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Premature Optimization – Why too much clarity can be harmful

Making things convenient matters.

How things compound.

Cost-benefit and opportunity cost are two great tools to aid your thinking, and they both go hand in hand.

Few things, if any, are entirely bad or good – and ego is no exception.

Answering the question: How do I know if I care about this?

What differentiation means – for businesses and people

Forgiving others – not for their sake, but your own.

Trying to avoid seeing ourselves only through the eyes of others

Double standards don’t always have to be wrong.

Do things happen to you, or do you choose them?

How easy it is to transform our vices into virtues and our virtues into vices

Thinking about how time is spent – in terms of creation and consumption.

Many of the questions I get have no good answers.
I’ve tried to explain why I usually avoid answering them.

How easy it is to confuse what is important to us with what we think is important to others

Don’t let your New Year Resolutions be the lies you tell yourself.

To thine own self, be true.

A lot of people have asked me about Stoicism.
This is a very short answer that touches the surface of Stoicism and tries to relate it to our lives.

It’s hard to claim that “All intelligent people do this or that”.

This is a list of traits I’ve found in most of the intelligent people I know.

Why Mahatma Gandhi is often chosen as an easy target to criticize.

The difference between sympathy, empathy and apathy explained simply.

Why lying is so often a product of fear

I learnt many of the lessons I apply in life in the gym.

Here are some of them.

Everyone knows this is so, but not many people know why.

Why IIT/IIM before IAS isn’t simply “wasting” a seat, and why it doesn’t matter.