Almost everyone who has spent a decent amount of time in this space has left blackpilled af.
Don't think its only an India thing though. Its a feature of humanity at this point - people want education to increase their future earnings. No one really goes for learning.
Perhaps the most damaging idea in all of modern business and middlebrow philosophy is Maslow's Pyramid. You know the one that puts "roti, kapda, makaan" at the bottom and "morality, creativity, meaning" at the top.
The problem isn't in the existence of those needs. It is that they are arranged in a strict hierarchy. That a "higher" need is felt only when the ones below it are met.
The idea has persisted from ancient Greece and India, through the feudal and colonial ages, down to the era of the "global south". Let us aristocrats worry about art and beauty, you just focus on surviving the winter.
Unfortunately this silly notion does not survive the barest contact with reality. Everybody has all these needs, simultaneously. The poor have as much capacity to be affected by the plight of wild animals or feel wonder at the sight of a soaring rocket. Love, self-esteem, morality - these are the things that make us human, not what emerges once you ascend from serfdom.
The condescending framework not only leads to nonsense like this - "how can India invest in a space program when there isn't enough food?", "how can a poor country focus on tigers when its people live in slums?" - but also business decisions that backfire spectacularly.
If you go back a decade when the internet first reached our unwashed masses, the first business plans were all a version of "provide soil information to farmers so they plan crops better". Guess what the farmer first did when he got online? Memes and short videos.
The need for entertainment is universal. The need to share with friends is universal. The need to be seen as cool is universal. Because Maslow's needs are not a pyramid - they're a circle.
Foreign investors pulled $126.7 billion out of South Korea this year.
The Kospi is up 72 percent in dollars.
They pulled $26.7 billion out of India, and the Nifty is down 18 percent. Before you blame FPI selling for our market, read the next tweet.
RBI's new EDF monthly filing + restrictions on unrealised advance = Death warrant for freelance exporters.
India's $25 BN freelance service export economy runs on small $500-$5000 payments, not corporate LCs.
Stop treating freelancers like money launderers. Ease compliance, save jobs.
My advice to anyone starting out:
Develop a very strong opinion about yourself.
Know exactly who you are & who you are not.
If you don't, random people will try to tell you who you are, and you might just start believing them.
Young men need to stop feeling like they're behind in life. When Julius Caesar was in his thirties, he was reading about Alexander the Great and began to cry. His friends asked him what was wrong. He said: “Do you not think it is matter for sorrow that while Alexander, at my age, was already king of so many peoples, I have as yet achieved no brilliant success?” Alexander had built an empire from Greece to India and died at 32. Caesar was older and had done nothing worth remembering. In his forties, he conquered Gaul. At 50, he crossed the Rubicon and took Rome. He became the most famous Roman who ever lived. Caesar thought he was behind, but he was only getting started. You are not late.
Peter Thiel on how you should think about your future:
"What you end up doing when you think of the future as indefinite is you pick a job that you think will look good on your resume, because it will lead to a different job later on. There's even a credentialing version where you go to grad school, you get a consulting job, and you think of it as this branching tree diagram where you never really do something that you want to do.
You can think of the future on three horizons. Very short-term is: are you going to be happy, and will you be learning a lot? Medium-term is: how good is it on your resume? And very long-term is: are you working on something important or meaningful? We're in a skewed world where we overweight the medium-term and underweight some combination of the short-term and the long-term. I would recalibrate to focus on the short-term and the long-term, and forget about the medium-term."
WE'RE HAVING A BABY! 👶🎉🎊
This baby is for the glory of God!
This baby belongs to Jesus!
This baby is set apart from the world!
This baby is consecrated for the gospel!
THANK YOU JESUS FOR THIS BLESSING!
"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them!" Psalms 127:3-5
I am 42 years old and completely unsupervised for a week. Tonight I am going to grill a ribeye in the rain, drink an unreasonable amount of beer, watch Blackhawk down and remember times from 20 years ago. You may not like it but this is peak male happiness.
too much writing, too much thinking, too much planning, too much analysis. your pencils are sharp enough. theres not much time left now, its best if you get going.
Many don’t thank Panchshil enough for bringing the majority of high‑paying jobs to Pune, while keeping prices more affordable than other premium builders in India.
They don’t build average offices but elegant, classy spaces with Platinum IGBC ratings that can be directly compared to top builders in major global cities. Having worked for multiple MNCs in different cities and in offices developed by K Raheja, Sattva, and Prestige, I find Panchshil’s offices to be in a class of their own.
They also avoid the showmanship and market manipulation some builders use to attract tenants or investors, which sets them apart.
I hope other top Pune builders like Amar, Kasturi, Nyati, VJ, Gera, and Malpani follow the same path and bring more high‑quality office towers to the city. @cbdhage@abhirammodak@PropertyDecoder@aviralbhat@PuneDistrict@high24x7
The Only missing link between now and the next golden age of America.
What you guys should actually talk about is the Epstein files. But nobody is doing that. If you wanna talk about economical development then you guys are definitely working with amazing big companies.