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26 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A couple of months I started my knowledge garden at notes.invertedpassion.com

Was pleasantly surprised to see it slowly evolve into a beautiful, interconnected mini-forest.
What's a knowledge garden and how is it different from a blog?

A blog has finished essays while knowledge garden has raw drafts of whatever's on your mind.

Plus, a knowledge garden is all about finding links between your thoughts to allow for deep insights to emerge naturally.
I was inspired to start my own knowledge garden by @andy_matuschak who has written an excellent resource on why doing something like this has long term benefits: notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes
I personally use @obsdmd and recommend it highly.

It's free, works on mobile, has a beautiful community of plugins which makes it highly adaptable to specific workflows.
If you start your own knowledge garden, I'm happy to help answer your queries.

If there's enough interest, will probably live stream my note-making process someday.

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20 Nov
The interconnectedness of fundamental physics teaches you that there’s simply no room for new fundamental phenomena that affects human life.
This means even if we discover additional dimensions, forces,
particles or even universes, there’s simply no room in to passively impact us.

Of course, engineering tech to harness new phenomena could change everything but that’s not what pseudo scientists have in mind.
For example, those who believe in astrology might say that planets, moon and sun affects a person’s personality at birth through gravity.

To them, I’d say: study LIGO and see how difficult and expensive it has been for us to observe first gravitational waves.
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15 Nov
What people pay for something is determined by its perceived alternatives.

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1/ It’s hard for people to know how much they should be paying for a particular product.

Evolution has trained us to be skeptical of strangers’ claims.

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2/ By default, people will always feel they’re getting ripped off.

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8 Nov
Generating profit requires creativity.

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1/ Businesses don’t exist to make revenue, they exist to make profits.

But the lure of revenue is hard to resist.
2/ It’s natural to admire the billions of dollars that big US retailers such as Guess, Macy’s, Radioshack and Toys R Us generate every year but it’s difficult to digest that they are in terrible shape because they’re not making any profit.
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7 Nov
It shouldn’t be surprising that our fundamental reality is describable using mathematics.

A mini 🧵
1/ Maths is like English, but with far fewer degrees of freedom.

e.g. “We want to move forward with this” can mean so many things, while Area of circle = pi * r ^ 2 in zero curvature manifolds means only one thing.

Math is a language you use when you want to be precise.
2/ In theory, I can imagine that a large part of our everyday language can also be systemised into math.

Analytic philosophy traditions did exactly that.

So math is a language where you make it explicitly what exactly do you mean.
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2 Nov
We have 26 constants of nature whose value we need to feed into our scientific theories to get predictions about everything else.

The key question is: will their values emerge from a deeper theory or if they’re simply randomly initialised in our universe? Image
The fact we exist depends a lot on what value these constants take (e.g. mass of electron), so it’s hard to digest that they’re randomly initialised to lucky values.

Our universe can’t be fine tuned.
But they could very well take on random values across a much bigger multiverse and hence we’ll always find them to be lucky in a universe we live in.

This possibility of multiverse is unnerving.

If all values and laws exist, physics becomes geography - the study of our region.
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27 Oct
Thanks to new sponsors, we're awarding grants to three more winners who want to:

- Train underprivileged kids in 🏉 Rugby
- Starting a school for kids suffering from ⚧️ gender dysphoria (first-of-its-kind in India)
- Supporting 🥻handloom artists from Odhisa

Total 9 winners now
1/ Saif Ullah Khan wants to train underprivileged kids in 🏉 Rugby.

With this money, he'll be able to not buy equipment for them and hopefully not just make the kids stronger but give them meaning and character.

This grant is sponsored by an anonymous person.
2/ Niwas Sathi will start the first-of-its-kind school for kids who've suffered from ⚧️ gender dysphoria.

Hopefully, this grant of Rs 50k will give the startup capital for his dream and eventually this school becomes a permanent institution.

This grant is sponsored by @ritishri
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