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the hunger to be everything
how to commit when you have too many options
 • Akanksha Pandey
march - log - 2025: thoughts on everything I am making sense of
unfiltered entries on writing, AI, relationships, literature and chasing clarity.
 • Akanksha Pandey
Why we need to memorize?
For the love of thinking, creativity and connection — we must remember.
 • Akanksha Pandey
yap about things that excite you
it brings people together
 • Akanksha Pandey
Letter from the First Light of 2025
On books, beginnings, and building what's next.
 • Akanksha Pandey
If you really want to change your life. Read Fiction
You can read 100 books on self improvement, procrastination, deep work, mindset, changing your lifestyle. But none of them will make a dent in your…
 • Akanksha Pandey
Clean the Stove
What the kitchen taught me about effort, care, and doing work that doesn’t need fixing.
 • Akanksha Pandey
Is self love a vanity metric?
Notes on art, life, and what happens when we stop trying to love ourselves.
 • Akanksha Pandey
Style is the answer to everything
Why some writing lasts for centuries when most is forgotten and how your style decides where yours will end up.
 • Akanksha Pandey
“Be yourself” is the worst advice ever.
If everyone really acts like themselves. You won’t like half the population.
 • Akanksha Pandey
to think creatively you have to think slowly
I was having dinner with a creative director and he said, “He doesn’t allow his writers to speak their ideas.”
 • Akanksha Pandey
why do we feel so strongly about punch (the monkey)
is love & human empathy conditional?
 • Akanksha Pandey
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