Notes

Never talk when you can nod, never nod when you can wink.

Spend as much time as you can with your parents while they are still active and healthy. You will regret it later if you don’t.

“A camera is a device for learning how to see without a camera.” —Dorothea Lange Observation is a skill to be developed, and a necessary one before understanding aesthetics.

“Our forms of articulation are limited—we can only see and think through what’s possible with the language we have to articulate it. Once we expand on that language, we can produce entirely different worlds.” — Sumayya Vally on Deem Journal

Antoine Lavoisier: “Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée, tout se transforme”—meaning “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.”

Tilting towards 2000 Town these days because it brings me joy.

Information is not knowledge.

It is a spectacle to see your sister turning into a mother.

There is no embarrassment in struggle.

Take mental pictures of everything you want to remember.

Many small encounters with ordinary things lead to a greater and greater depth of understanding.

The only fashion/fit you should defo know about = know your measurements. Difficulty, none. Effectiveness, HIGH.

Observe the facts and control the self.

“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.” - Albert Einstein

Buy the cheapest version of the tool, determine if it’s regularly useful to you and if so, when it comes time to replace it, buy the best version that you can afford.

Most of us grew up in a time when culture was passed along through objects. They were interesting because we could live among them, we could pick them up, hood them in our hands and compare them. Like books.

If we don’t allow for time for an old working identity to settle, it tends to carry itself with us. I’ve experienced this in nearly every job I’ve worked: a part of the past tends to want to assert itself in a new, unfamiliar environment and gravitate towards known niches.

One loves ultimately ones desires, not the thing desired. - Nietzsche

“If the computer is a universal control system, let’s give kids universes to control.”

– Ted Nelson, Dream Machines

Combating lifestyle inflation in my own terms. Upgrading may look good and even feel good but most of it are temporary. There will always be newer and shinier things.

People are the most expensive way to scale. Stop selling bad ideas just because it benefits you.

Learn about wine. Learn about food.

What makes us uniquely human in different cultures is the main differentiator for us from the inevitable AI. It could be the longest differentiator which would last and eventually it will fade away as well.

One of the curses of capitalism is recursive fashion.

Sometimes you have to optimise the bottom of the funnel first because there is no point in actually if there’s a bottleneck at the very bottom, there is a constraint or poor conversion, there is no point in making or spending money because you are introducing more people to the disappointing experience.

One problem with capitalism is that it leads to a repeating fashion trend. This means that styles from the past keep coming back in a loop. This happens because businesses want to make money by selling what’s popular. As a result, we often see old trends being brought back as if they’re new. This can stop truly new ideas from happening and limit how creative people can be. So, capitalism makes fashion go in circles, where we keep going back to things we’ve seen before, instead of moving forward with new ideas.

Just another Sunday, I thought, until I got roped into a Potluck. I’d heard about it, never tried it. It’s all about sharing and community, bringing people together over food and culture. It’s not just about the meals; connections form and cultures mix. Goodwill among different cultures, something we need more of.

It’s impossible for me to do 15k steps if I’m in Kochi, but in Bangalore I can. I could easily rack 20k steps everyday if I was living in a more facilitated city = more healthy body. It’s co-related and I can’t deny it.

When it comes to writing, having something to say > technical skill every time. I need to work on this for personal reasons more than professional reasons. Keeping a note of things is important, that doesn’t mean you have to publish everything. That’s how I’m treating writing these days.

Everything what we choose to focus on is what we experience in life. If you think about it, attention is the narrative of your life. Every single moment in every single day, you choose where and when to be attentive.

Do not attach your self worth to your job.

Everything what we choose to focus on is what we experience in life. Attention is the narrative of your life.

• Staying away from doctor should be a good enough reason for myself to work on my fitness. There need not be two ways about it. Just try to keep that in mind when you’re slacking or eating nonsense. Because when it comes to clinical research, majority of the doctors are on the backseat and you are lucky if you have a doctor who knows the ins and out and keep him/herself keep updated with the academic.
• Repetition is a long process and it will be rewarding. Definite.

Twitter to X is going to be indispensable in a year time maybe. To the point where it’s going to displace all other platforms. Never try to bet against him.

Virtual influencers offer a refreshing authenticity in their artificiality, resonating with audiences who prefer transparent fakeness over the pre-tense of real individuals. This paradoxical attraction stems from the comfort of acknowledging the unreality, creating a novel avenue for genuine connections in the digital age.

“Music is continuous, it is we who turn away.” So whenever you feel in need of a little music, all you have to do is to pay close attention to the sounds around you. - John Cage

It makes it seem like stopping something is a failure. Stopping something that isn’t worthwhile is a success imo.

• Inspiration is perishable. Act on it immediately.

• Everything is perfect, including the fact that we think it’s imperfect.

Intentional discomfort is needed in the age of despair and roughness.