We are living in a century where we are bombarded with information. Thanks to the rise of social media, digital journalism, and live media, we now have access to vast amounts of information like never before. Distractions have become so common in this digital age that we have started to accept them as normal. We have reached a point where we have more ways to get distracted than to be focused....
At the end of May 2021, I started a newsletter called 10+1 Things on Substack. The main idea behind the newsletter was to funnel some traffic to this blog and to other projects I’m working on. In fact, I came up with the name 10+1 Things in 15 minutes and decided to start it on Substack as it was quick to set up. As I’m writing this, 10+1 Things has just crossed 100+ subscribers....
I started journaling when the second wave of Covid-19 hit India in April 2021. I’m not a daily journal person, though I would like to make it a daily habit. I journal my thoughts occasionally on Obsidian in digital format using Markdown. I also maintain an Idea Journal in public , a resonance journal in Notion , and a private art journal in Obsidian . The only journal I write in physical form is my Stress Journal....
The idea of meditation has always confused me. Being an atheist ( This is my bible! ) as well as a rationalist, I thought of it as another woo-woo thing. Woo-Woo basically means “ideas or methods that are based on false beliefs or imaginary things, rather than reason or scientific knowledge.” Earlier this year, I was backpacking through North India and I met many people who had life-changing experiences with meditation....
Naval Ravikant, often called the ‘Angel Philosopher’ , is one of the greatest thinkers and entrepreneurs of this generation. Naval has this amazing ability to distill big, universal ideas and philosophies into bite-sized Twitter tweets . The book, ‘The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness’ , is a collection of Naval’s wisdom from Twitter, podcasts, and essays over the past decade. The author of the book, Eric Jorgenson , created a Twitter poll asking the audience whether he should compile Naval’s tweets into a book....