If you are not into computer science, running a blog or working as an engineer it is unlikely you used this term often. Generally it is a preserved word for systems. Like an internet server which has to be operational all around the clock. 24/7/365. Uptime is the percentage of time the system is up and running. Gear System My experience on Uptime Like the other day suddenly the magical mindful living blog was not working. I was upset that I made a critical error during editing the blog. I even reseted the blog to previous version. Yet it didn't resolve the problem. Hence I checked the hosting site, when I knew there was a major malfunction in servers and the team were busy running the tests to fixed it. So I had digged a bit about this process of uptime. Apparently these system crashes are not something rare. It happens several times per year. Mostly minor ones which affects part of the system. Major  downtimes occur making entire system malfunctions. Yet these are uncommon. But more catastrophic and worrisome. Infact uptime is a good indicator of functions of such a system. Let's dig a little more deep into this concept. Amazon servers Uptime Imagine Amazon servers stopped for 24 hours. With millions of parcels moving around the world will be halted and it would be a disastrous. Even everything moved perfectly after the crash the cost of operational losses would be in billions. So the uptime for such a system is utmost important. Now, let's move away from computer science and find out what we can do with the principle of uptime. Amazon servers Uptime of society Let's look at the society. What is uptime for a society? We can say a normal day in any country is uptime. Things move in shipyards, on roads, in offices. Factories run and retail shops are open. Once in a while there would be crashes in the system. A flood, a landslide or  a storm would make the part of the system dysfunctional, like a minor crash. But rarely something major would happen. A war, a riot or a political instability will make everything go crashing. This happened during covid. We were forced to take risks in getting covid as systems were about to crash, as longer we kept them shut down. However, as there were plenty of stored values we survived. Somebody was aware of the downtime! Personnal uptime Just like the society, we can consider an uptime of a person, over a period of time. You may wake up in the morning and go to bed at night. That can be considered uptime for an individual. Yet humans do not function like computers. The quality of the uptime depends on the quality of the consciousness, and thoughts. More importantly the awareness. For a person the time that he or she was is aware during a period of time is a good candidate for the uptime. This is why there is a saying "if you're aware you're not there, no point of being there". Natural awareness It's rarther OK to sleep if you're too tired to be awake and be aware. On the other hand even during painful unpleasant experiences if your system is up and running, being aware of the experience, it is good. As these so called negative experiences can really change the way you look at the world. Even depression can be a blessing for your future endeavours once you recover if you were aware of what was going on. Here, I do not discuss how to improve awareness. There are not  a lot of ways, other than letting yourself be in positions where awareness is at its best. Early morning, after a rest and when you are in the nature taking a walk or just observing. If they are not possible sitting on a chair doing nothing would bring back your awareness from wherever its hiding. Because in life it seem no destination. Its just a journey. So the happiness you seek if not coming from current experience there is no use in searching it tomorrow!

Death as we see it The other day, I went to visit some mesmerising place in Northwest province. There was a big tank , with a great view and nice atmosphere. The evening was cloudy, about to rain, windy across the surface of water. The tank was full and people were happily bathing in the stream. Everything looked perfect. A great hideout for anyone looking for some rest. So I took a walk along the bund, in the Bush, and I saw a dog. A dead dog. The dog did not match with the vibe, I was looking for. It was partially decayed, hence smelly and full of flies. Looked even unhygienic, surely with maggots although I did not investigate that. The dog was dead as a dog. Although the incident happened a long time ago, only I wrote about it now. Thinking about the life and death I realised there is another definition. But first let's look at the problem. Beach What is death? The death is subjective. Like any other experience. We have seen dead, people and dogs. But nobody who has gone through this experience come out alive to tell us about about it. Hence death is always totally subjective. The near death experience do not come closer to actual death. As, near death means they are different from actual dead people. Then how can we really answer the question What is death? The process of dying we see where a body becomes immobile after the last breath is only the perspective of the "living" about death. What is the actual experience of "death" to the dead person is the real question. But the problem doesn't end there. Although this is a simple observation, that there cannot be any living expert about death, I see a lot of experts now day preaching about death, like they really know. Any religion Is built upon the idea of death. There is no way of proving all these ideologies. Let's stick to the facts and look at death in another angle. Let's think about the dead dog by the lake. Why the dog is dead? Compared to a living one some functions are missing. Movements are absent. Speech and will is absent. Body is not growing. There seems that the driving power of the body is no longer there. Death Can you see anything common to all these observations? All these talk about what is not there in the dead dog. If I summarise death in a one sentence I would say. "Death is what is not there, in the living, after becoming dead". Obviously there is something missing in this definition. The subjective perspective! Let's insert that too. " Death is what is not there in the living, after becoming dead, as perceived by living" As you can see now it is clear. The death is a concept of the living. There is nothing to be afraid of this. I can tell you what else are concepts for the living. Consider following list. An apple is a concept. So is the Apple juice. Money is a concept So is the poverty and wealth Anger is a concept So is the war and peace. Living is a concept So is the death and afterlife Apple A concept The benefits of this conceptualising is easy to understand. First Is you can see the similarity between an apple and death. So, can we eat it? Maybe we can. It reduces the fear associated with it. Next is you can identify all the people who try to scam you promising heaven after death. You just have to know whether they are living. If so, 😁 they are just 🤥 lying about it. Lastly you might start to play with it. If what is not there is death, it surely mean except for the ones in front of you others are dead, in the relative world of yours. As they cannot speak move or create an image in your consciousness. Let's stop there. If you understand anything out of this please comment. Following is just a Poem. The moon The moon was perfectly crescent Although appeared dancing on the waves It'll was just a reflection Like the illusion of life appear on the surface of mind With fluctuations of daily troubles Maybe its perfect at its core Question is who disturbed the water?

When the moon shined above the lagoon, and the starlight was diminished by its aura, the old man stepped out of his hut to have a quite time in the middle of the night. He was the only security guard to the isolated establishment on the edge of the lagoon. Yet, his bones were quite weak that even a teenager would overcome by brute force if he was in a fight. What was he guarding anyway? But he on the other hand should have been on the retirement yet could not as he was pushed against the wall by the society. He could not survive without the few dollars of salary he was given for his duty of guarding nothing. Starry night The hotel was little busy today as customers poured in after sun went down. All of a sudden he became an important person, from guarding of nothing to Car park assistant. Yet he did not like the feel of lot of people. Once they went in it was quite solitary again. Looking at the darkness of mangrove hideouts, he was lost in a world of thoughts separated and isolated from what's happening outside. He loved the boredom. He was even proud of his boredom. He wasnt afraid of it. Occationally he wished some company. And nature did grant his wishes by providing some movement. In water, a solitary dog or a cry of an owl made him stop his stream of thoughts and come back to present. There was no specific thing that he thought about. The life he had experienced was behind, now just a memory. He was too old to be bothered about the past, and future seemed a little short. Hence he valued the empty solitude of present. It was the gift of nature for the tiring past of his former younger enthusiastic self. Jelly fish While he was at his peak of alertness he was bothered by the group of young visitors. Half drunk half sleepy half stressed, they seemed the exact representation of his past. The opportunity to observe them made him smile. The boys did not like the silence. Infact they seemed to be afraid of it, making noise, whistling and talking aloud like they are the only ones alive. Like they are the center of the universe tonight. But the old man knew that wasn't the case. The center of the universe doesn't revolve around any individual. Only a lifelong observer like himself would know this. But telling it to these man kids is not something he dared to do. As he exactly knew how idiotic these young minds with huge expectations work. He couldn't afford any fight, verbal or other. Hence he maintained his silence within the noise. Yet he couldn't stop overhearing what they were saying. And he could summarise it in three words "money women work" maybe not exactly but occasionally about food and travel as well. He listened for a while and for the 1000th time he was hearing the same discussion, he himself had in the past. Ah, they should figure it out themselves. The trap of the life would not allow them to leave the comfort of their circle. They would not dare isolate themselves in the dark like he does. So, the deep lessons are yet to learn for these young men. And they would just leave when it's too sleepy, and he would embrace the silence again, although now temporarily hidden, he knew its still there. By the lagoon Instead he took a walk, towards the lagoon. Maybe he will meet a crocodile or some fish. The water is fresh even he could see tiny fish. He saw a jellyfish with his torch, struggling with its hundred paws. Just like him, maybe its spending last few moments of its jelly fish life. Maybe it doesn't need to explore the lagoon anymore as there are nothing interesting. Maybe it is also looking for an eternal rest in the chaotic noise of the highway of sealife. He did not know. Its not like that anything is true as jellyfish consciousness is not so advanced. Old man figured out that the universe has come to its baseline level. Silence is back there, and its just passed the midnight. The moon is still shining. Man kids are nowhere now. He went back to his plastic chair to be isolated with his heartbeat in the colder part of the night. Maybe get some sleep. Who is the fool going to rob this night anyway?

The simple answer is anything that interests you. Trust me there is no bad kind of reading. Just like exercise, there is no bad exercise right? As long as you're doing it any exercise is good. Similarly reading is a good habit. There should be no need to put barriers to what you should be reading. Read My reading habit. I started reading as a very small kid. First thing I can remember was a big book with Russian fairy tales. Now as an adult I can see that wasn't a big book at all. But relative to a five or six year old kid that was. The beautiful vasilessa. I was attracted to the ivans, sea horses and magical woods with wiches who ate kids. And it did not stop from there. I was in search of stories all the time. Novels, translations. We exchanged books with our classmates. Tarzen, sherlock Holmes, Jack London and Emily bronte. I was in these magical world of imaginary tales. It was the era before smartphones and movies. But imagination involved. In parallel to these fascinating novels, I found out that there are quite fascinating textbooks as well. They are different from novels as there are no characters. But for any curious mind there are enough things to discover. From why the sky is green to how Steve jobbs spend his day. I found most of the time that textbooks doesn't capture attention on the first chapter. Sometimes interesting stuff comes in later chapters. I would turn the pages and take a haphazard walk. Just like I would do in a botanical garden. A walk in the Botanical Garden Imagine you visit a botanical garden on a Sunday. There would be a lot of places. Lot of people. There would be thousands of shades and corners to explore. Would you panic? No, you would slowly explore some of these places, engage In  thoughts. Look at wild flowers and write down your observations. And next day you will come back and revisit some of these new places and old ones. Each time you would spend different quality of time in the same garden. Now imagine you do the same with your textbook. I found this very interesting. You will not meet me carrying a notebook, if you met me in this garden. But I suggest you do the same, as your imagination from this garden is totally different from the author that you might need to capture it. Just like a fleeing butterfly your novel thoghts might slip away otherwise and you might not be able to show anyone. Exploring Colors Let's get back to novels. After reading loads and loads of them I found out that novels are kind of boring. Texts are much more interesting. But after sometime you might find that texts are boring too. Life is far more interesting. Infact all these reading material are representations of life. Someone's perspective of the world, factual or imaginative. When I look at the world now I can see what reading has done to my world. When I look at a tree I see it differently from anyone else. In a unique way, as books have taught me a lot about trees. When I look at a flower I can separate its shades from the science behind it, as I have read about color theory. When I see stars, I see them unique way as I have read how these giant balls are appearing as twinkle stars at night, and even move faster than light into forever darkness. When I see ants I see how they see the world as I have just seen the photographs of ant vision. So definitely my world is rich in imagination opportunitie only because of variety of books. So should I really read? If I was stuck to one book. One domain of knowlege, that would never had happened. I would never be able to write an article or have a meaningful conversation about meaning of life. So, to answer the question What you should read, is anything that interest you. As our interests are unique and you are irreplaceable if you master your interest. Which can look like work to others but just a play to yourself.

There are two kinds of richness. If you do not know by the end of this article you would know. Let's start with one and easy one first. There is slogan which goes like this. "There were two buffaloes on the field. One with a tail and other without. One with the tail chased away the flies, the other one suffered through it Poverty is like the buffalo without a tail." This is the first kind of richness. And everyone knows about it. But there is still something we need to understand. When you have a million or billion dollars in the bank and you are free to spend it. It essentially gives you the potential to do anything you wish. You can travel to places you have never been before. Taste foods you have never tasted before. 😋 Even you can do a little bit of charity to ease out the guilt of spending at the expense of others who paid with their sweat to earn that billon dollars for you. Or save some kids in rural Africa with few dollars which you did not expend on shoes. Or you might choose to invest and grow richer. But the fact is we fail to examine the broad picture about the life. We forget that we are buffaloes trying to grow more and more fat tails, to chase away the constant threat of files. Buffaloe Let's examine flies. Flies are numerous. They come in different forms. And we call them different names. But essential thing about these flies is that they do not let us be . They will make us itch scratch or roll over. If you do not have the tail of richness you're indeed have to suffer. I think flies deserve more explanation. Let's look at that. Flies can be, Hunger Thirst Pain from a cut Loneliness Need to grow Greediness They can be named as needs, or problems of life that constantly keep coming back no matter how many times you chase them away. The best example for this process is trying to make a group of camels asleep . Problem with the problems of life is they keep coming back. But with a good bushy tail someone can chase away the flies better. And feel satisfied 😌 just for a brief moment before they come back again. So, this wagging the tail at the flies is just like being rich and spending money on your needs. Don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong in it, wag your tail as much as you need. Infact I am also trying to grow a big fat tail despite knowing that's all temporary. But let's look at the second type of richness. The man with a wound. - Other Kind of richness Rich Imagine you wake up tomorrow. And you see a big wound on your leg. You start treatment immediately. Meet your GP who refer you to a vascular surgeon and following detailed work up you end up having a bypass surgery. Your wound gets better in few months, and you feel better, happy and alive! I am sure you will be triumphed. Let's compare this with an alternate universe where you wake up and see no wound. You carry on your ordinary work. And nothing happens. In this universe you are not triumphed at all in 3 months. Because you never had the wound in the first place, no challenge, no problem, no risk. But you are not happy also, not to the level where you did have a wound and came out of that. There were no flies biting you to wag the tail. But you never understood this as a 🙂 happiness. As we are so used to flies and wagging our tails at them, we have forgotten that there is an alternate universe where all these troubles or flies are not there. Since the day we were born, we had a wound called hunger, thirst and pain. We are trying to constantly satisfy ourselves like Sisyphus without knowing it would never end. So, the second type of richness is finding the solution to the problem of problems of life. And in this aspect the growth is the path of a true seeker. Hope you are brave enough to do that.

Being present is hardest thing in life. But the only thing that matters. In life being present is something we often take for granted. As it is hard to define what present means things get even worse. How can we live in present if we can't define present. You may think that is wrong. The present means what you are feeling just now. These letters. But I would say otherwise. I can show you that present which you feel now is the imprint of the past. And about predictions of the future. Not once or twice, but all the day around. Let's dive into some examples. On being Present Consider what you are seeing now. A table a vass  a plant. Whatever directly in front of you. You know that right? Or atleast you think you know it. Consider a phone. Infront of your table. Turned off and laying there. When we see this we can assume it is a phone and the way to use it. We might even judge this on its color and weight. You know you can turn it on and use it to surf the Internet and read this article. But where did all this knowledge came from? Did not it come from the past?  Phone on Table Andromedian Perspective Let's make it a little less complicated now. Lets imagine you are an Andromedian. With your starship that is so advanced you came to visit earth. And now you are infront of this turned off phone. In your world there were no phones. There were no TVs. Nobody figured out electricity. Don't ask me why. Let's say your starship purely function from chemical energy. Now for this new perspective what you will see is a just heavy object. A black shiny thing with some mobile tiny buttons. You press the button hard but nothing happens. You might assume this is a some kind of a device but would not know how to turn it on. You might see the charger on the table and plug socket on the wall but still might not be able to figure out what's this supposed to do. It's just like unpacking a new gadget from Amazon. You are clueless without the Manuel of the past. Let's say in this hypothetical scenario your earthly friend came for help. You both do not know english. But he pinned the phone to the charger and turned it on. And showed you how to see pictures in it. And as an andromedian consciousness this is going to fundamentally change the way you look at phones in the future. Not only phone. Next day if you see a laptop and a charger you are going to do the same and will most likely figure out how it works. So really speaking you cannot even stop this process of carrying things of the past to the present. Does it sound familier? We all have been andromedians in our lives. Since the day we started this process of consciousness we have accumulated a vast amount of experience. That we carry day after day to figure out the present moment. Initially it may have been fundemental things like warmth and stiffness and softness. But later even complex things like mathematics and calculus. Andromeda Now imagine this process is wrong at the begining. Because we are using yesterday things to figure out today, and we have been using this process of iterations all our lives, imagine what was assumed to be true at the mother's woumb has a bearing on what you are seeing as a phone in front of you now. It feels absurd . As when we were born we had barely any ability to figure out anything complex. However it is also fascinating to know, that what we believe to be true today can be a totally erroneous as it all depended on what a toddler thought about the world. Can you see how far we are carrying our past and poison our present with it? I might not go into details about future here but point out few articles to you. Now with this knowlege, look at the world. The big buildings, Congo tribes, pyramids of  Egypt and starships that we help to built. All these knowledge came up from consciousness which figured out something out from whatever in front of it, using knowledge of the past. How past? I am not sure. Maybe from a monkey if we take into account the evolution. At this point you might say. Stop. What is the fact you are trying to say by confusing me with all these nonsense. Then I can say something like this. Consciousness from the past Being present is the only thing which matters as it lets you figure out life. Look my friend. You are afraid of taking a risk in life. Only because you value certain things over others. But in just few hundred words by talking about being present which is the only thing that matters in life, I have shown you the fundemental valuelessness of life. So what you can do with this is duel. Either use it against others who do not know it by taking some risks and make a heap of falsely valued heap of something that you only know valuelessness. Or just simply give up. As both these would not achieve anything other than more human consciousness built upon a toddler.

Expectations of growth. When we invest, we expect steady growth. Day after day, high returns while the capital is preserved. We try to choose such investments which have zero risk, and most of population is happy about the apparent slow growth as they cannot bear the fluctuations of the market. And the anxiety it brings day after day. Yet as a person who understands the zero of life , I can show you thousands of examples to show the growth is not liner. Not even in natural world. Not even in man mad world. Timber Growth Woodyard example. If you have ever been to a Woodyard, you would have noticed massive trunks which were cut into halves. They are the greatest example for growth. If you looked closer at these trunks you would see the rings made out of newly grown cells over each year. If a tree behaved like us, expecting same growth each year, the thickness of each layer should be similar. But that is not the case. Some winters are harsh. Other summers are ideal for growth. Each year the tree grows slowly. Maybe half a centimeter in thickness, but variable. Some years it may barely make few millimeters. But remarkably after few hundred years, they become massive. Teaching us the lesson that we are far more impatient and naiver when it comes to growth. This is not the only lesson trees teach us about life. You may read the previous article about bamboo theory and fractals . Let's move on. Sir David Attenborough on growth. - Growth is never linear in nature. A long time ago as a young student I happened to watch Sir David Attenborough's series on plants. That was an era where we did not have digital phones with us. I was looking at one such episode where the still camera has captured a plant growth over months and years. I still remember how it looked like. It was pulsatile. Like everything moved to a magical heartbeat of mother nature. It was not linear at all! But with each beat, each pulse everything moved an inch. Inch by inch, into a fully grown mature jungle of life nourishing every beast good and bad. So, I suggest you search for a plant growth in action next time when you start random YouTube scrolling. Plant Growth Growth spurts of humans. Nothing we call ourselves we bring from anywhere other than nature. Not even the piece of DNA that helped to bring out life. I just feel like its myself and so I claim it myself. Like every truth that we believe to be true there can be element of false in this belief. So, if we look at the growth of a child, again we will see the patterns of nature, not linear. As an example, the height of a person happens in spurts if you consider it in months. In some months a child can grow three centimeters while during next barely making any visible growth. But if you are more advanced, and measured the height daily with modern instruments, you might even see ups and downs of height even within a day. Just like a natural stock market. But we wouldn't worry about it right? Warren buffet on Markets. Non-Linear Growth I may have confused you with so many examples of nonlinear growth. After all I am a philosopher. But I have seen many experts of growth preaching the same when it comes to investing and growth. Consider what Warren buffet had said years ago. Imagine you buy a business, a stock, or invest your time in a project. Everyday Mr. Market comes to you and gives feedback and tell you either you are doing good, average or bad. And every day he tries to convince you either to buy or sell a piece of your business. What will you do? For any rational person this would feel an absurd question as the answer is crystal clear. You say, "Shut the f*** up to Mr. Market and concentrate on improving your work" You do not worry about short term setbacks as you are looking for the end game. That is the Championship mentality . As you can see it is not an artificial theory that someone made to beat the market. It is even present in a thick jungle where there is a growth in chaos. And who breaks the canopy are the ones who learned this by nature. Hope this will help the next time when you have a temporary failure in your life.

I was addicted. I am addicted. YouTube is not just an app. It's a notorious addiction. Just like drugs. Just like cocaine. But if we understand the mechanism of YouTube addiction there are simple strategies we can use. Same traits of YouTube which make it an addiction can be used to overcome the mindless scrolling. Instead utilized to give a value to our time. It was a long time ago that I wrote about Hook method . It is the mechanism utilized for these highly addictive apps, to get human consciousness hooked again and again. If you need to understand basics you can read that article here. But in this article, I am going to give you a practical way of beating YouTube addiction. YouTube addiction On YouTube Addiction Watching YouTube videos are not going to be very productive. Mostly they are made to hook our natural curiosity to learn new things. Infact, a YouTube short of 10 seconds is a great example. It is unlikely you learn some significant thing looking at a 10 second video. It's just entertainment. However, the addictive nature to these 10 second clips can keep you glued to the phone for hours and hours. If you forget the fact that an hour is just a collection of seconds. Exactly 3600 seconds. Not that big right? When I put it that way. Easily you will scroll through 200 YouTube shorts and learning nothing, feeling exhausted, tired and drained. So how are we going to beat the system? Is there an easy way, without using a hard motivation draining dopamine detox? Fortunately, there is. To understand you need to know how YouTube works. It monitors data. By various means. By your likes, comments, watch history, search history etc. And once they have enough data about you, they will label you as type BBV. Next part easy. YouTube will bombard you with what other type BBV humans are watching. As this perfectly matches your character, you will get hooked. And it is really hard to break that addiction. Making it green Beat YouTube addiction Method 1 Now think about what will happen if you convince YouTube you are a Type AAA person. Who is learning, trying to educate yourself through YouTube. One way to do it is to deliberately use YouTube to search what you like to learn. Documentaries, instead of random clips. Motivational videos instead of movie clips. Over time YouTube will figure out that you are looking for something and provide you with more and more good stuff, that you are unable to reach even with search queries. So good that you will be hooked to get motivated! Next easy step is to subscribe to good channels. Ones which give a meaning to your life. And lose other non-motivational entertainment kinds. Low value stuff. Overtime YouTube will again provide you with good stuff. Beat YouTube addiction Method2 - A mini-University? Let's say you fail to do that. That you are too lazy to figure out what is good and do a search on good stuff. But if you are mindful, you will see occasionally YouTube provides a motivational video, good documentaries etc. randomly in your feed. What you can do, if you don't have time to watch these is to save to watch later. I am sure there comes a time during the day or the week, that you are inherently motivated to see the good stuff. But how likely you are going to find good stuff easily without any distraction unless you have bunch of stuff saved in your to be watched list. You know they are good as you have screened them. More importantly like in the previous scenario, things once saved will make the algorithm alert for similar content and suddenly the YouTube can become a mini university where just hanging out will improve your knowledge. Call of the wild So, those are my suggestions. I would like to know about yours.

Growing Trees and fractals Trees. I like to look at trees. More often than not I become fascinated by them. Big or small. They teach about life many things more than animals do. The problem with animals is that they run. And when you run things get too complicated and you won't have time to observe anything. As things move so fast. But trees are different. They stay at one place and you can observe what is life over the years by looking at the slow change. There is no running involved, like humans or animals. Let's learn about how remarkable they are yet again with fractals. Fractal Patterns Fractals Fractals are mathematical concepts where repeated patterns occur in different scales. Good examples include snowflakes, a natural river, when seen from space with all its branching brooks, a tree with multiple branches. Consider a branch of a tree, it looks like a small tree by itself, except it doesn't have roots. A branch of a branch looks the same. In fact if you are about to draw a tree you might use the same pattern to draw it. Even a lightning in the sky looks the same before it hits the ground. I consider this a good way to search for potential. Let's look at philosophy of a tree. Philosophy of a tree Imagine the point of view of a tree. It has the need to grow. It needs to explore its options. What does it do? The natural way is to branch out. Explore some more space, looking for more sunlight. Keeping the connections with the trunk! And this is essential for any growth. It doesn't matter if you are a high-school student or a professor in a university. If you think about growth, you need to factor out your resources. Some may not work. You may find the sunlight is blocked from a nearby building and you need to lean right to avoid it. Think about what you are going to do in future and you can think of a hundred more ways to branch yourself into this. But just don't look at what happens above the ground. I have seen a fundamental mistake done by many individuals who seek growth. We don't have to look anywhere else. Consider the roots of the tree. A river from Space Consider a coconut tree. A slender trunk, raising higher and higher each year, branching out. But the secret to its growth is underground. If you pull out a coconut tree, it has a gigantic ball of roots, just as big as its crown. You may have seen one by the beach. The bigger the tree, the bigger its roots and deeper and farther they reach on the ground. Again factoring out, keeping the connection with the trunk. And it's these roots that make it possible for the tree to branch out and reach new growth. Really speaking it's a parallel process. Just like branching out, as the tree grows it roots deep.  Philosophy of life Now let's consider a person as a tree. With time often we see people grow out, with their careers, friendships and relationships. They branch out like trees, a complicated factored out pattern. Sometimes big, sometimes small, sometimes shading thousands of tiny creatures. But it is only possible if they equally invest resources in themselves. Like a ball of roots for a tree. It may be inner peace , telos of life , mindfulness or a feeling of ethical happiness that you are seeking. Unless you start investigating self in parallel to the outward growth, it won't be sustainable.  But like any tree, which was there on earth, even after a thousand years, there comes a time that time takes over. It may not matter to the world, a fallen giant. But it matters to the tree which has fallen. Let's be mindful about these facts. Which are yet to explore, by future us.

Following article discuss philosophy of believes. But a background in mathematics, and probability is handy. Bayes theorem, example. Here I will give you a simple example of Bayes, theorem. You do not need to understand the mathematics involved. But simply look at the question, and the conclusion, after the math. The math involved is not hard, its simple arithmetic, proportions, but the implications to real life are far more important. Now here is the Example. Beehive Example: From ChatGPT. Imagine a rare disease that affects only 1 in 1,000 people. A medical test exists that correctly identifies the disease 99% of the time when a person actually has it, but it also gives a false positive in 5% of healthy individuals. Suppose a patient takes the test and the result is positive. At first glance, this might suggest a high chance of having the disease — but Bayes’ Theorem gives us a more accurate picture. We want to calculate the probability the patient has the disease given the positive result, using the formula: So despite a positive test, the actual probability that the patient has the disease is only about 1.94%. This surprising result shows how even highly accurate tests can produce misleading outcomes when screening for very rare conditions, due to the relatively high number of false positives compared to true cases. Applications of Baye's Theorem When I look at bayes theorem, I do not worry about the math.I am a philosopher, trying to tackle the life. Yet, I know, that applications of scientific princilples to philosophy is something which has rarely done before. So, lets see application of bayes theorem to philosophy. In previous article I discussed about the truth.That every truth, is just a belief with some probability of being true. Consider, Atheist, consider, God, consider Devils and heavens. All these are believes with some probability of being true. But when new evidence comes, the probability of being true will actually go down over time. Just like in our case scenario about the rare disease. heaven Let's apply baye's theorom to the probability of "God". In ancient world people did not know, what is sun, moon and Planets represent.They did not have satellites to take photographs on Mars. So, it is reasonable for them to believe that The existance of "God" is about 99%. But in the new millenia, we have more knowledge and eqquipment. We can travel to the Moon, and Mars, and atleast we know there is no such God in physical form, there. So, the earlier probability of 99% has now gone down, to let's say 60%, As more and more new evidence accumilate, this probability will further go down. Let's say, in next 10000 years of humanity, if undisturbed by nature, will understand probabiliy of God has gone down to 1%. But the real question is will there be anything which achieve 100% A real Question about Truth Can we ever exclude or include any observation, that we make about nature as 100%? I am not sure, how many of consiciousness reading this are able to understand the question. But, the bottom line is, we are far away from detecting a 100% truth. Until then the Bayes, theorom will help us approach the untouchable truth, reducing the margin of error in our believes every day. Well done to humanity!

Money as a Tool Money is a subject that everyone loves talking about. Yet, in private. As often we consider it as the language of the devil. Sometimes, it's a taboo to talk about it. I think it's time for everyone to correct themselves and know that money is an instrument. Like any other tool. Consider a scissor, nobody has any problem talking about it. It is indeed an important tool for our day to day activities. The same is true for money. If you need to build a house for comfortable living, you will use the instrument money to make it happen. If you need to fill it with furniture, you can use the same tool. If you need the house to function automated for most of the day, still money is the way to go. In fact, money can be the most versatile tool other than your own consciousness. Once you get hold of the concept of money we can ask the next question. What will you buy with it?  Money As a Tool How to make more money? I am sure everyone talks about how to make more money, once you have some. The way to make the initial sum of money is by sharpening your skills. This is easy. If you do not have any skill, still you can physically help someone with money, to do some work and get whatever that person pays you. The more you help that person to grow, the more he will give you. As everyone in our society is in this game of collecting green papers with numbers. And this simple truth was not taught to us anywhere. Everything that we do is associated with money in some way. If you look at every human activity you will understand this.  So, when you walk towards your home today I need to look around. The roads you walk on, the cars you see travel on them, the oil which burns inside of them. All these were possible because of money. As a philosopher I can reach you through Internet and spread some wisdom, only because egotic capitalist mechanism which runs on the wheels of money, which lets everything moves faster. Instead of being greedy, we can now appreciate the fact it's just a tool. Money on wheels What would you buy with money? Let's say you already have some. What are you going to buy with money? What will you buy? It's really very simple. You have two options. Either Buy assets, which overtime increases the lump you have. Or you can buy liabilities, which will let you satisfy your urges but reduce the size of the lump. This is supposed to be a philosophical argument. Hence, I will not go into details of each asset class, or liabilities. But just let you know a wise person would balance between these two. As the latter is about the present, while the former is about the future. Which is unknown. Instead, I would tell you that if you had a choice, you should focus on buying your freedom. Some may call it financial freedom. And once you have bought, or built enough assets which produce more income than your expenditure, you would be financially "free". Yet it is not so simple when we start it practically. Fortunately there is another kind of freedom. And that doesn't cost a penny. Simply ask the question, what holds you from being free in your life. Just start losing them one by one. Is it your job? Is it your spouse? Is it your children? Is it your ambition? Is it hunger?. Instead try to solve them, start learning the language of mind, which is called mindfulness to see what really happens. Take a walk back into the jungle of mind where everything seems to have originated from. Then one day, the illusion of everything that we assume to be true will break and we will be able to touch the untouchable freedom.

You played games when you were a kid. I have played games. I often observe how kids play games. It's far from adult games. Consider chess. When I play with an adult or on the computer I know how I can move. I know how pieces are moving. Basically I know the rules of the game. But when I play with the kid, it's going to be chaotic. Rules are not fixed. Sometimes the rook might move diagonally and the Knight might move six squares. And in such a game with dynamic rules even Magnus Charleson will lose to a kid. It made me realise two things about life.  Chess The first way to win a game is to master the rules. That is what we are used to doing, most of our lives. Sometimes we call these rules, science physics mathematics. Sometimes we call them geography, grammar or law. Most of the time we spend a good half our lives learning the rules of the game of life. And we play a game of chess, with an opponent who has mastered the rules, and as expected we lose these games. And we blame our intellect, and say that we haven't done a proper job in mastering the skill. I would say this is like learning to draw a perfect circle, like in the zen story.   Often as it happens, and it happened to me, we think we are in the wrong game. And we move to a different game, play it for a while, trying to beat the system. I would say this is like being inside a casino, moving from table to table. Black Jack to poker to ping Pong. Yet each and every table, you might win a little, lose a lot and keep playing as you are addicted. There Is no other game that you know. Sadly this is how most of us spend our lives, till we die. Either winning a little, or losing big, drunkards from thinking about it. But occasionally there are people who takes a step back and think about everything holistically. They do not change all their money and make chips and start to play. They think through consequences. The risks associated with each game. And see, the odds of winning such games are always unfavourable. They also take their time to look at the owner, who has a birds eye view on every table from upstairs. And understand how he strategically lets some people win, while making others lose. Study each table to see what is the mechanism of each game, and why we are unable to win.  Instead of playing other people's games now, this wise person can create his own game. Either make another table in the same casino, or entirely different one. You may not like the word casino. Yet if I said, make a profitable blog, a tesla company, or a KFC your eyes will glisten. These are truly legal ways of gambling game of life. Yet we all function best in a world with some stupid games like these. Playing games of life If you are curious to see and build some system like that, go ahead and do it. I have recently written so much about, philosophy of building a skyscraper to putting up a shop . But I am more interested if you ask me a different question. Like "Isn't it absurd, to play life like a game with arbitrary rules, that we set for ourselves?". Can there be any meaning to all these stupid games we are forced to play, or that we are trying to make others play?. I would say that is when you break the bubble . Often people's eyes glisten when I mention money or being rich. But what they do not understand is that being rich is the easiest way of losing value of money, and everything around it, to a level you become free from your own life. That will happen if you started with philosophy instead of success. If you are curious about the latter, I would applaud. As it is a very rare trait of human consciousness. The world needs more of that kind, not the former.