Author’s note: I’ve been having a hard time writing: I’ll open up my notes app and upon seeing the several, unfinished drafts of essays, I immediately lose motivation and close the app. That said, I think I’ve identified why I’m having trouble writing: it’s because I’d spent so much of...
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Rawls and his Two Principles of Justice
Author’s note: I’d written this piece for a class on Justice at MIT in response to a prompt—however, as per the professor’s request, I will not be sharing the prompt; that said, the article remains readable even without prior knowledge of the prompt I’m responding to. (Note that because this...
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Robert Nozick on the Redistributive State
Author’s note: I’d written this piece for a class on Justice at MIT in response to a prompt—however, as per the professor’s request, I will not be sharing the prompt; that said, the article remains readable even without prior knowledge of the prompt I’m responding to. (Note that because this...
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Coordination of Many Agents in a Power System
Author’s note: This was the start of my serious research at MIT, and the technical start for some of my later work with power systems. I’d written this during the summer of 2018. (I was watching the 2018 FIFA world cup pretty religiously so it’s amazing I got any work...
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Musings on Marxism
Author’s note: This article is the second installment of my “Musings on x” series with regards to political economy and its attendant philosophy. (COVID-19’s made me something of an arm-chair philosopher.) This serves as a first pass on the topic of Marxism, and an honest attempt to educate myself on...
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Musings on Dignity
Author’s note: This article is inspired by one of the themes explored in Martin Luther King, Jr’s “Remaining Awake through a Great Revolution” speech. As a result, riddled throughout this article are some of my favorite quotes from said speech. I’d started this piece on MLK day but never found...
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Channeling my Inner da Vinci, Miscellaneous Hand Drawings
A recurring theme of mine is that shortly after reading a book, particularly a biography, I’ll pick up a few things from the story’s protagonist and try to implement them in my own life. The drawings you’ll see are one such case. After reading (and not finishing) Walter Isaacson’s biography...
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Talk with One's Other, a poem
A poem I’d written in early 2017 in a time of teenage angst. It’s meant to be uplifting and was composed as a way to express my feelings of gratitude for having enjoyed something, someone, and someplace well.
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Sierra Leone and Her Manufactures
I had written this on January 7, 2017 while I was in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I believe this was written shortly after reading “The Wealth and Poverty of Nations” by David Landes for the second time.
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Thoughts on "The Enlightenment Now"
Here are my thoughts on Steven Pinker’s The Enlightenment Now. I’d read this sometime in 2018, probably in March, shortly after the book came out. I took some notes while reading the book, and for whatever reason, I chose to take the following quotes from the book:
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