People who celebrate 10-minute deliveries as a sign of India’s progress should read this.
During the Malviya Nagar fire incident, locals say fire brigades reached nearly 45 minutes late. Residents had to spread mattresses to rescue people trapped inside, including foreign nationals.
Development is when emergency services arrive in minutes, not when groceries do.
Anyone else forsee a future where we all collectively agree that social media reduced our average intelligence, fried our attention span and commodified truth to the most privileged? Then we start treating it like tobacco or legalized weed. Age limits, controlled dosage, health warnings. Take an algorithm designed for rewarding hate, add much much more AI….this doesn’t age well.
Elon Musk was asked: “What’s one invention that’s made us worse, not better?”
His answer: short-form video.
He called it straight-up “brain rot.”
And he’s not wrong. A local news report highlighted how kids are getting flooded with dopamine hits every 15–30 seconds from YouTube Shorts and TikTok-style content. Brain scans show overactivation in the reward centers, which over time trains the brain to crave instant gratification, shortens attention spans, and contributes to attention problems, behavioral issues, and even emotional dysregulation.
Doctors are now seeing cases where it’s hard to tell the difference between true ADHD and what they’re calling “environmental ADHD” caused by excessive screen use.
78–84% of kids aged 2–12 are on YouTube, often for 2+ hours a day.
This one feels especially urgent for parents.
How much short-form video are your kids (or you) consuming daily — and have you noticed any real impact on attention span or mood?
READ THIS AND NEVER TOUCH SUGAR AGAIN
• Sugar in your blood is called diabetes.
• Sugar in your brain is called dementia.
• Sugar in your teeth is called cavities.
• Sugar in your liver is called fatty liver.
• Sugar in your cells is oxidative stress.
• Sugar on your skin is called aging.
• Sugar in your gut is called inflammation.
• Sugar in your joints is called stiffness.
• Sugar in vour mood is called anxiety.