About this journal

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Most people are not confused about what they want. They are confused about why they want it.

the standing question behind every piece here
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A journal about power, persuasion, and the reasons people do things they cannot explain afterwards. The aim on every piece is the same: show the mechanism, name where the evidence comes from, and stop.

Written and published by one person, which sets both the pace and the limit of what it can cover. Nothing here is ghostwritten, and nothing is published to a schedule.

Wish Master

Who writes this

Deepak Sharma

I am a freelance AI and automation engineer, based in Mumbai. Before this journal existed I spent two years making videos in Hindi about these same subjects — the 48 Laws of Power, how manipulation is actually run on a person, the psychology of people most of us would rather not look at closely. Seventy of them. This is where that work gets written down properly, in English, with the sources attached.

I am nineteen. Worth saying, because it is the obvious objection, and because it is also the reason the reading is first-hand: there is no training here I need to defend, and no client whose industry I need to flatter.

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How this is made

Every piece starts at a primary source — the book, the study, the case file — rather than at a summary of one. The argument gets written badly first, then cut until only the mechanism is left. Where a claim rests on research, the research is named, and so are its limits.

Two kinds of writing run here. Some pieces are rebuilt from the video archive, which means the thinking is already a year or two old and has been argued with in public. Others are written from scratch, usually because a subject turned out to be larger than a video could hold.

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What this covers

Six subjects. They are not really separate — a chapter of the 48 Laws and a study of how a price is read describe the same mechanism at two different scales, which is the reason both belong in one place.

Power
Manipulation
The Dark Triad
How People Buy
Character Studies
Philosophy
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One writer, six recurring subjects.

What this is not

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This is not therapy and I am not a clinician. Nothing here is a diagnosis, and reading about the dark triad is not a method for identifying one in your family.

It is also not advice. These pieces explain how something works; what anyone does with that is a question they do not try to answer. Where I am guessing, I say so in the piece.

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wishmaster.space

wishmaster.live

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This journal is one of three places the same work shows up, all of them mine.

wishmaster.space — the practice itself. AI systems, automation and the work I take on for clients. If you arrived here wondering whether any of this is applied anywhere, that is the page.

wishmaster.live — commercial film and photography, and the archive of what has actually been shot.

One person behind all three. Whichever you came from, the contact page is the same inbox.

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Written in Mumbai, published from a desk that is nothing to look at.

DEEPAK SHARMA
MUMBAI, INDIA

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