Vish Pandey
Some things about me:
Honestly, I don’t have anything particularly “interesting” about me yet. I’m just figuring things out and experimenting in this grand arena called life. I enjoy writing and I have a YouTube channel as well. My current goal is to get really good at tech (coding), math, and physics. I’m working on these because I love the startup world, and the future is so exciting that I want to be a part of it. (Hopefully, I’ll have more interesting things to share here in a few months.)
Some things I believe:
• Believe in spontaneous curiosity.
• The ability to act in the moment when you feel the urge to do something is hugely underrated. When you’re inspired to do something, do it.
• All great things happen spontaneously, as side projects or hobbies, without the aim of making something big.
• Agency > courage > intelligence.
• Don’t fix your identity. Every human contains multitudes and has the capacity to think any thought ever conceived.
• Don’t get attached to the self.
• All learning is about how to think.
• Learn to handle the risk of embarrassment, rejection, and failure, and be shameless.
• Don’t be practical, be delusional.
• The best way to prove your value is to build something.
• The biggest weakness is wanting to be liked.
• Maximize your serendipity.
• The more risks you take, the luckier you get.
• Write for yourself, write to remember.
• Writing is basically talking to yourself.
• Live an unscheduled life.
• Study the people you admire and find the patterns.
• You don't lose what you don't have.
• You can learn and do anything faster than you think. It's just a matter of urgency.
• Build your foundation: study CS, math, physics, and engineering. Nature has no boundaries.
• The top three most important decisions in life: what you do, where you live, and who you’re with.
• Reject most advice.
Favorite books
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
• Zero to one
• Meditation
• Essays of Schopenhauer (Currently reading)
• The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI by Dwarkesh Patel (Currently reading)
My next reads:
• The Beginning of Infinity
• Antifragile
• Dune
• The Fountainhead
• Essays of Schopenhauer (Just started & loving it)
• Poor Charlie's Almanack
Favorite blogs/essays
• Naval
I love learning more about people I admire by searching about them here and there. But now I think I need to read more books as well.
I believe in spontaneous curiosity and learning, so I don’t rely on rigid resources. My mind often jumps around here and there
I’ll keep adding more here. This is just the beginning of infinity.
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