Buddhima Kuru

Psychology + philosophy + tech nerd.
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[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Average every day sane psycho
Supergoddess
#tb

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Finding people who care is hard. Getting people to care is harder. What's your take?
#teambuilding

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Pick an industry where you can play long term games with long term people."

@naval

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Speed is a weapon until it’s the reason you stop aiming.

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Belonging could be: feeling nourished, as well as being able to nourish #CP #digdeep

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

The mentality of being too scared to disappoint someone is also what gets in the way of you actually impressing them.

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

"Maybe every moment I'm experiencing is worthwhile, even if it's painful." -- musings from a friend

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Paradoxically, putting ourselves through struggle makes us better equipped to enjoy life. --@joulee

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

It's the second time I do something new, that I get to also think about improving amidst still learning.

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Focus on how long you can grow for without getting caught up in how fast you grow. #startups

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I’ve seen a lot of good takes highlighting the fact that the murdered health insurance CEO was himself a murderer, and a much more prolific one than any serial killer or mass shooter that has ever lived. The only difference was that his style of murder was protected by the law.

This really nails home the point that the legal system is not intended to protect ordinary citizens from the worst people in our society, it’s there to protect the very worst people in our society from ordinary citizens. You can see this just by watching the frenetic police manhunt that’s underway for Brian Thompson’s killer while Thompson himself was walking around a free man — and an obscenely wealthy one at that — despite his having made his wealth via profits reaped from corporate policies designed to deprive sick and injured people of healthcare as frequently as possible.

None of the world’s worst people are in prison. Our society is fed a steady diet of movies and shows depicting heroic protagonists fighting villains who abuse and murder people in illegal ways, when in real life the actual villains of our society murder people in ways that are completely legal. None of their abuses are against the law.

Everyone’s talking about the murderous predatory practices of US health insurance companies today, and rightly so, but we should also bring awareness to the fact that it isn’t just billionaire healthcare corporations who are killing and abusing people at mass scale for profit. ANYONE who rakes in billions is building an empire on the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary people. At the very least they are leveraging unfair socioeconomic systems to extract labor from people around the world at extortionate rates, because everyone needs money and most people are born under the unfortunate circumstance of having nothing to sell but their labor. Workers are given the bare minimum slice of the corporate pie in order to maximize profits, in exactly the same way health insurance companies deny claims to maximize profits, keeping huge numbers of people toiling in crushing poverty. These abuses are exponentially worse in the ways they are inflicted upon the populations of the global south.

That’s the bare minimum level of abusiveness you will find in these billionaire corporations — the most profitable ones are far more abusive. They actively work to create more and more war, ecocide, exploitation and resource control, because these things increase their profits. They lobby governments for more wars and militarism around the world because they manufacture weapons of war. They lobby governments for shrinking environmental regulations because they maximize their corporate profits by externalizing the costs of industry onto the biosphere we all depend on. They lobby governments for fewer worker protections because worker protections eat into profits. They lobby governments for exploitative trade agreements because globalization gives them a steady supply of cheap wage slaves with fewer workers’ rights. They lobby governments to privatize services and resources so that they can turn things people are already getting into coercive mechanisms of private profit extraction.

These abuses are the product of the exploitative, profit-driven, competition-based systems under which we live. In a system where it’s profitable to sell health insurance and frequently deny insurance claims, you’re going to see psychopaths rise to obscene levels of wealth and power by profiteering off health insurance. In a system where war is profitable, you’re going to see psychopaths rise to obscene levels of wealth and power by profiteering off war. In a system where ecocide is profitable, you’re going to see psychopaths rise to obscene levels of wealth and power by profiteering off ecocide. In a system where exploitation is profitable, you’re going to see psychopaths rise to obscene levels of wealth and power by profiteering off exploitation.

Our laws and police forces exist first and foremost to protect these abusive systems. They’re not there to protect us, they’re there to protect our abusers. They’re there to make sure what happened to Brian Thompson happens as rarely as possible, and that people like him are able to abuse people like you and me with total impunity.

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Don't let doing it well prevent you from doing it in the first place.

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Meta cognition helps me do better and be better - thinking about how I think and how I could improve on it

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

"Exploration is how you discover what works.

Persistence is how you make the most of what already works.

What does your situation require? More exploration or more persistence?"

-@JamesClear

[Shaan Puri @ShaanVP]

Reading is about sparking a fire in your mind - @naval

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Imagine if more content channels came with a limit that needs $ topping up to continue (over?) consuming?
Found it funny that it happened on an audiobook out of all things on #spotifypremium

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

When you scroll down on a flight search beyond the reasonable, you find ridiculously priced coach tickets (ie: 5x-10x the usual, and I'm not talking last minute either). 1) why do they exist? 2) does anyone buy them?

#airtravel

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Whether it’s a person, a family, a city or a company, a relationship can demand from you the type of growth that you never thought possible. Teach you lessons that you didn’t even know you didn’t know. -- @joulee

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

Name something that's a pain to use but you don't have a choice but to use it?

[Buddhima Kuru @buddhs_ism]

The parallels between super-spreader weeds and market disruptors are uncanny.

#gardenwisdom #findyourmarket