Pritesh

Mysteries offer no such clarity of definition, and no objectively correct solution: they are imbued with vagueness and indeterminacy. We approach mysteries by asking ‘What is going on here?’, and recognise that even afterwards our understanding is likely to be only partial. They provide none of the comfort and pleasure of reaching the ‘right’... See more

“An insight is a non-obvious truth about how one or more inflections can be harnessed to change people’s behavior.” While inflection points are about a tech wave, or regulatory / cultural shift, insight is fundamentally about customer behaviour. Inflections provide the ‘why now?’ and the insight helps you take advantage of it.

If your boss asks for loyalty, give him integrity. If your boss asks for integrity, give him loyalty.

Robert Greene notes that the “Master” is observing not just “the moves of the pieces on the chessboard but the entire game, involving the psychologies of the players, their strategies in real time, their past experiences influencing the present, the comfort of the chairs they are sitting in, how their energies affect each other — in a word,... See more

“Inspiration comes on the twenty-fifth attempt, not the first. If you want to make something excellent, don’t wait for a brilliant idea to strike. Create twenty-five of what you need and one will be great. Inspiration reveals itself after you get the average ideas out of the way, not before you take the first step.”

Cynicism is a completely reasonable defense against fraud and bullshit.

One reason Gen Z trusts influencers so much is that they feel like they actually know them. “Influencers feel like friends,” says Millie, a 16-year-old student from Leeds. “The more you see them, the more you trust them, even though they are technically strangers.” Their frequent posting schedule, sometimes 10-plus times a day, makes teenagers feel... See more

Trust, though, is an immensely socially useful technology. Human civilization has a fundamental limitation in that all humans can be trivially killed while sleeping. Huge portions of society’s efforts go toward establishing conditions where this trivial vulnerability virtually never gets exploited. God has, reportedly, closed all bug reports... See more