Ajinkya Wadhwa

Marriage is Forgettable Wednesday. Together.

The mammoth’s hurricane of fear of social disapproval plays a factor in most parts of most people’s lives.

A single cell is itself a giant—a magical living giant made up of trillions of non-living atoms—and an animal is a higher-level giant made up of trillions of cells. This concept—a bunch of smaller things joining together to form a giant that can function as more than the sum of its parts—is called emergence. We can visualize it as a tower.

The second place a mammoth hides is in the way-too-good feelings you get from feeling accepted or on a pedestal over other people.

The Box of Daily Experience.

That tool was called retirement.

Let’s return to the world of ancient human giants. As we discussed, the glue of raw tribalism is only so strong, which imposed a ceiling on tribe size for a long time.

The fact that the best ideas seem like bad ideas makes it even harder to recognize the big winners. It means the probability of a startup making it really big is not merely not a constant fraction of the probability that it will succeed, but that the startups with a high probability of the former will seem to have a disproportionately low... See more

Pretty normal, right? Now, let’s look at a procrastinator’s brain: