@takhar

What's that saying again about being right and getting it right? If I remember correctly, it's from the book [The Beginning of Infinity](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Begin…

I'm not particularly aware of the more subtle differences between riches and wealth, in terms of actual substance backing it. Both words are used almost interchangeably but usual…

A gloomy external environment can contrast sharply with a bright internal environment. The weather looks depressing, which tends to influence how we feel at that moment, but some…

I'm a bit obsessed with exponentials in terms of how they come about in various forms based on seemingly simple foundations. Linear actions like maintenance work have a compoundi…

Brute force through sheer effort can only be the way to escape velocity in terms of breaking through inertia. To be more precise, when one is entrenched in stagnation and wants t…

Doing the bare minimum, what's the opposite of that? Maximum effort? Full commitment? Maybe. I'm leaning more into thinking the real opposite is choosing, as in actively deciding …

I've always been the one to overlook past the surface tensions and undercurrents that ripple beneath everyday interactions. Perhaps, many people do that also. Why is it so borders…

If it's not human nature, then it's the forces that uphold social, cultural and political structures. These are the undercurrents that arguably and to a large extent influence much…

Because of the intangible aspect of the digital world, there's a lot of uncertainty in how it's perceived, despite this world increasingly becoming a main driver in how people work…

I learnt recently that there are friendship of utility and friendship of virtue. There's also a third one but can't really remember that right now. As the name implies, friendship…

[Icarus's journey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus) of flying too close to the sun only to fall off and drown in the sea could also be interpreted as navigating the precarious…

I haven't played poker yet. My ordinary mind somehow associates poker with gambling even though it also acknowledges there's much skill in this game. I've only watched poker match…

Given how interconnected the world has become, happenings in other parts of the world that you're not physically residing in have a way of seeping into your daily consciousness and…

The cursor just keeps blinking while I stare at it on an empty page. I have gone fishing in the metaphorical ocean of thought. When I start writing something, the blinking is rep…

Hyper-self-aware, as in being overly conscious of one's own existence, from who they perceive themselves to be, what's happening to them, why is it happening to them, what they're …

Between regretting working so hard and not working hard enough, the former seems more impactful, in terms of going above and beyond for things that ultimately don't matter much in …

Being too picky comes as a byproduct of having too many options at your disposal. For the most part, these many options aren't fundamentally different in many metrics. Just littl…

Articulating ideas can be hard even when the ideas are very familiar with the transmitter. I listen to Nassim Taleb talk and found myself rewinding the video over and over again to…

I'm mostly aware of positive and negative distractions, both of which are basically geared towards getting immersed into anything that's not the present moment or our intended focu…

Yesterday, I got someone kind of pissed off for telling them that their business is not indefensible. I think it's more of a wrong timing on my part and also a difference of percep…