Common Logical Fallacies

Logical fallacies are errors in reasoning that can lead to false or inaccurate conclusions. It is important to be able to identify these fallacies so that you can avoid making them yourself and so that you can spot them when others are making them. If you can identify a logical

Opinion

Community News

In this post, I want to speak with you a little bit about what I have learned working in the news. This includes some details about the news business as well as news-craft. After discussing these things, I will speak a bit about what it is like to actually work in a news startup as an employee.

Science

The Rise and Fall of Naked Emperors

Learn about the peer review publication process as well as why this system may require an update.

Philosophy

A Hindu Christmas

As I approach the first Christmas in many years to which I choose not to have any Christian affiliation, I wonder whether I could truly ever be unaffiliated from it and further, whether I would ever want to.

Philosophy

Cosmic Love

A thoroughly socialized person is one who desires only the rewards that others around him have agreed he should long for. He may encounter thousands of potentially fulfilling experiences, but he fails to notice them because they are not the things he desires.

Philosophy

On Happiness

In Siddhartha, the protagonist points out flaws in the Buddha’s teachings to the Buddha. The Buddha responds that there are many paths for achieving enlightenment. He explains that while all can get you there, none are perfect.

Philosophy

Naval Ravikant on The Meaning of Life

Before you were born, you didn’t care about anything or anyone, including your loved ones, including yourself, including humans, including whether we go to Mars or whether we stay on planet Earth, whether there’s an AI or not. After death, you just don’t care either.

Economics

Interesting Paradoxes

Taken from Wikipedia's List of Paradoxes, check out a fascinating list of exceptions to the rule.

Productivity

The Marketing Mental Model

If you have a great product but another company was already first in that market, create a new category in which you are first. You don’t have to entirely change your product—just find something that sets it apart.

Story

Cousin Bilal Discovers the Lota

Wedding season draws millions to the subcontinent for its weeklong festivities. Pageants of red bridal dresses and henna at every hotel, traffic jams dotted with turbaned grooms mounted on visibly irritated white horses, and temporary tents erected in every open space characterize winter in India.

How to Read

How to Read

A few days ago, I was going through my Goodreads and I was taken aback by how many books I started but hadn't finished. I started to tell myself that I should finish these books before moving on to new ones, but then I thought. Why? If I don't like a TV show, I don't force myself to finish that.

Story

On Poverty

I turned around to check, as one does when walking through a rather shady part of town, and saw a girl who couldn't have been aged past her mid 20s... To say that she could barely walk in a straight line would be an understatement.

My Top 3 Places to Take a Nap (not including my house)

Please don't wake me up if I am found napping.

Story

My Father

This is the story of my father's his first 26 years. It is also the story of three revolutions. It is also, at least in part, my own story. Born in the Himalayan winter, my father's eyes first opened to a frigid world. A city bordering a lake and bordered by mountains was his first home.

Failure

On Failure

Tragedies teach empathy for the unfortunate. However, they do not teach us how to avoid misfortune. Failure begins long before it manifests.

Productivity

Second Hand Social Media (and the Power of Libraries)

At a library, given that there is a heightened level of variety, privacy and individualism linked to the activities that one can do there, scrolling through a feed is far from deviant behaviour. However, it should at least still be considered anomie. This is my argument.

Reading Material

On Blessings

The sea surges up with laughter and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach. Death-dealing waves sing meaningless ballads to the children, even like a mother while rocking her baby's cradle. The sea plays with children, and pale gleams the smile of the sea beach.

Reading Material

Another Tim Ferriss Style Update

Personal rumination on the balance between broad exploration and honing into a particular area. Interesting Skillshare classes that have provided me with value and a new workout plan.

Reading Material

Fear is the mind killer

I find that these books have a much larger therapeutic effect than reading new literature. I think that part of what makes these books therapeutic, apart from the wonderful stories that they contain are the fact that we associate these stories with a less busy or complicated time in our lives.

Health and Fitness

You need an exercise arsenal at the gym. Here's why.

Workout plans are stupid–especially if you're a beginner at the gym. End of story.

Reading Material

Elon Musk on Old Political Leadership and Other Tidbits

Elon Musk proposes having a maximal age on elected politicians. In this same interview, he also noted that "people don't change their minds, they just die" and that "leadership that is several generations older than the average age of its constituency will be unable to relate with them".

History

3 Wiki Links from History

This week, I was learning about the spread of Catholicism in India, Indo-Russian relations, and the history of the Magna Carta. Here is what I was looking at, specifically.

Opinion

Debunking perception with Jordan Peterson

The controversial professor returns to the lecture circuit with some truly insightful tid-bits. "We don't perceive objects and infer meaning, we perceive meaning and infer objects" –Dr. Jordan Peterson

Writing

Nicholas Cole’s Most Important Advice for New Online Writers

The first 6 months of writing online should be all about discovering yourself as opposed to being discovered.

Health and Fitness

Lessons Learned from 1 Month at the Gym

I have made some major realizations about this placed that is home to some and hell to others. And I have recognized that if I didn’t figure this all out, I probably wouldn’t be sticking around.