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A tweet I’m proud of (#188)

For this blog post, just sharing one of the simplest tweets I’m proudest of to have written; the thought of which still baffles me: Ironic how we are trying to create computers that can “think…

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The Power of Thought (#187)

Almost everything to do with the evidence of modern civilization is the manifestation of thought. Think about it, from primitive huts to heaven-kissing skyscrapers, from Stone Age doodles to the Mona Lisa, the significance of…

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Some questions (#185)

– Why is gravity still considered a force when it is known since the 1910s that gravity is just a manifestation of the curvature of spacetime? (H/T: Twitter) – Will ChatGPT kill the student essay?…

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Dead Poets Society: a film review (#181)

This is another article I wrote for the Taking Children Seriously website. This time, its a film review! On the thoroughly inspiring, and somewhat infuriating film Dead Poets Society featuring Robin Williams. Read it on…

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but why can’t I ask “why”? (#177)

In school, I’m often accused of talking back at the teacher. One day, after being annoyed by a seemingly unreasonable question for the nth time, the teacher coldly demanded of me, “Never ask me why.”…

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Experience is beyond concepts (#172)

Automatically, we associate experience with some concept. “This is good”, “This feels bad”, “I’m happy”, “I love doing this”. However specific our words might be and whatever feeling we get about so-and-so being the perfect…

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List of double-edged swords (#171)

A double-edged sword is anything that can have favorable and unfavorable consequences. I pose a list of fundamental double-edged swords to the human condition below. A double-edged sword doesn’t have to be unfavorable. Making explicit…

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“Is it compulsory?” (#167)

The TEACHER has just explained the details of an assignment to the entire class. A STUDENT raises his hand. TEACHER: [to the student] Yes, do you have a doubt relating to what I just said?…

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Some thoughts on death (#164)

A young friend recently died; It was a shock to hear. Something that happens in an instance,but affects the indefinite future;when isn’t death a shock? Yet, a sudden death makes one reflect.”If I were to…

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Leaving Earth (#162)

This is an essay I wrote for the Eon Essay Contest. “The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but [hu]mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”  KONSTANTIN TSIOLKOVSKY The Space Race (1955-1975) between the United States…

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Because I say so (#159)

“Mom, can I […]?” “No.” “Why?” “Because you can’t.” “But why can’t I?” “Because it isn’t good.” “Why?” “Because I say so.” [Moans with disappointment, accepts defeat.] Because I say so. Impatience usually is the…

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The world in 2072 (#156)

AD 2072, The World. People have had many understandings of the laws of the Universe in the past. They weren’t all labeled understandings of the ‘laws of the Universe’ but essentially suggested what we mean…

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Craving for explanations (#154)

“Is there is a meaning of life?” Many people naturally ponder on the meaning of life question. As humans who are thirsty to understand the world, we crave explanations for our existence. What’s the purpose…

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Being Doraemon’s Innovator (#152)

Just so we’re on the same page: we all agree that a child’s creativity is one of the most important things to them, right? Also, isn’t watching cartoons and fantasy shows “a waste of time”?…

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Learnings to Unlearn (#149)

Unlearning is the new meta-skill. Though it doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. You can’t really learn evolution without unlearning creationism (the idea that the Universe was created by a supernatural power). You…

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Nullius in verba (#148)

It’s easy to accept the most irrational ideas when one doesn’t give them any thought and blindly accepts them because they’re the most obvious ones. It isn’t natural to humans to question their own tightly…

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Douglas Adams On Religion (#144)

The following is an excerpt from a speech by Douglas Adams on the troubles on speaking against religion in free society. One can openly share their perspective on the best economic system and their political…

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Why we are the biggest threat (#142)

In the previous post, I started with a bold conjecture. I wrote: The biggest threat to humanity is itself. This is because I think it’s true if we take absolute accountability for our species. Climate…

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Wars are dumb (#141)

The biggest threat to humanity is itself. I don’t know a lot about what’s going on between Russia and Ukraine right now. This short post doesn’t delve into the details, though it teaches a good…

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An Unconventional View of Happiness (#140)

Most people and standard definitions associate happiness to a feeling of pleasure and joy. I don’t find that view very compelling. So I’m going to propose an unconventional (and hopefully more promising) view of happiness…

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Lessons from A Shower (#139)

Observation I took cold showers almost every morning throughout the entire winter. Very rarely would I take a hot shower either for the sake of pleasure or when I was sick. But the contrast in…

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The Challenge of Obstacles (#138)

A lot of what we talk about on this blog is to do with how we look at certain things. The perspective from which we are viewing the world. And how is that vision advantageous…

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Battle Between Emotion & Rationale (#135)

There’s two ways we think: (1) with emotion and (2) with rationale. They both work together but often fight against each other due to the immense differences in their goals. Emotion’s goal is alerting the…

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Is Money Evil? (#134)

This is part two of the 2-part money series on this blog. You can read part one here where we discussed what makes people believe in money and how it works. No, money isn’t evil.…

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The Secrets of Life (#131)

Last week marked 15 years since the first time Steve Jobs showed the iPhone to the world. In honor of that here’s a short remark he made about the secrets of life in an interview…

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History of Racism (#130)

This post was originally created for the newsletter subscribers. You can subscribe or learn more here. This is a theory of how discrimination against African Americans came to be what it is today. It began with…

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Abundance (#127)

Teenagers today often hear from last generation people that back in those days, we didn’t stare at screens all day, we went outside and did stuff. But if only there were something known as the…

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Anger & The Hulk (#126)

The Hulk teaches us a lot about anger. He’s good at destroying the enemy when he’s angry, but sometimes that irrational mind goes down the wrong path. When Bruce Banner is subjected to a certain…

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The Compound Effect Book Summary (#124)

Notes from Darren Hardy’s book The Compound Effect.This is a combination of quotes directly from the book with certain adjustments for context, as well as my personal thoughts. What is the compound effect? The Compound…

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Fear or Love? (#122)

Are you letting yourself be led by fear or by love? If there’s one thing that stops us from doing what we love, that’s fear. Inaction, and often undesired action; boils down to having insufficient…

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Keep Room for Uncertainty (#121)

A lot is uncertain.Often, the things that are supposed to go in a way, don’t go so.It’s hard to accept but it remains an outstanding fact that most of the stuff in life is uncertain.The…

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Abundance is Deceiving (#120)

It’s common to see that when we have an abundance of something, we don’t really care too much about it. But when we have a scarcity of something, we dwell too much on it. We…

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How to Start Something New Out (#117)

I mention “Monkey Mind” quite throughout this article. It constantly seeks instant gratification. It works on instinct and impulse. It thinks through feeling, not logic. We all have it, but with reason we can turn…

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How to Remember What You Read (#113)

“I just sit in my office and read all day.”Warren Buffett Reading books has lately become one of my greatest habits. But only reading them and taking in information isn’t going to help if the…

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Aligning Words With Actions (#112)

Often, we say something, mean something, and we do a whole ‘nother thing, if not completely the opposite of what we had said.When I say “said”, I don’t just mean words spoken by you to…

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30 Days of Cold Showers (#111)

My Experience & Why I Don’t Plan to Fall Back to Hot Showers Cold showers have turned into a really hot thing right now, backed by “scientific evidence” said to bring about a lot of…

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On the Shortness of Time (#110)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca wrote a moral essay sometime back in 49 AD titled ‘De Brevitate Vitae’ (‘On the Shortness of Life’ in English) This article is partly inspired by his Stoic…

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Becoming Curious (#109)

Step 1. Awareness Children are fast learners. Quite faster than the average adult. They pick up how to speak and learn their first language in no time. Whereas, an adult who knows how to speak…

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Mental Links (#108)

Note: mental links, mental models, mental connections, heuristics and systems thinking; all roughly mean the same in psychology. I’ll use the term “mental links” throughout this article. Our minds are incredible at linking and connecting…

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Left Brain + Right Brain Thinking (#105)

The human brain is a subtly brilliant thing. Its capacities and intriguing manners literally amaze me every day—to this day! Its immense size is wonderful. Its complexity is breathtaking. Everything about it is just so…

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Is Reality Relative? (#104)

17 years ago the city council in Monza, Italy (famous for its Formula 1 Grand Prix) prohibited pet owners from keeping their goldfish in bowls (like the one in the picture above). Here’s part of…

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Build People (#103)

People may forget what you say and people may forget what you do. But no one will ever forget how you made them feelMaya Angelou Read the above quote once again, if you please, and…

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Evolution of the brain (#102)

Everything we do, every thought we’ve ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets,…

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Big Mind, small mind (#101)

A popular idea in the Zen tradition—Big Mind, small mind—sets out to explain two different, and extreme perspectives of looking at the world. One is looking at everything from the cosmic scale, aka the Big…

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100

Today and this post together mark day and article #100 on this blog. The enthusiasm and desire to write everyday and share it with a delightful audience through this blog still reside sincerely in my…

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099 The Resistance (at first)

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” Leonardo da Vinci The mind is eminent for its resistance. We occasionally experience resistance even to doing things that we deep-down really want to…

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098 Think Week

I read and think.Warren Buffett Bill Gates has revealed an important practice which helped him think very well during the early years at Microsoft. Twice a year, Gates would take a 7 day Think Week.…

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097 Fear

Fear always screams loudest when your magic is closestRobin Sharma (EHM) Fear protected us (as it still does, but to a different extent). It was quite important at the time for our homo Sapiens species,…

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096 Breaking the Chain

 Vicious cycles. They’re rather deadly. And you don’t want to be stuck in one. I think one of the finest parts about experiencing life is all the differences, all the amazingly vast and diverse…

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095 Reflection on this blog

As I begin writing my 95th article of this blog (with many more to come!), I feel a little reflective today.I had a simple intention with my article writings, which I still follow. Ever since…

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094 Turning difficult into fun

There’s something unsurprisingly odd about doing “fun stuff” that we would even go the extra mile to do it. Here is a video I found on Twitter which depicts more clearly, through a public experiment,…

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093 Creating good ways to live

Our entire lives are basically a series of habits. We do things habitually for the bulk of our time on this planet. But habits can turn into our worst enemies sometimes, and worst enemies do…

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092 The fisherman and the businessman

Here is a great Brazilian Classic story, about a fisherman and a businessman. I found it really relatable and I hope you like it too. Note: this article was originally published on Paulo Coelho’s blog…

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