80% of building wealth is just ignoring people who never built anything.

Internet and tech are mostly designed to help humans do short term behaviors. For achieving anything long term one needs to get off them.

At times, AI existential dread is overwhelming

AI these days feels like final stage of a solitaire game where one accelerates really fast to watch the satisfying animation of the cards going back to the pack.

Leadership is about uncomfortable conversations and decisions. Great leadership is doing both without delay.

For many years google had the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button which allowed people to get to top result without having to deal with search results. This move wasn’t ideal for business as it didn’t allow users to see ads which fueled the company’s profits. Years later, AI makes us all feel very lucky

Humans are subconsciously always stuck in ranking and comparing mode and when someone hits a misfortune our primitive brain gives us a dopamine rush as if we got a mega boost in our own rank Schadenfreude is easy to understand if we treat world as one big zero sum game.

Empowerment without accountability ends up as entitlement.

Opinions of people who failed at something doesn’t become bad because of their failure but aren’t taken seriously. Opinions of people who have done well are often assumed to be good in areas they don’t have understanding. This makes celeb advertising powerful and allows cricketers or actors to sell mutual funds and insurance.

Large language models grow by relentlessly ingesting diverse data. True for our mind too. It’s best to keep sampling new disciplines and trends to keep evolving our mental algorithms. When success makes curiosity shrink, our personal “LLM” stops learning and starts coasting.