01 · Polymathy in practice
An open notebook from one mind, across as many domains as it can hold. Updated whatever week the loop is still running.
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The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar·52%
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Slipwise
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ICS — Marine Insurance
Exam in 4 days
02 · From the notebook
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On certifying and learning
Why credentials are artifacts of learning, not proxies for it.
2026-05-12·Certifying versus learning
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Open notebook as discipline, not vanity
2026-05-09·Polymathy in practice
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Partition as bureaucratic invention
Zamindar argues that the boundary made the migration, not the other way around.
2026-05-04·Partition citizenship
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Slipwise — what I can say publicly this month
2026-05-02·Building Slipwise in public
03 · Active threads
thread map →Certifying versus learning
On the difference between passing exams and actually knowing things. The argument that credentials are artifacts, not proxies.
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Building Slipwise in public
A bounded thread on what can be said publicly while building a regulated marine insurance product. Decisions, not client work.
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Partition citizenship
Reading notes accumulating around Zamindar and the long aftermath of 1947 — citizenship as bureaucratic invention rather than identity claim.
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Polymathy in practice
Notes on working across many domains without becoming a dilettante. Practice as the verb that does the load-bearing.
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04 · From across the site
If you are new here, start with the Life Plan — it is the surface that sets the principles every other surface checks against.