A crucial part of problem-solving is the ability to craft the “RIGHT” questions to seek answers to.

Does social media make one’s beliefs rigid?

If you broadcast a stand on an issue publicly, you would be unlikely to change your stance even in the face of counter-evidence.

Even though the path to success in anything is mundane and known, why are we eternally in search of hacks for everything?

We thrive on hope.

Hacks give us the hope of being wicked smart and reaping disproportionate rewards with minimal effort.

Irrespective of what the news and social media make you believe, you are not obligated to take a polarising stand on issues.

It is fine to say - I do not understand what is happening, I have my own shit to deal with.

It is easy to miss compounding gains as they are slow, gradual, and occur over long periods.

By the time we reap the benefits, we tend to forget where we started.

The problem with leaky abstraction is that it bites you where you least expect it to.

The quality of a product lies in the eyes of the beholder.

It is futile to argue with someone on the quality of something.

Apt for today.

@abhyrama: Do not mistake a vociferous minority for the preference of the majority.

Every issue has two faces - the actual problem and the perception of what the problem is.

If an environment forces one to spend all energy on perception management, little energy is left to solve the actual problem.

Irony.

Celebrities turning up at protests with an entourage of bodyguards and the protesters whom they sympathize with running amok and damaging hapless common man’s valuable properties.