human Nature
One Cause Is Never Enough
We prefer one clean explanation for a complicated outcome, even when reality was shaped by several causes, accidents, incentives, and decisions working together.
4 min read