Varinee Jain

i've got 99 personalities, twitter's my 100th one

[Ritesh Banglani @banglani]

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.

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

am I the only one who feels worse after watching/ reading self-help?

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

I drop hearts like confetti and then wonder why our gen is so flippant about love

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

@rohanrajpal98 read this tweet in her voice

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

ChatGPT doesn't get my style

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

being original has bit me in the ass so many times because then everyone wants to copy

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

the gap on my resume is called dolce far niente (the sweetness of doing nothing)

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

@rohanrajpal98 @chiragj_ 100% equity for 100% perks

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

@sudoplox Hating on satanic verses without reading it

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

My pet peeve is:

1. People being TOO politically correct
2. People being politically incorrect for the sake of being politically incorrect

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

Somehow I attach so much self worth to my sleep cycle. Is this a thing?

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

Parents tell us to sleep on time, but then drag us to wedding functions that go on till 3 am. We wish our loved ones good health, but celebrate with them by cutting cake. Everybody wants more time, but ideal minds wreck havoc. Exhausted of how paradoxical life is 🤪 OK gn

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

#MovinginwithMalaika

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

"You got a very good husband who let you work"
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Why is this still a thing in 2022 lol

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

the new "live, love, laugh" argh

[RuRu @dosa_kat]

Waiting for ppl to put "It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me" as their bio and instagram captions

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

elon musk take notes pls improve

[Varinee Jain @VarineeJ]

my first follower suggestion on twitter was THE one person whom I've blocked everywhere and no, that's not a loss it's actually fuzzy satisfaction on trumping the algorithm