The Open QuestionEssays by Pranshu Sanghai

The Open Question

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4 Nov 2026 5 min read

The Door That Didn’t Know

On a statistics question I got wrong in 2019 and still don’t fully believe

By Pranshu Sanghai

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On judgment, work, education,
and the institutions that shape us.

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Judgment14 Oct 2026

Everyone Is Working Off a Sample

Nobody has met a city or a company. They have met a few people and filed them under the name

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Work & judgment2 Sept 2026

The Abstract Case Has No Framework. That, It Turns Out, Is the Framework

On the case type nobody drills for, why most of it is familiar terrain entered through a side door, and the one I got badly wrong first

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Identity18 Jul 2026

You Play the Role Long Enough, the Role Starts Playing You

On becoming someone you aren't, staying that person by accident, and the bill that arrives after everyone's gone home

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Education30 Mar 2026

The Exam Was On Paper. The Course Was On Excel

On academics, priorities, and the strange ritual of writing things out by hand

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People & institutions28 Feb 2026

Twelve People I Would Never Have Met Otherwise

On com culture, thirteen perspectives, and learning more outside the classroom than in it

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Education25 Feb 2026

I Did an MBA and It Did Something to Me

A mostly honest account of two years at IIM Lucknow

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I work at Boston Consulting Group, where outputs are structured and timelines are fixed. I also write, where neither is true.

This is where I think out loud about how people decide, what institutions teach us, and why familiar answers sometimes stop working.

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