Pritesh

Memes and Aphorisms are the same thing.

The past wasn’t as good as you remember. The present isn’t as bad as you think. The future will be better than you anticipate.

Identities are interfaces. They mediate between your interiority and the outside world. Each identity provides a set of affordances—things they allow you to do. If you have access to the identity “cop,” you can do and say things that others can’t.

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

Archilochus: “The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

You walk to get out of your head. To breathe. To let your mind drift without crashing.

You don’t walk to fix the problem—you walk because you need space from it.

Culture as the ultimate accountability system

At its best, culture isn’t a poster on a wall or a paragraph in a mission statement. It’s the operating system that lets people communicate, execute and hold one another accountable without endless escalation or micromanagement.

“you want to force a choice and not a comparison... If everybody’s selling apples, I can’t be a 10 times better apple. I want to be the world’s first banana.”