A Simple Traveller

---The greatest accomplishment in the world is that of a travellers, when they come to an end of their journey--- mohitesh sharma

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(1) Question authority. No idea is true just because someone says so, including me.

(2) Think for yourself. Question yourself. Don't believe anything just because you want to. Believing something doesn't make it so.

(3) Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment. If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it's wrong. Get over it.

(4) Follow the evidence wherever it leads. If you have no evidence, reserve judgment.

And perhaps the most important rule of all...

(5) Remember: you could be wrong. Even the best scientists have been wrong about some things. Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history -- they all made mistakes. Of course they did. They were human.

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

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We should appreciate every small or big experience we go through at any given moment. Because there will come a time where we will miss having these experiences at all

Mohitesh sharma

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Hans Rosling summering his view on how the worlds population has changed and going into the future the world can grow in a sustainable way. 

Interesting part of the talk is how he explains income distribution throughout the world and consumerism shown on this video as well 

By: Hans Rosling (GapMinder)

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A glimpse of 2016 

Every end of year I post what has happened around the world in that past year in some form of video or photo highlights from some media website. This time it is a little glimpse of some of the things that I captured on my own phone.  

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“WORK HARD”

- Casey Neistat

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To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind In Life

You don't need more motivation. You don't need to be inspired to action. You don't need to read any more lists and posts about how you're not doing enoug...

“Let’s just say that whatever you want, you want it enough. So much so that you’re making yourself miserable in order to achieve it. What about chilling out? Maybe your motivation isn’t the problem, but that you keep pushing a boulder up a mountain that only grows in size the more you push.”

“There’s a magic beyond us that works in ways we can’t understand. We can’t game it. We can’t 10-point list it. We can’t control it. We have to just let it be, to take a fucking step back for a moment, stop beating ourselves up into oblivion, and to let the cogs turn as they will. One day, this moment will make sense. Trust that.”

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The spirit of entrepreneurship!

By: Cameron Herold

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When every company is a tech company, valuations go insane

Users, subscribers, growth, global expansion, minimal marginal costs, the promise of future success; this all sounds a bit like the verbiage of a tech company..

“So the next time we’re looking at valuations, let’s not assume that old-world metrics are irrelevant, let’s not digest without critical thinking that “it’s a tech company that happens to make x,” let’s not assume that things are different now, or that they are the same as always. Let’s pause to think about the longevity and the real value to be extracted and over how long a term”

Something interesting to note on the idea that yeah the “company/brand” maybe valued at X amount of dollar, what are its real value. An old and new thinking combined. 

By: Tom Goodwin Source: TechCrunch 

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Again Paul Graham this time writing about giving importance of thinking of idea in your mind and how disastrous it can be to let the wrong things become the top of your mind. Not only in a business sense but in everyday life. 

Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html

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Paul Graham from Y Combinator talks about what it takes to get something up and running from the idea generation stage. 

Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html

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Relentlessly prune bullshit, don't wait to do things that matter, and savor the time you have. That's what you do when life is short.

Paul Graham

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If you find something broken that you can fix for a lot of people, you've found a gold mine. As with an actual gold mine, you still have to work hard to get the gold out of it. But at least you know where the seam is, and that's the hard part.

Paul Graham

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Airbnb designed so strangers can trust other strangers “what can we design for next?”

By: Joe Gebbia 

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Beautiful words from BJ Miller on life and death. 

“I am in no way suggesting we take a light approach to dying. There are mountains of sorrow that cannot move, and one way or another, we will all kneel there. So rather than just getting out of the way, aging and dying can become a process of crescendo through to the end. We can't solve for death. We can design towards it Maybe we can learn to live well -- not in spite of death, but because of it. Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.”  

By: BJ Miller 

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How to kill your dreams:

1. Believe in overnight success

2. Believe someone else has the answers for you

3. Believe that when growth is guaranteed you should settle down 

4. Believe the fault is someone elses

5. Believe that only the goals themselves matter

Remember “getting to the destination is great but the journey is more important. Enjoying it even when it’s not going so well (turn it into a learning)l”. Also that nothing is ever done alone it’s okay to get help. 

By: Bel Pesce  

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In a weird yet wonderful way of displaying a creative thinking process. “Make a dance for yourself if not that then misbehave more beautifully more often”.

By: Wayne McGregor

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John Hunter is teaching young kids how to solve global problems with his game. Something that can be used by politicians now to ensure this world is still livable when theses young kids kids come into the world. Long term thinking. 

By: John Hunter