Anchit Tandon

Optimistic Contrarian | Deconstructing productivity and performance | Quant Trader | @iitdelhi

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Today's daily struggle involves us summoning inhuman willpower, fasting, meditating and exercising to combat armies of scientists, engineers and statisticians weaponizing endless food and screens into junk food, click-bait news, endless games and addictive content.

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Meet Pranav Goyal, who secured AIR 1 in IIT JEE Advanced 2018 and completed his https://t.co/YSvOF5fxhn in CSE from IIT Bombay. This guy joined Jane Street Hong Kong, a quant firm that could easily pay $400K per annum, but he left it to prepare for UPSC.

It made me wonder…

If a $400K package and a company like Jane Street aren’t enough to make someone stay, what truly brings people peace and fulfilment?

FYI Check:-

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@WitchyAgnes Dm

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The utility of money is roughly log(wealth), but the disutility of guilt is more like a linear relationship.

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All of the credit, of doing something to further a worthy purpose, lies in the completion of the activity.

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@i_is_not_real Good to see you back in action.

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Business is just like chess. You must study the endgame before making the first move.

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@wizard_of_shock The moment you realise that these "better" people that you're surrounded with are also thinking the same thing.

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Brilliant critical thinking is rare, but the courage to act on uncertainty is in even shorter supply.

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@wizard_of_shock I have noticed this too. The concept of Indian "jugaad" is quite baffling to the West.

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@i_is_not_real Have you tried portable displays ?

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A clip of a congressional hearing on cryptocurrency, @BitfuryGroup CEO @BrianBrooksUS explains the evolution of the web, web3 and how blockchain technologies play an important role in it.

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It is sad that most forms of traditional education largely promote imitation.

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Any form of learning - which doesn't involve an investment of your thinking - produces only imitation.

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In order to create ideas and improve yourself, you need process information with your own mind.

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@0xSR42 Quite an amazing idea! To add, I feel H/W upgrades could be a byproduct of S/W upgrades and has been so in several developed Asian countries as well. However, democracy/procedures also saves us from the complete destruction of the system.

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@i_is_not_real Goodreads GOAT 2021 SJ.

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@wizard_of_shock Wants are overrated. People choose their struggle, not the prize at the end of it.

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@wizard_of_shock Well, most people don't get kicked out of their houses.

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Academia teaches you how to read the text.
Industry teaches you how to read the subtext.

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@0xSR42 No wonder high-performing academics and engineers live solitary lifestyles.