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Cool Startups

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Startups

Below is a list of some cools startups worth checking out.

https://www.leopetra.com/about (platform for petcare)

https://rebelfoods.co/ (internet restaurant)

https://lineleaptickets.com/ (skip line for bar/club)

https://homeful.ly/#city-selector (coliving Germany)

https://www.matagora.com/listing-space (Airbnb like service for commercial rental)

https://www.clokka.com/ (Swedish luxury watch trading platform)

https://www.monaru.io/  (A virtual assistant that helps you build deeper connections with the people you really care about.)

https://sablecard.com/ (easy banking for int’l customers in usa)

https://stoicroutine.com/ (mental health tracking)

https://www.kalshi.com/ (exchange for event contracts in USA), betting on event

https://sleepwell.ai/product.html (sleep coaching)

https://www.vertofx.com/ (b2b currency transactions)

https://wanderlog.com/plan/lqkcptbbpzuxbghe (notebook  for vacation travel itinerary)

https://verygreat.nyc/ (creates separate brands wildone.com, for dog kit, courant.com etc..)

https://satechi.net/ (cool and functional electronic gadgets keyboard, mouse pad etc..)

https://www.localised.com/what (helping company with international expansion)

https://www.websocks.nl/ (dutch company selling socks)

https://www.withjuno.com/ (marketplace for wellbeing services)

Cheers!

Only Person on Planet

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True wants in life

“What would you want in life if you were the only person on this planet”. This could be a very powerful way of thinking about priorities in life instead of chasing materialistic (cars, house, mansions) and non-materialistic goals (name, fame etc..), because someone else has it. If we only get happy by having things that others don’t have, it is not truly happiness, but a sign of sickness.

Be joyful!!

Don’t Think About Monkey

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When someone says “I don’t like him/her”. That disliked someone has more impact on our life compared to the person we like or love. Thing about it for a second. What does our mind think more of? the good things that happens to us all day long or one bad thing for that day. Bad things have far more influence on us. When you are told by someone or even by yourself to not think about something (example could be money, being fat, broken relationship, monkey etc..), our monkey mind can’t help but think of the unwanted things.

Next time, before categorizing something good or bad, think twice about the disproportional impact of bad.

Cheers!

Stock Newsletters

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With volatility in current stock market, people are wondering whether it’s a good time to invest. Below are some good websites offering newsletters that could be beneficial for market research before making the call.

  1. Robinhood Snacks
  2. Hustle
  3. Simply wall St
  4. Seeking Alpha
  5. Motley Fool
  6. Market Watch
  7. City Falcon

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Life Ingredients

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Life is a game of just five ingredients. Even a pizza requires more ingredients. In yoga, both the human body and the cosmos are based on the magic of only five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether.

Many people who attained self-realization have often termed life a cosmic joke due to this utterly simplistic ingredient.

Keep life simple.

Cheers!

Vipassana

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Benefits of Meditation are quite apparent in COVID-19 days as people lacking internal calm and not in harmony with their mind and body are struggling with anxiety, loneliness and stress. Being a Vipassana practitioner, I am reaping the benefits of this wonderful meditation technique and recommend to people who are seriously thinking about getting into meditation. Currently, most Vipsassana centers around the world are closed, but below is quick summary on where to start.

Keep Calm and Meditate

First: What is Vipassana ?

Vipassana means to see things as they really are and is one of India’s most ancient techniques of meditation pioneered by Buddha and others.This is self observance technique focusing on breathing and body sensation.

Learn more literature @ https://www.dhamma.org/

Second: What is not Vipassana ?

  • Not affiliated to any religion
  • No chanting of mantras or anything during practice/learning

So, how can you start?

Below is a step-by-step guide for those who are interested in practicing Vipassana::

  1. Find a nearest Dhamma Centre
  2. Find a course with availability for 10-day courses (new students only)
  3. Apply to reserve your seat
  4. Get Confirmation
  5. Have a cheerful life 🙂

Cheers!

Specific vs Unique Knowledge

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Listening to a podcast from Naval Ravikant, I am thinking about some of the points mentioned regarding people’s quest to be unique. Uniqueness is lost as soon as two people learn to do the same thing. People should work on developing specific knowledge to become irreplaceable.

Scott Adams recommends people to develop 3 skills (the you are naturally good at) and be in the top 25% percentile in each of them. By doing that you develop a combination which makes you exceptionally valuable.

I highly recommend Naval’s podcast to anyone who is looking for some clarity in understanding basic principles of entrepreneurship, finding mentors, co-founders and believe in long term game.

Cheers!

Be a Kid

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As an adult, our mind don’t simply take in the world as it is so much as they make educated guess about it. Relying on the guesses, which are based on past experience, saves the mind time and energy.

For example, instead of trying to figure out what teh fractal pattern of green dots in its visual field might be, it just assumes leaves on the tree from past experiences.

On the other hand, kids’s perception are not mediated by expectations and conventions in the been-there, done-that way, they see world as it is.

Spirituality helps in restoring this childlike immediacy, sense of wonder and experience of unity with nature.

Cheers!!