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Sunday morning lessons from the humble genius!

Between 25 and 30, a man faces his hardest battles, not with the world, but with himself. You realize the mistakes you've repeated for years and start breaking each cycle, one by one This is the age where men either transform into kings or remain slaves to their past forever.

Banger. Knowing what you really want is worth 30 IQ points. If you want to, wake up every morning and spend 30 minutes writing the answer to the question - what do I really want. Watch as decades of mimetic desires make themselves known - just coming to mind unbidden even,

Your entire life will change when you realize that your fear comes from inexperience, not incapability. You're afraid because you haven't done it yet, not because you can't do it. Inexperience is the problem to be solved—and it's solved through having the courage to act.

Don't compete. 🧵

India needs long-overdue, bottom-up police and judicial reforms.

if i had to make just one small tweak in indian culture, it would be this: replace talking with actual doing. like real movement. derank talking as a cultural virtue. how many homes have a garage shop? sure, space is tight - but even massive bungalows never have one. using

China Govt: 1. Grew R&D spending from ~0.6% of GDP in 1996 to 2.7% in 2021. India is at 0.6% today. 2. Ran "1000 talents plan (2008-)" to bring overseas Chinese and foreign scientists with generous packages. We don't have anything of this sort but should. 3. Invested in 100+

you don’t need much. just some thoughts… honest ones. then you turn them into something others can use: code, a tool, a sentence that lands. then you release it. that’s the whole game. think, convert, publish. repeat. what a life.

Work with people like Ross:

Country kept me safe during the attacks while I was sleeping, time for me to up my game and help its economic rise, Make in India has a different meaning for me now

One thing I wish ALL young people realize is this: you're not competing with your local peers (in college, etc.) you're literally competing with almost everyone else in india, and rest of the world. So expand your perspective - what might be decent/cool in your local network,

agency starts within. pick a skill, keep improving & it will show. those with agency stand out through skill, not networking. in fact, networking & shilling half-baked skills is counterproductive & reduces your shelf life. focus on getting better. real skill draws attention.

Some notes on Negotiations 1/ When you finish any complex deal you will feel fatigued and worn out. It sometimes feels hard to celebrate. The best deals feel this way. Complex negotiations require compromises. When both (or all) parties make concessions nobody feels great.

Underrated emotional skill: Letting people off the hook. For something they did. For something they didn't. For being different than who you wanted them to be. Guilt is a terrible glue. You don’t build relationships by keeping a ledger.

One useful framing I ❤️ Whenever I encounter something that seems difficult, I simply reframe it as something that’ll take long. This “difficult -> long” reframing trains the mind that if another human can get where you want to go, nothing is impossible, it’ll just take long.

“Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness” My man, Steve Wozniak, is an inspiration!