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My Eight Best Books of 2023

Here's the best of what I read in 2023. Prior lists: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016. Last year, I disrupted and innovated like crazy by…

Mar 4 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

July 2023

My learning journey at Stanford continued in the late spring with a class on gender issues in Imperial China. Also: the meaning of time!

Jul 31, 2023 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

June 2023

Ep. 1. Karen Seto on Cities

Listen now (15 min) | Ramanan Raghavendran speaks with Karen Seto about the effect of climate change on our cities.

Published on In Our Hands • Jun 17, 2023

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The Rich Must Change

The rich need to make more dramatic behavioral changes to save the planet.

Published on In Our Hands • Jun 8, 2023

May 2023

Giving Up and Other Blasphemies

Declaring failure is sometimes the right thing to do

May 27, 2023 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

April 2023

We Have Some Trust Issues

No, a portable polygraph machine is not the answer.

Apr 23, 2023 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

Join me (Ramanan) on Notes

A new place to connect

Apr 12, 2023 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

January 2023

What is a nation? It's complicated...

Jan 13, 2023 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

December 2022

Outgrowing "Growth Mindset"

Note: I struggled to title this essay, and a shoutout to my friend Alex Brussell for giving me the answer (but see my endnote for an alt title). I have…

Dec 29, 2022 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

My Ten Best Books of 2022

Here's the best of what I read in 2022. New feature klaxon: I’m picking a Book of the Year! It is Mazower’s Dark Continent. Mazower’s devastating review…

Dec 24, 2022 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

October 2022

Where Do Emails Go When You're Gone?

My learning journey at Stanford continued over the summer with an intense course on “the archive”, a highly fetishized subject in the humanities. The…

Oct 28, 2022 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

July 2022

Deep Cover: Cricket and Indian Identity

I’ve realized over time that this blog, while implicitly autobiographical, has a small set of essays that are explicitly so. I’ve decided to make this a…

Jul 15, 2022 •

Ramanan Raghavendran

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