Hi Friends!

Greetings from Mumbai!

This past week, I spent good amount of time on learning initiatives. I learned about DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) which talks about shunning the gender inequiality and racism related thought process and breaking out of our biases.

I also delved again into learning mental models and how they change our thought process. I personally follow a mental model (check the first bullet in below list for details on that).

If you want to learn more about my daily learnings, follow me on Twitter.

Here is this week’s Saturday-Pentacle. Enjoy!

Issue 210 // Week 7 // 2022

A mental model I’ve been following —

First Principals Thinking – This mental model has been vastly discussed in past and even Elon Musk follows it.

I learned about it few years back and it has changed the way I think now about any problem.

Basically, when you separate assumptions from the underlying ideas, the first principles emerge.

As Aristotle said – “the first basis from which a thing is known.”

If you have a problem then breaking it down to the smallest possible unit and then working up from there.

Here is a twitter thread, I wrote on first principals thinking sometime ago.

A photograph I took in a recent trip — It was dusk time and we were in the middle of the Arabian Sea, away from the world and a bunch of seagulls were lurking around our boat. This one caught my eye which was flying a bit away from us but majestically.

A Tweet thread I loved —

I loved this smart and drunk thread by SahilBloom, so many wisdom nuggets, check it out.

An old poem popularized by the movie Interstellar — I’ve been listening to the Interstellar – Hans Zimmer song Cornfield Chase a lot this past week and from that album I discovered this beautiful poem.

Do not go gentle into that good night

by Dylan Thomas – 1914-1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Quote which I found meaningful –

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

— Seneca

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for supporting and reading.

Himanshu

About Author

I’m Himanshu Sachdeva, a technology professional working in Mumbai, India. I spend most of my spare time making Podcasts, YouTube videos and write on Lifestyle Design and sometimes stories.

Every Saturday, I send out an email newsletter called “Saturday Pentacle”, a list of the cool stuff I explored in the past week, including quotes, photos, books, articles, movies, documentaries and so on!

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Saturday-Pentacle // Issue 210 // Week 7 // 2022

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