Mayank Rai · Notes from an unfinished inquiry

Are you really free?

Define LIFE.

01Ideas

A cabinet of working positions.

Six subjects, one screen. Each card opens in place; the page itself never drifts between sections.

01 · POLITICS

Power & public life

Democracy, policy, citizenship and the ordinary experience of institutions.

02 · SPIRITUALITY

The inner search

Practice, attention, meaning and the relationship between inner and outer change.

03 · TECHNOLOGY

AI & human judgment

How tools alter learning, work, attention and the choices people can make.

04 · CULTURE

Stories & society

What film, television and popular culture reveal about their makers and audiences.

05 · EDUCATION

Learning & opportunity

Classrooms, examinations, mentoring and the architecture of academic programmes.

06 · SYSTEMS

Institutions at work

How organisations translate intention into routines, incentives and responsibility.

02Work

Writing, AI & research.

Finished writing, AI work and research live together here without adding another layer to the homepage.

03Reading

A small, considered shelf.

Four recommendations visible at once. The separate Must Read gallery remains available from Home.

Education

Teaching to Transgress

Education as the practice of freedom rather than passive transfer.

bell hooks

Institutions

Seeing Like a State

What large systems lose when they simplify people and places.

James C. Scott

Public life

The Idea of Justice

Justice through comparison, public reasoning and lived capability.

Amartya Sen

Attention

The World Beyond Your Head

Attention, skill and why freedom requires a world that answers back.

Matthew B. Crawford

04Learning paths

Four places worth the time.

Each route has a distinct purpose: intuition, practical AI, technical depth and open university learning.

Interactive foundations

Brilliant

Visual, problem-led mathematics, science, programming and data lessons.

Build intuition ↗ Practical AI

OpenAI Academy

AI foundations, responsible use, repeatable workflows and agents.

Build fluency ↗ Technical AI

DeepLearning.AI

Foundational specialisations and focused courses led by practitioners.

Go deeper ↗ Open university

MIT OpenCourseWare

Notes, assignments, exams and lectures from thousands of MIT courses.

Study openly ↗

05Useful apps

A practical digital dock.

Hover or select an icon. All six tools remain visible; only the description changes.

useful-apps / selected-tool

NOTES · KNOWLEDGE · PROJECTS

Notion

A flexible workspace for notes, databases, plans and connected reference material.

Visit selected app ↗

06Screen

Stories watched. Ideas carried forward.

Four selections remain visible; the complete shelf opens over this same section rather than lengthening the page.

Film · Historical drama

Schindler’s List

Moral choice, complicity and survival during the Holocaust.

Film · Favourite

The Silence of the Lambs

Investigation, manipulation and nerve.

Series · British crime drama

Criminal Justice

Accusation, custody, trial and institutional pressure.

Series · Comedy-drama

Fleabag

Grief, desire, self-sabotage and connection.

07Conversation

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