Bikash 🌞

Learner

[Bikash 🌞 @bikash_tweets]

@VedicAstro1991 Aries ascendant. 6th lord mercury in lagna in conjuct with mars

[padhaachuskundhaam @Sigmabaabu]

Winter Arc starts tomorrow.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

the person who invented infinite scroll may have had a bigger impact on humanity than Oppenheimer..

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Endless short-form scrolling triggers a cascade of burnout, stress and depression.

The real cost of “just one more video.”

[Bikash 🌞 @bikash_tweets]

@nainaverse If a man poor, he knows he is poor. If a woman is poor, she thinks she is just with the wrong man.

[Karan🧋 @kmeanskaran]

BE DELUSIONAL.

[НЕМАЊА I-IV @Nemanja_I_IV]

A dead man would give anything to spend just one day in your body. Think about that, and push your body to its limits! It's time to feel alive!

[🎞️ @RaumV3]

You can grow intelligence by triggering autopoieses after deep meta-cognition

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

If you feel stuck, try this: For the next 30 days, every single day, wake up at 5am and work out for at least 30 minutes.

It doesn’t matter what the workout looks like. Go to a gym, go outside for a run, do pushups and squats on your bedroom floor.

This isn’t about the workout. It’s about creating Proof of Agency.

By the end of 30 days, you’ll completely rewire your brain. Scientists call it neuroplasticity. Your brain physically changes in structure and function through action and experience.

The action of waking up early and working out every single day for a month will create evidence that you have the power to take an action and achieve a desired outcome. You’ll see yourself differently. You’ll reorganize your life around this new priority. You’ll eat healthier, go to sleep earlier, and narrow your focus. It creates Proof of Agency.

That has ripple effects into every area of life.

[N. @Nlacombe_]

you’re 22. you scroll 3 hours a day. it feels harmless

at 28 you can’t read an article without checking your phone twice per paragraph

at 32 you don’t understand why nothing you start ever finishes, you’re still dreaming of this project you wanted to start. still no time

at 40 you’ve never finished a book in a decade.

it all passed

[Jamal Dinkoui @BerbarianWizard]

told ya

[Dr Mouth Matters @GanKanchi]

Confessions and realities

42M, 55LPA

I am a 42-year-old man with a senior job in IT. I have a house in Chennai, a supportive wife, and two children. On paper, everything about my life looks perfect. I have achieved all the things society says a man should achieve.

In my twenties, life felt different. I had friends to spend time with. We would hang out at Marina Beach and Besant Nagar beach, watch movies at Rohini, Udayam, and Kasi theatres, and ride around Mount Road on my RX100.

In my thirties, I had colleagues to talk with over tea breaks. We would discuss apartments, onsite trips, and share random stories about life and work.

But now, in my forties, life has turned into a quiet routine. My phone rarely rings for anything personal. Most calls are about office work, bank alerts, or someone from home asking me to pick up milk on the way back.

The loneliness of a man in his forties is unusual. I am not physically alone, but I often feel like a machine.

When I enter my home, I am simply “Appa.” I am the person who pays school fees, fixes the Wi-Fi, and handles repairs. My wife is busy with her work and the kids. My children are teenagers now, living in their own worlds and their own rooms. They love me, but they mostly see me as the person who provides comfort and stability. They no longer see me as an individual.

At the office, I am the senior person. I am expected to have all the answers. I cannot tell my team that I feel tired. I cannot tell my boss that I sometimes struggle to keep up with new technologies. I must appear confident and strong, even when I quietly worry about the future.

Sometimes I drive home slowly from work just to spend a few extra minutes in the car. I listen to songs from my college days.
For those fifteen minutes, I am not a manager or a father. I am simply myself again.

I realize that I have not had a real conversation about my feelings with anyone in years.

My old friends now exist mostly as names on WhatsApp. We send “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations” messages, but rarely talk. When we meet at weddings, our conversations revolve around our children’s grades or the cars we drive. We never talk about what we actually feel.

The hardest part is that I cannot even complain. If I tell my family that I feel lonely, they look confused and say, “But we are all here with you.”
They do not understand that a person can be surrounded by people and still feel like they are on a desert island.

Society teaches men that if they provide money and security, they have succeeded in life.
But no one teaches us how to deal with the silence that comes with it.

I have built a beautiful life for everyone around me, but sometimes it feels like there is no space left for me inside it.

And maybe… this is what life in your forties feels like.

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Hate to say it but this kind of thing underlines how China operates with a much more serious civilizational intent than the whole Western world in comparison.

[Bikash 🌞 @bikash_tweets]

@Yashpatel9966 Keyboard from??

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

staring at a wall for 15-30 minutes a day makes you LOVE DOING HARD WORK.

it resets your dopamine baseline, reduces artificial dopamine spikes, and makes tasks that would otherwise feel BORING feel engaging again.

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Bro 😂💀

[sid @immasiddx]

Instagram growth gurus are so funny.

He can’t use his laptop because he’s holding a drink.

He can’t drink because he has a cigar in his mouth.

He can’t smoke his cigar because both hands are occupied. 😭

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[︎ ︎venom @venom1s]

"There are graveyards full of people who thought they had more time."