How to help others and be happy

One of the mistakes we make early in our lives is feeling morally obligated to help others. If we have something that they don’t, maybe we could help. And when we do offer our help and that still doesn’t help, we feel we must have done something wrong. Thus starts a...

Why do we go to college?

Go to college, get your education, and chill for the rest of your life. The biggest lie that was ever told and sold to us. Why do we go to college? To learn something? Not really, everything is accessible online. To get a degree? We could do it from correspondence. To...

My top books I read in 2020

Almanack of Naval Ravikant: What a stunning and thoughtful compilation of Naval Ravikant’s work and words. I predict that this is going to define a new industry – curating public content of thought leaders and converting them into books. Waking Up: Search...

A sneak peek into 2021 resolutions

Most people make resolutions at the end of December, and by 15th January, bam! They are back to square one. Why does that happen? Because we did not change who we are, without which it is impossible to change what we want. So here’s how to make resolutions for 2021:...

How to learn something new

As a kid, three of us from school decided to speak in English, so that we could get better at it.  Initially it was embarrassing, because what we spoke wasn’t refined. We were speaking in English when everyone around us spoke in Hindi. My two other friends gave up on...

Knowing the entire story

Imagine that a ship sank with only 5 surviving out of the 100 that were onboard.  When asked what happened and how the ship sank and how the 5 of them managed to survive, we will have just these 5 stories to hear. The stories of the 95 dead will never reach us.  That...