Ajinkya Wadhwa

While this is undoubtedly a powerful moment, I find this reality to be deeply saddening.

Often, the key to succeeding at something big is to break it into its tiniest pieces and focus on how to succeed at just one piece.

As complicated as it may seem, there are only two editors of this document.

But there is another more sinister reason people dismiss new ideas. If you try something ambitious, many of those around you will hope, consciously or unconsciously, that you'll fail. They worry that if you try something ambitious and succeed, it will put you above them. In some countries this is not just an individual failing but part of the... See more

We can think of the Psych Spectrum like this:

The human Primitive Mind isn’t any nicer than the spider or ant Primitive Mind—but it is a bit more complicated. Unlike spiders and ants, whose independent life form never changes emergence floors, humans are a kind of hybrid creature that inhabits a range along Emergence Tower, not a single floor.

Once you're living in the future in some respect, the way to notice startup ideas is to look for things that seem to be missing. If you're really at the leading edge of a rapidly changing field, there will be things that are obviously missing. What won't be obvious is that they're startup ideas.

A Traffic Test-passing friendship entails: A great sense of humor click. No one wants to spend 50 years fake laughing.

Your Psych Spectrum position ebbs and flows throughout each day, each month, and each year of our lives, as we go through happy times and hard times, great days and terrible ones, good moods and crankiness. Even a single bad night’s sleep has the potential to lower you down the spectrum the next day. But if we could quantify all of your various... See more