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Off late the world feels like one big sales pitch.
It’s not just corporations but people too. Everyone’s constantly selling their personal brand, always pitching, always judging and one upping.
Or maybe I’m the old man yelling at the sky
#ThoughtOfTheDay
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People often over estimate what they can do in a week but severely under estimate what can be accomplished in a year.
Humans have a tendency to overestimate their own headwinds and others' tailwinds.
Remember, it is never as hard as you think it is for you and never as easy as it looks for others.
Pratheek Mahishi retweeted
“For any given topic, there is a gap between the supply of what we actually know and the demand for what we feel we need to know. Everything that fills this gap is bullshit. ” — @mikemallazzo medium.com/p/the-bs-industri…
Pratheek Mahishi retweeted
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
- Voltaire
"A simple question you can ask yourself that often changes behavior:
Is what I'm about to do a step toward or away from what's important?"
— @shaneparrish
"You can attract luck with choices today that will still make sense in a decade.
— Being trustworthy
— Ensuring your counter-parties always win
— Being kind when you could be clever"
— @shaneparrish
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Pratheek Mahishi retweeted
It happens in and only Belagavi. A pic of Preeti wine shop at Old PB road in Belagavi which has put marking keeping 1.5 distance between each customer standing in queue to buy liquor.
#TNIEupdatesOnCovid19 @XpressBengaluru @santwana99 @ramj @naushadbijapur @Belagavi_infra
Pratheek Mahishi retweeted
I'm stunned by the depth of #coronavirus information being released in #Singapore. On this website you can see every known infection case, where the person lives and works, which hospital they got admitted to, and the network topology of carriers, all laid out on a time-series
"[y]our only choice is whether you define your philosophy by a conscious, rational, disciplined process of thought and scrupulously logical deliberation—or let your subconscious accumulate a junk heap of unwarranted conclusions, false generalizations, ..." getpocket.com/@prthkms/share…
" humans suck. And because humans suck, you’re usually at a major advantage when you do the exact thing most other people are not doing." getpocket.com/@prthkms/share…
People often over estimate what they can do in a week but severely under estimate what can be accomplished in a year.