Seeing is part annihilation and part compression. When you see all the way, you are annihilating your past. When you see all the way, you are compressing everything that is to come.

There’s much more energy available to every human being than they could possibly imagine You have to be absolutely earnest in seeking it - almost like you are walking the tightrope of life and death This is not some word salad, but based on the grounded experience which isn’t

@paraschopra People aren’t able to focus because they don’t get how to pay attention. It’s rather a loving, poetic way of looking at questions, ideas, concepts, and perspectives with the required “energy depth” The more freer one’s energy gets, the more energy they have to employ, and the

Imagine if everything in life was as good as gold. It’s easy to invest in, could help grow your wealth, and protect it too. A timeless asset that stands strong when others may not.

Ego lives in your bones and sinews. Attitude, on your face. Use this insight to your advantage, know what to do to release baked in stress lying dormant for decades

ekānta (एकांत): a space where one ends and returns to zero

China learned to make every single thing to actualize Gandhi’s self sufficiency worldview We made statues instead

A café owned and run by women with goated bakes, tea, and coffee

This is the original, btw…woh copy hai

We are being blasted with dj noise pollution in an upscale hotel because a certain group which did mass booking wants to have ‘fun’ It is horrifying to realize that 95% of us Indians are immune to any kind of noise. Most guests here aren’t complaining. I doubt they even notice

30/10 cloud today

There’s incredible alpha in stripping everything you see down to its core: visceral, raw, and naked.

Instead of making fun of the South Bombay accent, we should have bullied ingrained dehat ideology across culture surface points: cinema, socials, prime time debates, newspapers, and books That surely would have helped accelerate civic sense and perhaps even fixed it by 2025

10/10 weather in kodai

Make sure you eat here if you go Palani 🤤

People have zero idea what they miss out on by chasing checklists everywhere they go

I did this in 2016 selling juice and salad subs to startups. Basically, I would send a cold email with pics of juice demo days asking them if we can come in for a free juice day. 80% said yes within 5d and most ended taking juice and salad subs. If they weren’t keen due to cost

There’s a case to be made that the Chopra family played their bit in upgrading culture in the 90s by choosing to project the good side of life instead of the usual poverty and village tropes

Bombay sandwich is the second best, highly underrated invention after Bombay vada pav

The reason so many Indian startups are goated at design is simple: when you are designing experiences for 450 million (India’s middle class) with so much inherent cultural complexity packed in, one has to be extremely mindful not to ship fancy screens and call it a day

If I may correct - good people are kind to those they don’t *need* to be kind to - is the lowest bar because the dynamic is vastly different. Being kind to peers, strangers, and foes is the next one. But being compassionate with people you know inside out remains the highest

zuck never really had any product vision. Look at this cringe shit on *dreads*