Hi, I’m Guru Padmanabhan, welcome to my digital home
“I am no Guru” is my blog.
My blogs are “Notes to Self”—a way to bookmark inspirations, learning, and random ponderings.
Wŏnhyo, a Korean Buddhist monk, was travelling to China long time ago to study Buddhism.
Munger studied meteorology at Caltech and law at Harvard, but in the real world, he refused to live inside academic fences. He learned from everywhere.
Here is a passage from Richard Dawkins’ (extraordinary) book The Blind Watchmaker. It’s about a basic fact of biology.
I read Warren Buffett’s Thanksgiving letter over the weekend, and it sent me down a rabbit hole into the life and wisdom of Don Keough.
Money has always been a psychological, tribal consensus, a shared belief at a point in time, not an undisputable scientific fact.
The Stoics lived two thousand years ago, but their wisdom feels tailor-made for today’s distractions.
They taught that peace doesn’t come from controlling the world; it comes from mastering our thoughts and actions.
It started with a sketch on a napkin.
On May 18, 2005, a Yelp employee named Bob Goodson doodled two crude symbols — a thumbs up and a thumbs down.
People are valuable because they are different. Everybody is unfathomably different from everyone else, yet society rarely harnesses that individuality.
During the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a race to be the most technologically advanced nation.
“The most valuable real estate in the world is the graveyard.
There lie millions of half-written books, ideas never launched, and talents never developed.