Meet Joël Blanc - The Artist that Paints at Roland-Garros😮‍💨

Jacque-Louis David is unmatched.

How to Read — A Lot More

What is the single best piece of advice you ever received from your father?

Which book made you a better thinker?

People should do more weird shit and see what happens. Stay awake for 48 hours. Stand up for 24 hours like Socrates. Read the same passage in a book 1000 times in a row

It will make your morning. Good morning.

The best part about this is 800 bookmarks. People are hungry for beauty.

One should watch the Fight Club every few months. Read The Stranger. Listen to Nasser Hussain’s If by Rudyard Kipling. Read Pablo Neruda sometimes. Listen to Bob Dylan’s ‘gotta serve somebody. Visit Banaras. Live in Bombay. Commute in Bangalore. Argue with Nietzsche. Know about

To move anything forward, your force has to be greater than its inertia. Call it grit, ambition, delusion, whatever. Your will has to dominate the reality that naturally opposes it.

'Cringe', 'doing too much', 'aggressive'... if you're not hearing these or similar, you're not moving anything forward

The Problem of Borrowed Desire

Good governance is boring. Turnaround time of Ports is one of the most significant key in having a fast growing economy. Central Government has really worked well in many parameters since 2014. The grumblings that we do are all mostly local body/pwd nala-rasta-footpath issues

The worry tree method

Anticipation, adaptation, and expectations:

Carl Jung out here diagnosing humanity like it’s a group project.

Sage advice from Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar)

Just had lunch with a founder worth $20 billion. In one of his restaurants. A straw wrapper fell on the floor. He counted how many customers walked past it before one of his employees picked it up.

Everyone thinks Apple’s biggest enemy is Samsung or Microsoft. But it’s not. The real enemy is Apple’s own greed. The result? In just 4 months, Apple has lost $1.1 trillion, falling behind Microsoft and Nvidia for the first time in years! Here’s how Apple is killing itself🧵