Ranjite

know thyself

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

गीत अश्क बन गए,
छंद हो दफन गए,
साथ के सभी दिऐ धुआँ पहन-पहन गये,
और हम झुके-झुके,
मोड़ पर रुके-रुके
उम्र के चढ़ाव का उतार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे।
-गोपालदास नीरज

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Neuroscience considers metacognition the highest form of intelligence..... "the ability to think about your own thinking."

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.

In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.

In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.

A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.

Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.

Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.

One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

[FAFO The First @FAFOtheFirst]

Most of you know that my brother died in a motorcycle wreck the day after Christmas. Billy Bob hits the nail on the head right here. I wish I could shake his hand.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

"The zero to one, that first time is incredibly hard. It takes lifetimes, it takes careers, it takes everything you've got to do something the first time that humans have never seen before. Every time after that, the second time to the nth time, that's craft. That is not invention, that's not art, that's craft." — @pablos

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

Those (people/things/places) who can get a 'yes' out of me more often become more important to me.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

"I think the right initial metric is “do any users love our product so much they spontaneously tell other people to use it?” Until that’s a “yes”, founders are generally better off focusing on this instead of a growth target."

- Sam Altman

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Eric Schmidt on why most companies get strategy wrong

“My problem with most strategy conversations is that they’re always inward out [and start with the company’s products first].”

Eric prefers a totally different approach:

“Work very, very hard to figure out what the world’s going to look like in five years. What will people be doing? What will your customers want? Where will costs be? In our case, what will networks look like? How important will phones be? What will the apps look like? And spend an awful lot of time on that. Then take a look at your offerings.”

He cites media businesses as an example of what can happen if you don’t do this:

“There are media businesses that are growing very well and others that are in great trouble. This was completely predicted five years ago… The ones that are in trouble should have done a five year plan and said, ‘Holy cow, what are we going to do?’… Almost nobody does a 5-year plan. Most businesses do a 1-2 year plan.”

Video source: @uclaanderson (2016)

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

Some soulmates have tales…

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

Excellence isn’t optional, it’s a lifestyle.

One year with the BMW X5:
a celebration of bold moves,
big dreams, and countless miles of luxury, joy and adventure.

#BMW #BMWX5 #X5

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

Fear isn’t to be eliminated

it’s to be calibrated.

It protects your downside
but can paralyze your upside.

Master it,
and it becomes your sharpest tool.

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

Feelings guide heart.
Logic guides path.

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

What you feel
shapes your decisions.
What you decide
shapes your feelings.

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

Feel
what connects you to others.
Value
what connects you to yourself.

[Ben Little @TRUmav]

If this guy is across the negotiating table from you, you’re in trouble

The tells:
-wears a 3XL, but should probably wear a 2XL
-old school Rolex
-jeans w/ worn in loafers
-took 4 calls before takeoff at 6:30am
-been talking about racing for an hour

[Alon Michael @SpiceP0dcast]

@DylanoA4 You take a walk, the walk takes your unconscious for a walk, and if you're lucky, the unconscious walks into you.

Revelation, Eureka, Realization - you gotta take your unconscious for a walk.

[books 📖 @bookpoets]

a friendly reminder

[Ranjite @ranjitpharande]

People need two things from you: consistency and a reminder of who they can become.

Everything else is extra.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I have strong Mysore Memories.

Used to stop there on the way to Ooty during my boarding school days.

This place sounds symbolic of the new & exotic experiences that are sprouting throughout the country and helping push us up on the list of favoured global travel destinations.

Definitely going into my ever-expanding bucket list….