Indian weddings are fun because 400 people are trying to have their main character moment over the same 2 days

quit brainrot. unfollow trolls. read essays. go down rabbit holes. have a calendar. maintain a todo list. read old books. watch old movies. turn on dnd. walk with intent. eat without youtube. chew more. train without music. plan for 15 mins. execute. organise your desk. take

David Fincher’s masterpiece, THE SOCIAL NETWORK has been added to the National Film Registry.

Once you get a partner, your objective function changes by adding a non-trivial weight to your partner’s desires. The only difference is this dimension is only transparent to your friends and not you.

Warren Buffet went to Ben Graham and offered to work for free. Graham said to Buffet "Free is overpriced." A valuable apprenticeship is worth its weight in gold. Now, we can question whether working with Goyal is that valuable, which is the right question to wrestle with.

You can learn a lot about a person’s optimization function based on the role models in his life.

Once you’re in your late-twenties, you see decisions as trade-offs rather than pareto superior

Materialism has transitioned from ownership to experiences

Humans are bad computers

The best part about leaving the house is coming back home.

Most high school students over optimize on university quality and under on university experience. Latter way more important for the undergrad experience.

So much of being a music composer is not making good music, but recognizing when good music has been made

Or a higher percentage of items I would call essential than before

Maybe I have more things now and am used to an inflated lifestyle

With each passing year I take non-linearly more time to pack. Like, how was I packing for a 5 week India trip in 30 mins in college?

If you want to improve your bias for action, make decisions like a greedy algorithm rather than an optimization one.

I've realized I enjoy minimalism in film too. Sicario is my favorite action film, Arrival is now my favorite sci-fi.

My best friend, a crypto founder, said he makes uninformed decisions all the time, let’s say 20% of the time. I said, by the time you become great you would’ve made so many intentional ones, the percentage will be 1%.

What differentiates the good from the great is that the greats make a lot of incorrect decisions, but almost never an unintentional one.

Optimists don't recognize when things are going wrong for them; pessimists don't when things are going right for them.