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Replug: Kerala risks losing Vizhinjam port's advantage if plantation lands stay locked newindianexpress.com/states/…
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ഇന്ത്യയിൽ തന്റെ സ്വന്തം കാർ വേറൊരാൾക്ക് വിൽക്കാൻ മഹാ തൊന്തരവ് ആണ്..
Original RC Book, insurance certificate തുടങ്ങി 10-12 പേപ്പറുകൾ, sale agreement, അത് രജിസ്റ്റ്രാക്കൽ, പിന്നെ RTO ഓഫീസിൽ പോയി നിരങ്ങൽ.. എല്ലാം കൂടി മഹാ മെനകേടാണ്..
എന്നാൽ ഞാൻ താമസിക്കുന്ന നാട്ടിൽ, അത് സിമ്പിൾ പ്രോസസ്സ് ആണ്..
കാറിന്റെ ഓണർ, തന്റെ മൊബൈലിൽ onemotoring എന്ന ആപ്പിൽ asset transfer ഓപ്ഷൻ എടുക്കുന്നു. വാങ്ങുന്ന ആളിന്റെ ID number ഉം, ഫോൺ നമ്പറും enter ചെയ്യുന്നു..
വാങ്ങുന്ന ആൾക്ക് ഒരു sms OTP വരുന്നു. അയാൾ തന്റെ ആപ്പിൽ ഈ OTP ഇട്ട് ആക്സപ്റ്റ് ചെയ്യുന്നു.. തീർന്നു.. ആ നിമിഷം മുതൽ വണ്ടി അവന്റേതായി!
നാട്ടിലെ വാഹൻ/പരിവാഹനിലൂടെ ഇങ്ങനെ ചെയ്തൂടെ?
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Cost of treatment, effect on families, influence on impressionable followers, if it's an illegal substance, supporting to the illegal economy that derives benefit from it etc etc.
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Breaking News . . .
Akshay Kumar is all set in preparing biopic on Sunita William's space journey. 🤨😆
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Tulu script and malayalm scripts are so similar. Any Malayalam speaker unfamiliar to any Tulu word can read 2 out 3 words written here.. I am now curious whether Malayalam speaker can half understand Tulu like we get Tamil..
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Lost in translation.
Location: Near Sampaje. Along Madikeri to Mangaluru National Highway 275.
@NHAI_Official
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Achaar is not pickle. English doesn't have a word for achaar.
Achaar is a glorious explosion of flavours. A pickle is a depressed cucumber that drowned in vinegar. They are not the same.
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A young statistician saved their lives.
His insight (and how it can change yours):
During World War II, the U.S. wanted to add reinforcement armor to specific areas of its planes.
Analysts examined returning bombers and plotted the bullet holes and damage on them (as in the image below).
Based on this analysis, they came to the conclusion that adding armor to the tail, body, and wings would improve their odds of survival.
But a young statistician named Abraham Wald noted that this would be a tragic mistake.
By only plotting data on the planes that returned, they were systematically omitting the data on a critical, informative subset:
The planes that were damaged and unable to return.
Abraham Wald recognized a key fact:
• "Seen" planes had sustained damage that was survivable.
• "Unseen" planes had sustained damage that was not survivable.
Wald concluded that armor should be added to the *unharmed* regions of the returning planes (the areas without bullet holes on the image below).
His profound logic:
Where the survivors were unharmed was actually where the planes were most vulnerable.
Based on his insight, the military reinforced the engine and other vulnerable parts, significantly improving the safety of the crews during combat and saving thousands of lives.
Abraham Wald had identified a cognitive bias called "Survivorship Bias":
The error resulting from systematically focusing on survivors (successes) and ignoring casualties (failures) that causes us to miss the true base rates of survival (the actual probability of success) and arrive at flawed conclusions.
We see examples of Survivorship Bias all around us:
1. We read books on the common traits of successful people, but fail to consider all of the unsuccessful people who possessed those same traits.
2. We applaud the belief when we hear that an entrepreneur took out a second mortgage and succeeded, but fail to consider all of the entrepreneurs who did the same and went bankrupt.
3. We study the cultural strategies of the most successful companies, but fail to consider all of the companies that followed those same strategies and fell apart.
When we fail to consider the range of outcomes and the hidden evidence, we develop a skewed (and often incorrect) view of reality.
It cannot be avoided altogether, because the vast majority of books and history are written by and about the survivors and victors, but wherever possible, consider the unseen evidence.
Remember: What is unseen often has just as much value as what is seen.
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If you enjoyed this or learned something, follow me @SahilBloom for more in future!
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If you're socially awkward, people will mistakenly think you dislike them, and that will make them actually dislike you.
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Thattu Kada.
A young man, in his early 20s, with alcohol use disorder and severe alcohol-related hepatitis at the brink of death, two years ago.
He only had his father as family, a frail but headstrong 60 year old man with silver hair. The mother died early due to breast cancer. The young man took to drinking alcohol very early on. He never went to college.
By the time I diagnosed him with acute on chronic liver failure due to alcohol, he was only 22. We treated him aggressively and got him better. Took him through deaddiction and he became sober.
For over a year, his father would come religiously for follow ups with him and made sure he followed my advise and suggestions to the T. The young man was abstinent from alcohol use since two years. Not a single drop. The father and son started a business together. It took his mind off alcohol.
Together, they ran a street food cart near by their home. In local language, we call such a setup, "Thattu Kada," a makeshift food corner, where fresh dosas are served with hot omlettes and chutney and kerala parottas with spicy chicken fry, starting in the evening and going late into the night.
They invited me to have a meal one day at their street food place. Said they had a special - warm rice kanji with spiced mixed pulses, pickles, spiced buttermilk and lip-smacking beef fry. According to the father-son duo, it was the best in the city. I could never go there, since it was quite far (they stayed approx. 300 km from where I work)
I made sure that pill burden from the treatment was kept to a minimum so that they could earn a livelihood and also save and not waste much on medications.
The young man missed his last review. That was last month. I realized it today.
Today I was visited by some of their neighbors.
My patient's father died of a cardiac arrest at home three months ago and in grief the young man started drinking heavily. Again. After two years. He had a sense of complete loss. Unstoppable alcohol binges - sometimes almost 1.2 liters daily.
Today I came to know that my patient was admitted in the ICU in at his hometown and on the ventilator with multiple organ failure - due to a second episode of alcohol-related hepatitis. After 2 years.
They wanted to know if shifting him on a critical care ambulance, with expenses paid from their pocket, to under my care would be of any benefit, because the last time he was dying, he got a second life here.
This time it was different.
He was going to die. It was inevitable. He had vomited around 2L of blood, by the time they put him on a ventilator, he was already in a coma and his kidneys shut down by night. By morning he went into a cardiac arrest and was on multiple medications to get his blood pressure up. He wont even last the 300km journey.
I wish I had that hot special evening meal with them when they invited me. Maybe I should have made up time for that. Maybe we must all make time for the little things we tend to overlook, only to regret later because we find more value in them in retrospect.
My patient will meet his father soon. And embrace his mother, whom he would have missed for so long. And maybe I will pay a visit to that place one day, where once a food cart stood and two people in solitude, served lovely meals to people on warm, humid evenings, which now lay empty.
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Goodmorning everyone!
I wrote on science-backed benefits of black coffee for my August 2023 @MorningContext newsletter, The Resident Doctor.
If you are a subscriber, please do read the exhaustive article with cool trivia, eye opening facts and fantastic history of coffee.
Here is a short video summarizing the scientifically proven health benefits of black coffee for you to share max with your family and friends! Hope you like it.
Content: @theliverdoc
Video: @arifhussaintm
Black coffee is the healthiest drink you didn’t know about
Read more at: themorningcontext.com/chaos/…
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In 2001, Warren Buffett gave a talk at the University of Georgia.
He asked them the most Warren Buffett question ever:
• If you could invest in a friend and get 10% of their income for life -- who would you pick?
Once the students answered the question, he then asked this:
• Why would you invest in that person?
• What character traits do they have?
Now they have a list of character traits to adopt.
Shortly after this, Buffett asked:
If you could short a friend's earnings, who would you pick and why?
Now you have a list of character traits to avoid.
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1. Do not think this thought experiment is only about money.
You can use it for whatever currency you value.
E.g. Happiness coin
If you could get 10% of a friend's happiness, who would you invest in and why?
If you could short someone's happiness, who would you pick and why?
You can run the same thought experiment with Fitness coin, Friendship coin, Romance coin, etc`
2. This thought experiment is genius because it hacks a bug in life's video game:
Humans are terrible at self-awareness.
But we are great at spotting things in other people.
E.g. If your friend is in the wrong relationship, you can realize in 10 minutes what may take them 10 years.
Daniel Kahneman summarised his book on cognitive biases with the following:
“The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.” - Daniel Kahneman
3. Nuance - It has to be purely from merit.
Buffett says it can't be because someone will inherit a large sum from their parents.
It has to be based on their behavior.
E.g. If you want 10% of someone's fitness coin, it's not because of incredible genetics -- is because of the actions they take.
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I believe more and more people should be vegetarian which means there is more meat available for the rest of us. I hope this creates a controversy because company results aren't quite as exciting