#Poll Which according to you is a worse mistake

Calling a good person 'bad'
Or
Calling a bad person 'good'?

Here's a more accurate version of the story, and, in fact, more interesting.

Yang and Lee weren't the only students.

Among those who sat in Chandra's class was Enrico Fermi, who won a Nobel in 1938.

ias.ac.in/article/fullte…

'No one will ever write in just the way that you do, or in just the way that anyone else does. Because of this fact, there is no real competition between writers.'

~ John McPhee in Draft No. 4

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'And it is that overwhelming need to dispel those clouds of ignorance, to find meaning and pattern amid the world's ceaseless tumult, that drives the serious reporter on.'

My most favorite Ryszard Kapuściński quote is from his obit in the Economist.

One of the best books on business. Can’t recommend enough.

Kudos and best wishes to Prachi ❤️

I never expected to fall in love with graphic novels, but discovering Art Spiegelman's Maus changed everything. 📚❤️ #GraphicNovels Founding Fuel #FFLife

foundingfuel.com/article/ff-lif…

Some writing tips

Jhumpa Lahiri on AI's black box problem.

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Brilliant.

#Economics101

67 things I learned from Derek Guy about starting up.

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1. Product-Market Fit

2/3 Steve Jobs loathed stock buybacks bc they did nothing for the company’s innovation pipeline & only rewarded shareholders (who he could’ve cared less about)
Prescient:
nytimes.com/2016/06/26/you…

I will work on a non-fiction comic book

It is said Somerset Maugham travelled the world with a notebook to learn the essence of life and Kafka sat in a room for the same objective. Yet Kafka came out with a better worldview.
~ UR Ananthamurthy

Like the fight b/w Vinayaka & Karthikeya.

So profound!

Today's doodles.

Whenever he visited the Chennai Book Fair, writer Sujatha's only request to autograph hunters was to 'bring a book, any book'.

As a result, he ended up signing several astrology books.

The great tragedy of the social justice movement is that it has lost sight of its noble goals. Instead of striving for true equality and understanding, it has become a competition to see who can be the most aggrieved, the most offended, and the most oppressed. In the end, it…

In the pursuit of 'wokeness,' we have created a generation of individuals who are quick to take offense, yet slow to take responsibility. They demand safe spaces from ideas that challenge their worldview, while simultaneously seeking to silence those who dare to think…

The irony of the 'woke' movement is that it has become the very thing it claims to despise: intolerant, judgmental, and utterly convinced of its own moral superiority. It is a movement that fights perceived oppression with actual oppression, all while patting itself on the back…