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280+ episodes in. It is time to actually announce it. Time to finally write a short essay on why I started this podcast project — one daily 5-10 minute episode on the world’s oldest philosophy, Vedanta. A fun side note: Vedanta, which means ‘end of the Vedas’, is another...

Midlife is often seen as a time for us to settle into a stable professional path while simultaneously juggling multiple responsibilities in our personal lives — careers in full swing, raising children and other familial duties, and planning for the future. But what if I told you that this...

What would the world look like if the police were paid per arrest they made? In other words, if they weren’t paid to keep the peace but paid to make arrests.  This practice of “paying per arrest” is rare in history, but its closest cousin called “arrest quotas” (where...

Previously, I’ve covered the Vedantic philosophical viewpoint (the oldest philosophy we know of) on this blog as well as in my podcast. I even started a podcast last year (Yoga For Your Intellect) dedicated to a conversational approach to this system of thought. I have also written about the...

Update (in 2024): A year later, and I decided to release even more music under an entire alias around getting people into flow-state. Has been a fun creative outlet (that helps others drop into their most creative selves): Click Here: OPENSTATE_ — Original post: New working_man tracks are live...

Three years of podcasting on optimizing founder and creator psychology, and this is the most important episode I have released to date. The last few months, especially the last few weeks, have been some of the most volatile for public markets in the last decade. I have just recorded...

Is there a manual for living well? “Take a simple idea, and take it seriously.” —Charlie Munger Each morning, I sit in my chair in my bedroom listening to a lecture by a 83 year old philosopher, A. Parthasarathy, recorded in an ashram just outside of Mumbai, India. He...

“…the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day.” — Charles Dickens Update (2022): This working style has been life-changing and is now my default mode of working. Inspired by a friend, Sahil Lavingia, and his stance over the last year to work “asynchronously” (aka, instead...

Below is the transcript of my interview with the historical giant and founder of analytical psychology, Dr. Carl Gustav Jung. The episode is available below or can be found any podcast player or at belowthelinepod.com. Click “subscribe” if you want to check out more episodes of Below The Line...

TL;DR • When it comes to mental health, our society approaches it like we did with physical health 50 years ago. We only think about it when something goes wrong. • To the wider public, mental health is synonymous with mental illness. Our notion of physical health is, however,...