V Narayanan

“In fact, the tendency for one purchase to lead to another one has a name: the Diderot Effect. The Diderot Effect states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“So you might ask: are there any fields that matter but haven’t been standardized and institutionalized?”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

“We’re nobody apart from thinking that we’re somebody. And when we stop thinking we’re somebody, we’re really left with nobody.”
― Lama Marut, Be Nobody

“Being nobody is not being nothing. It is an absence (no-body) and not a presence (some-body), but it is the emptiness that makes the plenitude possible. It is the hole in the middle that makes a donut what it is; it is the empty glass that can hold whatever is poured into it; it is the undifferentiated ocean from which all particular waves arise, last for a while, and then return to their source.”
― Lama Marut, Be Nobody