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One of the problems with being "rational" in your own estimation is that you are probably only being rational about one dimension of a surprisingly co
I imagine there actually are plenty of things stopping you, as there were for me. The biggest thing is that if you grew up in a largely Westernized, s
Novelist Charles Kingsley on happiness: “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us hap
And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed hu
The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn
I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate
Every phase of life can be shopped for at Costco. Where else can you purchase a wedding ring, a baby carrier, and a casket? It follows your own life s
when i'm tied up in consumption, creation is lost to me; i am no longer the writer, the creative, the poet, the artist, but the eater, the viewer, the
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over
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A good life doesn’t ask you to be good at everything. It asks you to find the small circle where you have unusual leverage, and to be peacefully avera
My father was a Sarkari Babu (government officer with basic salary) his entire life, he was at one job throughout his life. He drove a Bajaj scooter
That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rathe
Traumatisation is most usually presented as anunassailable, concrete fact, and this is where I need to be respectful. If someone brings a firmconvicti
when the trauma label has been appliedby outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place andour culture
1. It doesn’t have to be new. It just has to be fresh. The toy brick was invented (and patented) by British toymaker, Hilary Fisher Page in the 195
90% of Claude’s code is now written by AI, and this has completely transformed how they build products. The bottlenecks have shifted from engineering
hottest companies in Silicon Valley, famous for one thing: they made an extremely boring product extremely beloved. He speaks about how «technology ma
The shock we’re experiencing now can’t be summarized as present shock, which happens when we become blindly obsessed with the present moment. Nor is i
You could call all of these events surprising, but I’m not sure any of them could be convincingly labeled unexpected. Such is the paradox of our times
“What shocks me the most when i travel to the West is that even the new generations dread the future and display many of the symptoms associated with
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
Hanlon’s Razor is a useful mental model which can be best summarized as: ‘Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by negle
We should all want to cultivate a thirty second mind that can absorb the essence of a problem and come up with insights based on deep fluency with how
On Being Lost
