Satish Kumar Perumal

Product Designer

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Clarity isn't about knowing what you want to do with your life, it's about knowing what you want to do this week. You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to know your next step.

[Satish Kumar Perumal @SatishKPerumal]

ரொம்ப ஓவரா போறீங்க டா 😂😂😂

[Satish Kumar Perumal @SatishKPerumal]

Such true statements from @DanishSait ... I feel you as a fellow millennial bro 👊

[Danish Sait @DanishSait]

Middle children of India.

[Satish Kumar Perumal @SatishKPerumal]

Nice

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

The older I get, the more I realize that the happiest people are very difficult to rush.

I recently sat next to a gentleman on a flight who was returning from his 60th high school reunion. We struck up a conversation and ended up chatting for the whole time we were in the air.

When we landed, everyone leapt up to grab their bags as fast as possible. Except for him. He sat there, sipping the plastic cup of wine from the flight.

I asked if I could grab his bag, but he just shook his head. I must have given him a funny look, because he smiled:

"I never understood the rush. We're all going to the same place, after all."

I figured he meant baggage claim, but as I walked out of the airport, I realized my mistake. The same place was more meta than I originally understood.

And he was in no rush to beat everyone there.

The world wants you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines.

In doing so, you slowly relinquish your agency. You give up your claim on your own life. Surrender authorship to a pen that was never even yours.

In a world that wants you to rush, the ultimate act of rebellion is presence.

The happiest people always strike me as very difficult to rush.

They act slowly and deliberately. When they move with urgency, it's because they want to, not because of some arbitrary pressure.

It's small things that give it away:

• They let people go ahead in traffic
• They greet workers at a coffee shop
• They look up instead of down at their phone

I've started trying to embrace a few tiny acts of slow rebellion per day. And while the rush instinct is still there, every time I resist it, I think of that gentleman on the flight.

Smiling, sipping his airplane red wine, in no rush to beat anyone to the place we're all headed.

[Satish Kumar Perumal @SatishKPerumal]

Yes sir, actively working on it... 🫡

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Always assume things will work out, then do the work to make it true. It’s a mindset of active optimism. Earned faith. It creates a quiet confidence that allows you to tolerate the uncertainty of life better than anything else.

[Dr. Eric Berg DC @dr_ericberg]

The most dangerous carb in the world is NOT what you think…

Dr. Eric Berg, DC, not MD; information only

[Satish Kumar Perumal @SatishKPerumal]

Gold

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

I observe that sometimes even small or minor details in the news matter. The devil lies in the details.

Recently, there was a news report about the theft of 1.27 crore bedroll items worth around ₹104 crore from Indian Railways AC coaches. It included a division wise breakup.

The divisions under Tamil Nadu and Kerala are the only regions to report zero thefts.

In these two states, trains are noticeably cleaner. Unreserved passengers rarely travel in reserved compartments, and almost everyone buys a proper ticket.

Like Japan, Tamil Nadu should introduce lessons in the school curriculum on building a high trust society - covering the importance of honesty in public life, the need to abide by the law, following traffic rules and regulations, and maintaining cleanliness and public hygiene.

The visible on ground impact of such education can be seen in the next generation over the next 10 to 15 years.

[♡ @velunehq]

I couldn't sleep for 3 days after I watched this

[Crime Master Gogo (PARODY) 🇮🇳 @vipul2777]

Ur face is ur reflection.. This guy explained same so nicely.. Watch n listen till end..

Vdo courtesy - Instagram - arespacochaga

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

“A man wastes, his life preparing for a future that was never promised, while the life he truly owns passes right through his hands.”

- Seneca

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

If ocean water was sweet. People would have filled it into bottles as well. Its saltiness is its freedom.

This is not about water.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.

There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something.

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

Better advice in this one clip than ten-thousand self-help books.

[Satish Kumar Perumal @SatishKPerumal]

@rom1trs Motion

[Chandana 🌻✨ @RoseOnX9]

Innovation starts with noticing problems like this.

This is how you create lifelong customers.

[Satish Kumar Perumal @SatishKPerumal]

ஒரு சகாப்தமே முடிந்தது 🙏🏽

[Jota. @jota_snchez]

Conor Neill, profesor de MBA, lo dice sin rodeos: la vida premia la acción, no la inteligencia.

Y cuanto más listo eres, mejores excusas te inventas para no actuar.

8 ideas para dejar de pensar y empezar a moverte:

1/ Haz una sola cosa. Y luego otra. Y otra...

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.