4:44 am and the only embers speak to me are the unlit cigarette calling my name, chanting to speed down the highways as my resting heart rate mutiplies parabolically
You dont understand me...
That's why your first priority should be to buy your #FinancialFreedom .
When you have real money, you stop chasing status.
No obsession with brands.
No need to impress anyone.
Just simple living, freedom of choice, and peace of mind.
#DARVAS🥸
NIFTY IT
What's next?
👉Many quality IT stocks have corrected 40% to 60% from their highs.
👉Banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and every major industry rely on IT.
👉After a rally multiple sectors often spend years consolidating before the next uptrend. (Nifty Pharma corrected 50-55% between 2015-2020.)
👉Never make decisions in FOMO. Just because everyone is saying "sell" or "it's over" doesn't mean they're right. Remember, 95% of people lose money in the market, so don't follow the crowd.
👉 Follow the Demand zone areas, in pain look for the companies which can perform well, integrate AI, adopt the latest gen technology.
It can take time, test a lot of patience but can be fruitful.
Your wife or girlfriend will never be as loyal to you as your mother is
All love from women is conditional upon you meeting at least her baseline expectations
The only exception is your mother.
This is why you should treasure her. Because she will give her life for you.
Worrying about damaging material items enslaves you. You have to USE them. Scuff the watch. Use the Mont Blanc everyday. Wear your beautiful loafers. Stop saving things for a specific occasion. It might never come. You have to treat these things as what they are - tools to improve your experience of life itself.
Here’s a simple practical blueprint for maintaining good health.
▶️ Get atleast 1.2 g per Kg Bodyweight Protein (higher better, if possible 1.5x)
- Atleast 80% of it (1g per Kg approx) has to come from First class sources
Meat 🥩
Fish/Seafood 🐟 🍤
Chicken/Poultry 🍗
Eggs 🍳
Paneer/Cottage Cheese
Cheese 🧀
Greek Yoghurt
Tofu/Tempeh (only for Vegetarians)
Whey
- Rest of it you can obtain from secondary sources as well (0.2g per Kg)
Nuts 🌰 🥜
Beans 🫘
Sprouts 🌱
Seeds
▶️ Mostly use the protein in its original form itself (Full cream Paneer, Whole eggs etc). You get fats from it. Go for Leaner options if you are trying to dial down.
▶️ Use a reasonable amount of Fats for cooking
- Ghee
- Coconut Oil 🥥
- Butter 🧈
- Tallow
- Extra virgin olive oil 🫒
- Cold pressed Oils
▶️ Don’t add fats without reason everywhere. Animal protein comes with fats naturally. This is as cooking medium.
▶️ Reduce Carbs to half of the Standard diet. No need to go overboard on this as well without any reason.
130-150g net carbs per day is reasonable for most people. Keep it on the lower end if not very active.
If you want to have more Carbs then starting moving & working out
▶️ Ultra Processed food should be limited. Totally avoiding is not practical (people have a life!)
▶️ 80% of the time atleast have clean food, 20% is your max allowance on fun (try to limit that as well)
▶️ 2 meals a day suit well for most people.
▶️ Few times a month (maybe once a week) make it one meal a day. This should take care of the 20% fun you had.
▶️ Workout, atleast at home, for 20 mins a day.
▶️ On top of this ensure you get
- Sunlight
- Stress free life
- Timely sleep
You are sorted!
Focus.
Focus is MOAT - one of the fastest ways to get ahead and separate yourself leagues above everyone else.
Micro focus and macro focus.
Micro = Most people cannot sit down and focus on one thing for 30 minutes uninterrupted. Most people’s brains are fried, and attention spans are cooked. Basic, simple, tasks are a challenge for them. No real gains are ever made as a result of sporadic effort. Genuine work ethic is getting rarer and rarer. Being able to concentrate your attention on one task to the exclusion of everything else is moat.
Macro = People waste so much time it’s crazy. They fill their life with bullshit. Their conversations centre around meaningless bullshit. “Killing time” is killing your life. Hardly anyone even knows what they want out of life, because they’ve never sat down and actually thought about it. This makes long term progress across what actually matters…. Impossible. It is imperative that you fixate on a long-term vision and channel your energy into getting closer to it every single day.
You need to get focused, and stay focused.
Stop wasting your time, energy, and attention on trivial, fleeting, meaningless bullshit.
SNAP OUT OF IT.
WAKE UP.
Let the young man in his desperation go out and hunt.
If he is killed by the elephant, his poverty will end.
If he kills the elephant, his poverty will end.
– African Proverb
Success takes time..itna asaan hota to sab kr lete .
13 years ago, when I was a bachelor, I used to sleep in the office after hours, just to practice charts and save travel time.
#DARVAS🥸
The "AI will replace developers" DELUSION is NOW blowing up in everyone's faces. 🚨
Many fully "vibe-coded" apps are hitting a massive wall of tech debt. We're talking catastrophic scaling failures, infinite recursive loops, crippling memory leaks, and glaring security holes.
Now, desperate startups are quietly opening Dev Roles, offering insane salaries to real software engineers who know how to:
🕵️♂️ Reverse-engineer rogue agentic swarms
🔦 Untangle the unreadable "black box" logic of AI prompts
🛡️ Audit AI models and patch critical vulnerabilities
🧪 Actually write the tests the AI completely skipped
If you know how to step in and clean up an AI's spaghetti code disaster class, you aren't just a dev right now. You're a hero. 🦸♂️💰
Stress will literally ruin you.
I had lost mid six figures last year. Had a taxing relationship. Abandoned my previous business. Still financially provided for family & friends. Felt disconnected from prayer life for months. Lost 15lbs of muscle. Had abysmal sleep consistency. And looked worse than myself as a result of it all.
Months later, now fully out of it, i can tell purely from my physiognomy, the light in my eyes, and the returned potency of prayers, that i am so back and never better
Looking at the pictures of myself from that darker time, wow, the difference is so noticeable. When you have positive momentum, you must do everything to holistically keep it. When you don't, do everything to get it, even if it means burning everything and starting again
I know that period of my life was necessary and transformative, but i am astonished at just how much physically the body, face, and soul changes in accordance with it
And if you're reading this and still going through it, just know you will come out stronger. That's the silver lining. God willed/allowed it, so best believe it's for the better - some way some how
Don’t know about 1.5L but if I had to start from 0 now and goal is to make $4-5k/m in next 3-4 months, I will probably start with agency
I think you can easily ( if you lock in for 3-4 months completely in 1 skill and start selling as agency you can easily ) go to $5k/m by end of it
the most dangerous thing you can do that will betray you, is to slowly accept mediocrity in any aspect of your life.
it keeps you safe, but also stifles you and eventually stagnates you and before you know it, your entire museum of life is one big monument to mediocrity.
> 25 LPA for a 5-7 yoe is new normal.
> While planning for a job switch, never listen to your seniors.
> You are at your prime till 10 yoe.
> Switch jobs in every 1 to 2 years.
> Utilize your 90 days NP properly.
> Even if selected for one, don't hesitate to appear in other interviews.
> Pick the one that offers the highest salary.
> Before joining, always ensure they have proper WLB.
> Don't waste your sick leaves. Use them to appear interviews.
> Try to save as much possible by 10 yoe.
> Build connections with senior level employees in other companies.
> If ever get laid off, write a heart breaking post on X and LinkedIn.
> You will get more interview calls.
> Utilize them properly and increase your salary.
> Try to survive in this industry till 20 yoe.
> By that time, build a nice farm house in city outskirts.
> Take early retirement and live luxuriously.