2023
When you have friends who can make profoundly wise words seem like perfect BS, you don’t need a lot more to be happy in Life 😄
My Favourite Movies of All Time
My Favourite Movies of All Time
Gladiator
Troy
A Beautiful Mind
Pearl Harbour
Shawshank Redemption
Cast Away
Forest Gump
Terminal
Imitation Game
Life is beautiful
Cinderella Man
Paycheck
Independence Day
Hancock
Pursuit of happiness
Silence of Lambs
Twelve Angry Men
Scent of a woman
Godfather trilogy
The recruit
Wolf of Wall Street
Dark Knight
The Big Short
Vantage Point
Brave heart
2012
Fight club
Prestige
The Illusionist
Margin Call
Pulp fiction
No country for Old Men
Sherlock Holmes
Django Unchained
Titanic
Catch me if you can
Rocky Series
Enter the Dragon
Karate Kid
Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Ghost and Darkness
Memento
Aviator
The Departed
Training Day
Bodyguard
The shining
Good Will Hunting
Dead Poets Society
Which is(are) your favourite movie(s) and why do you recommend anyone to watch it?
Almost every story is...
a story worth telling. Of course some more than others. After all, we are nothing more than the stories we tell ourselves.
If that’s the case, then why not tell a good one? Better still is the best story we can tell us about ourselves, this probably helps us live our best lives more than anything else.
This is also why movies and books, especially the biographical ones, have such a transformative effect on the lives of individuals however it can be short-lived if not coupled with intrinsic motivation.
Remember, you are only a story away from living an inspired life.
Hardware/Devices that a smartphone has replaced
with a feature or an app!
It’s remarkable how much of our life happens on a small screen with a little bit of hand eye coordination.
Just a nostalgic take on all the things that a smartphone has replaced.
Phone ☎️
Radio
MP3 player and Tape recorder 🎧🎵
Torch 🔦
Wallet/Cash 🤑
Camera and video camera 📸 and Albums too
Maps 🗺️
Passbook
Calculator 📟
Alarm clock ⏰
TV and Remote
📚 and Notebooks(purist in me, continues to live in denial)
Gaming consoles 🎮
Board games - ♟️ carrom, Ludo, Monopoly, 🃏 and more
Wrist watch ⌚
Calendar 🗓️
Compass 🧭
Letters and Greeting cards too ✉️
Newspapers 📰
Sure a lot more (ordering stuff etc.) can happen over a mobile phone but here I’ve tried only list some of the physical objects a cellphone has rendered redundant.
Question to you?
What are something things or even activities that you think will never ever be replaced?
Also, what would one day replace a cellphone?
One of the best and simpler explainers on the #svbcollapse
Finshots keep up the excellent work of financial education 👍
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
~Aristotle
This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
~Alan Watts
For two years a person learns to speak, and then for the rest of his life he learns to be silent.
When it ceases to be new
It ceases to amaze you.
When learning something new,
Be it an idea, a skill, a tool (hardware/software), playing a game or a 🎶 instrument or picking up a new hobby.
We are nervous and excited at the same time. Constantly thinking about it in the🚿 or before going to 😴 and all the time in between.
Early on, every little progress seemed like a milestone worth celebrating and every blip seemed like an insurmountable obstacle.
There is a sense of alertness to the mind and body while being engaged in the activity.
A feeling of magic.
Along the way, the newness is somehow lost. The spark is now missing. Eventually it becomes mundane and gets relegated to a chore.
Alas! This is also when you stop having fun and start burning out.
The fortunate few who don’t fall into this trap of inevitable boredom are those who wholeheartedly embrace the idea of a beginner’s mind while also constantly striving to improve through deliberate practice.When it ceases to be new,
Elon-isms
Recently watched an excellent Interview (link at the end) of @Elon Musk by @Lex Friedman. And as Lex rightly pointed out in his opening remarks, Elon is someone who has given hope back to humanity in a bunch of different ways. Even more so in these tough times. I also noticed that, Elon has a few key ideas that he often talks about in most of these enriching conversations. Attempting to take a quick look at some of them in here.
Orders of Magnitude
Simply means, in powers of 10. An order of magnitude is 10X times and two orders of magnitude is 100X and so on… Elon says, a new product or service has to be much better, by orders of magnitude for the consumer to switch from incumbents or its not enough incentive to switch.
On Balance
All things considered. Most things in life are neither completely good nor bad. There are shades of gray to almost everything. One needs to decide how much gray one is okay with to take action or make decisions. Musk’s individual carbon emissions might be higher than most ordinary individuals but his contribution to sustainable energy future more than offsets for this on balance.
Eating Glass and Staring Into the Abyss
This is how he says, a friend of his describes starting a company feels like. Elon’s advice was, “If you need inspiring words don’t do it.”
Thinking in the Limits
This is about looking at the extremes. From the atom to the universe lets say. Do things behave or work out differently in very small numbers or very large ones? Also, things like when a product is manufactured in large numbers does it cost less due to economies of scale etc. Interestingly, he said a Govt. is a corporation in the limit with a monopoly on violence.
Money 💰💵
Elon surely is uniquely qualified than most of us to talk about money being the richest man and all that. Also because of his work with PayPal. Money is not valuable in and of itself. It serves as a means to allocate labor. Its an entry in a database, with mainframes that run COBOL and central banks having editing permissions to the DB.
Area under the curve
Area under the Curve = ∫ab f(x)dx Elon’s life and work is classic example of the utility optimization function going full throttle. If one can create a product or service that brings happiness or improves the quality of life of a large number of people in some small way or has a huge positive impact on a small number of people, its success is highly probable.
Rate of Innovation
In the long run, the survival and then growth of a company is determined primarily by its rate of innovation. This is important even for our individual careers, the degree to which we stay relevant is determined by the extent of our learning, unlearning and relearning.
Fundamental Breakthrough or Holy Grail
Elon is known to correctly identify and relentlessly pursue fundamental breakthroughs in his chosen areas. When it comes creating a self-sustaining civilization on mars, the key was to have fully and rapidly reusable rockets. When it comes to autonomous cars it was solving for computer vision and so on. Link to the interview
You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous.
~Naval Ravikant
Everything is a process.