Tanya kharbanda

Compare the popularity of podcasts, tweets, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, to blogs and books, to see how rare genuine readers are.

"Increasingly, data can only truly deliver via negativa–style knowledge—it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm." - @nntaleb

The most universally accepted beliefs are the ones most important to test. Truth changes over time, and if an idea is universally accepted, it is seldom tested.

Only in Hindu mythology, it was believed that all life began with fish. Now thousands year later even science believes that, perhaps, all life began in an ocean. Even a child’s growth in mother’s womb begins like fish, becomes a monkey and finally a human.

The Right and the Far Right are capitalizing on the Woke culture. When the Left and Far Left take offense at anything and everything, the Right and Far Right don’t have to do much. In other words, the Left and Far Left are their own worst enemies.

Rationality is a low dimensional instrument. Very useful for certain purposes. Woefully inadequate for navigating the full complexity of one's life.

You don't win the game by playing fair. You win it by designing a new game in which you own all the pieces, then convincing the world to play.

The greatest invention of the 20th century was: the Undo command. It was a conceptual revolution: you are not condemned forever to live with the consequences of your actions.

"Maturing is realizing how many things don't require your comment." — Rachel Wolchin

Virtues should be understood not as opposites of vices but as lying between two opposite extremes of vice. Generosity lies between meanness and profligacy. Courage between cowardice and rashness.

How to see opportunities others miss: 1) Study a totally different field, then return to the original problem. Apply insights from other domains. 2) Invert the problem. Try to achieve the opposite. 3) Find ways to engage with hyper-creative people. Their thinking will rub off.

It is absurd that Muslim leaders in India advocate Secularism. There is not a single Islamic nation among the 51 which professes secularism as a Constitution right!! India is only committed as a 82% Hindu nation to equal freedom to religion,but not to culture

The strategy seems to be shifting. The protests, stone pelting, celeb drama, shaheen baag etc didn't work obviously.Suddenly news of attacks on pro CAA rallies, getting pro CAA people fired & economic boycott on social media coming in. Looks like they want retaliation. But why?

Measure experience in exposure to shocks rather than years

Becoming comfortable with inaction allows one to act only when it is beneficial.

The key to understanding a paradox is the ability to hold multiple perspectives simultaneously.