Essays

February 2015

The Obstacle Is the Way: Lessons from Building Through Uncertainty

Every company that survives long enough faces a moment where the path forward disappears. What separates the ones that find a new path from the ones that don't?

November 2012

We Worship the Dead, Persecute the Living

We build museums for artists we would have ignored. We canonize prophets we would have mocked. The pattern is so consistent across centuries and cultures that it might be the most reliable bias in human history.

June 2008

The Indian Diaspora and the Escape from the License Raj

The story of Indian emigration to America begins with economic suffocation at home. Indians had replaced foreign colonial rule with homegrown bureaucratic tyranny — and the most ambitious among them left.