Ajinkya Wadhwa

Death’s sole responsibility as an editor is to remove the items that Life has written down that are no longer applicable or possible. You can think of Life as the additive editor, and Death as the subtractive one.

As well as gaining points by distancing oneself from unpopular kids, one loses points by being close to them.

Culture, in 3D

And Moochie shapes right up.

While you can see glimmers of this on a day-to-day basis, nowhere is this more apparent than on your wedding day. If having meals with your friends here and there are like small investments that add up in your Happiness Portfolio, your wedding day is like having a huge IPO (going public on the stock market), where you receive a massive investment... See more

Even if you do retire early, the Nothingness of Money won’t begin its descent if your habits continue onward. If you’re still checking your portfolio every time you touch your phone, you are far from understanding the pointlessness of money. If you hesitate to invest in a better diet because of the fiscal cost, you are still held hostage by the... See more

Genes are like gravity—they don’t care. They want to stay immortal, and they’ll pursue that goal as relentlessly as gravity fuses atoms inside stars. Just as there’s finite space in the center of a star, there are finite resources in the animal world—finite land, finite shelter, finite food, finite mates—which makes gene endeavors a zero-sum game.... See more

For example, if a friend told you that he wanted “I outperformed the S&P 500” on his tombstone, your immediate reaction would be to laugh. There is no way you’d take it as anything other than a joke.

One motivation that works particularly well for me is curiosity. I like to try new things just to see how they'll turn out.