Milisha Saran

I rely on my brain to automatically and effortlessy come up with amazing insights from time to time.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Witnessing morally grey characters in any media is disliked by many people partly because if an "evil" person can think and behave like a normal person too, it means a normal person is not as far from evil than they'd like to believe.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Citizenship is a not a title you fall into when you live in the city. It's a job title where your duty is to look after the city and it's people. In return for a job well done, the government "pays" you in infrastructure and services.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Started reading Happy City by Charles Montgomery -

Time and time again, a city is observed to be happier when people move around and socialise naturally, which goes on to prove that private automobiles and dedicated infrastructure around them harms cities and people's happiness.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Gonna do a #novel_thoughts series, where I just dump all my thoughts while reading a book.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

The more traffic a street has, the less likely people are to engage with each other. The more parking a shop has, the less likely people are to recognise each other. High speed transport stops convivalism. And you realise, the way you build a city or a street, is a choice.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I think one of the most urgent meta-cognitive skills one can hone today is knowing when to be lazy and when not to be.

With AI, there is an ever-increasing pressure to be lazy with everything, but that comes with the risk of losing what’s important or meaningful.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Sprawls also deprive people of a social life due to dispersion. People are found to be happiest in a dense city that has mixed space buildings, and plenty of greenery and natural structures around them. A good city must fulfill all these needs.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

I'm noticing there are so many cities around the world that were at their worst before they improved and now rank as some of the best to live in. Will that time come for Indian cities? Or did we have it before and I missed that cycle by a thousand years?

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

AI slop in office spaces has an interesting outcome. People are having to read through the long, verbose text more than ever. Suddenly the ones who aren't naturally inclined towards reading end up using more cognitive power than people who are natural readers.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Concluding the book with a personal observation that all conclusions drawn in the book are a result of small scale experiments and that is data extralolated to recommend policy and personal actions. While relatable and maybe usable, they should be taken with a grain of salt.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Reading Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely -

It's a book that talks about how most people believe their decision-making to be rational & grounded in facts, while in reality we "predictably" make irrational decisions due to hidden drivers, internal and external

#novel_thoughts

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Gonna do a #novel_thoughts series, where I just dump all my thoughts while reading a book.

[Milisha Saran @curiositybubble]

Dishonesty also comes easier if the direct impact of action is not cash. This means electronic theft is easier to do as it's one step removed from cash. This tactic is employed by many services to "steal", ex. credit card interest charges, etc.