Starting a new year's resolution 2 days early. Will be publishing this newsletter series summarizing Warren Buffett's letters one by one with notes and historical context. Starting from 1957. Please subscribe?
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Just realised that my Bitcoin investment from 2014 Jan has gone from Rs. 2800 to Rs. 8.8 lac today 🤯
@prateekkanwal - very proud that i didn't listen to you and sell it off at Rs.5000 after 2 months ✌🏾
Exactly 20 years ago, Dravid and Laxman walked into the Eden Gardens with India at 252 for 4 following on against Australia. And batted, & batted, & batted, ending the day at 589 for 4. And India won a seemingly hopeless match.
Taught us to fight on even in the toughest of times.
All the people that were telling me to “keep politics out of sports”, (which it wasn’t political at all), really inspired me to win. You better believe I’m gonna try to be on your tv for as long as possible.
THREAD:
I watched Netflix doc The Social Dilemma—so many self-important people pronouncing such nonsense about their power to rule the world through social media with their algorithms that "control" us helpless automata, yet another "existential" threat to humanity. Be skeptical!
This entire field of genome studies is at such an exciting stage. It has the potential to destabilize what has fundamentally kept humanity going. Religion, race, civilizations are all soon going to get scientific evidence.
Early Indians by @tjoseph0010 was my intro to this field
Recent genome studies confirms that there were no humans in Eurasia two million years ago. In other words, No Gods of any religion worshipped today exist 2 million years ago. Science is real
Narendra Modi is cut of the same cloth as Indira Gandhi -- but he's smarter.
He's figured that you don't need to declare an emergency & arrest everyone. Arrest some, harrass others, let the chilling effect kick in.
Soon, people will be wary of speaking out. Death of Dissent.
In the 2001 recession, my parents lost everything, marriage included.
My dreams felt like they were slipping away; I was depressed, angry and had nowhere to turn.
This is a story about how I turned crisis into opportunity by fusing education and entrepreneurship.
**Read On**
Almost 3.5 hours of this episode and i wanted more at the end! @karthik_econ is one of the best minds in the world on education and it was incredibly insightful to hear from him. So much more to explore. Hoping for more episodes with him soon!
Indian education has been broken for 73 years.
The humanitarian cost of this is incalculable.
What are the root causes of this failure? How can we fix it?
@karthik_econ joins me in episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen to share his insights: https://t.co/HcY7EOqMfm