Karthik Shankar

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Plasmon-enhanced organic field effect transistors The low cost and ease of fabrication of organic electronic devices is often overlooked due to their lower performance parameters and poor stability under atmospheric conditions. Thus, steps need to be taken to improve the technology in meaningful ways to compete with their inorganic counterparts.

Oct 21, 2024 | karthik-shankar.medium.com | Karthik Shankar

Karthik Shankar·Follow5 min read·--The year was 2021: my first year of university. Without any real basis on how I wanted to live, I did what another people did. I had my fair share of partying, relationships, and loneliness. It felt like life was strung together by a single thread somehow pulling me along but willing to snap at any moment. my journey through start of college on the “how I felt about myself” axisThen I encountered Stoic philosophy. And life was still not so great.

Sep 25, 2024 | karthik-shankar.medium.com | Karthik Shankar

What if I told you, that for Abraham Lincoln to win the Civil War and save the United States, he had to not care about the reward of saving the Republic? Hot take? Let me try to break it down with a story about Roman General Scipio. Scipio was a undefeated Roman General that expanded the Roman Empire from it’s modern-day Italian roots to parts of Africa and further east. Upon return home from battle, he was indicted for bribery and eventually voluntarily exiled himself from Rome.

Aug 6, 2024 | karthik-shankar.medium.com | Karthik Shankar

I spoke to a friend recently who told me his long string of removing addictions from his life. Most of them were things surrounding social media use: getting off Instagram and YouTube. He has a few other addictions to go, but in short he told me:The biggest psychology barrier to my friend’s sense of fulfillment was addictions. To feel like his own person, he needed to break the chains of habitual poor choices. The problem is: if you’re addicted to something it means you do not have control.

Jul 31, 2024 | karthik-shankar.medium.com | Karthik Shankar

Do you drift through this world, hoping one day to find freedom? Do you hope one day you'll have enough ofto feel true freedom? We measure progress toward freedom in paychecks and promotions, but what if that's not what freedom is about? Epictetus (55-135 CE), an ancient Stoic philosopher, challenged the idea that no matter how much money or status we acquire, we still might make no progress toward true freedom. What is true freedom then? What does it mean to possess freedom?