Finding purpose is hard. A lazy thought process would lead us to believe that there is no big purpose to our existence, so why spend time finding it anyway. Zooming out and thinking about the vastness of the universe, the unfathomable highs, unmeasurable breadths very well makes me realise that, I am but a tiny…
A topic that has kept me on my toes and my brain on a dose for a long, long time now. I am always scared to write about happiness as it is really tough to ascertain whether I have enough context to put thoughts into words. But like everything else, this needs to be done.…
Time. Ticks on our wall clocks, moving shadows on the sundials, sand particles in an hour glass, tidal waves in the oceans, animated faces on apple watches. We as humans, over the years, have measured time, or tried to measure the essence of passage of time through innovative ways. The underlying principle however, has always…
The rationale to pick up this book was very simple. I have been trying my hands at a lot things, writing, reading philosophy and history, podcasting, building software and seriously training for running long distances. Every-time I start going deep into any one of it, I have to forcefully stop myself and evaluate, if I…
The book itself is a short read – 203 pages in total from cover to cover. This is not an attempt to summarise Housel’s writing, however a piece which fetches notes from the book that I found extremely useful and would want to revisit again. Also as Naval Ravikant says 😛 “Don’t give me the…
“It’s only sport after-all”. I am used to hearing this a lot. Given that I play and follow a good number of these meticulously defined rules within which people go to war and try to gain an upper hand, it is a very commonplace utterance. Mostly said to a losing side or participant, to make…
