I tried to revolutionize travel with a Telegram group but ended up with a lesson in experiment design. I was planning my 2023 New Year’s Hampi solo trip in November and realized there are no good community-based tools for solo travelers. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. A social tool for […]
Author: Piyush Hatwalne
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AI will make us all self reliant
The AI-Automation trend is the story of how we become self-reliant at an individual level. A hypothetical example: The story goes that Drew Houston conceived dropbox after repeatedly forgetting his USB flash drives while at MIT. But the thing is, dropbox is a fairly complex software product, that took significant effort to build out. Drew […]
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Reduce things that make you happy.
If I get money, will that make me happy? If I get a prestigious job, will that make me happy? If I get a girlfriend, will that make me happy? If I get X will that make me happy? — Every 20-something must have thought along this line sometime. In this blog I try to […]
What is Sense of Ownership? What is ownership? What does it mean to own something? Of course you can get a reasonable answer by looking up “ownership” in a dictionary, but sense of ownership is a much more vague concept. We will try to explore some attributes of and factors from which the sense of […]
Photo by Photoholgic on Unsplash When I was creating my Medium profile I used the phrase “Lazy Enthusiast(LE)” to describe myself in the bio section. I did not really think about what it’s supposed to mean, but it just felt right. Over time, I started mentally tagging people I meet as “Lazy Enthusiast(LE)” or “not Lazy […]
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash About a month ago, I started working on Unfluence! It was going to be the perfect side project. In fact, Here is a list of things why it was going to be a perfect side project. The idea was inspired by a book. It solved a real problem I had. […]
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A Capitalist went to an Orphanage
Once upon a time, a Capitalist went to an orphanage. He was there to fix some plumbing issue with the tap water system and had already agreed with the Management about the remuneration in exchange for his labor and expertise in accordance with the market prices. He was pondering over the fact that orphanage was […]
“There are people, who drank bleach to cure coronavirus!!! What a bunch of idiots. I mean how dumb one has to be, to actually do something so dangerous just because someone on the internet suggested it.” I thought, as I prepare to snort chilli powder to get rid of acne. I heard about the ‘snorting […]
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Coronavirus and Pretend economy
One of the good things you can do during the current lockdown is to keep paying your domestic maid, garbage man their regular salary. Of course, there are many companies who are still paying their employees even when they are not working, and many government employees will get paid their salary no matter what. That […]
The best way for many professionals to help fight #coronavirus is to donate money to help people on the front line but, who exactly should you donate to? There are the big national and state relief funds; there are big nationwide NGOs helping relief efforts in multiple parts of the country. And then there are […]