Kobe Bryant once said:
“Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition.
If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”
In Singapore, you don’t get to choose your neighbours. The government does.
Which ethnic group gets to live in a society, and in what percentage, by law.
This wasn’t politics, It was engineered by design, to pull every community out of its corner and force them to live with each other
Most people admire Singapore today. Clean streets, world class infrastructure, the most powerful passport on earth.
But what interests me isn’t Singapore. It’s the mindset of the man who built it.
Lee Kuan Yew didn’t operate like a Prime Minister. He operated like a founder.
Singapore was Chinese, Malay and Indian, communities that could easily have split into enclaves and turned on each other. So he engineered it out.
Public housing was built with enforced ethnic quotas. Every estate had to reflect the country’s mix. You couldn’t cluster. You couldn’t separate.
His logic was simple - Proximity creates familiarity. Familiarity kills friction.
He didn’t preach unity. He built it into the floor plan.
People call him authoritarian. People call him a genius. Both are true. But the outcome isn’t up for debate, a nation with nothing became a nation everyone studies.
@GabbbarSingh I see lot of influencers siding with BJP who were once liberal. I am sure they will change tune when someother party comes to power. Is this right ? I know the currency for an influencer is reach, but what do you think ?
आकांक्षा डॉक्टर बनकर देश और समाज की सेवा करना चाहती थी। आकांक्षा के पिता किसान हैं। बेटी के डॉक्टर बनने के सपने के लिए किसान क्रेडिट कार्ड पर ₹3 लाख का कर्ज़ लिया। और नागपुर में खुद कुक की नौकरी कर ली, ताकि बेटी वहाँ coaching कर सके।
एक पिता ने जो कर सकता था, सब किया।
फिर NEET पेपर लीक हुआ। परीक्षा रद्द हुई। उस अनिश्चितता में आकांक्षा हमें छोड़ कर चली गई।
आकांक्षा की मौत आत्महत्या नहीं - मोदी जी की एक भ्रष्ट, टूटी हुई व्यवस्था की देन है।
और धर्मेंद्र प्रधान जी? आज भी कुर्सी पर हैं।
फिर वही कमेटी। वही ट्रांसफर। वही जाँच। न सुधार, न न्याय।
मोदी जी, कुर्सी स्थायी नहीं होती - आती-जाती रहती है। लेकिन आपने 12 वर्षों में शिक्षा ���्यवस्था को जिस हद तक बर्बाद किया है, उसकी कीमत भारत की एक पूरी युवा पीढ़ी चुका रही है।
It puts food on his family’s table and keeps a roof over their heads. Any job is better than posting lame takes online for a couple of dollars from a blue tick.
*Shark Tank India*
Product: “Healthy mithai for fit India”
*Fun, whimsical background music*
“Zara apna entrepreneurship journey ke baare mein batana…”
*Soaring, inspirational music*
“Hamare papa ka mithai ka wholesale business hai..”
Google Cloud AI engineer just showed how they go from idea to deployed app at Google in 30-minutes using Claude.
26-minutes. free. by Google AI team.
one person + Claude + Google Cloud = a full engineering org running on a laptop.
worth more than any $500 vibe-coding course.
Decided to be a good citizen. Inspired by PM’s call for austerity, left the car at home.
Auto to the Metro station: ₹30. Metro ticket: ₹30. Feeder bus for the last stretch: ₹20. Total one way: ₹80. Return journey: another ₹80. Grand daily total: ₹160.
My car gives 14 kilometres to a litre. Office is 7 kilometres from home. Roughly ₹100 a day, door to door, including the petrol and the quiet dignity of arriving without fuss.
Public transport, in other words, costs me ₹60 more than driving myself. Per day. In a city with a functioning Metro.
This is what we call last-mile connectivity gap — the small, unglamorous gap between the grand infrastructure and your actual front door. Austerity, apparently, is for the commuter alone. The PM travels by motorcade. The last I checked.