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The Dharma Engine

Bharathan Mudaliar

The Dharma system, reverse engineered through systems thinking and game theory.

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Dharma (Part 2)

Dharma Sankat.

A fairly popular phrase people who claim to know the tradition often reach for when what they actually mean is moral dilemma.

Now I am sure you must be thinking I am splitting hairs here.

You would be right. But it’s impor...

6 days ago
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Dharma (Part 1)

Pick up almost any English-language text on Hinduism and you will find, somewhere near the front, a sentence that looks like this:

Dharma — loosely translated as religion, duty, or moral law.

“Loosely translated.”

The phrase is doing a l...

20 days ago
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Be Good

Be a good human.

Every ethical tradition in history has issued some version of this directive. Every religion. Every philosophy. Every village elder who ever sat a young person down for a serious conversation.

The directive is not wrong....

a month ago
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Karma (Part 2)

Every culture in the world has a version of the same saying.

“What goes around, comes around.”

The Romans had it. The Chinese had it. Every village elder in every tradition has said some version of it to some young person who thought th...

2 months ago
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Karma (Part 1)

Picture a market that everyone knows is closing on Friday.

Not struggling. Not under threat. Definitively, irrevocably, closing on Friday.

Watch what happens to behavior on Thursday.

The vendor, who has been doing business here for decad...

2 months ago
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    Almost entirely blind — useful for thinking about invisible systems. Thorough generalist. Endlessly fascinated by the human mind and the gap between how rationally people think they behave and how they actually do.

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