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Why I write
The world starts becoming more interesting the moment you stop accepting it at face value.
For me, that's usually where the questions begin.
Why was it designed this way? Why this instead of that? What problem was someone trying to solve? These aren't life-changing questions, but they have a habit of staying with me far longer than they probably should.
I've been told I ask too many questions, and to be honest, they're often random. A small observation suddenly turns into a conversation that nobody expected to have. Over time, I stopped seeing that as a bad habit. It's simply how I understand the world.
I'm rarely searching for the "correct" answer. I'm much more interested in the assumptions behind it. The day you stop questioning assumptions is the day you stop noticing possibilities. Sometimes I end up appreciating the original solution even more once I understand why it exists. Sometimes I change my mind completely. Every outcome teaches me something.
That's what this website is about.
Some essays will be about design. Others might be about products, technology, business, architecture, or something completely ordinary that happened to catch my attention. They all begin the same way: with an observation that refused to leave my mind.
If one of these essays makes you pause and think, "I never looked at it that way before," then I've achieved exactly what I hoped to.
— Raviraj Samant | Build Taste