Things I pondered during my Bday week...
PLUS: Rocumantaries, BRICS is fake & Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka
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Essay of the week
This week I spent lots of time pondering on a few things. There were no long shot conversations or something I can write long form about. I realised there were lots of small thoughts here and there that I could write and share about.
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A lyric from the song “My Eyes” by Travis Scott
I’ve been listening to My Eyes on repeat the whole week and one line from the song I can’t seem to forget.
“If I gave you a day in my life or a day in my eyes, don't blink”
He’s talking his life being so interesting and fast and also talking about the hardship he’s going through.
The line can be another way to say, “Walk a mile in my shoes and you’d know”.
I highly recommend listening to the song. Listen to it completely.
A copywriting tip by David Ogilvy
I don't know the rules of grammar… if you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think.
Something the folks from small town are working towards.
We come from humble families, old houses and small towns with sad stories.
We are not hustling to impress or be in any competition with anyone.
We just want to change the storyline and fight the battles our parents never won.
A quote from “The Problem of Pain”
It is easier to say "My tooth is aching" than to say "My heart is broken." - C.S Lewis
Every new stage
Every new stage in life comes with a new set of questions, most humans don't like answering those questions but expect to achieve the desired results.
A wise man knows…
a wise man knows how to defeats issues without raising a hand. He who does will find favour in anything he does.
Shout out to a few friends who made my birthday special :))
Shoutout to Sunny, Gunit, Harshill, Tanush, Sukanya, Navneet, Xia, Vyom & mom for making my birthday memorable.
10 things from InterestingRoad.com 🙌
1. 100 most influential people in AI (Blog)
2. Something from my Twitter👇
3. What would a wizard read (Blog)
4. BRICS is fake (Blog) interesting read.
5. Interesting website of the week:- rocumentaries.com
6. Question of the week:- What's something that's really bad for the body but people keep doing it?
7. Picture of the week:- A page from Facebook’s red book.
8. Current read: Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka
9. Meme of the week:-
10. Quotes of the week:
“Calm consideration was much better than rushing to desperate conclusions” - Frank Kafka in the book Metamorphosis.
“We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.” ― Paulo Coelho, Aleph
(Tweet this quote)“Accelerated by social media, moral panic has become the last dependably profitable format of modern news reporting.” ― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
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