The recent Hidden Brain podcast features Daniel Kahneman author, Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. The author describes noise as a mental construct loaded with our bias and environment in making decisions. He cites examples of various court judgments which resulted in people spending too long or less time in prison. Kahneman suggests the use …
Category Archives: Life
bored
Bored: Let’s travel: pay to Airbnb, Uber, Expedia. Bored: Impulse buying: Amazon. Bored: Order food online: Grab Bored: Watch movies: Prime, Netflix Bored: Connect with friends: Twitter, Facebook Bored: Want attention: Instagram, TikTok Bored: Hookups: Tinder, Bumble Bored: Buy stocks and Crypto: Robinhood, Coinbase. Bored: Smoke pot or drink alcohol: Order online(Legally) Bored: Online bet: …
cheat day
Lockdown has resulted in overeating and zero running. At the same time, food cravings have gone on to their peak. I have gotten into ordering food one or the other day. The laziness won over me. Thankfully for the last few weeks, I have gotten in the zone of a cheat day. I try to …
MLM
Social media has turned into an MLM Ponzi scheme. The so-called thought influencers from various industries are faking it. This post title: The Great Online Game, and it talks about the same in detail. We are living in the era of gathering quick bucks, respect, and everything else. Everyone aspires to be next Naval, Elon …
rain drops
It rained last night. After a long time, I was out of my zombie mode(mobile, social media) and sitting silently on my balcony. The noise of vehicles or YouTube was missing and, it was a perfect void that made me listen to the raindrops. Raindrops were like playing their unique tunes. Some were falling on …
cult
A group of blind believers over some ideologies, belief results in a cult. It could be a common purpose, ideologies, and beliefs. Our past has it all religious sect, a cult leader, psychedelic hobbyist, or a religious guru. In the modern era, a cult has transformed into consumerism, and being part of it has become …
doing
As an entrepreneur or an investor or overall human, we like to create an aura. We want to form our cult with disciples or followers. You have an example of Naval or Elon Musk or Steve Jobs for the same. All these guys have built their brand and sale happens as a byproduct. That is …
success
Millions of hours of the playlist are available on YouTube and, billions of dollars worth of economy exists to teach how to become successful. And add it to the social media amplification. We have all the ingredients to become successful. If someone sells you step to become successful, be very careful taking his or her …
Control
How much of our life, everyday decision is in our control? Be it watching a movie on Netflix, ordering via Amazon. Our day-to-day actions like getting outraged on social media or unlimited scrolling after posting pictures of ourselves on Instagram. Or be it Tinder swipes. When we were kids, we were incentivized, shown goals: score …
validation
How much of our existence depends on the validation from others. Are we turning into machines to establish ourselves among a group, class, or hierarchy? On social media, it appears we are selling ourselves, our thoughts to be one among the crowd. We are laughing, smiling, sharing selfie-and letting the world know how prosperous our …