Meru Sharma

  • Bad Bunny

    In 15 years, Bad Bunny went from a supermarket cashier in Puerto Rico to performing at the Super Bowl and winning a Grammy for the Best Album in America. It’s crazy to me how magical life can be. But underneath all that is some form of causality – each action has an effect and there…

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  • The skill of wanting something

    What happens when we achieve goals ? You become free of them. You experience the feeling of freedom. That is all. You can be happy and have fun without any goals. In fact, it’s entirely possible that your goals bring you difficulties – more work, more uncertainty, less time for what you used to be.…

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  • In defence of a traditional career path

    Substack is filled with a call to abandon the traditional job in favour of creating your own work – the “portfolio career” as it’s being called. This is not an exhaustive essay, just a few points that I would make if someone wanted to raise the case that the traditional career path offers way more…

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  • Micro is macro – Morals and emotions are the same thing on different scales

    I’m interested in looking at how normative ideas around personal emotions are reflective of the macro stories around cultural morality. That is, stories around emotions are the micro version of the stories around morality. The similarity in emotions and morality essentially arises from the simple fact that they are regulators: emotions regulate human action and…

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  • Control

    From the days of Ancient Greece and Socrates, there has been a valorisation of self-discovery: finding the person you are deep inside you and developing greater parts of you. The modern emphasis on self-improvement and self-development has self-discovery at its foundation. But, whereas self-discovery was about finding who I am originally, the modern approach to…

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  • There is no real alternative to patience

    The idea of patience has been at the top of my mind recently. There are a lot of skills that really support the achievement of success. But a lot of those skills are replaceable with another apt skill. You dont have to be a high-stakes risk taker to be successful (even if it helps), you…

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  • Rushing and Patience

    One of the most interesting nuances I have realised recently is the difference between having a great big goal as a means of expanding what you think is possible vs as a means of escaping the terribleness of the present. I was playing around with some astrology readings based on my birth chart and got…

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  • Simplifying goal achievement

    The essence of almost all productivity and self-help books is the achievement of complex and grand desires by taking necessary action. They can all be broken down into two steps: All manifestation techniques, hustle culture, fitness culture, self development, law of attraction teachings, psychological techniques etc go to an aspect of these two steps –…

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  • Structural addiction – notes for a better article

    My current working thesis: we must imagine the collective 8 billions human as a corpus (Corpus) with its own conscious, subconscious, ego, shadow mind with its own psychological drives (eg Eros/Thanatos) and emotion. Background: Desire is the history of humanity. On a micro scale, humans pursue this desire through effort. But the human desire has…

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  • The search for a deeper Truth

    As early as I can remember, I have felt this innate feeling that there exists a deeper truth out there about reality. And the only way to receive the truth was through information and learning. And the way only to receive information/learn was through reading books. Books and reading felt ‘alchemical’ to me – they…

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