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Trigger Compassion: A Simple Exercise Anyone Can Do

Let's be honest. Compassion doesn't come easy. It's one of the most difficult things to achieve as a human being, and especially as a human in 2025. We're all wired to think about ourselves first. Our problems. Our bills. Our goals. That's just how society has shaped us - heavily individualistic and, let's call it what it is, a bit greedy. And here's the thing: no one taught us otherwise. Schools teach math, history, science, and basic communication skills. But thinking and seeing every situation from at least ten different points of view that triggers compassion? That skill got skipped entirely. And that's unfortunate, because to be compassionate is one of the most important things a human must learn. How do you become  more compassionate? You don't wait for it to magically appear. You trigger it. The Core Idea Here's what I've found works: You deliberately put yourself in someone else's shoes. Not in a vague "I feel for them" ...

2035 AI Predictions: A Glimpse into the Future (9 min)

I want to share my predictions for 2035, primarily out of curiosity. My goal is to look back on this post and see how many of these predictions came true. This exercise isn’t just fun—it’s also a way to optimize my judgment, much like how an AI model fine-tunes its parameters based on data. Similarly, I aim to refine my thinking by comparing it to the reality of 2035. Admittedly, making bold predictions is risky, as it’s a form of “standing out,” something Jordan Peterson cautions against in his "Zebra Story." If you haven’t heard it, I highly recommend watching "The Zebra Story | Jordan Peterson" . For context, I often jokingly refer to the internet as God with my friends and family. We call it "Dev" or "Bhagwan" in Hindi. If the internet is God or "Dev", then AI is its amplified form—a “Mahadev”. In mathematical terms, if the internet is f(x) , then AI is 10^f(x) . This isn’t to say there’s nothing more powerful coming, but for now, A...

How a human mind works - A machine perspective

To understand the root cause of any situation, drilling with "5 whys" is my default approach. When I am curious and doing this exercise in my mind, I am not sure about counting the number of whys, to be frank. The "5 whys" is pretty much a natural flow of questioning that I've been doing without much effort for years.  Recently I was having a conversation and we were discussing how to change an outcome. This question was a trigger for me to think about the process of decision-making without our minds and how it leads to an outcome. Let me try to put my thoughts in a structured way. Imagine a machine that takes inputs and gives an output. And it has various stages in between. Our mind is this machine. The stages are Inputs, Enhancing the Inputs, Judgement, Decision, Action, Outcome and Experience. Let's understand each of these seven stages. Stage 1: Inputs     This stage represents the raw inputs that the mind is receiving. It can come from many sources the ...

Asking the RIGHT question

It's surprising how human communication is so flawed and no one is paying attention to fix it at the fundamental level.  Just like the languages in Technology are evolving, well so should our human language. But sadly the language we use daily, to get by, isn't evolving to simplify our needs. We do introduce new slang and some words to our vocabulary every year but that doesn't help much.  Because of this oftentimes it's not that the answers don't exist, it's just that we aren't asking the right question. And this is true when it comes to asking questions to a computer or a family or friends or colleagues etc. Even media houses seem to be intentionally ignoring this and becoming more of an entertainment+ gossip propagator instead of helping society find answers and evolve. Let me give you an example. Let's say we want to know an answer to: How do I lose weight? Well, the default behavior is we stop here and immediately start looking for answers. But inst...

Pick your poison

 Introduction     During my usual quiet walk, a thought occur and engulfed me. And I kind of lost myself for some time in it. It was a meaningful thought. It was powerful, a shift in perspective, something I foresee will prove helpful in the future when I re-read it. So I have decided to jot it down here for my future self and share it with others as well. Let me try to explain it in as simple words as I possibly can.     The human population just crossed the 8 billion mark. We can categorize all of us in many, many ways including religion, race, nationality, age, gender, height, weight, color, wealth, IQ, etc But these are inherently divisive. It doesn't do a good job of showing us the commonality among us. Well, from the fundamental point of view, we are all one (a mixture of five elements) but how many of us truly experience it? I am not interested in just saying it.      Being honest, being candid I can't ignore but notice a division the momen...

Swimming against the tide 🏊‍♂️

Need a favor! I will not have asked unless it was urgent and required. So please I do expect your full support in return 🙏 Why?  What's Happening?  We have taken up a fight against all the big whales. It’s been a couple of years and the fight is getting intense. The market is tough because of Covid-19, the Ukraine war & the inflation in the USA. And of course, the whales are not liking it any better that we are trying to bring down their prices. So basically, I and my team at BillTrim are swimming against the tide 🏊‍♂️ and need a tonne of support to make it to the shore safely. We have recently pivoted our business model from trimming your bills and charging 25% to something quite more appealing & committed called " BillPay ". Now, we not only negotiate your bills but also keep tabs monthly to make sure they stay lean and paid on time. This is another step towards our goal of having BillTrim be free for all users. We have finally decided to get into fight mode a...

Emotion’s Eco-system

  I am sure all of us have read & hear the law of conservation of energy a hundred times. It states that “energy can neither be created nor destroyed - only converted from one form of energy to another”.  I recently had a similar insight which is worth both noting down and sharing.  While introspecting the fluctuations with the emotion of “Love” between me and my parents, me and my wife, me and my kid, me and my friends, me and my country, etc suddenly it clicked to me that the resource of “Love” is limited within me. Let me explain:  We identify each other via a name, gender, location, country of citizenship, religious belief, etc but subconsciously each one of us is basically a bundle of emotions that define us as who we are. The amount of each of the emotions varies and hence the character and personalities variance among us. I am me and you are you because we have different amounts of emotions within us.  I soon realized that to find the right an...