Shashwat Goel

Quizzing Enthusiast | Content Consumer | Movie buff | Real Madrid Fan

[trish @TrisH0x2A]

it’s kind of funny that Chrome accidentally became the PDF viewer most people use

while Adobe spent decades making Acrobat heavier slower and somehow more frustrating

[Stellar @StellarArtoisGB]

Did you know 😏

He rubbed lemon juice on his face. Robbed two banks. Smiled at the cameras. Got caught in an hour. And changed psychology forever.

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two banks in Pittsburgh and robbed them with no mask, no disguise, and lemon juice on his face. He believed that because lemon juice works as invisible ink on paper, it would make his face invisible to cameras. He smiled directly into the security cameras. Police aired the footage on the evening news and arrested him within an hour.

When shown the tape, Wheeler stared at the screen and said, "But I wore the juice." He had tested the theory with a Polaroid selfie and didn't appear in the photo — because lemon juice got in his eyes and he aimed the camera at the ceiling.

His case inspired Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger to publish their 1999 paper defining the Dunning-Kruger Effect — the cognitive bias where people with low ability drastically overestimate their own competence.

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

Tech-abstinence is the next big status symbol. Sustained focus without the need to check your phone. Immunity to brainrot. Total detachment from the algorithmic overlords.

Most people are already too far gone.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

@PLforIndia @ManUtd @BCCI Gambhir forced to wear his elder brother's oversized ManU Tshirt coz parents didn't want to spend money buying the younger one an extra tee.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

Behind all Quick Comm apps - It is a delivery boy risking his life, breaking traffic rules, signing multiple entries and delivering a mostly insignificant package which could have waited.

A nation which glamourizes this mass chaos as innovation, is actually moving backwards.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

How social media has changed from being connected to friends to not being connected to them at all. Fantastic work done by The Verge to capture it in it's truest sense.

https://t.co/JxQFjtOnBB

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

"If you are going to see something you neither value nor aspire to value, you are not doing much of anything besides locomoting."

The traveler's delusion - A case against travel: https://t.co/2krWb9ZZIw

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

100% of the shots not taken will always miss the mark. It is better to try and fail; than to never have tried at all.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

@sooryasesha7 @Kshitij070 Thanks for the shoutout!

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

@RiaRevealed I am the contestant in this video and I can verify that the video you have shared is fake/morphed.

Can refer to the original video posted by KBC India's Official Youtube channel - https://t.co/EGQ1G4RgDB

@SonyTV @SonyLIV @SrBachchan

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

@shaandelhite I am the contestant in this video and I can verify that the video you have shared is fake/morphed.

Can refer to the original video posted by KBC India's Official Youtube channel - https://t.co/EGQ1G4RgDB

@SonyTV @SonyLIV @SrBachchan

Thanks @zoo_bear for fact-checking too.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

@monochrromatic @SonyTV Thanks for the shoutout.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

Margaery Tyrell was one of the smartest players in GoT. Even though its entirely fictional, but her use of *pure logic and analytical thinking to weigh incomplete facts and arrive at the correct conclusion* was commendable.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

"Cersei understands the consequences of her actions and she is absent anyway. Which means she does not intend to suffer those consequences".

[AsiaOne @asiaonecom]

Singapore resident wins $122,000 on India's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, donates prize to charity https://t.co/mkJCJlCR0I

[Stomp Singapore @stompsingapore]

He came close to winning $1.2 million.
https://t.co/iaLeUQ3CBX

[DNA @dna]

#KaunBanegaCrorepati14: #ShashwatGoel becomes #AmitabhBachchan hosted show's second crorepati

https://t.co/RpskwZI4WA

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

One can have the best view from their penthouse in Gurgaon, a small grid in horizon where only construction noises can be heard; you realize that one may monetarily be scaling new strides but the city itself transforms into a hollow nothingness.

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

This is what champion individuals' mindset is made of!

Link to full article here: https://t.co/hAm6z1atVc

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

"What had struck Jürgen Klopp most vividly when he finally watched a re-run of last season’s Champions League final defeat to Real Madrid was the streetwise conviction that the Spanish team showed; how they didn't panic during the low moments, how they knew they would find a way"

[Shashwat Goel @void_username]

RM dug a hole for themselves here, shipping two early goals – the second after a terrible goalkeeping blunder by Thibaut Courtois. It felt as though this last 16, first-leg tie could be about to slip away from them. And yet they *barely blinked*.