Matchbox: You are son of a servant, you have to end up doing same like your father. We bought you for few $$ and you will end up working in our sugarcane, corn fields. I want my son to be a cricketer more famous then myself. Since this was never tried it before, you …
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Notes from Reading: Enchiridion by Epictetus
Epictetus was one of the famous stoic philosopher. He was born as a slave in current day Turkey. He spent most part of his life in Rome and then later moved to Greece. Enchiridion is modern day notes, so this essentially are contents of Epictetus notebook. These are some of my Kindle notes: Men are disturbed not …
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Random Thoughts: On Trust
So much has been written on Trust by so many scholars that I am not going to write or add anything. But I will request you to ask yourself? Will you be interested in a relationship without trust? Will you be interested in working with someone whom you cannot trust? Will you buy a product …
The ice cream chronicle #1
After over a month I headed to Polar Bear for an ice cream. I was not craving for it but went because during the day I was served with shit load of sugar in my lunch. I thought why not make it a cheat day. I have this tight cheat day eating policy, If I …
Notes from reading: Influence by by Robert Cialdini
Cialdini to me appears to be father of social psychology. The book is one of the best and hugely recommended to anyone who is in selling business. {Are we all not selling business these days? 🙂 }. This book was recommended to me by Anurag I would strongly recommend each and everyone to read this …
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Notes from reading: Nudge by Richard H Thaler
Spent reading Nudge this week. It was recommended to me by Anurag First half of the book reminds me of content and research papers discussed by Cialdini in his book Influence and Kahneman in Thinking fast and slow Nudge is a conscious kick we an individual need in making decisions. It can be ads simple …
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Random Thoughts: On Religion
Right after birth, society mask comes to you in various forms : name race religion caste sub-caste middle class, upper class or poor I will focus on Religion on this post. I have friends who never miss going to Hanuman Temple on Tuesday for prayers, also some who visits mosque on Friday along with others …
Random Thoughts: Why are we scared of losing?
Human mind is a monkey mind as Naval says. We are constantly worried about our future and work hard towards making it better. At times we get so busy in it that we forget about living in this very beautiful moment, the present which is constantly passing. At the same time we start overthinking and …
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Notes from reading: Deep Work by Cal Newport
Finished reading Deep Work by Cal Newport. It is a 250 page odd read. I had high expectation from the book considering the aura, marketing created around it. Still I guess am able to recover price I paid for buying this book with some learnings. Cal has circled around his profession, Carl Jung secluded house, …
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Notes from reading: On shortness of life by Seneca
Senaca was one advisor to emperor Nero from Rome. He was also one of the founding father of stoics school of philosophy. In this chapter Seneca writes about our life and how short our life is in general. These are some notes from the book: Life is short, art is long. Our life is amply …
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