Arvind Poonia

When we see perfection in an idea, we call it truth. When we see it in a person, we call it love. When we see it in a thing, we call it beauty.

Back when tattoos were rarer, they used to be a thing for guys. Now that tattoos are common, it's actually more common for women to have them. The numbers have gotten so bad that now nearly half of young women have tattoos:

Which city will you choose? Note: - The X and Y axes are percentile, not percent. - Hyd & Mum are 100th percentile for QoL & CoL. - QoL takes into account work opportunities, healthcare quality, also. Not based only on infra or cleanliness. - Your individual perception can vary.

the universe rewards intensity of process but deeply punishes identification with outcome.

I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day. A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on. The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine. And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday. It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.

People who spend long periods of time at home and slowly lose the desire to go outside often think they're just resting. But psychologically, many of them are experiencing something called mental rumination. It's a state where the brain starts slowing down while the number of thoughts inside keeps increasing and the motivation to do anything slowly disappears. The mind gets stuck in the past, worries about the future and burns itself out. This isn't laziness, it's a nervous system stuck in survival mode. And the longer it lasts, the more distant normal life begins to feel. And the difficult part is that you usually can't escape it through one massive burst of motivation. And sometimes,recovery starts with just one small step.

India is the next land of opportunity. I can’t comment on the salary part, but over the next few years, anyone who genuinely wants to work hard and contribute sincerely will find tons of opportunities. And people who demonstrate accountability, intelligence, and the willingness to take ownership will rise very quickly.

Next in who after the Bibha Series? He was a Himalayan monk who solved the mysteries of the atomic nucleus. Swami Jnanananda born as Bhupathiraju Lakshminarasimha Raju (1896-1969) was the Ghost in saffron who worked in the world's most elite nuclear labs. He did not see a conflict b/w the Vedas & Beta-Rays; to him, the electron was just another dance of the divine. He built the machines that allowed us to see the energy holding the universe together, then went back to his Saadhna. He is the titan who bridged the gap b/w the ancient sage & the modern scientist... a man who proved that the deepest silence & the fastest particles both lead to the same truth. Born in 1896 in Andhra Pradesh, he began his life as a seeker. He took Sanyas early in life, spending yrs in deep meditation in the Himalayas. He was a master of the Vedas. He realized that to understand Creation, he needed to understand the Atom. He traveled to the West in his saffron robes, stunning profs at Dresden (Germany), Liverpool, & Ann Arbor (USA). He earned his DSc. & Ph.D. while maintaining his monastic vows. He was a man who could discuss the Upanishads in the morning & Beta-Ray Spectroscopy in the afternoon. He was a pioneer in Nuclear Spectroscopy. He designed & built advanced Magnetic Lens Beta-Ray Spectrometers. He was obsessed with how electrons (beta particles) are emitted from the nucleus. His work provided the precise measurements needed to understand the Binding Energy of the atom, the force that holds reality together. He was 1 of the founding pillars of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Delhi & later established the Nuclear Physics department at Andhra University. He was a Ghost because he defied classification. In the lab, he was the rigorous Dr. Jnanananda; in the temple, he was the revered Swami. He proved that the Silo of Science & the Silo of Spirituality are actually the same room. Because he was a Monk, many Modern scientists were uncomfortable with him. Because he was a Nuclear Physicist, many traditionalists did not understand him. He lived in the Neutral Zone. He was invited by the Soviet Union & the US to speak at the highest levels of Nuclear Science, yet in India, his name is almost never mentioned alongside Bhabha/Sarabhai. He worked with Nobel laureates like James Chadwick (the discoverer of the neutron), who respected him as a peer. He wrote High Vacua, a foundational text for experimental physics. He treated the Vacuum not as nothingness, but as the source of everything. There are no national science awards named after him. He is a Ghost whose work is buried in the foundations of India’s nuclear program, but whose face is missing from the history books.

What dimensionality would one assign to human perception of surroundings

Moral high ground is built from the skulls of the defeated.