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Circa
By Vipulesh ThiyagarajahBusiness
Circa episodes
- Augusta Is a Feeling: Why The Masters Is the Most Beautiful Event in Sport
Inside the Veblen good that every luxury house envies.
8 min - The Bitter Lesson of AI
Why Brute Force Beats Human Insight in AI—and What That Means for Geopolitics, Energy, and Civilization
15 min - One Year Since the Launch of My Book Sonder: Reflections from the Manifesto
To mark the first anniversary of my debut non-fiction book on meaning and the inner workings of our lives, I’m sharing one of my favorite excerpts on mimetic theory and the anatomy of desire.
https://vipuleshthiyagarajah.com/novel
16 min - Clay Courts and Champagne: A Weekend at Roland Garros
Where Tennis Becomes Theatre and Tradition Meets Quiet Luxury.
The ideas explored in this essay are drawn from a chapter I originally wrote for my book, Sonder: An Existential Manifesto (2024). The script was generated from a substack article I wrote: https://vipuleshthiyagarajah.substack.com/p/clay-courts-and-champagne-a-weekend
7 min - Is AI Making Us Dumb?
Thoughtless Thinking, Cognitive Offloading, and the Quiet Decline of Deep Work.
The ideas explored in this essay are drawn from a chapter I originally wrote for my book, Sonder: An Existential Manifesto (2024). The script was generated from a substack article I wrote: https://vipuleshthiyagarajah.substack.com/p/we-are-nothing-and-thats-not-nothing
7 min - The Beauty of an Inconsequential Life
What a rodent utopia, cosmic odds, and existential dread reveal about the human condition.
The ideas explored in this essay are drawn from a chapter I originally wrote for my book, Sonder: An Existential Manifesto (2024). The script was generated from a substack article I wrote: https://vipuleshthiyagarajah.substack.com/p/we-are-nothing-and-thats-not-nothing
9 min - Are We the Generation that Will Never Die?
From immortality to artificial intelligence, we are advancing faster than we can adapt—exploring the human cost of progress in an ever-changing world.
8 min - Exploring Ray Dalio's Theory: The Fragility of American Hegemony
The Death of Superpowers: Lessons from 500 Years of Hegemony.
The ideas explored in this essay are drawn from a chapter I originally wrote for my book, Sonder: An Existential Manifesto (2024). The blog post is on my Substack: https://vipuleshthiyagarajah.substack.com/p/the-pursuit-of-happiness-and-the
- Vipulesh Thiyagarajah
Author of "Sonder: An Existential Manifesto"14 min - Are Emotions Contagious?
How Personality, Proximity, and Psychology Shape the People We Become.
The ideas explored in this essay are drawn from a chapter I originally wrote for my book, Sonder: An Existential Manifesto (2024).
Originally written on my Substack Blog.
- Vipulesh Thiyagarajah
Author of "Sonder: An Existential Manifesto"10 min - The Crisis Generation: Gen Z Stands at the Crossroads of Collapse & Reinvention
An Existential Reading of History, Memory, and the Generational Mandate.
The ideas explored in this essay are drawn from a chapter I originally wrote for my book, Sonder: An Existential Manifesto (2024).
If this resonated, I write weekly on history, economics, and human potential. Subscribe to my substack: https://vipuleshthiyagarajah.substack.com/p/the-crisis-generation-why-gen-z-stands
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About Circa
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Circa is a weekly podcast hosted by Vipulesh Thiyagarajah — Sri Lankan author of Sonder: An Existential Manifesto and entrepreneur. Each episode features in-depth conversations with some of the most interesting minds in business, politics, philosophy, economics, culture, and sport.
Guests include business leaders, politicians, film-makers, tech founders, economists, authors, and athletes. Topics range from existential philosophy and geopolitics to entrepreneurship, investing, sport, cinema, and what it actually means to build something that lasts.