I am a consumer of gig economy. From booking cab to ordering food, I consume it for everything. Job creators for the blue-collar workers have been the winner. The real force on the ground aka laborers, delivery boys, and drivers have turned into robots. I feel sad for the scared taxi driver who cannot speak …
Author Archives: Atul
Principles
I have reread Ray Dalio’s book: Principles. The book circles around a set of a checklist. I asked myself if I will become a robot following the steps described in the book. I have been meeting new people every week these days. I am learning to sell. I find the application of “Principles” helping me. …
Listen
Social media is a medium for voice amplification. The other medium is podcasting, blog, and meetups. Everyone has an opinion and they want to spread it. It is like a single source of truth, be my follower. This noise amplification channel is a signaling platform. The saints of the church spread new phenomenon every now …
Life
I was reading Seneca’s: on the shortness of Life. It made me realize what most of us are doing with our life. The allocated time of our life is not short but the petty things which we have prioritized make it look short. The time of our life we spend on fighting, running after money …
Community
A community is a set of like-minded people. We share the same vision and belief. But does community has the charter to compare and compete with others? When religion came via horsemen, and hermits community changed into submission, fear, and faith. It also fostered religious war for superiority. My previous jobs were around community development. …
High
I used to laugh at people on being high on sugar and all. Yesterday I had a meeting after which I ended up at Glen’s, a bakehouse in town. I ended up eating red velvet cake and cappuccino. Hours after that I was buzzing. I was laughing, chilling and writing texts to friends and was …
Creativity
I understand capitalism means slogging our ass. But when it comes to creativity, it requires a clear head and calm state of mind. Can laziness make you creative? A life without daily todo or productivity hacks? I could use signaling and share quotes of successful folks who were misfits and lead life on their rules. …
Social psychology
Social psychology experiments are a fashionable field. The celebrated author, psychologist Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel prize. He also happens to be the author of the best seller: Thinking fast and slow. I got to know about this field via Freakonomics and Hidden brain podcast. I was hooked to Social psychology. Fast forward, 600 days …
Control
Epictetus wrote enchoridian centuries ago. The paragraph where he mentions what things we have in our control and we don’t have has been a principle for me. I consider lucky getting to know about it, soaking it up. Many things we do in our lives with our best efforts. But if we decide the result …
Timeline
I met Akshat sir today. I have known him since 2004. He is my college senior and more like brother to me. Meeting him was so refreshing. We were lost in past, so many memories kept flowing. It was like going back in a time machine. We spent the whole day together over coffee/lunch/pizza. He …