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Making better things: 5 questions for the makers of things to ask – Part 1. Qs 1 to 3.
First, the spoiler.
Aug 11
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Akhil Srivatsan
Others views on society’s drive for constant growth
An excerpt from a larger upcoming essay on making things of value
Aug 8
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Akhil Srivatsan
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July 2025
Building in Public > Stranger Fiction > Blind Melon: Blind Melon
Notes on my mini-essay on Blind Melon's 1992 debut record on Stranger Fiction
Jul 30
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Akhil Srivatsan
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June 2025
Ready for Consumption – Part 2/2: The Publishing Habit
What sharing Out of the Hermitage is teaching me about product, market, and fit
Jun 29
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Akhil Srivatsan
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Ready for Consumption – Part 1/2: The Making Habit
What making music has taught me about product, market, and fit
Jun 18
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Akhil Srivatsan
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The principles of grace: self-growth for sceptics
Why I’ve found myself speaking about self-growth more than any other sort of growth, and why I'll move on to talk about other things after this essay
Jun 4
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Akhil Srivatsan
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May 2025
A reading of Mood Machine by Liz Pelly
The only way for us to ensure the music we love isn’t killed off by streaming is to bring the music we love to the foreground
May 29
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Akhil Srivatsan
Alienation as stifled creativity, reading and writing as clarifying activities, and US Americans talking about algorithms flattening culture…
Weekly mini-essays for the last week of May. This week's question: is the word journalist the etymological child of the word journal? As in: one who…
May 27
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Akhil Srivatsan
How to go from staring at your screen aimlessly to closing a draft without deleting your phone
A tactical field guide for the perennially distracted from the perennially distracted
May 20
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Akhil Srivatsan
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Daedalus: Or what I learnt from deleting all the apps off my phone for two months
First appeared as a serialised three-part journal on Stranger Fiction from Dec '24 to Feb '25, now combined (and updated) here on Substack for your…
May 19
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Akhil Srivatsan
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You’re talking a lot but you’re not saying anything
Thoughts on the online presence of early-stage entrepreneurs. Plus, an introduction to the paid essays on Akhil’s a Stranger: meditations and lessons on…
May 9
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Akhil Srivatsan
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Writing
First thoughts on the social aspect of writing that precede far more detailed thoughts in a future (probably paid) essay on the most effective way to…
May 9
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Akhil Srivatsan
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