When you constantly scan a room for signs of disapproval, your brain learns to treat neutral expressions as negative ones. Over time, your mind manufactures social rejection even where none exists.
Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?"
"Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."
Most people use stress and anxiety interchangeably. Naval says they're different things:
"Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things."
His fix for it is thinking about death:
"One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?"
Which raises a question. If nothing matters, isn't all time wasted?
"What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for."
And the part most people miss:
"People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."
VFX is India's big export being built quietly:
- 11,000 Cr worth, employs 2.5L people
- Prime Focus' DNEG won 8 Oscars
- GTA VI had 1,600 Indian devs, its largest group
- Mumbai is now the world's largest VFX hub
- Avatar, Dune, Avengers all with VFX from India
Mini IT wave
Underrated life advice: Wake up early and work out. It creates evidence that you have the power to take an action to achieve a desired outcome. That has ripple effects into every area. It rewires your brain. A lot of problems in life are solved by waking up early and working out.
Met a GenZ guy recently who had just landed a job at tier 1 company. Within no time, he started demanding extra pay for every additional hour, and when he didn’t get it, he walked out.
This is the mindset now! No willingness to struggle, no commitment to putting in the hours, no patience to prove themselves. Just quick money, quick increments, and zero accountability. The work ethic gap between generations is becoming too real.
Anthropic raised $13B at a $183B valuation
Fundraise is greater than entirety of VC in India raised in 2024, valuation is close to that of all of India's unicorns in total
The crazy part is that it's a spin-off team from OpenAI, which itself is worth $300B
Different scale
Missing the Golden days where i used to
- Buy 1 share of Indian Hotels worth ₹100
- Attend the annual AGM at Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai
- Eat free Lunch Buffett worth ₹3000
Real value investing.
🚨 Important Clarification From Govt
No Bank Can Deny Loan To First Time Borrowers Due To Non Availability of Credit Score
No CIBIL Can't Be The Reason of Rejection
Always Ask For The Reason If Reject By Banks
YouTube has 49 crore active users in India who consume an average of 29 hours of content per month.
If you’re not watching YouTube - you’re probably scrolling Reels (32 crore Indians are active there) or binge watching Netflix (300 crore hours of Indian content were consumed last year!)
The last time I visited a cinema was ~2.5 years ago; as a child - I would be going twice per week & wait in a long line at the counter to buy a good seat for a Sunday show
Here’s how OTT is silently killing India’s ₹12,000 crore cinema industry ⤵️
After 2 years of using ChatGPT, I can say that it is the technology that has revolutionized my life the most, along with the Internet.
So here are 10 prompts that have transformed my day-to-day life and that could do the same for you:
You're accidentally teaching your kids to stay poor.
Every "money doesn't grow on trees" creates poverty thinking.
Meanwhile, wealthy parents teach 7-year-olds to multiply money like the 1%.
The 10 lessons that separate future millionaires from everyone else:
5. Protect your sleep like your life depends on it.
One night of poor sleep spikes glucose like eating candy.
• Block all light.
• Cool room to 65-68°F.
• Go to bed at the same time every night.
Sleep isn't a luxury. It's when your cells repair themselves.
~93% of adults have metabolic dysfunction.
It’s why you can’t lose weight, feel foggy, and are tired all the time.
Stanford's leading metabolism expert Dr. Casey Means calls it the root cause of most chronic disease.
Her 10 tips to fix your metabolism & get your energy back:
Hard truth: You’ll never feel ready to do the thing that matters most. Readiness is a byproduct of action, not a prerequisite for it. Start when it feels uncomfortable. You may just find you’ve been ready all along.
I procrastinate.
So I tried Cal Newport's deep work routine to see if it could fix me.
Now I actually get more done in a day than I used to in a week.
Here are his 6 rules for getting more done with less work (without burning out): 🧵
Indians learn Spanish, French, even Japanese from apps like duolingo.
But try learning local languages like Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Odia, Assamese…
You’ll hit a wall in 5 minutes.
That’s insane for a country with 1.4B people.
So I’m building the fix.
🚨 Every Indian Deserves Roads Free of
• Beggars
• Potholes
• Stray Animals
• Bangladeshis
• E-Rickshaws
• Illegal Encroachments
• Outdated Polluting Vehicles
Hope To See This in The Next Few Years