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Sep 21, 2023: Excellent list of traits, as relevant to leading a good life as they are to successful investing. Humility, Integrity, Tenacity, Awareness & …

Sep 19, 2023: Quantam mechanics of the mind: The nature of one’s thoughts change as one starts observing them with awareness. Until eventually there are no …

Sep 12, 2023: Be chronically curious! A perpetual learning machine!

Sep 10, 2023: “Instead of focusing on the ultimate outcome, focus on the next move. There is always something you can do today to move a little closer, to put …

Sep 10, 2023: If you don’t ask the answer is (almost) always no!

Sep 7, 2023: Prime minister Narendra Modi interview with Moneycontrol covers a lot of ground

Sep 3, 2023: Every time I feel a hint of arrogance or dissatisfaction of some kind, I revisit this iconic speech that best conveys the insignificance of our …

Sep 3, 2023: Everyone makes mistakes, some are just better at hiding it than others.

Sep 3, 2023: A lot of people don’t realize how much work goes into making some thing look like it was no work at all. — Scott Hanselman

Sep 2, 2023: Marcellus Blogs: The Octopus Ascends - The Rise of Crazy Rich Indians

Aug 19, 2023: Wonder is the beginning of wisdom — Socrates

Aug 15, 2023: Happy Independence Day - Letter to Motherland 🇮🇳 My eternal Mother, Where do I begin and what do I say? Even as this humble human heart throbs in gratitude for the countless benedictions benevolently …

Aug 12, 2023: If you feel like complaining about how things are, always remember they could have been worse. Stay grateful🙏👍

Jul 27, 2023: Today I learnt that the Federal Reserve Bank (commonly known as a the Fed) is neither federal, nor holds any reserves and is definitely not bank you …

Jul 26, 2023: How Ogilvy made Dove great. And how his disciples made Dove great again 50 years later. Plus, how to do the same with Double Diamond: …

Jul 23, 2023: People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always …

Jul 15, 2023: Elon Musk did start a company to pursue his philosophical quest to understand the universe after all. Is this his answer to OpenAI becoming the exact …

Jul 11, 2023: The question of whether or not the🍍 belongs to the 🍕is not important, what is important is that you are having the 🍕

Jul 11, 2023: Product Sense Case Study - Whitehat Jr. Problem Statement For Whitehat Jr how do you improve the connect between the candidates and tutors after the first call? Comprehend the Situation What …

Jul 6, 2023: The more random a situation, the more certain we tend to be of the outcome. ~ Unknown

Jul 3, 2023: John Lennon and My Favourite Super Power Some years ago, in the early stages of my career, there was a question posed to all the participants in the training session. The question was, if you …

Jul 3, 2023: Truth!

Jul 2, 2023: Steve Jobs on what seperates the doers from the dreamers. Be willing to ask and act

Jul 2, 2023: The Work of Happiness by May Sarton Came across this beautiful poem by reading Marginalian I thought of happiness, how it is woven Out of the silence in the empty house each day And how …

Jul 2, 2023: Truth however profound, when its not yours still remains untruth. ~Sri Bhagavan

Jul 1, 2023: 2023 Jan to June, now its gone! July to December, something to remember!

Jun 29, 2023: An inspiring read

Jun 25, 2023: The Most Important Question also the one you don’t ask enough… Have you been around 3 or 5 year old kids or are a parent of one? If yes, then you would observe …

Jun 24, 2023: Philosopher 1 neuroscientist 0. A 23 year wager ends! www.nature.com/articles/…

Jun 22, 2023: We don’t just care about what a machine can say; we also care about what it can do. ~Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind

Jun 21, 2023: Elon Musk seemed pretty impressed with our prime minister, no mean feat to achieve.

Jun 21, 2023: An interesting idea for sure

Jun 20, 2023: Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ~Coco Chanel

Jun 20, 2023: How Karma Works 🙏 You were passing by beautiful orchard filled with delicious mangoes. Your eyes caught them. Your feet couldn’t stop from going in that direction …

Jun 20, 2023: A question worth pondering 🤔

Jun 19, 2023: Nitin Kamath on bootstrapping a billion dollar company shares his own evolution and reflects on the nature of business.

Jun 17, 2023: Victor or Vaniquished? While being stuck in traffic I saw a bunch of kids in a school playing by themselves. One game in particular caught my attention. There was this one …

Jun 14, 2023: Perfection is the enemy of done!

Jun 12, 2023: If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. ~Mark Twain

May 29, 2023: A remarkably objective take on the impact of AI on jobs in particular and our lives as a whole. Kailash is the CTO of Zerodha and has his PhD in …

May 28, 2023: Me: Do I know? Is it true? Also me: No, I don’t know!

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May 25, 2023: Trust is a super power!!! 🦸‍♂️

May 25, 2023: Its ironic how our education system is designed (from kindergarten through to PhD and beyond) to teach us more and more about less and less until we …

May 23, 2023: It is legitimate and necessary to wonder whether life has a meaning. ~Albert Camus

May 19, 2023: It is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of …

May 14, 2023: The art 🎨 of listening 🎧 Is the art of living.

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May 8, 2023: The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things if you look at it right. ~Richard Feynman explaining rubber bands(14 min 35 secs)

May 4, 2023: Great ideas are easy to understand but hard to embrace.

May 3, 2023: When you lie, especially in the name of truth and friendship, its an inevitable slippery slope all the way down to the loss of integrity.

Apr 30, 2023: Claude Shannon's Prophecy? I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. ~Claude Shannon Given how AI has taken off …

Apr 30, 2023: So many people say so many things without actually meaning any of it, that its funny as fuck and frustrating at the same time!

Apr 29, 2023: She said to me: You & I are like: Leaves in 🫖 Beans in ☕ Cocoa in 🍫 and Fuel in the 🚀 one with each other! inseperable!

Apr 28, 2023: The most important❓ on everyone’s mind rn: Is Artificial Intelligence going to make us Really Dumb?

Apr 27, 2023: It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse That we who lived by honest dreams Defend the bad against the worse. ~ Cecil Day Lewis ~

Apr 25, 2023: The illusion of choice is the greatest of illusions!

Apr 16, 2023: What is true, depends on you (almost entirely) Truth is a many storied building. The Buddha in his enlightenment discovered that there is no such thing as an absolute truth! The four noble truths …

Apr 16, 2023: Rumi Quotes Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī was a Persian sufi saint, poet and mystic. His poetry has always resonated with me for a long time. These are some of my …

Apr 16, 2023: Arthur Ashe - Why Me? Arthur Ashe was the first African-American male player to have won three grandslam titles and inspired a generation of athletes. He had a heart attack …

Apr 10, 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 😄

Apr 9, 2023: 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 …

Mar 30, 2023: 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, …

Mar 25, 2023: 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 …

Mar 25, 2023: One of the best and simpler explainers on the #svbcollapse Finshots keep up the excellent work of financial education 👍 finshots.in/archive/t…

Mar 25, 2023: Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. ~Aristotle

Mar 25, 2023: 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 …

Mar 23, 2023: For two years a person learns to speak, and then for the rest of his life he learns to be silent.

Mar 4, 2023: 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 …

Feb 28, 2023: 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, …

Feb 28, 2023: You want to be rich and anonymous, not poor and famous. ~Naval Ravikant

Feb 26, 2023: Everything is a process.

Oct 27, 2022: It Depends A long time ago. Wait! Actually, not so long ago! When I was in 7th Std and my sister was in 2nd we would have what we then called deep discussions. …

Oct 24, 2022: Jordan Peterson on thinking for yourself and faith in the redeeming power of truth youtu.be/Mny9pa4a-…

Oct 23, 2022: What a beautiful line by Ruskin Bond

Oct 22, 2022: You are always selling, whether you know it or not!

Oct 20, 2022: When the facts change, I change my mind - what do you do, sir? ~John Maynard Keynes

Oct 20, 2022: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it. ~Harvey MacKay

Oct 18, 2022: The amount of effort, physical, mental and even emotional, to feed a sleepy kid early in the morning 🌅 while rushing to 🏫 is herculean to say the …

Oct 18, 2022: What is 🤑? I do think about this from time to time. Although, I don’t think I have an answer, I certainly think it’s a question worth pondering …

Jul 13, 2022: Happy Guru Purnima 🙏 गुरु ब्रम्हा गुरु विष्णू गुरुः देवो महेश्वरा गुरु शाक्षात परब्रम्हा तस्मै श्री गुरुवे नमः The word ‘Guru’ is from Sanskrit, where …

May 19, 2022: Smart phone is the new stupidity box.

May 18, 2022: Truth when its not yours still remains untruth.

May 18, 2022: If Investing were a Game of Cricket On an mundane weekend while I was flipping through TV channels I chanced upon some old cricket highlights followed by more business media noise. …

May 18, 2022: Everything makes sense on the time scale of eternity.

May 18, 2022: The missing piece in the myth of Icarus We all know about the story of where Icarus’s father advised him not too fly too high as soon would then melt his wings of wax. Because of his …

May 15, 2022: Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. ~Mahatma Gandhi.

May 15, 2022: To discover ones role in god’s creation and to work to fulfill it is indeed a blissful existence.

May 13, 2022: I think most people are good at more things than the world gives them opportunity to do. ~Ethan Hawke

May 13, 2022: Would you rather be lucky or skilled? The more I practice, the luckier I get. ~Gary Player How would you know if someone is successful because of skill or luck? Depends on what’s …

May 12, 2022: Antifragile Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an incredible intellectual. A Lebanese born options trader, went on to become a professor and is also an amazing author of …

May 12, 2022: Book Bytes - Seneca on the shortness of life Finished reading: On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 📚 One of the most profound books ever! Also, one of the shortest. At around 11000 words, takes …

May 12, 2022: Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. ~Nadia Boulanger #quotes

May 10, 2022: In a world of instant gratification, would we be willing to make art (or whatever is our path to greatness) in the dark for as long as one of the …

May 10, 2022: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. ~Bill Keane

May 9, 2022: Raindrop - Probably the best bookmark Manager Around Every once in a while you come across a product or service that makes you jump in excitement! Raindrop is quite frankly, one such product. A bookmark …

May 9, 2022: 7 Lessons from Rocky Bhai (KGF-2) Rocky Bhai and KGF chapter 2 is all the rage at the moment. After all, he is the biggest national issue right now! While its surely a treat for the 📽️ …

May 8, 2022: Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by common sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”✨ – Dale Carnegie #quotes

May 8, 2022: If you stop learning, you stop living.

May 7, 2022: Currently reading: Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy by Neel Mehta 📚

May 6, 2022: How my dad made me love reading? Through stories. My grandfather and especially my dad would tell me stories all the time. Stories from Ramayana and Mahabharata. Stories from their …