30-Day Writing Challenge: 13/30 Looking into language and it’s structure sometimes yields interesting insights. For example, compare the phrasal verbs ‘passing out’ and ‘passing away’. The difference lies in the reversibility of ‘out’ and ‘away’. If someone can pass out (i.e., become unconscious), they can pass in (not a real phrase, I think). But, the […]
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📖 Read Books Efficiently
30-Day Writing Challenge: 12/30 Extracting knowledge efficiently from non-fiction books is a skill. Books have a few core ideas and rest might be fluff meant to cushion the concepts and add bulk. There might be people who read non-fiction books from cover to cover. I used to do the same. It’s very inefficient. Here’s how […]
📜 When Someone Quotes You
30-Day Writing Challenge: 11/30 It’s a great feeling when someone finds what you said worthy enough to quote it to someone.
🪙 5 Characteristics of An Ideal Economy
30-Day Writing Challenge: 10/30 Characteristics of an ideal economy as described by Peter Joseph in The New Human Rights Movement: 1. Automation Let machines do the tasks which they are efficient in. Use the output to provide universal income/food/utilities 2. Access Create shared access to resources at a local level. Can be done with a […]
🛠️ Undoing of Hard Work
30-Day Writing Challenge: 9/30 A lot of people are doing very hard work, trying to improve the world. But, it can be and it is undone very easily because of a few people.
30-Day Writing Challenge: 8/30 It works something this: If you have a job interview tomorrow, but your English is not good, you might get rejected. You won’t be able to improve your English within a day. So, you need to improve (probably months) in advance. Sounds deceptively simple, but think about it. You don’t know […]
✅ Accountability Group For Habit Formation
30-Day Writing Challenge: 7/30 If you want to build a good habit or leave a bad habit, you can create a WhatsApp group with your friends and send a ✅ or ❌ to check in. This uses very powerful human psychology, i.e., social pressure and social desirability to help you build/drop habits. This method is […]
🏫 How School Exams Felt
30-Day Writing Challenge: 6/30 School exams felt like I am an EV being asked to produce a pollution test certificate.
📔 Possible Title of my Autobiography
30-Day Writing Challenge: 6/30 Possible title of my autobiography: “You see what I did there?” Represents my general vibe of sharing about my projects and my love of wordplay.
🔁 Getting Stuck In Self-Created Perceptions
30-Day Writing Challenge: 5/30 People get stuck in self-created perceptions and limitations. Example: Someone is hostile. He makes it his personality. People also fix their perception about him. One day, if he wants to change, this self-imposed identity will become a barrier. He won’t be able to go against his own created identity. He can’t […]