A place where I organise the chaos of my mind
Life is full ups and downs, but the Instagram culture that has taken this world by storm will have us believe it’s always about winning because winning is the only thing that makes it to instagram. Here’s a part of my story you don’t hear often but it’s always great to hear them. Everyday and […]
We do things that are contrary to what we set out to do, more often than we care to observe. That makes us our enemies. But how can we put a stop to that or minimize it? Yesterday’s article “You Are Your Enemy” seeks to uncover hidden conditioning that are meant to keep us from […]
We all try hard in life to attain “success”. But what is success? More money in the account, more time with family or both? And how can we achieve both without sacrificing the other? This is a personal struggle and I believe it’s more integral in human society than we might like to admit. We […]
Our natural conditioning subjects us to a lifestyle where what’s most convenient for us to do are things we don’t want to do. One of the very important lessons I learnt from Cognitive Science is that “I am my enemy and you are your enemy as well” An enemy is someone who opposes you, harms you […]
We try a lot to judge things from the prism of black and white but does anything under the green planet qualify for such prism? Human misjudgment is a concept that grabbed my attention since I learnt about it from Charlie Munger. The idea of misjudgment is simple, because of our psychological and cognitive conditioning as human, […]
The way of the world and how you can use that to your advantage Entropy is a concept in Physics that explains the natural state of the world. It teaches that in a state of nature, things move from orderliness to disorderliness or disorderliness to more disorderliness. What I’ve observed and experienced in life is that […]
Your only best bet to getting what you want from life I wrote an article once. The central idea of the article was that “you won’t get what you want or what you are after because you aren’t going to do the work it requires to get it.” That’s still very much valid. Don’t say […]
Things that exposes you to unfair advantages I am fond of saying, Optimize for advantages. Ensure those advantages are such that can compound. Optimize obsessively for such advantages. And Your advantage is best if it is domain agnostics. So here’s what I mean by all of that. Advantages are things that you acquire, develop or […]
Whatever your definition of arrival may be, money and work that challenges you must be part of it “What are you optimizing for” is a question that has never stopped haunting me. I remember it when I’m starting something new and when I’m doing the norm. Optimizing asks what are you getting better at daily? What […]
The appearances of wealth is not wealth. You have to define what wealth is for you. Your definition should put into context the idea of local and global maxima Remember that “desire is a contact you make with yourself not to be happy” ~ Naval Ravikant Appearance Of Wealth Is Not Wealth I recently posted one of […]
