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Dear Son..
by tiwaryshailesh
The books, frameworks and ways of thinking I most want my son to encounter, preserved before I forget why they mattered. tiwaryshailesh.substack.com
Episodes
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On Military Preparedness in AI Era
There is a mode of thinking that treats military training not as preparation for war but as the only mechanism an armed force possesses for converting information about the world into behaviour under fire. Most people, including most soldiers, see training as a pipeline - identify the tasks…
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On Revolution
There is a mode of thinking that treats a revolution not as an explosion of accumulated misery but as a coordination problem that was suddenly and often invisibly solved. Most people read a revolt backward. They see a regime fall, assume the anger that toppled it had been rising toward a…
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Chokepoints: How Chips, Code and Coalition Decide Who Wins the AI Century
In July 2026 a private company in San Francisco decided who in the United States government would get early access to a model capable of finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities faster than any human team. Not the Pentagon. Not Congress. Anthropic. Within weeks the same administration that...
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On Ridley's Work
Matt Ridley is a British science writer, journalist and hereditary peer (Viscount Ridley) whose work spans evolutionary biology, genetics, economics, and the history of innovation. Since the early 1990s he has written eight major books and thousands of articles, all united by a single animating...
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Frontier Talent Paradox - HR Management for Edge Domains
There is a mode of thinking about talent acquisition and workforce management that, once internalised, reveals why most organisations hiring in cyber security and artificial intelligence are structurally guaranteed to fail at it. The mistake most hiring managers and HR leaders make is treating...
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On Death
Death is the only subject that is simultaneously the most universal human experience and the most comprehensively avoided topic in modern culture. Every human being who has ever lived has died. Every human being alive now will die. Every relationship you have will end either in your death or in…
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On Self Awareness
Self-awareness is the most paradoxical of all human capacities. It is the thing that makes us most distinctively human, the ability to turn the instruments of consciousness back on consciousness itself and to observe the observer. It is simultaneously the capacity most consistently overestimated…
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On Power
The people who openly seek power are rarely the ones who hold it longest. The people who hold it longest are usually the ones who convinced everyone else that they were not seeking it at all. That is not cynicism. That is the first thing you need to understand about how power actually works, as...
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On Harari's Work
Yuval Noah Harari is the most widely read historian alive. Sapiens has sold over twenty million copies and been translated into more than sixty languages. It has been read by Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, recommended by heads of state and placed on corporate reading lists across...
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On Game Theory
In 1983, the United States ran a war game called Able Archer. Soviet intelligence, watching it unfold, could not tell whether it was a simulation or the real thing. Both sides had nuclear weapons. Both sides had dominant strategies. The world nearly ended not because anyone wanted it to but…
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On Dawkins' Work
Every living thing on this planet is a machine built by something that has never been alive, has no mind, no intention and no goal. It does not know you exist. It does not care whether you suffer or thrive. It has produced, through four billion years of blind copying and filtering, the eye, the...
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On Geopolitics
Russia has no warm water port that is not blocked by a potential adversary. That single geographical fact explains five centuries of Russian foreign policy more accurately than any account built around ideology, personality or culture. The Tsars pushed outward. The Soviets pushed outward. Putin...
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On System Thinking
Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975. It had the patents, the engineers and the capital. It filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Nobody at Kodak was stupid. Nobody was asleep. The system was working exactly as designed, which is precisely why it failed. That is not a business story. That is a…
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On Critical Thinking
In 1847, a Viennese doctor named Ignaz Semmelweis proved that doctors were killing their patients by not washing their hands. The evidence was overwhelming. His colleagues rejected it and he died in an asylum. The problem was not the data. The problem was that accepting the data required his...
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On Taleb's Work
Nassim Taleb is the most difficult serious thinker working today and he has made himself that way deliberately. The combativeness, the contempt for credentialed experts, the refusal to soften conclusions for polite company, these are not personality defects. They are load bearing elements of the...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The books, frameworks and ways of thinking I most want my son to encounter, preserved before I forget why they mattered.
tiwaryshailesh.substack.com
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