Read good calorie, bad calorie last week. This book cites the effect of excessive processed carbohydrate intake in our diet. The author has gone way forward with the research papers, experiments attributing all major modern-day diseases to carbohydrate consumption. We have victimized fat to a great length. I keep hearing from friends about moderation, which …
Author Archives: Atul
journey
I was with a few friends last evening, both running their startups. It was great listening to them. Added the list along with. Things will screw up, get ready to be on the joyride. Live, for now, do not keep grudges. People change with time. Enjoy the moment while being on the journey. Find the …
Connect
I have come to that stage of my life where I am least interested in making new connections. I feel like I am completely exhausted with my real-life friend’s list. I have a small list of friends and I am happy with them around me. I am finding everything else as a distraction. I am …
The Anarchy
I finished reading The Anarchy this week. I enjoyed reading it and gaining more knowledge about Indian history I also felt the author being a Mughal apologist. Throughout the book, the author mentions the atrocities committed by the British, the Jats, the Marathas, the Rohillas et all. I got to know about the powerful Marathas …
Incentive
Product development should focus more on the incentives for their stakeholders. Don’t create a feature-rich product but take end-users requirements to its core. Most products have more than one personas, understanding it and working towards eliminating the pain would be a good start. People don’t buy a product because it’s sexy, but because they have …
animal
I was going through Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics“. I am still half way though. There is a good lecture on the same by Adam Rosenfeld which I am also watching. Along with Stoics, looks like Aristotle is going to be the Philosopher I am going to spend good part of my life reading and learning from. …
act
Some meetings turn out bad, meeting where the other person acts inappropriately because they could afford to do that. How hollow are we with this external layer over ourselves: power, position, designation? Do we not know that these are all temporary? Don’t be prideful with any excellence that is not your own. If a horse …
default
I have spent the last two years with some reading and taking care of myself. I wish I could have done this much earlier. One thing I have learned all this time is that our brain by default is a pessimist. Reading Philosophy made me realize the meaning of self-knowledge, observing my thoughts. Since our …
generation gap
It is amazing how the thought process works. What is great for you might worth dime for your parents. The generation gap exists, seeing the world in a different lens. You might think you have achieved everything in life but for your parents, you are still not settled. Settling down means getting married, having kids …
broken
We are all broken. Broken by rules, relations, and rituals. This brokenness has its misery, a hollow world. A world that makes us not believe in ourselves. A world that makes us no nuts over our minuscule success. A world that makes us not believe in our own self. There is so much one can …