Pritesh

A symbol, in its simplest form, is an object that stands for another object, giving it an arbitrary association. In this way, a symbol is a sign that has acquired a conventional meaning through habitual use.

Culture is both an explanation and a non-explanation.

The luxury of knowing is rarer than you think, and we probably underestimate just how much that impacts our day to day lives and the lives of those closest to us who aren’t so lucky.

small . This fact drives everything about debt collection; it has to be done scalably, by the cheapest labor available, with a minimum of customization or thoughtful weighing of competing interests.

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.

The point being: Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.

I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get... See more

A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.

"The Grand Canyon wouldn't be so popular if it was just a uniform trench. The trick is controlling and managing chaos and turning it into something useful."