Essays on technology, media, and what comes next.https://ashwinnavin.com/en-ushttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/from-many-to-one/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/from-many-to-one/What a rookie lineman from the Navajo Nation reminded me about the best idea this country has.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/apex-priorities/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/apex-priorities/Seneca noticed we guard our property like misers and give away our lives for free. Two thousand years later, the only defense is deciding what sits at the apex and protecting it like a fortress.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/when-the-pursuit-of-knowledge-is-satisfied/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/when-the-pursuit-of-knowledge-is-satisfied/AI is about to give everyone access to all of human knowledge. The Greeks figured out 2,400 years ago that this was never the point.Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/beliefs-on-the-future-and-what-im-doing-about-it/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/beliefs-on-the-future-and-what-im-doing-about-it/What I believe is coming — and what I believe we should fight for within that reality.Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/data-is-love/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/data-is-love/On why the media industry's instinct to hoard data is the very thing holding it back — and why openness, transparency, and a level playing field are the path forward.Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/an-ode-to-coffee/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/an-ode-to-coffee/How a humble Ethiopian bean displaced ale, sharpened minds, and quietly fueled the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, and the free exchange of ideas we still depend on today.Tue, 18 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/namaste/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/namaste/On duality, oneness, and the word that contains an entire philosophy — the light in me honors the light in you.Sat, 14 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/the-value-of-presence/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/the-value-of-presence/What bomb disposal experts and a Harvard happiness study teach us about the ancient art of being here now.Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/imaginary-time/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/imaginary-time/Stephen Hawking's final theory raises an ancient question: does consciousness exist outside of time and space?Sun, 15 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/kabaddi/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/kabaddi/An ancient Indian contact sport holds a lesson about focus, greed, and never getting comfortable in the middle of your mission.Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/obstacle-is-the-way/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/obstacle-is-the-way/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?Tue, 10 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/we-worship-the-dead-persecute-the-living/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/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.Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/2012-the-end-of-home-entertainment-as-we-know-it/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/2012-the-end-of-home-entertainment-as-we-know-it/A prediction — made in 2011 — that physical media would reach its tipping point by 2012, and what that meant for the future of the big screen in your living room.Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/bittorrent-legitimizing-the-protocol-and-fighting-for-the-open-internet/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/bittorrent-legitimizing-the-protocol-and-fighting-for-the-open-internet/How we turned the most disruptive file-sharing technology on the internet into a legitimate business — and then fought Comcast and the FCC to defend net neutrality.Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/reconciling-net-neutrality-and-free-market-capitalism/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/reconciling-net-neutrality-and-free-market-capitalism/Can Silicon Valley's libertarian instincts coexist with the demand for a fair and open Internet? A case for disclosure, self-regulation, and positive incentives over punitive legislation.Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/the-indian-diaspora-and-the-escape-from-the-license-raj/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/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.Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://ashwinnavin.com/essays/disciples-of-life/https://ashwinnavin.com/essays/disciples-of-life/Lao Tzu's twenty-five-hundred-year-old observation about what separates the living from the dead — and what it means for how we build, fight, and endure.Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT