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Back when ARGO was just starting out, my cofounder made our founding team watch Devdutt Pattanaik’s East versus West: The Myths that Mystify over and over until it sank in. Not just once, not just twice. On repeat. Because if we were going to build something together-- I can from California and a guy from Hyderabad—we had to learn to approach this venture as equals, not as bearers of some invisible hierarchy. The talk is deceptively simple. Devdutt sketches two maps: the Western obsession with linear progress, binaries, and universal truth, and the Eastern tendency to embrace context, cycles, and many truths. He asks us to notice how much of our thinking is inherited mythology disguised as rationality. The West says: one right way. The East says: many ways. Both can inspire, both can blind. That stuck with me. (continued)

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