Stop Asking Which Skills Will Matter in 2036. You’re Asking the Wrong Question.
A case for educating capable, adaptable human beings rather than building childhood around guesses about tomorrow’s labour market.
Read this essay A PRIVATE CURIOSITY, SHARED IN PUBLIC
A room for
unfinished
questions.
On learning and becoming. On the people inside our institutions. On music, machines, meaning—and why a changed mind can be a sign of life.
01 / A WAY IN
Where should
I begin?
You don't need the backstory. Here are three ideas that open into the wider collection. Choose the question that catches your eye.
- ONE / THE FUTUREWhat should education prepare us for?
Begin with the difference between preparing people and predicting labour markets.
- TWO / THE PERSONWhen did humans become resources?
Read the question behind a professional path through organisational behaviour.
- THREE / THE SELFWho taught us what success means?
Explore what happens when the scoreboard keeps changing.
02 / A FEW OPEN BOOKS
Editor's selection.
Three invitations to think. Selected as a starting point, not ranked by importance.
I Studied Human Resources. Then I Realised Humans Aren’t Resources.
The story of a psychology-led management education, a commitment to human potential—and a surprising detour into perfumery.
Read this essayAm I Successful? Who Taught Me What Success Means?
What remains of our definition of a good life when grades, status, money and other inherited scoreboards stop being enough?
Read this essay03 / READ BY QUESTION
The shelves.
A small library has no reason to pretend its subjects don't overlap. One essay can live on more than one shelf.
Choose a shelf to filter the essay index below. Every original article opens on its publication page.
04 / THE COMPLETE SELECTION
Essay index.
Verified original publication links. A curated selection—not a claim to be the complete lifetime bibliography.
ST / WRITINGONGOING ARCHIVE
Showing 14 essays
01 / READING INDEX
Stop Asking Which Skills Will Matter in 2036. You’re Asking the Wrong Question.
A case for educating capable, adaptable human beings rather than building childhood around guesses about tomorrow’s labour market.
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02 / READING INDEX
If AI Can Do My Thinking, Who Am I?
On AI collaborators, creative agency, the automation of output and the harder question of who is doing the experiencing.
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03 / READING INDEX
Who Decides What Is Normal? On Collective Madness, Money, Knowledge, and the Strange Things We Agree to Believe
An examination of consensus, social norms and why disagreeing with a crowd is not the same as thinking independently.
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04 / READING INDEX
What Is Taboo? And Why Do Humans Keep Inventing Things We Aren’t Supposed to Talk About?
The invisible permissions and prohibitions of social life, from uncomfortable humour to the cultural rules we rarely name.
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05 / READING INDEX
Am I Successful? Who Taught Me What Success Means?
What remains of our definition of a good life when grades, status, money and other inherited scoreboards stop being enough?
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06 / READING INDEX
The School Has a Ranking. Life Doesn’t Come With One.
How academic ranking shapes identity—and what happens when the familiar structure of school gives way to adulthood’s ambiguous measures.
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07 / READING INDEX
Hip-Hop, the Psychology of Survival, and the Making of a Larger Self
From the Bronx to Delhi: rap as a cultural form that raises questions about survival, masculinity, identity and adaptation.
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08 / READING INDEXOct 2026
“But Sahil, Back Then You Said X. Now You’re Saying Y!”
A defence of intellectual humility that makes room for accountability, changed beliefs and the younger versions of ourselves.
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09 / READING INDEX
Thank You, Hip-Hop: On Growing Up With Rap, Finding My Voice, and Learning to Listen to Myself
A personal note of gratitude to music, alongside careful questions about taste, psychological experience and artistic influence.
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10 / READING INDEXOct 2026
You Are the Main Character. So Is Everyone Else.
A meditation on agency and empathy: each of us is central to our own experience, but never the only person with an interior life.
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11 / READING INDEXOct 2026
What JBIMS Taught Me About Business, People, and the Art of Becoming
On management education, organisations as human systems, the value of judgment, and lessons beyond the classroom.
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12 / READING INDEX
I Studied Human Resources. Then I Realised Humans Aren’t Resources.
The story of a psychology-led management education, a commitment to human potential—and a surprising detour into perfumery.
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13 / READING INDEXOct 2026
L;ghts On, Again 2026: When People Left Their Titles at the Door and Chose to Listen
A reflection on a New Delhi community event about art, care, inclusion and conversations that are difficult but necessary.
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14 / READING INDEXOct 2026
I Listen to Lil Wayne. I Also Think Schools Should Teach Emotional Literacy.
On music, influence and an education that can teach critical thinking without demanding cultural sameness.
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Visit the full Medium profile ↗A NOTE FROM THE DESK 23 OCTOBER 2026
The privilege
of revising.
I studied commerce and human resource development. I have worked inside organisations and a family business. Along the way, I've become interested in the space between what people know, what institutions reward, and how a person actually lives.
The writing here is one record of that curiosity. It crosses psychology, education, culture and technology, sometimes arriving at a better answer and sometimes discovering a better question.
Views may evolve. That's part of the archive.
More about SahilTHE NEXT ROOM
When a question becomes an experience.
Some ideas continue beyond essays and into music, fragrance and interactive worlds.