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[Archit @architc_]

A spiritual quote that I admire. #Spirituality

[Daniel Moka⚡ @dmokafa]

Software engineers are burning out thanks to AI.

AI was supposed to make coding easier and give us more free time, yet every dev I know is working harder than ever.

AI made us 10x more productive, but now we're expected to deliver 10x more.

10x more features. 10x more contexts. 10x more bugs.

Our productivity scaled. But our capacity to handle stress didn't.

Don't try to keep up with your AI agents.

AI can work 24/7. You can't.

Your health matters more than your company's productivity.

Never forget: A healthy person wants 1000 things.

An unhealthy person wants only one thing: being healthy.

[Archit @architc_]

@malpani But don’t you think, since the bar of entry is so high, they would be less replaceable compared to other professionals?

[Archit @architc_]

Life is perceived through thoughts, the observer of life is self which is a deeper repetitive thought. So, thoughts are playing with themselves creating collective thoughts known as institutions. These collective thoughts create social norms, which govern the individual and other collective thoughts. The matter of fact is - there is just awareness where these arise. Infact awareness and its content cannot be differentiated. Because as soon as “we” try to observe, an “observer” is formed.

[정희진의 공부工夫 @heejin_study]

인생에 의미나 성취가 있어야 된다는 생각은 근대에 생긴 것입니다. 자아 개념, 목적 의식적 세계관 이거는 근대적 산물이죠. 인간은 생태계의 일부로서 인간의 삶에는 의미가 없습니다. 인생은 그냥 생로병사의 과정이죠.
그렇지만 또 인간이 사회적인 존재이기 때문에 삶에는 의미가 없다는 진실과 의미 있는 삶을 살아야 한다는 현실 사이에서 우리는 늘 갈등을 하고 몸부림을 치고 뭔가를 해야 된다는 생각을 하죠.

[Archit @architc_]

Why does rejection hurt even when nothing physically happens to us?

A 2011 study published in PNAS found that intense social rejection activates some of the same brain regions involved in physical pain.

Think about this.

Our attachment to people can become a source of psychological suffering.

How much of our pain comes from what happened, and how much comes from our attachment to what we wanted to happen?

[Archit @architc_]

Will today’s software giants evolve into platforms where entire software solutions can be built through AI prompts?

Imagine a team of Product & Design Engineers (part product manager, part engineer) rapidly prompting, building, testing and iterating.

Could this be the future of Product Development as a Service (PDaaS)?

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

Software is like aluminum.

Aluminum used to be a rare luxury metal. Kings were served their meals on it.

Then someone discovered that aluminium could be extracted from bauxite.

Now we wrap our sandwiches in it.

The aluminum industry is way bigger than it was back then, but the aluminum artisans who made plates for kings went out of business.

Today, the only way to make money in the aluminum industry is using cheap electricity at massive scale.

Nobody has a moat just because they can make aluminum anymore.

AI is doing this to software.

There will be more software than ever, but the ability to make it (including taste) will no longer be valuable.

Software isn't going away—it's margins and the artisans who make it are.

[Archit @architc_]

Your brain doesn’t simply store memories. It reconstructs them.

A 2023 review in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews explains how expectations and prior knowledge can actually reshape how memories are integrated.

Think about the implications.

Your beliefs influence what you remember. What you remember reinforces your beliefs.

Are we living in reality, or inside a psychological narrative continuously reinforced by our own minds?

Research: https://t.co/yK1D3Awg1o

[Archit @architc_]

Google DeepMind has unveiled AlphaGenome 2.

Trained on 100 million+ cell profiles across 68 tissues, it can predict how genetic variations affect specific human cell types.

It identifies nearly twice as many causal variants as its predecessor.

We are getting closer to understanding not just which genes are associated with disease, but how and where they actually influence it.

AI could fundamentally change how we discover the origins of diseases.

[Archit @architc_]

Indian competitive exams cannot be cleared by forcing a kid. It’s a very subtle process that requires passion, discipline, right mentorship (from parents too), right peers, right teachers, right leverage etc. If a kid wants to escape it, parents should try to find what went wrong and correct the roots instead of forcing the child. If the child wants to drop - i guess, an year should be allowed and not considered as lost.

[Archit @architc_]

Neuroscience suggests that our experience of time is deeply shaped by memory and expectation.

An hour of anxiety feels endless. Years of routine disappear in memory.

Perhaps psychological time isn’t something we experience, but something the mind continuously creates.

Are we ever truly in the present?

Research: https://t.co/fwTewtauJT

[Archit @architc_]

The mind wants to escape its conditioning, but isn’t the desire to escape another movement of that very conditioning?

[Rich Griese @RichGriese]

Metta as a Serious Practice ~ #Nutley meditation sangha audio dhamma talk

[Archit @architc_]

@RichGriese It is a very powerful practice Mr Rich

[Archit @architc_]

A veil of misconceptions clouds our understanding of reality. Through self-observation, that veil gradually thins, allowing us to catch glimpses of truths that were always there, but remained unseen.

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Physicist Erwin Schrödinger found in the ancient Upanishads a framework for the strangest truth of quantum mechanics: that at the deepest level, the observer and the observed are not separate. Schrödinger spent decades reading the Upanishads, and was deeply influenced by the Upanishads through the lens of Advaita Vedānta (non-dualism).

[Archit @architc_]

@ajithntr11 @venkat_fin9 Calling someone brainwashed doesn’t make you economically literate. I mentioned corruption & governance; you brought up the fed as if that somehow absolves those in power of accountability. Learn to distinguish an explanation from an excuse before insulting people.

[Archit @architc_]

@malpani But atleast docs have some social status & respect. Who gives a rats @ss about other corporate folks outside (except maybe top 1%). They can’t even hold their own in front of lowest rung p@lice constable. Everyone has to compromise somewhere Doc.

[Archit @architc_]

some spiritual sects & practices strive towards this goal (eg Aghor & left handed paths), but that just is the “ideal”. It’s extremely difficult to, but people reportedly have achieved it. I mean, it’s not for regular folks like us. Some extreme stuff. But ya, in general you’re right - it would be unwise in the daily life. Basically it will probably make the person socially dysfunctional and put them in kinda danger. People who live like that probably care less about living itself. It’s a deep subject.

[Archit @architc_]

Can one completely get rid of desire and aversion?

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@turiyatman Dopamine generates a lot of revenue.

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@AaryanPrateekX In this market I’m even afraid to make this joke