The Insignificance of a Human Being: A Perspective on Life's True Meaning
In the grand scheme of the universe, what is one human life worth? It’s a question that’s both unsettling and oddly liberating when you start thinking about it. Here we are, living on a tiny planet, floating through a vast, indifferent cosmos that stretches beyond the reach of our imagination. From this perspective, it’s easy to conclude that our lives are meaningless, that nothing we do will matter in the face of the universe’s scale and timeline.
Read moreThe Desire to Be Liked
In today’s world, many of us are driven by a deep-rooted desire: the desire to be liked. Whether it’s in social circles, at work, or even online, we often find ourselves crafting our personalities, opinions, and actions in ways that make us more acceptable or appealing to others. This quest for validation, while understandable, sometimes comes at the cost of authenticity.
Read moreWhat is God? Does God exist?
What is God? Does God exist? The question of whether God or a higher power exists is one of the most profound and debated topics in human history. Let’s discuss that in this post!
Read moreThe Orville and an interesting conversation with AI about emergence
Recently, I had an interesting conversation with the latest version of AI (OpenAI’s GPT-4) about my favorite television series “The Orville”. The conversation went into deep science fiction and philosophical questions like existence of human beings and the concept of emergence. Emergence of something completely new out of very small components or elements.
Read moreReputation as a currency
In the age of abundance, reputation will be the ultimate currency.
Read moreGreed
Greed is one of the fundamental characteristics of humans throughout known human history. Let’s discuss greed in this post.
Read moreMusic
Music and Engineering are the closest forms of Magic I can think of. Music has a tremendous amount of power on our psychology and behavior. Let’s discuss Music in this post.
Read moreAdaptability
Adaptability is becoming super crucial to stay relevant in this world, especially after the COVID-19 era. We all need to constantly learn new things and be comfortable with the new reality.
Read moreMoney
Money - perhaps the most important thing in today’s capitalistic world. You won’t have the device on which you’re reading this blog if you would not have the money to buy it.
Read moreOpportunity Cost
Opportunity cost is a hidden cost we all face when we are taking some serious decisions. Opportunity cost includes what you are giving up while you’re choosing some other option. Let’s explore opportunity cost in this post.
Read moreStock Market
Stock Market - A platform/market to exchange stocks/shares of publicly listed companies. But it’s much more than that, at least for me. Let’s discuss the stock market in this post.
Read moreUnfairness: it's not fair!
Sometimes a thought arises, the world which we live in is not fair. There are many things outside our control, but still we measure everyone with the same scale. Let’s explore “unfairness” in this post.
Read moreInflation
Inflation is a hot topic nowadays. Layman definition of inflation can be, “too much money chasing too few goods”. When almost everyone has more money than before, then money slightly loses its value and prices of goods go up. That’s inflation.
Read moreCrypto is Inevitable
Cryptocurrency is a new medium of financial exchange backed by technologies like decentralized blockchain ledger, cryptography and hashing. Some people think crypto is temporary and will vanish in future as it does not have any intrinsic value and some people(like me) believe crypto is inevitable. Let’s discuss crypto’s future in this post.
Read moreLearning to learn
There are too many things to learn out there, and our attention span is limited. So, we can not master every skill, but what we can do is to learn how to learn anything quickly. Let’s explore the skill of “learning to learn” in this post.
Read moreBenefit of the Doubt
Giving benefit of doubt has almost always helped me throughout my life. Sometimes we can’t see all the possibilities and end up assuming whatever seems obvious to us, which can be far from the truth.
Read moreCapitalism
Our society runs on capitalism. Private or corporate ownerships strive to maximize profits by serving customers better than their competitors. They do this by constant innovation and competing against others to make their products/services better & better in a free and open market.
Read moreFreedom
Freedom is perhaps one of the most important yet underrated things in the world. On this day of independence, let’s explore freedom in this post.
Read moreSchrödinger's cat, Quantum Mechanics & Multiverse
There are high chance that multiple realities do exist according to the theories of Quantum Mechanics. Let’s explore the Multiverse concept in this post.
Read moreChallenge Assumptions
Fundamental premise of science is to challenge assumptions. When we challenge the existing hypothesis or the existing thing which we hold to be true, we’re engaging in science.
Read moreHow Startup Ecosystem works?
Let’s explore the startup world, and every stakeholder connected to it.
Read moreReel Life
Most of the time, whatever we see on social media, is just one side of the coin. Almost everyone will only share their positive or joyful moments of life. It seems that’s how our brains are wired. Almost no one is going to share their ongoing family troubles or relationship tensions to others. Let’s explore this “reel life” in this post.
Read moreThe Gray Zone
The goal of this post is to realize the fact that almost everything in life is not either good or bad. Seeing the world binary i.e. either good or bad, does not show the entire perspective.
Read moreMeaning of Life
Life is finite, as everyone knows. And in this finite amount of time we have got in this world, what should we work on? With whom we should spend our precious time? Answers to these are mostly subjective, there is no right or wrong answer, but let’s try to think about it.
Read moreAre we living in a Simulation?
Are we living in a Simulation? Is there someone who has programmed the rules which govern our universe? What is we are not creators but creations? Let’s explore idea of “living in a simulation” in this post.
Read moreFreedom vs. Equality
Freedom and Equality are like two side of a coin, both of them can’t be together. If we try to increase freedom of people in a society, equality will suffer, and if we support equality of all the people in a society, freedom will suffer.
Read moreThe Next Big Technological Wave
In 2021, almost all massively big and profitable businesses/companies in the world are internet companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Facebook.
Read moreHow to get started in Machine Learning and Data Science from scratch?
In this post, we will see how you can get started in machine learning and data science from scratch.
Read moreHow the economy and financial system works?
In this blog post, we will discuss how the economy and financial system works. What drives the economy and how it rewards a certain type of people?
Read moreA general framework to solve almost any problem
In this post, I share a way of thinking regarding how one can approach and solve almost any problem/challenge.
Read moreCollection of deep meaningful quotes from some of the great minds of human history - Part 2
This is part 2 of the best quotes series. You can read part 1 here if you already have not.
Read moreCollection of deep meaningful quotes from some of the great minds of human history - Part 1
Deep meaningful quotes can show us new ways & perspectives to see this world. Here is a collection of some of the best quotes & thoughts from some of the great minds of human history.
If you are a true lover of deep meaningful quotes like me, you will find this post interesting & knowledgeable.
A realistic way to live a happy life
In this post, I share my ideas to live a happy life by following some simple, realistic & statistically valid ways.
Read moreWhat I learned from my 7 month ML journey?
This little post is about what I have learned from my 7 month ML journey. Hope a newbie like me finds something to invest his/her 5 minutes in.
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