The Handoff feature on iOS27 is crazy.
Receive calls on secondary phones without a SIM in it.
But sadly, no Indian carrier supported yet.
@reliancejio@airtelindia@BSNLCorporate when!?!?!
Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason.
Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet.
After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back.
This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind.
Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.
23.5 hours later... there's an app and it's open source.
It tracks activities & sleep. It has full sensor support: HR, SpO2, HRV, Temperature, Motion, etc.
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
I always think about this. Material luxury has always been defined by exclusivity….the finest and best homes, cars, food and fashion reserved for a few.
But smartphones broke that model. Whether you’re the richest person in the world, an astronaut, or a student in a café, the pinnacle of mobile technology is nearly the same.
Perhaps the first time in the history, the world’s best tool is accessible to almost everyone.
hot take but i've worked at startups and now at fortune companies and i feel i've learned more here than there.
startups teach you how to build and ship. that's it. you don't learn what you're building. you're just racing to the finish line without understanding the track. here, the process is slow and that slowness is the entire point. you get time to actually understand what you're building. time to iterate. time to learn from your mistakes and keep improving instead of just pushing to prod and praying.
it's like programming. you practice a little every day. that consistency gives you room to build scalable systems, to actually internalize things. startups move fast but fast doesn't mean deep. the learning curve there is shallow.
but obviously this only depends on what autonomy you get and what projects you work on. that changes everything.
Hot take:
A huge part of why some people live long and others don’t isn’t just habits or food, it’s RANDOMNESS.
Pure, uncontrollable randomness.
You can eat well, sleep well, exercise, avoid stress and something still can go wrong. A hidden condition, a virus your body reacts badly to, a random accident.
You can't be too careful with DEATH.
People who smoke, drink, barely move, and still live long. They aren’t proof that habits don’t matter.
They are proof that randomness can favor some and punish others without reason. The same randomness that allows some to thrive despite poor choices also silently challenges the careful.
Then there’s genetics.
Some people are born with bodies that handle stress, repair damage, and resist disease far better than most.
You won’t see it, but it determines a lot.
You can’t out-eat or out-train certain inherited vulnerabilities.
Staying healthy isn’t just about how long you live, it’s about how well you live for the time you have.
This is why stories like this are misleading.
Yogurt alone isn’t the reason.
The woman likely had favorable genetics, a stable environment, low accumulated stress, and a lifetime of minor lucky breaks.
We remember the headline, not the decades of randomness stacked in their favor.
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when a man has nothing important to be proud of like his clash royale trophies or uber rating he takes pride in useless stuff like academics career long term relationships