Three and half years in a high functioning startup can feel like a lifetime—blurring the memory of what came before. My time at Ultrahuman has been transformative—it's when I did what I believe is my life’s best work, with countless new experiences and firsts.
I will keep repeating this.
The
#coronavirus
is a huge problem. Ignoring the problem is a non solution. The Indian economy will be destroyed if strong action is not taken. The government is in a stupor.
I recently took to learning more about
#Basavanna
and his philosophy. Troubled by the religious polarity in my country, I turned to his Vachanas to seek substance and direction. The experience has been truly liberating!
Today I complete my 60mins x 60days of meditation. I’d been meditating for about 20 mins everyday for the last 6-8 months but this practice remains highly differentiated. The journey is powerful and inexplicable — just something you have to do yourself to understand fully.
Terrific conversation bw
@naval
&
@ToKTeacher
about defining Science, Popperian Falsification, David Deutsch’s ‘Beginning of Infinity’, Pessimism, Democracy, Error Correction & more.
Bret was one of the people I wanted to see with Naval on CH. Others being Kapil G and NNT.
Last year this time, I missed the midnight countdown b/c I was so involved in writing my bschool essays hoping to get recruited into US startups in 2024 for the same role I’m almost a year into now.
Not to mention the 1.5-2cr saved JLT.
Thinking of posting my favourite pieces from
#TheUpanishads
as I read it. This could be a long thread.
You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
1/n
If we form govt in Punjab in 2022, then we will give every woman of the state, who is above 18 years of age, Rs 1000 per month. If a family has 3 female members then each will get Rs 1000. This'll be the world's biggest women empowerment program: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in Moga
Caffeine is a fascinating molecule and one of nature’s best gifts to humanity. It’s the most widely popular (permissible) drug consumed by billions, daily. If you’re an active user, it’s worth figuring out how to make caffeine work for you.
For the love of caffeine, we built a
Dad and I were chatting the other night about an ethical dilemma I was struggling with. He said something so counterintuitive yet profound; he said ‘if you want to suffer, focus on yourself.’
Reassuring to learn that there’s now an open dialogue about regulation rather than ban of cryptocurrencies in India.
@Tejasvi_Surya
I urge you to take a stand and represent me and the 7+ millions like me who believe that India needs to adopt progressive crypto policies.
Scribblings from The Mahabharat
Dharma is like the Sun, ever shining and bright and brings the day and love is like the moon, comforting but also brings darkness.
Something miraculous happens when you become an observer of your own self—you're able to dispassionately surveil your decisions and outcomes; mentor yourself.
Meditation gives you the time and space for that. It's personal housekeeping.
A sizeable population of India is still weary & pessimistic about tech—this sort of cultural backwardness can cost us decades worth of innovation & sovereignty if ignored.
So glad to see the likes of
@RMantri
@APanagariya
talk to & play tech evangelists for young Indians.
Keeping in touch with friends through memes is smart, not lazy. Humans have an insatiable need to belong with other humans. Meme-makers understand this psyche very well. The more idiosyncratic the meme, the higher the likelihood of belongingness.
I spent the last 24hrs rather interestingly. 24hr long dry (no water*, no food) & speech fast. Out of which, I spent ~10 hours still, in meditation.
Purely for the joy of testing & pushing my body’s limits. Also so I could appreciate this pizza I’m about to eat very much 🍕
I highly recommend
@iam_preethi
's crypto course to those who want to transcend the crypto-babble and strap onto something with roots. She dissects the Bitcoin whitepaper, how peers in the network communicate, how miners are incentivised, bitcoin privacy, the UTXO model etc
It’s so poetically fulfilling to lose sleep over the very thing that gifts you good sleep (of many things) :-)
Building something incredible with the team here
@UltrahumanHQ
🚀
Van Gogh on unrealised talent—Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.
This is probably the most obnoxious thing I'll say in public but if I could take a pill or drink something which tends to my daily nutrient & calorie requirements, I would happily do it. Masticating is a daily waste of time.
I would, however, eat leisurely on vacation.
You get the things you really want not by getting them but by not wanting them anymore. It's a bittersweet realisation.
I recall an excellent quote by Jed Mckenna — you don’t wake up by perfecting your dream character, you wake up by breaking free of it.
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It’s both terrifying and amazing at once to realise that, as the only child, I get to be the only one in the world to carry fwd the legacy of a wonderful human being that is my father.
Pain is the most profound emotion to exist. Observing Partition Horrors Remembrance Day will change things for India importantly. Touching our wounds and remembering our pain will prevent us from damaging ourselves further.
Also, Happy Indian Independence Day! 🇮🇳
I never got to see my grandfather. But I was always told that we’re similar in a lot of ways and I found it preposterous to compare to me a man so great. I still do.
Yesterday, my mom found one of his books while cleaning. The same one that I’d added to my reading list on Kindle.
Sharing as I read: My favorite pieces from
#Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
In man’s life his time is a mere instant, his existence a flux, his perception fogged, his whole bodily composition rotting, his mind a whirligig, his fortunes unpredictable, his fame unclear.
1/n
It’s fascinating—the friends I try to keep in touch w showed up at our close friend’s wedding many hrs late. & the friends I fail to keep in touch w—visited me at the hospital, picked me up from the airport, ate breakfast w me.
Both excellent btw—just diff people w diff values.
“Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.”
—Ronald Reagan
Given that the pandemic has rendered traditional exam-taking unfeasible, the open-book exam culture can be providential. The genius of Indians is corrupted by rote learning; we need more of us to think critically, be resourceful and think on the feet.
Minutes from a recent podcast of the
@bharatvaarta
w the magnanimous,
@svembu
. He talks about 'transnational localism', true sense of self-reliance, edu/ upskilling, forsaken ITI's, ramping up production know-how, policymaking and more in the Indian context.
#BuildForIndia
1
We should bring back hanging with each other at our homes.
It occurred to me today when I paid an arbitrary visit to a friend's friend's home. From knowing nothing at all about her to learning little things about her territory was wonderful!
Software literacy is an emerging dominant race which will be a superset of all other races.
Acknowledged or not, we’re in a global software apartheid. The world will be divided into software literates and software illiterates; the latter being the marginalised group.
This was an idea I proposed to my prof for my final year engg project and I was told it doesn’t sit well with ‘industrial engineering’. Plus the college won’t fund it.
👀
Here's to a man who showed how an average, middle-class engineering student can dream big, question the status-quo and be whoever the hell they wanted to be. It'll never be the same without you,
@itsSSR
.