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Human history is a saga of relentless creation. From ancient foragers seeking better tools to civilizations building more houses, growing more food, and forming larger communities, progress has largely been a story of "more." We strived for abundance—more knowledge, more entertainment, more possibilities. And now, in the 21st century, we’ve achieved it. But abundance comes with a paradox. In every field of life, from art to information, the sheer volume has sharply declined the average quality. The mass-market mentality caters to the lowest common denominator, flooding us with mediocrity. However, that’s only one side of the story. If you look closely, you’ll find more excellence too. The needles in the haystack have multiplied, but the haystack itself has grown exponentially. Take art as an example. Films today cater to every imaginable style and taste. Blockbusters dominate headlines, but independent gems and experimental masterpieces are flourishing—you just need to know...

Had this inkling of an idea and wanted to try something new. Just have multiple known personalities explain my own idea to me in their own style. Makes the concept surprisingly fun and clear. See for yourself.  Prompt We all conscious beings have a unique seat to experience this interactive immersive movie with 5 senses.  Is there free will? Possibly but much less than we assume. So I think it is practically great framework to assume that no one else has free will but only you do. And that too only to make a transition from one state to another it is not reliable as a motivator for action but it is like a shifting gear to just shift the automaton from one state to another.  It’s helpful to assume others don’t have that free will in order to channelize our free will to just bother about our automaton because it is really hard to use someone else’s free will to change there behaviour using our free will.  Also this leads to forgiveness and internal locus of control and...

This post is written with the help of Gemini, including the artwork.  The salty air whipped through Silas' beard as he stood on the weathered dock, surveying the vast expanse of the Market Sea. As the first blush of dawn painted the horizon, a thousand questions swirled in his weathered mind. Where would the fish be biting today? East, where the sun promised calm waters, or west, where whispers of a coming storm danced on the breeze? Every day, Silas faced this delicate dance with the Market Sea. His livelihood, like that of many investors, depended on understanding the currents and winds that governed its fickle whims. He knew the tides of interest rates held immense power. Low tides meant more fish ventured out, enticing investors to cast their lines deeper. But high tides could leave even the most skilled fisherman stranded on shallow waters, with dwindling opportunities. Then there were the ever-shifting winds of the macro and geopolitical environment . A gentle breeze from th...

This is the story of a girl who can best be described as a dove. She was gentle yet mannered, pleasant yet hard-working, and full of love, which gave her a fair glow that only improved with age. The story starts early when she was pampered by her brothers and a sister for being a cute little girl in one of the richest households in a small town. This is where she learned what unconditional love really means and then used her whole life to spread it.  One way she would do that is through food. You felt her warmth through her food. Be it unique recipes like mango bhajiya or amrud chutney or though her tireless insistence on ensuring nobody in the house skips so much as a snack. When she was sixteen, she was married off to a polar opposite personality: a tall wheatish handsome rationalist. He was everything she wasn't 'an emotional bubbly fit-in-anywhere'. And thus they completed each other perfectly. It surprises me even today how they never even saw e...

There are days, and no one is spared from those, where everything just seems off track. On some of these days, you are dizzy and overwhelmed by the list of things to do. On others, you are so lost that you don't even know what to put on the list. Existential questions like "Where am I headed?" and "What if I am not good enough?" start making a way into your head, until some youtube video or an Instagram notification comes to the rescue. This post is an epiphany that I had on one such day. A batsman (choose your favorite) comes on the field with the pressure of scoring tons of runs, in limited deliveries, while maintaining his wicket. The first few deliveries he faces are short and inviting. He succumbs to the pull and goes after them, yet misses them all. Time to enter the thoughts in Dravid's mind... "What am I doing missing these easy balls?", "Everything is going wrong, I could've lost my wicket on any of those, haven't scored a run...

Someday I want to give this analogy in some talk somewhere Many people enjoy music but believe that they are tone deaf. I believe that music is at least as intuitive as speaking. Say if I tell you the following. I have the following agenda for today 1. Talk about music. 2 . Make a case that everyone has music   and I stop there. I say the word music with exactly the same pitch in both the points. And then ask people do you think there is going to be a third point ?  Just by keeping the note in which I say the last work people know of this is the end or there is more to come. Interestingly the end note is the same note that you started speaking in. People know that the journey is over only at the home note. This is very intuitive. Another thing which music has naturally is triads so people will always have a tendency to have 3 points. It feels unnatural to stop at 2 points. And then I will go on to show the video by mcferrel about how pentatonic scale is natural to all ...