Kartik Singhal

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Kartik is Currently Reading

Kartik Singhal is currently reading

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 06, 2026 03:51PM

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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

by William Dalrymple

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Kartik’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance

The Inaugural Address, 2009: Together with Abraham Lincoln's First and Second Inaugural Addresses and The Gettysburg Address and Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance by Barack Obama

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance,” a cornerstone of American philosophy, and one of Obama’s favorite works, calls for our trust in individual integrity, rather than in materialism and conformity.

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“Anger is a result of life-alienating thinking that is disconnected from needs. It indicates that we have moved up to our head to analyze and judge somebody rather than focus on what we are needing and not getting.”
― Marshall B. Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

tags: analyze, anger, judge, needs

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“Love is when you cease hesitating.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder

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“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

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“Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
― Elif Shafak

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“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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