I know everyone's been saying this a lot, but this is not clickbait, this is absolutely WILD. This entire Bollywood song's audio was generated by AI. I just can't believe it. My jaw is floored. What have we done. I thought music would be one of the final frontiers.

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I had an hour-long conversation with a Harvard professor who wrote a book with Oprah, ran a think tank, and is an expert on the science of happiness. He's been one of my heroes for years. 10 lessons from him on why we're unhappy:

There are three groups of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, and those who do not see. Leonardo da Vinci

Hang it in the Louvre

Milton Friedman said it best: “Keep your eye on how much the Government is spending, because that is the true tax. There is no such thing as an unbalanced budget. You PAY FOR IT either in the form of taxes, or indirectly in the form of inflation or debt.” Fact check: TRUE ✅

Deion Sanders on Fatherhood: “We think that we gotta be perfect and we don’t come from perfect. So how can we ever be perfect? We just gotta be present… I’m a divorced father, but I didn’t stop fathering. I built my life around my kids. I ain’t no baby daddy, I’m a father.”

Pessimism is not an effective strategy for protecting our emotions. Data: We feel worse when our negative expectations are confirmed than when our positive expectations bring disappointment. A recipe for happiness is planning for the worst while continuing to hope for the best.

CMU Prof Randy Pausch gave his “Last Lecture” just before dying of cancer at 47. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something” Changed my life in 2007 1/4

An important reminder for any ambitious people out there:

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Indians working in the US are in a living nightmare now. Every 3yrs on an H-1B visa, you need to go back home and get it renewed. For the last few months, there are ZERO days open for people to get their visa stamped. They're jailed in the US, and can't leave to see family

The attitude that helps most with intense stress is not mindfulness. It’s hope. In hard times, it’s overwhelming to live only in the present. What brings strength is anticipating a brighter future. Resilience lies in remembering that today's burdens may be lighter tomorrow.

confirming JD Vance's thanksgiving fam pic has crashed whatsapp servers in india

— 608 US unicorn founders got their degree abroad — 44% of unicorn founders are not US born. — Google, SpaceX, Zoom, Moderna, Whatsapp were founded by immigrants. They contribute trillions to the economy and employ millions of Americans. Immigration is America's superpower.

Perplexity is a great way to ingest the knowledge in the Gita

“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress," Marcus Aurelius said.

Your real emergency fund isn't just your cash. It’s your skill set, your network, and your ability to deal with hardship when things get real. If I had to choose between an extra month of cash and a friend I could rely on, I'd take the friend every time.

The scale of the Universe.