Nabeel S. Qureshi

What Makes Art Great?

Some notes toward an answer

May 3 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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December 2025

On Reading Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

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Dec 18, 2025 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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October 2024

Reflections on Palantir

A retrospective of an eight-year stint.

Oct 15, 2024 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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July 2023

Notes on Puzzles

1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is…

Jul 11, 2023 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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July 2022

Advice That Actually Worked For Me

My contribution to the 'productivity advice' genre.

Jul 4, 2022 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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July 2020

How To Understand Things

The smartest person I’ve ever known had a habit that, as a teenager, I found striking...

Jul 2, 2020 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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June 2020

Video Games are the Future of Education

The things you learn by yourself stick; the things that are “taught” to you do not stick.

Jun 21, 2020 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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January 2020

Notes on Karl Popper

A woven web of guesses

Jan 26, 2020 • Nabeel S. Qureshi

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