30-Day Writing Challenge: 15/30 This challenge turned out to be way more difficult than I thought. Initial 10-12 days were relatively easy. The easy topics were covered first. The objective was to overcome the inertia of writing. There are so many things I wanna talk and write about. But these very topics which are raw […]
30-Day Writing Challenge: 14/30 This is an idea I came up with: “Don’t trust your mind”. May of us might think that our mind is infallible. We can trust it absolutely. But, it fools us so often and so easily. There are so many biases that happen while thinking. Some people hallucinate, some have [clinical] […]
30-Day Writing Challenge: 13/30 Looking into language and it’s structure sometimes yields interesting insights. For example, compare the phrasal verbs ‘passing out’ and ‘passing away’. The difference lies in the reversibility of ‘out’ and ‘away’. If someone can pass out (i.e., become unconscious), they can pass in (not a real phrase, I think). But, the […]
30-Day Writing Challenge: 12/30 Extracting knowledge efficiently from non-fiction books is a skill. Books have a few core ideas and rest might be fluff meant to cushion the concepts and add bulk. There might be people who read non-fiction books from cover to cover. I used to do the same. It’s very inefficient. Here’s how […]
30-Day Writing Challenge: 11/30 It’s a great feeling when someone finds what you said worthy enough to quote it to someone.
30-Day Writing Challenge: 10/30 Characteristics of an ideal economy as described by Peter Joseph in The New Human Rights Movement: 1. Automation Let machines do the tasks which they are efficient in. Use the output to provide universal income/food/utilities 2. Access Create shared access to resources at a local level. Can be done with a […]
30-Day Writing Challenge: 9/30 A lot of people are doing very hard work, trying to improve the world. But, it can be and it is undone very easily because of a few people.
30-Day Writing Challenge: 8/30 It works something this: If you have a job interview tomorrow, but your English is not good, you might get rejected. You won’t be able to improve your English within a day. So, you need to improve (probably months) in advance. Sounds deceptively simple, but think about it. You don’t know […]
30-Day Writing Challenge: 7/30 If you want to build a good habit or leave a bad habit, you can create a WhatsApp group with your friends and send a ✅ or ❌ to check in. This uses very powerful human psychology, i.e., social pressure and social desirability to help you build/drop habits. This method is […]
30-Day Writing Challenge: 6/30 School exams felt like I am an EV being asked to produce a pollution test certificate.