Ages 25-30 can get hard, the people around you are starting new 7 figure jobs, someone is getting married to their highschool sweetheart, someone is breaking up after decade long relationships and what not. Amidst all this you gotta show up for them and for yourself.
Your parent's home is not designed for ambition and productivity. It is designed for eating, sitting, talking, watching entertainment, sleeping, or lazing around. It works for them. It doesn't work for you. They didn't have to open 37 tabs and push buttons on a screen to earn their bread. That kind of knowledge work where you make stuff happen on a computer needs to be done somewhere else. I've tried for 15 years now. Working at home just doesn't work.
Doraemon's first movie being about exactly how an uprising against dictatorship happens and music helping everyone's spirits stay afloat during those dark times is extremely serious to me
A new Kindle costs ₹21k. A new gaming laptop is anywhere between 1.5lakh-3lakh. No Xboxes on sale, afaik. PS5 and Nintendo Switch 2 are above 60k on a good day. Games are above ₹6k. I feel very bad for children nowadays; the era of good accessible entertainment seems to be over
I saw a post on Reddit today about AI that said, “AI is data, and data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I genuinely need to sit with the weight of that for a while.