PinnedInThe Hub PublicationbyShaant·Apr 21, 2025I Learned a Skill So Deep in Poverty That the Rich Will Never Know It ExistsMy life as poor student taught me survival, not characterA response icon420A response icon420
PinnedInKnow Thyself, Heal ThyselfbyShaant·May 14, 2025I Moved From India to the US and Learned How Freedom Can Quietly Make You LonelyMy time in America revealed freedom’s comforts, contradictions, and unexpected isolationA response icon213A response icon213
PinnedShaant·Apr 24, 2025I Didn’t Know These Common Habits Were Signs of Mental Health IssuesRecognizing mental health struggles hidden behind everyday habits and quiet survivalA response icon817A response icon817
PinnedInThe New OutdoorsbyShaant·Aug 29, 2025I Survived Lightning Twice — Here’s What the Universe Isn’t Telling YouThe rare lessons from surviving lightning you can use in wealth and riskA response icon97A response icon97
PinnedInRide the WavebyShaant·Apr 13, 2025What Disappeared Over 20 Years When We Weren’t LookingA personal inventory of the ordinary things — fireflies, film cameras, boredom itself — that quietly vanished from our livesA response icon106A response icon106
InKnow Thyself, Heal ThyselfbyShaant·Jun 17For Six Weeks After Our Loss, We Kept Telling Each Other We Were FineWhat happened when two grieving people tried too hard to protect each otherA response icon10A response icon10
InKnow Thyself, Heal ThyselfbyShaant·Apr 12My Girlfriend and I Chose an Abortion After a Severe Fetal DiagnosisI thought I understood the decision, but I wasn’t prepared for how it would stay with meA response icon25A response icon25
InThe New OutdoorsbyShaant·Apr 12I Spent Six Months Learning to Ride Horses. I Learned Why They Let Humans Ride Them.Apparently, it had nothing to do with control — I just wasn’t giving clear signals they could followA response icon9A response icon9
InKnow Thyself, Heal ThyselfbyShaant·Mar 4I Returned to the U.S. Expecting a Higher Salary to Mean StabilityInstead, I found that rising fixed costs and shrinking financial slack made everyday life feel more fragile than it had years agoA response icon8A response icon8
InRide the WavebyShaant·Mar 4The Operational Clues That Tell Me a Restaurant Actually Knows What It’s DoingYears of eating out taught me that great restaurants reveal themselves long before the food arrivesA response icon2A response icon2