Pritesh

Your life is, in some sense, a series of definitions of success.

Words are lossy approximations though. The bandwidth of language is lower than the bandwidth of perception. Sampling with words is like taking a photo with an old camera that can see only a small number of colors.

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 claimi... See more

If you know who you are, you get a civilizational war, if you don’t know who you are, you get a culture war.

If your "taste" doesn't cost you something, it's not taste. It's preference.

Almost every social network of note had an early signature proof of work hurdle. For Facebook it was posting some witty text-based status update. For Instagram, it was posting an interesting square photo. For Vine, an entertaining 6-second video. For Twitter, it was writing an amusing bit of text of 140 characters or fewer. Pinterest? Pinning a com... See more

Outcomes pay the bills. Journeys are what stories are written about.