Success Doesn’t Guarantee Fulfillment

“I go to sleep, I wake up, I work, go to sleep, wake up, work—do that seven days a week.” These are Elon Musk’s words. He has been suffering from severe back pain, sleep issues, and so on. Musk says — the pain he has gone through in the last...

Will AI Make Us Intellectually Obese?

Maybe I am paranoid but will AI make us dumber? Let me share an analogy. As a kid, I don’t remember seeing too many obese people. When I used to visit my village during summer vacations, almost nobody appeared overweight. And yet, there was no gym in the village. Nor...

The Unpredictable Ripple of New Technology

In a book I was reading, Cal Newport shared this interesting story: When IBM first set up an email system for their employees, they had to figure out the server capacity sufficient to handle the email volume. So they looked at all the communication happening through...

Embrace Mistakes, But Only Once

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain. We should learn from others’ mistakes. So in theory, we should be making very few mistakes, if any. But humans are humans. Sometimes, the only...