“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.” While this exact phrasing is often attributed to Aristotle, it was actually popularized by historian Will Durant in his 1926 book, The Story of Philosophy, summarizing Aristotle’s original thoughts on virtue and morality. Had a conversation with my wife on the pursuit of excellence, …
A lot transpired today – that made me revisit this blogpost that I had written in 2023. What a beautiful, yet unique relationship this is. Nowhere else in the animal kingdom do parents and children share this bond – or to rephrase, nowhere else in the animal kingdom do parents share this sentiment. The very …
A brain-sized artificial consciousness could have millions of times more experiences than us per second, since electromagnetic signals travel at the speed of light—millions of times faster than neuron signals. However, the larger the AI, the slower its global thoughts must be to allow information time to flow between all its parts. We’d therefore expect …
उपकाराच् च लोकानां निमित्तान् मृग-पक्षिणाम् ।भयाल् लोभाच् च मूर्खाणां मैत्री स्याद् दर्शनात् सताम् ॥ ३६ ॥ upakārāc ca lokānāṃ nimittān mṛga-pakṣiṇām |bhayāl lobhāc ca mūrkhāṇāṃ maitrī syād darśanāt satām || 36 || People become friends by helping each other. Animals and birds can also become friendly due to some reasons. Fools act friendly because of greed or …
Physics describes patterns in spacetime that correspond to particles moving around. If the particle arrangements obey certain principles, they give rise to emergent phenomena that are pretty independent of the particle substrate, and have a totally different feel to them. A great example of this is information processing, in computronium. But we’ve now taken this …
Must come down. The good news is that it would go up again, but not without a positive mindset and positive action. The blogpost below is from 2023. We are at the cusp in 2026. Markets are excited because of the upcoming trillion dollar IPOs – Space X, Anthropic, Open AI and Perplexity are all …
Three unconnected thoughts today – or are they? IN DEFENSE OF FAIRYTALES A problem with this worldis that too few believe in fairytalesand too many reduce them to magic and swords. It has never been about slaying dragons,but about learning that if one only spoke their tongue,one would find even a dragon is someone. — Elizabeth …
Had an interesting read today – a compilation of thoughts on winning, losing and failing. And so I decided to add them below, in no particular order, and with no major modifications – because some thoughts are meant to drift in the ether surrounding you, rather than to be interacted with. You can choose to …
A bit of horology, a dash of writing instruments, vintage memories, three ladies holding a silly screenplay – this Sunday that went past. Started Made in India – the Titan Story, and the ever dependable Jim Sarbh hit the ball out the park in Episode 1. I think he has a nice little niche – …
We had a manager’s workshop today – went well, great discussions, scrumptious food, and little tokens of gratitude – a fountain pen and a book – The Almanac of Naval Ravikant. A fountain pen, because not many people use them anymore. But once you feel them in your hands, they trigger a generous dose of …
