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In the bright noon, a hot breeze burns my hair;

Cheeks on my hand, staring at the clear blue;

As his memories stay in each of my cells;

His words echoed in my ears over and over again;

A portrait of him floats in reddish eyes;

Spending another day without you.

PS: I remember scribbling this on an afternoon theory class (not sure of the subject). My doc says it was created in April 2013 and those were the initial days of my scribblings. I was too naïve and wrote this since the class wasn’t that interesting or hiked in oxytocin.

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The title may look lame, but there are many things that you can connect and find similarities among humans with books. I wasn’t very much into reading when I was young. I remember my aunt saying right after dinner, “Read books, that will help you”. The advice gives you inspiration for seconds and gets evaporated right.  As a Naval says, 

It expired right after a tight sleep. I used to read Supandi stories and some comic stories in Tinkle. Some books are named Ashley, and I don’t remember the book or the story. Now, coming back to the title, why I wanted to bring out the similarities between humans and books. 

Every human we meet doesn’t have to stay with us till eternity. You might wonder, how about life partners and parents too?

On average, time spent
– with family peaks at <15yo
– with friends peaks at 18
– with coworkers peaks at 30
– with children peaks at 40
– with your partner peaks at 70
– alone peaks at the end

fascinating chart (ht @Alex_Radke) pic.twitter.com/6u0aPCer6a

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) July 19, 2022

We don’t spend much time around each other. Perhaps Asians spend less time alone than people in Western countries. To make decisions and detachment smoother, each person can be compared to a book.

Parents and relatives are like compulsory subject books. Certain subjects inspire or motivate you like self-help books others traumatize you*.

School and college friends* are merely like comic books, especially like Supandi. At any age, you pick them, they make you laugh and give the same vibe.

Some people will stay in your life by looking at the shiny hardcover and failing to look any further. They just keep you on their bookshelf for display. While some judge you by appearance. While on the other hand, people judge you based on the cover.

People we meet at cafés, parks, or even at parties are comparable to books at the store. When you look too deeply inside what lies beneath the hardcover, a few chapters may be interesting, but as it unfolds, we tend to lose interest.

There are possibilities of meeting people who are hard as books on Quantum mechanics or Codes. Nothing will ever be understood, no matter how hard you try. It could be your manager too (lol, jk).

Some will enter your life solely to elevate, improve, shape, and mold you through their actions, just as atomic habits do. It doesn’t have to be one particular person. They can be your friends, your role model, your unmeet mentor, or anyone who comes to your while reading this.

It’s hard to live a life without enemies. They test you, fight your fears and beliefs, criticize you, and so on. They either break us or force us to discover who we are. I am sure there will be books related to these enemies that have had a significant impact on you and your beliefs or have even changed you as a person. I would personally say Siddhartha and Eleven Minutes. They created a huge impact on me. The word “enemy” is subjective. For some, it’s a person, for others it’s a belief system, and it depends.

Autobiographies are similar to seniors in high school or colleagues at work. They help and guide us the entire time, telling us all the tricks, revealing their failures, and assisting us in climbing the mountain. Sometimes they act like a manual for the experiment called “Life”

Specific people can be compared to crime or thriller novels. They try to bring out the worst in you or to haunt you like hell.

A few will enter your life to clear the storm, bring you back from the brink of extinction, break your existential crisis, and give you the rationale to live your life stronger. Veronika decides to die, and some dead philosophers were the means of my survival.

Then comes the people with who you fall in love. They take you to all the fantasy worlds and take a roller coaster ride with your estrogen levels. They are fiction novels where that make you feel as if you’re on another planet with no problems like inflation, gas prices, etc. The possibilities of getting sunk and wet are high. You lose yourself since love is blind (IYKYK)!

The final group of books that I want to talk about is uncategorized people in our lives. We have no idea why we keep them, why we read a few pages, and so on. Simply keep a bookmark and place it in the cupboard so that no other page can harm anyone.

*- Not all

Have a great week ahead! Cheers!

PS: Well, ping me if any kinds of books/humans need to be added. The current read is Becoming!

The word nothing came from “nān thing” meaning no thing. I am not here to write about the history of nothing but something related to nothing. Yes, it’s about nothing. A few things pop into my mind when I hear the word nothing. Let me list first, then we will do nothing.

1. Something to boost your thinking with nothing
2. We’re actually out of everything. so that means we in fact have nothing.
3. Nothing

This page is all about the key takeaway from the conversation of Kunal Shah and Carl Pei (CEO of Nothing)

1. Entering Oligopoly

Smartphone markets are dominated by Android and iOS. Entering to build the hardware and create a brand is one of the hardest things to do. Apart from Apple, no other brands exist in people’s minds (That’s the power of creating a brand and probably people are waiting for Apple 14). They started with Ear (1) and then Phone (1). To survive in a pre-dominated market, the best thing is to build a quality product.

When you’re weak and late in an Industry, fast follower strategy works best. Find a loop hole/opportunity in a predefined market and build your unique approach.

– Carl

2. Core Values of Nothing

The values of Nothing seem relevant to every one of us. He mentioned the 4 core values of the company.

• Be the change
• Pride and Product
• Thrive on diversity
• Survive

Carl’s explanation of the last value got stuck. He said, “But, at the end of the day, you must be available for another chance or another day to try to change what you want to change”. Isn’t true for having a healthy body and healthy mind?

3. Gut Feeling

Gut feeling is not random. It is all based on past experiences that we had which can’t be explained logically. – Carl

Everyone can’t predict or rely on positive outcomes based on gut feelings or intuitions. I believe, that people who have tried out a lot of things, knowing the strategies of failure, second-order consequences can make better intuitive decisions.

4. Culture

Any company can survive in the long run based on its culture. There is nothing to state any further on this.

5. Traits of Mediocre

Here, is the pooled list of mediocre people given by Kunal and Carl

• Not knowing the details
• Can’t handle feedbacks/criticism
• Taking things personally
• Terrible at taking help
• Lack of curiosity
• Separation between work and free time
• Constantly seeking external validation

6. Risk-seeking Behavior

Everyone out there is worried about their reputation and risk-seeking behavior is observed less among the youngsters.

People are worried about their reputation and status when they have none…

You can’t build substances in life without putting the wealth, reputation or health at stake. – Kunal

I believe reputation matters at a young age due to the filters of social media. To look good, to have fancy things, to have social status, to do something just to impress others rather than pushing beyond the limits and thyself ( Sometimes, I am a victim too).

7. Nothing

The team came up with the name “Nothing” because all other names (NEXT, STONE, ESSENTIAL) that they chose before appeared to be “cringe” for Carl’s younger sister (Lol). This is how they came up with “Nothing”

I hope, I covered almost all the key highlights here. To watch the full conversation, here is the link.

Cheers! Enjoy Nothing!

PS: I like the LED lights at the back.

Disclaimer: I am gifted with nothing to write about this. At least, I should be gifted with something to write about nothing yet I got nothing (lol).