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Human beings grow. To grow, we need the motivation to put in some effort. This motivation used to be biological. Now it is mostly social.

This means society rewards and punishes each one of us in different ways. One of the most used ways is to give or take away attention. This has a direct impact on dopamine and other reward centers of the brain.

Having seen inboxes of a diverse set of women friends, I know that they can get rewarded for picking their nose on video.

Suddenly, effort != reward.

This fucks up their system and in the long run, it will fuck up the entire society.

I know and theoretically understand how bad patriarchy is. But the other end of the spectrum is going to be worse. Although my Pendulum theory says we will reach the other end of the spectrum before moving to a balanced middle, I would like to experiment and tell this incredibly dangerous, politically incorrect idea that reward should always correlate with effort.

How much effort did the other person spend in sending that one message on Insta to hundreds of people?

Value actions only as much as the effort spent behind it.

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This is like McDonalds of love.

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I get too many people saying, “they stole my idea”.

To them, all I want to say is, ideas don’t get you credit, money, or importance if you can’t execute them. Exception is academics but let’s be frank, which academic has ever had an impact on the world. Only practitioners do.

So listen to this guy. He says what I want to tell you:

George Hotz on secretive people:

"Here's what I say: I'm gonna tell you what I'm doing, and you can try to compete, but I'll still crush you. People who are secretive—they're afraid. They're afraid that I'll look at their idea and do it faster and better. I'm not afraid of that" pic.twitter.com/JaDGIrqDaK

— Sven Schnieders (@SvenSchnieders) November 19, 2020

Read up about Ramanujan. He had answers to complex mathematical problems. But he had to ‘prove’ them before the fraternity accepted his genius.

That’s how the world works.

Stop complaining. Start executing.

Collaboration has been the bedrock of human civilization. Human beings dominate the world because of our ability to work in groups. Cultures where people collaborate better prosper.

Human beings invented legal and social contracts to lay down the rules of collaboration. But legal contracts only go so far when relationships need to go beyond transactions. It is only a race between society’s ways of enforcing reputation/status and the participants trying to outsmart these markers.

Although we move full-speed towards trustless global transactions, small groups of high integrity people have outachieved the non-collaborative.

The case is clear. Groups with high trust and integrity achieve a lot more.

It takes time to curate such groups but many individuals, organisations and mission-driven groups will start being accessible only to those with high integrity.

Because in the information era, knowledge, skill, and experience can be gained. Integrity is the only critical variable that matters and acts as a great filter.