Ajinkya Wadhwa

It is for this reason that speculation is a game you can’t win. On one hand, there’s the burden of regret resulting from selling too early (or from selling too late at a realized loss). On the other, there’s the schadenfreude you embody by selling right on time. Whichever path the asset ends up taking, there’s a mental tax to be paid on top of any ... See more

To broaden our vision into 3D, let’s take a super oversimplified example of 500 people living as a community somewhere.

2) Figure out where the mammoth is hiding

One of the biggest things holding people back from doing great work is the fear of making something lame. And this fear is not an irrational one.

So while kindness, in all its manifestations—care, altruism, compassion—was an important survival trait in a world where well-functioning groups were necessary for survival, universal kindness probably wasn’t a great survival trait. Inevitably, other tribes would be selectively kind, shedding all of that kindness when dealing with other tribes. And... See more

Evolution does everything for a reason, and to understand the origin of this particular insanity, let’s back up for a minute to 50,000BC in Ethiopia, where your Great2,000 Grandfather lived as part of a small tribe.

This is The List of Human Experience , and every one of us has our own version of it. I see it as the ledger of our individual existence — the master document that tracks every range of potential experience we can have at any given moment.

Back in the hunter-gatherer days, the Primitive Mind was mostly on point—but in the modern world, it’s our collective mental illness. And no one is immune.