random ramblings

I watched Before Midnight . While this is watchable on its own before going through its prequels ( Before Sunrise , Before Sunset ), now I want to go back and watch the other two once more. This has fast paced dialogues, lot to think about. One particular part is below. Jesse : So this is how you now want to be spending this evening? I mean, this is what you wanna do tonight? Céline : Well, you started it. Jesse : No. You are the one who will not shut up about it. But if you want to talk about it, I mean, really talk about it. I would prefer to have an unemotional, rational conversation. I mean, do you think we can do that? Would that be possible? Céline : Here we go. Unemotional, rational. You always play the part of the one and only rational one and I'm the irrational, hysterical, hormone-crazy one because I have emotions. Yeah, you sit back and you speak from your big perspective which means everything you say is level-headed and true. Jesse : I don't always d...

14 ways to change thinking Exercise – exercise releases endorphins and dopamine and it makes you feel good. When you feel good, you can think better. Put your brain in debugging mode (@naval) – “catch and debug your thoughts as it streams by, catch it when it goes into past regretting or future planning, make it stay in the present” Read unconventionally – multi disciplinary thinking can give us more ideas, like something that works well in medicine can be applied in software engineering etc. Read widely. Follow people who read widely – to get filtered new good reads – like @farnamstreet, @naval, @brainpicker, @morganhousel, @paulg and more Listen to podcasts – for new ideas, for listening to people from different domains - @timferrissShow, @farnamstreet, @Radiolab and more Quit harmful social media – pull the plug and quit facebook, whatsapp groups, occasionally unfollow everyone in twitter and start from scr...

These are some topics I need to read up and research further. How to work with irrational people more effectively and get things done? What to use when logic fails? Sometimes we prepare perfectly logical arguments which we think should be understood and accepted by people and we will get the logical outcome, but it doesn’t happen that way. Egos, prejudices and biases creep in and it goes haywire. After one or two steps, logical outcomes may become impossible to achieve. What makes some people more thoughtful, disciplined and achieve consistent outcomes? I see people with years of experience produce sloppy outcomes in some cases and execute some things well? What drives perfection? Is it possible to change? What makes people lean to left or right of political spectrum? Is it nature or nurture? Is it their brains or upbringing? What is the limit of nurture? Inherent talent and intelligence vs acquired expertise – is th...