At the end of the Ice Age, the sea rose 120 metres and drowned 25 million square kilometres of inhabited coast.
An area larger than Europe.
Nearly every culture on earth still remembers it.
Episode 2 of The True Cradle.
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The business outlook for software is uncertain and AI has raised costs dramatically with a) massive 4-fold increase in server prices which we need for data centers b) AI usage increasing rapidly, leading to much higher expenses, which we are trying to control.
On top of that is the challenging geopolitical backdrop.
We have cut down on our marketing budget. We have also told our employees that we cannot have our usual pay increase this year. I have apolgized for not being able to avoid this.
We will work hard to avoid mass layoffs but the outlook for software jobs in general is grim. We have not been growing our employee count for 18 months now.
Most of our employees understand the situation. I am thankful to them.
We are in the middle of reinventing ourselves. The next 3-5 years will decide how our reinvention has worked. Please pray for us 🙏
El efecto Rubin demuestra que la mente no puede procesar dos objetos en el mismo espacio visual a la vez. Cuando el sistema óptico define qué es figura, descarta el resto como simple fondo
Indian parents, don’t send your kids to a rich school if you’re not rich.
Don’t stretch your finances just to put your child into the most expensive school you can possibly afford. The right school is not necessarily the richest school.
You don’t need to become poorer to feel poor, you only need to change your comparison group. A great school means nothing if your child feels poor every single day.
Parents compare schools. Kids compare themselves with other kids. That’s the part parents completely miss.
The parent thinks, I gave my child more than I could afford. The child thinks, My parents gave me less than everyone around me. Both can experience the exact same childhood and remember it completely differently.
You’re paying lakhs to make your child feel poor every day, your expensive school destroying your child’s confidence.
Now imagine those kids are being picked up in BMWs and your child is being picked up in a Maruti. Your child may tell you - “Papa, don't bring the car to the school gate, park a little further away I'll walk there”
Why? Because he doesn't want his classmates to see him getting into a Maruti. He doesn't want them to think, 'His father doesn't have money.'
Before entering that school, the child may never have considered his father’s Maruti embarrassing.
Children don’t compare only expensive things. They compare tiny visible signals every day: lunch box, shoes, birthday parties, pocket money, school trips, bags, phones, after-school activities.
Your child doesn’t necessarily say - My parents can’t afford this, He says I don’t want to go. I don’t like that restaurant or I already ate. I don’t want to come to the birthday party.
The hiding becomes excuse-making, child feels inferior.
The parent may think the child is becoming introverted. In reality, the child may simply be protecting himself from situations he cannot afford.
Education is not about school fees or fancy infrastructure. It’s about building confidence, exploring yourself and uplifting yourself.
Every religion will eventually die.
Every religion thinks it is going to win. Hindus think one day Hinduism will dominate the world. Muslims think one day the whole world will accept Islam. Christians think Christianity will eventually reach everyone. All three are preparing for the wrong competition.
The future is not Hindu vs Muslim vs Christian. It is religion vs a new generation that has science, education, AI, unlimited information and the freedom to question everything.
Religion survived for thousands of years because information was controlled by a small group of people, (pandits, maulvis and priests) and questioning religion itself was considered disrespectful.
For the first time in human history, information can no longer be controlled.
The new generation is fearless and intelligent - They have more information, question everything and are increasingly unwilling to accept something just because someone said it thousands of years ago.
You can already see the change today. This generation is questioning beliefs their parents never dared to question. (that's why many beliefs have already disappeared) The next generation will defiantly question even more.
Your grandchildren will not simply believe your religious stories because you believed them. They will question every uncomfortable claim, every miracle and every 'God said so.' They won't care how old the story is or how sacred you consider it.
They will ask one simple questions 'How do you know?, Where is the proof? And 'because God said so' will no longer be enough.
Your grandchildren may look at today's religions the way you look at Greek mythology today.
Not necessarily with hatred. Just with disbelief that millions of intelligent people once took every supernatural claim literally.
You think your religion is fighting another religion. It isn't. It is fighting education, science, unlimited information and the freedom to question everything.
And for the first time in history, claims that cannot survive questioning have nowhere left to hide.