Family Values: had no past, has no future
I speculate that, in the not too distant future…
Family will disintegrate and no one will shed a tear
29
Jul
18
May
Mindmap: McKnight Score Card: A Tool for Resilient First Two Years
Whenever I come up with a new business idea, I use McKnight’s Score Card to tweak it. It is an amazing tool to identify potential pitfalls and bottle necks right at the gate, and morph the original idea into something much more water tight. It gives me an amazingly resilient first two years, which make a huge difference.
18
May
It’s a shame, Indian startups aren’t going international
Image curtsy PixaBay
We are the only multicultural country of significant size. Most other countries are tiny when compared to the size of our market. Just 10 languages can give you more than 50% global coverage. What we need are the mindset and an ecosystem.
28
Oct
Detoxing Pathways to be Prepared before Starting Weight Loss
Weight loss releases the toxins locked in your body. Before starting a weight loss program, it is important to prepare your detoxing channels.
26
Oct
Best Cancer Prevention Science can Offer (2017)
Breakthrough understandings of cancer that have come about over the last few years have substantially improved the survival of cancer patients. Many people are already out-living their cancer. Using these latest understandings, here are a few things you can do to escape cancer.
24
Oct
Beginning of the End of Cancer
In the last post, I wrote about the beginning of the end of type-2 diabetes. Here is something even more sensational:
Science is beginning to understand cancer and…it is turning out to be a pussy!
24
Jul
Beginning of the End of Type-2 Diabetes
The current protocol for treating Type-2 Diabetes is out dated on so many counts, it must be outlawed. Today, we have sufficient scientific understanding to reliably reverse diabetes.
19
Apr
Acid-Blockers Overkill
The current treatment protocol for chronic acid-reflux is a crime. To understand why, you will have to first understand how this disease works.
18
Apr
Antibiotic Overkill
If you haven’t learned about the antibiotic-over-medication disaster we are in the middle of, it is about time you did.
13
Apr
Microbiome: Antibiotic for the 21st Century Diseases
If you haven’t heard the word “microbiome”, this post is going to be the most important thing you read in a long time.
09
Apr
The Neuroscience Pyramid
If you are doing some business in neuroscience industry, you will find this somewhat interesting. If not, I can’t possibly imagine why would you spend time reading this.
This article is about how I see the entire neuroscience industry to be falling into a four layered pyramid
13
Jun
Darwin’s Triplets
All posts in "Life in a Color Wheel" series
In the earlier post titled Evolution 101, we saw how evolution works in the wild. It discussed about how a particular biological trait is selected in a population. Darwin called this “Natural Selection“. Eventually it turned out that Natural Selection is an umbrella term for three different types of selection forces:
- Self Selection
- Sexual Selection
- Group Selection
The interplay of these forces makes us who we are. Like the inter-play of three primary colors make all the hues that we can see in the nature. It is as of we live a life in a color wheel.
11
Jun
Evolution 101
All posts in "Life in a Color Wheel" series
We can’t understand human nature without understanding the forces of evolution that made us who we are. We are the happiest if we design our lives/societies around the human nature, like a well fitting glove is designed around a hand. Failed philosophies like Marxism and Objectivism are results of failing to design our societies around what evolution has made us to be.
28
May
Sam Harris on Lying
Sam Harris is one of the sharpest thinkers I had come across. Here are some excerpts from one of his thinnest books, Lying. Though the book is not as well thought out as some of his other works, I culled out these gems from the book. I put a 
next to the ones that hit a chord in me somewhere:
26
May
Dragons of Idea Age
In the last five posts, I argued that we have just entered the idea age, another renaissance, and what can we do to prepare for it. This post is about the unique risks that idea age is bringing to your business/career.
24
May
Idea Age is here. How can you get yourself ready?
It is not a secret that we are facing exponential threats from resource crunch and environmental degradation. This 5 post series argues that in response, we are inventing a new idea age.
23
May
Age of Creativity
This 5 post series addresses as to how “we are facing exponential threats from resource crunch and environmental degradation and in response, we are inventing a new idea age”.
- Exponential Threats identifies the growing threats we are presently facing
- In Exponential Technology, we argue that our technology, our best ally, is not sufficient to tackle these threats. To do that, unprecedented level of human ingenuity should come into play.
- In Origin of Ideas, we discuss the source of human ingenuity, both inside an individual’s head and across the society.
- In this post, Age of Creativity, we will see why we are entering an era of unprecedented global creativity.
- In the last post, we address how you can prepare for the coming Idea Age
There are a bunch of reason for us to believe that we have entered a new age of creativity. Another renaissance. But in its scope, this one will be like no other. By the time it has run its course, humankind would have, I speculate, made a clean break with the past.
22
May
Origin of Ideas
This 5 post series will addresses as to how “we are facing exponential threats from resource crunch and environmental degradation and that in response, we are inventing a new idea age”.
- Exponential Threats identifies the exponentially growing threats we are presently facing
- In Exponential Technology, we argue that our exponentially growing technology, our best ally, is not sufficient to tackle these threats. To do that, unprecedented level of human ingenuity should come into play.
- In this post Origin of Ideas, we discuss the source of human ingenuity, both inside an individual’s head and across the society.
- In Age of Creativity, we address as to why we have reasons to believe that we are entering an era of unprecedented global creativity.
- In the last post, we will address as to how you can prepare for the coming Idea Age
Before discussing how human creativity is likely to save the day, we must first understand the origin of ideas, either inside a human head, or across a society. After all, there are striking similarities between both types of idea generation.
15
May
Exponential Technology
This 5 post series addresses as to how “we are facing exponential threats from resource crunch and environmental degradation and that in response, we are inventing a new idea age”.
- Exponential Threats identifies the exponentially growing threats we are presently facing
- This post, Exponential Technology, argues that our exponentially growing technology, our best ally, is not sufficient to tackle these threats. To do that, unprecedented level of human ingenuity should come into play.
- In Origin of Ideas, we discuss the source of human ingenuity, both inside an individual’s head and across the society.
- In Age of Creativity, we address as to why we have reasons to believe that we are entering an era of unprecedented global creativity.
- In the last post, we will address as to how you can prepare for the coming Idea Age
15
May
Exponential Threats
This 5 post series will addresses as to how “we are facing exponential threats from resource crunch and environmental degradation and that in response, we are inventing a new idea age”.
- This post, Exponential Threats, identifies the exponentially growing threats we are presently facing
- In Exponential Technology, we argue that our exponentially growing technology, our best ally, is not sufficient to tackle these threats. To do that, unprecedented level of human ingenuity should come into play.
- In Origin of Ideas, we discuss the source of human ingenuity, both inside an individual’s head and across the society.
- In Age of Creativity, we address as to why we have reasons to believe that we are entering an era of unprecedented global creativity.
- In the last post, we will address as to how you can prepare for the coming Idea Age
We (humans) are facing an imminent danger to the present way of life. Something must change. The popular belief is that change will drastically reverse the decades of advances that we have made in obtaining ourselves substantially better quality of living. Whereas, the popular hope is that we will come out on the other side much stronger than we are today.
Given that I am an ever-hopeful, I fall into the second camp and strongly ‘hope’ that some incredible breakthrough will come along (after all, what is the point in living, if one belongs to the ‘hopeless’ camp). The obvious candidate for the ‘breakthrough is coming’ camp is the exponential technology. That may not be the case.
10
Sep
Barbie, Conan, Body Image and Intellectuals
Most of our so-called intellectuals are fraudsters who are too incompetent to do their homework before they air out an opinion. Liberating ourselves from the twisted world views they provide us is an important part of building ourselves happy lives.
06
Sep
Google Car will be Life Changing
Technology progresses in geometric speed. With every passing day, technological breakthroughs keep arriving faster. What more, each change has a much bigger impact than the previous change. Ray Kurzweil predicts that at this rate, technology would’ve progressed sufficiently for man to merge with machines. He has named this incident the “technological singularity“. Because our brains are not equipped to perceive exponential curve, we find it extremely difficult to wrap it around the accelerating power of technology (TED video).
Google Car is a strong reminder to the skeptics that rate and magnitude of technological changes do accelerate. Though Google Car per se is of only peripheral interest to this blog, let us take a closer look at it to help us comprehend the speeding up of technological changes.
04
Sep
Laura Carstensen: Age brings happiness
Laura Carstensen of Stanford had spent her life researching the state of mind of the elderly. She and other researchers working in the field have come up with some eye-opening insights, which run completely counter to the conventional wisdom.
26
Aug
Naked self-portrait: Simplest life extension tool
Most of us have a huge inertia when it comes to working out and eating right. Even though we have heard millions of times that eating right, sleeping well and shaping up will add one or two decades to your life, and more life to every year, we never got around to doing them. There is a simple one minute exercise that will break down your inertia: Get yourself a naked self-portrait!
21
Aug
Fuck-you Money
Buckminster Fuller (of buckyballs) said “controlled time is our true wealth”. To him, wealth is the time span for which we can maintain our desired lifestyle without having to spend time making money. During the dot-com bubble, Silicon Valley came up with Fuck-you Money. For them, it is the amount of money you need in your hand before you can stop working for your living.