Parth shukla

Philomath soul on fleek, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Entrepreneur and Tech-Evangelist.

[Parth shukla @parthshukl]

New normal to turn the 2020 tide
1. Complaining About Your Job
2. Comparing Yourself to Others
3. Not Setting Specific Goals
4. Burning Your Old Bridge
5. Underestimating Your Education
6. Wasting Your Breaks
7. Overeating After Work
8.Binge-Watching TV Shows at Weekends

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@azad_nishant @ARanganathan72 Cheap tricks to seek attention

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Jai Jagannath 🙌

On normal days, we visit the temple to see the Lord, but today, He is coming out to see us

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His presence is everywhere; he is always with you.

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@abhishek03tyagi @Uppolice @dgpup @ghaziabadpolice So called educated and decent people solving differences amicable #ghaziabadrage

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb walked into Google and explained what Antifragility is and how the world actually works:

1. The opposite of fragile is not robust. That is the first mistake almost everyone makes. Robust means something does not care about volatility. The true opposite of fragile is something that actually benefits from disorder, volatility, and stress. He calls it antifragile.

2. If you are shipping something fragile you write handle with care on the box. The true opposite of that package would have please mishandle written on it. Something antifragile wants to be mishandled. It gets stronger from it.

3. Fragility is always about nonlinear harm. Jumping ten meters kills you. Jumping ten centimeters a hundred times does not. The harm accelerates disproportionately with size. That acceleration is the mathematical signature of fragility and it can be measured precisely.

4. Anything that has survived long enough to exist today must have this property. If harm were linear you would be destroyed just walking to the office. Everything that persists is built so that small stressors barely touch it but large unexpected shocks destroy it.

5. Large size creates fragility automatically. A hundred million pound project in the UK had thirty percent more cost overruns than a five million pound project doing the same thing. The bigger the stone the more the harm. Size and fragility are inseparable.

6. Governments and institutions make the same mistake constantly. They chase perfect stability and call it good management. But something organic requires variability to survive. Greenspan tried to eliminate all economic volatility. He called it the Great Moderation. What he actually did was allow hidden risk to accumulate invisibly until it exploded all at once.

7. Small forest fires clean out flammable material and prevent catastrophic ones. By eliminating small fires you guarantee a massive one eventually. The same principle applies to economies, banks, and any complex system. Suppressing volatility does not remove risk. It stores it.

8. The only way to make something genuinely robust is to embrace bipolar strategies rather than medium ones. Eighty percent of your portfolio in something safe and twenty percent in something highly speculative is more robust than putting everything in medium risk. The average of extremes beats the mediocre middle.

9. Everything organic communicates with its environment through stressors. Your body needs the gym. Your bones need stress. Your immune system needs exposure. Depriving any living system of the stressors it needs does not protect it. It weakens it invisibly.

10. What does not kill me makes others stronger is closer to the truth than what does not kill me makes me stronger. When a system gets stronger under stress it is usually because the weaker components were destroyed, not because the survivors individually improved. The system improves through the death of its fragile parts.

11. Trial and error is not the opposite of knowledge. It is a form of knowledge with a convex payoff. You lose little when you are wrong and gain enormously when you are right. That asymmetry is what makes tinkering more powerful than theoretical planning in unpredictable environments.

12. Most of what we attribute to theoretical knowledge actually came from tinkering that was dressed up afterward as having been scientifically planned. The Romans built extraordinary things for centuries without ever having heard of Euclidean geometry. Technology routinely precedes the science that supposedly explains it.

13. The fragilista is Taleb's name for the person who denies antifragility and causes damage through that denial. Bureaucrats, central planners, academics, and policy makers who overstabilize systems from the top down are fragilistas. They remove the volatility that systems need and call it improvement.

14. Seneca, the wealthiest man in the ancient world, trained himself every day to wake up as if he had lost everything. He would deliberately live as if he were on a shipwreck to ensure he always had more upside than downside. Having more to gain than to lose from random events is the definition of antifragility in personal life.

15. In medicine, convexity matters more than people realize. If you are very ill the potential benefit of treatment vastly outweighs the risk, so you should see ten doctors not one. If you are mildly ill the risks of intervention almost certainly outweigh the modest benefits. The problem is that mildly ill patients are five times more numerous than severely ill ones, which is exactly who pharmaceutical companies focus on.

16. Removing something unnatural from your life has almost no side effects. Adding something artificial always has multiplicative hidden effects. In complex systems less is almost always more. The via negativa, improving by subtraction rather than addition, is consistently underestimated.

17. The real ethical crisis of modern times is that the people making decisions do not bear the consequences of those decisions. Bankers take the upside. Society takes the downside. Economists give broken advice and face no consequences when it fails. Nothing improves in any field where the people who are wrong are not harmed by being wrong.

18. Time is the ultimate detector of fragility. Whatever is fragile will eventually be broken by time. Whatever has survived for a long time has demonstrated antifragility and will likely survive longer still. A book that has been read for three thousand years will probably be read for three thousand more. A technology that is forty years old has at least forty more years ahead of it.

19. The only way to know you are alive and not a machine is that you benefit from variability. If you like variation and gain from disorder you are antifragile. If you require peace and predictability to function you are fragile. It is as simple and as profound as that.

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UNCOMFORTABLE HABITS TO BECOME DISGUSTINGLY CONFIDENT:

1. The "Thank You" Lock.

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@san_x_m Truly motivation stuff

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@san_x_m Bravo

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@iamsrk Well, it seems someone's grading on a curve, but only for YRF! 😉 This isn't just a spy movie; it's a fan letter in disguise. 🕵️‍♂️🎬

My expectations for spy flicks are truly feeling left out! 💔😂
Maybe it's just really, really good? 🤔👍

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@Dear_Men_Life Taste your words before spitting them in public

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

The desperation of the cockroaches surprised me.
Even I was ready to give Dharmendra Pradhan a pass.

The man has failed.
Scrutiny is deserved.

But then a question appeared.
Why this desperation?
Why Boston?
Why Germany?

Why now?
Why June 2026?

So, I started digging.
What I found had little to do with a paper leak.
It had everything to do with money.

A lot of money.

Three decisions were sitting on Pradhan's table.
All scheduled for July - Aug 2026.

All capable of reshaping Indian education.

Decision 1.
NCERT.
New textbooks.
Classes 9 to 12.

The new Mathematics curriculum introduces the Sulba Sutras.
A dangerous idea.

Because it tells Indian children something many would rather hide.
Mathematics lived here.

Long before Europe claimed ownership of the story.

The new History curriculum goes further.
The Aryan Invasion Theory.
Out.

The Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilisation.
In.

India's own story.
Returned to India.

Decision 2.
May 15, 2026.

CBSE issues a circular.
3 languages mandatory from Class 9.
At least two must be Indian languages.

Decision 3.
K. Radhakrishnan Committee reforms for NTA.

Decentralised examinations.
Technology-sovereign architecture.

No single point of failure.
No single point of manipulation.

Now ask the real question.
Who loses if all three happen?

Start with academia.

Harvard.
SOAS London.
Columbia.
Chicago.

Departments built around the Aryan Migration framework.

Annual grants at stake.
~ $500 million.

Then foreign universities.
UK.
US.
Australia.

Together earning roughly $3.7 billion annually from Indian students.
Around 1.8 million of them.

Fix India's system.
Build confidence.
Restore self-worth.
And that pipeline starts shrinking.

Then comes the coaching industry.

Manufacture anxiety.
Sell hope.
Repeat.

Worth ₹58,000 crore today.
Projected at ₹1,33,995 crore by 2028.

Built on scarcity.
Built on English-dominated examinations.

Decentralise NTA.
Expand Indian languages.
And the economics begin to wobble.

Allen.
Aakash.
FIITJEE.
BYJU'S.
Resonance.
Drishti IAS.
Thousands of smaller players.

Global investors have poured billions into this ecosystem.

Not for charity.
Not for patriotism.
For returns.

Then comes the NGO ecosystem.

The outrage industry.
The grant circuit.
A narrative that survives only if India remains intellectually dependent.

Teach children their own history.
Accurately.
And the narrative starts suffocating.

Funding follows narratives.
Funding leaves with them too.

Add it together.
Conservative estimate.

Nearly ₹3 lakh crore at risk.
More than $35 billion.
This is a business survival fight.

That is what India was about to dismantle.
That is why the meme factory found fresh energy.
That is why the protest lands on June 6.

Before the academic year begins.
Before the reforms become irreversible.

Pradhan may go.
Perhaps he should.
That is a separate debate.

But the policies are the real battlefield.
Always were.

Most people are still watching the headline.
And missing the war.

[Parth shukla @parthshukl]

@virsanghvi Sad reality

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@ashajadeja Where does it all started

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@ihtesham2005 I have been advocating learning by writing to everyone in my sessions.

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@ujval89 @shadowfax_in Hi @shadowfax_in any response from your side ???

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@talk2anuradha Looks like public transport is out of picture and is a thing of past life in many areas

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@ARanganathan72 @talk2anuradha I stand with @talk2anuradha

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@raghav_chadha https://t.co/aQr3s2qGks

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@rishibagree Hypocrisy at his peak

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@AapathBandhava @ManishPatankar8 The art of living like a kid