1. Networking still sucks.

Networking as we perceive it today, with its transactional utility function, is fundamentally a flawed game-theory model.
imho, when you obsessively sharpen your craft for years - head down, blinders on, showing up in the world with conviction, delaying gratification; something alchemical happens. You create your own gravitational pull. The world bends toward you. Not because you “networked” harder, but because you became undeniably valuable, interesting, and impossible to be algorithmically ignored.

If you're everywhere, are you really anywhere?


2. Your future self is a stranger.
I think about this a lot. It’s like your Netflix watchlist over the years. You probably started with reality shows, then slowly replaced them with Suits. One quiet evening, you scroll through & realize nothing from your original list remains - you are now watching Dabba Cartel and Adolescence. Yet, it’s still your watchlist. The algorithm thinks it knows you, but would the person who created that original list even recognize these choices as their own?

The illusion of continuity. Looking back, we see how much we’ve changed, but looking forward, we expect to remain largely the same. We make decisions today as if we won’t evolve, as if our future selves won’t have different desires, values, and limitations.

Your 25-year-old self couldn’t imagine choosing stability over adventure. Your 32-year-old self can’t fathom how they’ll feel at 42. This has real consequences: we make lifelong promises based on present feelings, assume our values will hold steady, and bind our future selves to choices they may no longer want.

It’s unsettling - if we change so much, why make decisions or plans at all?
But maybe that’s the point. Maybe the opportunity isn’t in controlling the outcome, but in staying curious? Curious enough to design our future self, humble enough to know she'll disgaree with you, & perhaps brave enough to trust she'll develop capacities you don't yet possess?
(Read up on the Ship of Theseus paradox if this intrigues you)



3. Re-reading books that once shaped you.
You fire at passages your younger self skimmed, while lines that once seemed revolutionary now feel obvious. The most humbling part? Knowing that future-you will judge present-you with the
same amused compassion.
It’s literary recursion: you inside the book, inside you, inside time.
Try it.
Some books I re-read (and highly recommend!!!): Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Gödel, Escher, Bach, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.


4. Money doesn’t just buy things; it buys dimensions of reality.
I’ll admit, I spent years pretending I wasn’t chasing money, with that
self-righteous creative smugness. But the freedom to design your days, the leverage to make macroscopic decisions, the capacity to create from pure vision, not necessity - money upgrades your perspective and opens gateways to wealth creation.
So yes, hustle is sacred. Hard work really does compound, bro.
The guilt around admitting this is just another tax we needn’t pay.


5. The “proven founder” premium is real.
Investors and VCs want to bet on you. Mid-sized brands want your magic touch (or your full playbook). Corporates want to hire you yesterday. You’re like vintage wine, and I’m not complaining (yet).
Because here's the thing: Big ideas are cheap, concepts are only creating conversations: execution creates value, reality, markets.Execution is your Alpha.
Maybe that's why entrepreneurship is truly celebrated? There's something almost sacred about taking a tiny dream that existed only in your head and obsessively bringing it to life over years - seeing it through to some sort of conclusion? Maybe the premium isn't just about "success" metrics, but about the rare human who can transmute imagination into reality and still remain standing?


6. The world isn't just changing, it's shrinking (faster than Delhi roads during monsoon). AI isn't replacing us, but it is exposing a hard truth: Intelligence isn't just data or expertise in one domain. It's the ability to connect the dots across disciplines that seem unrelated until suddenly, they're not. And the sooner we stop clinging to old, rigid labels, the faster we'll realize: Convergence isn't a bonus, It's the requirement.

Today, AI can crunch numbers, generate content, and even mimic human reasoning. But when faced with abstract problem-solving, it struggles. Why? Because true intelligence isn't just pattern recognition; it's adaptability, intuition, and the ability to zigzag beyond the box.


7. Insta Gurus need parental advisory labels.
We’re all drowning in aesthetic poverty porn, packaged as inspiration.
#JanhitMeinJaari


8. No matter how the world changes,
you know what remains truly timeless? Coffee.
The solo date with your overpriced latte that smells like heavennn.
Meeting a girlfriend to laugh at our collective delusion about 12-step skincare routines. Introducing a stranger to your favorite barista and discovering their passionate defense of macchiato over flat white. Taking your mom out without glancing at your phone? PEAK luxury.
Making someone fall in love with that quaint coffee spot in town.
Those "first date butterflies" over coffee in a strange city.
Maybe it’s placebo, but there’s something rebelliously timeless about just... Sitting. Being. Sipping.


9. “Aaj Bhalle tasty hone chahiye.” theory.
(with green chutney and kali mirch)
Shoutout to my friend Justh who brilliantly distilled the philosophy of life into a plate of street food,
and it stuck.

Here’s how I see it: savour the moment - without the misery of overthinking, overfilling, over analysing, over witnessing. Enjoy the now; remain unabused by the common sense of adulthood.