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Most of Your Constraints Are Negotiable

There is a fence across a road. You did not build it. You don’t know why it’s there. The question is what you do next

Feb 12

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January 2026

Permission to Be a Herd?

Dostoevsky’s Demons and the comfort of pre-approved thoughts

Jan 9 • Ali Rajput

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December 2025

On Reinvention

The Distinction Between a Story and a Soul

Dec 24, 2025 • Ali Rajput

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March 2025

The Art of Advocacy

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."

Mar 1, 2025 • Ali Rajput

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February 2025

The Architect's Solitude

History often seeks its heroes in the grandiloquent, the charismatic, the overtly messianic—but sometimes, its architects are found in the silent, the…

Feb 13, 2025 • Ali Rajput

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The Art of Persuasion

Are you wary of rhetoric?

Feb 6, 2025 • Ali Rajput

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At the Gates of the Intention Economy

We were an eclectic group, assembled in the tranquil halls of Madingley outside Cambridge – hedge-fund elites expounding on markets, solicitors parsing…

Feb 3, 2025 • Ali Rajput

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The Silence That Resists: A Call for Restraint

What is won by force is as transient as the colours of a sunset.

Feb 2, 2025 • Ali Rajput

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