Author: Abhinav Bhatt

  • The True Egalitarian Aspect of Success

    I am a big fan of Casey Neistat (YouTube in case you don’t know him). He said, in an interview:

    “You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You’ll never be the smartest person in the room. You’ll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.”

    Some people may appear that they were born with a specific talent. Or they might happen to be born with certain privileges. It is not their fault. But, in case you have nothing of that sort, you can still have the full ability to try harder. And harder. And harder.

    Source: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

  • The Point of No Return

    The Point of No Return

    Whenever you ask a friend or a fellow colleague if they have filed their Income Tax Return, first they give a huge exhalation of frustration. It is as if you just reminded them of their greatest enemy. Then, they utter fancy words under their breath. As if their greatest enemy just passed by them in a shiny red Bentley. And lastly, they thank you for reminding them of the due date by which they have to file their Income Tax Returns. As if their greatest enemy just rammed into a pole.

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  • AC vs DC

    AC vs DC

    Movies like Nolan’s The Prestige, nowadays most coveted car company The Elon Musk’s Tesla and this comic by Oatmeal, all tell us one thing: Nikola Tesla was one of the major pioneers in modern-day science but he was, at large, underrated. He was an impactful geek who was overshadowed by flash, edgy, and publicity-hungry Thomas Alva Edison. Did you also know that Nikola Tesla was not always a humble servant of science himself, as we believe nowadays? He was indeed the inventor of the system of electricity that we use without noticing. But he was also known to sign things not with his name but with the letters “GI.” (GI here means “Great Inventor.”)

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  • FU News: Studies reveal Men from Mars and Women from Venus a Truth

    FU News Science Team Secret Report from NASA Laboratories ((European Alps), the Equator)

    After a highly confidentially conducted experiment, lasting for 10000s of years, scientists have come to a startling conclusion. You might have to sit down for this.

    The statement,

    “Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus”

    , hold your breath, is true. That’s the reason that they both are totally different species as they are from totally different planets. The differences have always been stark but there has always been a pull among the two like there is some sort of gravitational attraction. That is weird but in a way that is just simple but sometimes complex as well as are all the other attractions.

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  • So I recently read: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    So I recently read: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    The Internet is full of vast amounts of knowledge and it keeps on bloating itself. We have got access to so much data that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find quality material that you can actually use. Then there are some gems that are available that once you stumble onto, you can not get enough of it.

    The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, created, compiled, and edited by Eric Jorgenson is one such gem. This crisp book is one of the best things I stumbled upon this year. In fact, this book is one of the most hopeful pieces of gift or advice one can give oneself in this craptastic of a year.

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  • Emergencies are Temporary

    Seth Godin, in his blog https://seths.blog/2018/11/one-by-one-the-urgent-goes-away/ wrote such subtle but powerful words.

    Those emergencies from a year ago (and a month ago), they’re gone.

    Either they were solved, or they became things to live with. But emergencies don’t last. They fade.

    Time is such a strong healer.

  • Why can’t Dosa be home delivered?

    Why can’t Dosa be home delivered?

    One late afternoon in Office Cafeteria, I and some of my colleagues were discussing trivial matters during snack break (mostly Dosa for me and oily deep-fried things (as if Dosa is not) for others) while sipping on coffee and tea. I got a work-related call and while I was busy talking, the hot freshly prepared Dosa cooled down, turned soft, and lost all its charm.

    One thought came into mind: So, Dosa has to be eaten immediately otherwise it just dies like a Soft-Dismissal in Cricket. Why can’t Dosa be home delivered in the 21st century? Someone might have read a Tweet about it as well which might have caused the initiation of all this conundrum.

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  • Criticizing Others

    Criticizing Others

    “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone… just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Some people and things do deserve the criticism. Like

    • People who don’t wash their hands after using the restroom,
    • Newspaper with 100 pages filled with just advertisements,
    • People who drive rashly deliberately,
    • People who throw garbage on road from their cars,
    • Fanboys of anything,
    • Motorcycles in which getting to neutral is a pain,
    • People who address you as Bro without knowing you,
    • Radish,

    The list goes on.

    But we should, hypothetically at least, put ourselves in others’ place just before putting them down.

    Same way, if the other person has not been through what you’ve been through or have never seen loss or failure themselves, we can ignore them.

    Photo by Stefan Spassov on Unsplash

  • Share, if you care

    Share, if you care

    Recently, the Twitter account of India’s PM got hacked by someone who might be a Keanu Reeves fan (who isn’t?!). And, obviously, that’s not the only high profile account which has got compromised in recent history but it keeps happening once in a while. If even the most powerful person in the country is insecure online, think about yourself. Your password would be even easier to break down. It is just Password@123. Right?

    Normally, Passwords are somethings we hold very dear. We can share the most personal things with others but not passwords. Some people do share passwords at work for common systems which is highly risky in itself but they will never share passwords of their bank accounts for sure.

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  • Non-Aligned Movement

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    Photo by Christophe Hautier on Unsplash

    Let me write a sentence in multiple ways so that you can raise your eyebrows accordingly:

    • One ad showed a Hindu woman thanking her Muslim mother in law for allowing Hindu rituals in their Inter-Faith marriage.
    • One ad showed a Hindu woman thanking her Muslim mother in law for allowing Hindu rituals in their Inter-Faith marriage.
    • One ad showed a Hindu woman thanking her Muslim mother in law for allowing Hindu rituals in their Inter-Faith marriage.
    • One ad showed a Hindu woman thanking her Muslim mother in law for allowing Hindu rituals in their Inter-Faith marriage.
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