Pick Modern Skills and Ancient Wisdom
From the desk of Harsh StrongmanLocation: A basecamp in the Himalayas Hey brothers, I have some good news. I just successfully completed a Himalayan expedition which involved finding a new route up a mountain. The route went through 2 different valleys and some dense forests. Everyone in the team successfully summited except for one member […]
Is Moong Dal Rich in Protein?
No. The answer is no. “Dal is rich in protein” is something you will keep hearing from overweight Indian people but it’s just a type of self-delusion. They want to feel like they’re eating a high protein diet without actually eating a high protein diet. They seem to think that if they keep repeating “dal […]
Why Simps Cannot Be Trusted
A few years ago, I went to a friend’s birthday party. I had known this guy for years. Over the months leading up to his birthday, he had met this fat chick and she became his girlfriend. He started bringing his fat girlfriend to all of our group outings but everyone just tolerated her just […]
Woman Gives Very Good Dating Advice
I came across a post from a woman Apurva Arya that was giving some dating advice. Most of the replies were just insulting her for being below average on the attractiveness scale. While I do think there is a lot of merit in judging people by their looks, in this particular case the advice is […]
How to Know if Someone is NGMI
Every few months, I do an AMA on X and answer a bunch of reader questions. There are some questions I get on repeat and I can almost always tell that the person who asked it is NGMI. If you are even remotely making it in life, you will get a ton of people asking […]
Do Employers Care About You?
Imagine that you’ve hired a guy whose job is to keep your house clean. For the sake of this example, let’s assume that you make $100k a year and you pay the cleaner $30k a year. (All inclusive employee costs/payroll is usually anywhere from 5% to 65% of revenue depending on the industry the company […]
Should You Marry a Woman Who Had a Long Past Relationship
This is a question I receive a LOT: I met a woman who was in a relationship for 5+ years and then had a break up. She hasn’t dated anyone in the last few years. Should I date her/marry her? Ok, so despite what many will think – this is not a bad question. If […]
What If You Had Only 10 Years Left to Live? (How to Live Life While You Are Alive)
In late April, 2023 I was in the city of Mussoorie to do a couple of hikes and blow off some steam. I had completed coding up a new SaaS project and had worked a lot and the plan was to spend some time in nature and off work. I completed a few hikes and […]
How Not To Be Technologically Illiterate
Technological adoption is age based. People take all the technology that existed at the time they were born for granted. When they are very young (say up to age 20), they adopt new technology quickly and enthusiastically. New product? Let’s check it out and use it. Let’s see all of its settings. Let’s find out […]
How to Not Sweat The Small Things (The Importance of Facing Real Dangers)
A few months ago, I was on a flight and an old woman was there with her daughter. The woman wanted to have a fruit platter for her meal but either the daughter forgot to book it, or the flight forgot to onboard it – whatever the case, her meal wasn’t there. All I can […]
The Status Matrix
We are all in “the status matrix”. Unlike the matrix movie, the real status matrix is not centralized. The status matrix is a mixture of various powerful financial and other vested interests who all benefit from manipulating you into a certain type of voluntary servitude. What does the status matrix want you to do? If […]
EY Employee Dies From Work Stress – Big Lessons (Full Letter)
A 26 year old EY Employee’s mother wrote an open letter and accused EY’s work pressure as the cause of her daughter’s death. I have several thoughts about this entire situation and a few big and key takeaways for anyone who is an employee. I’ve worked for one of the Big4 firms and it wasn’t […]
How to Stop Overthinking
Guys will regularly complain about “overthinking” not realizing that the solution to it is in their own minds. Unless you’re doing something especially big or life changing, overthinking is one of the least masculine things you can do. Instead of taking action, you are merely thinking about action. Either that or you are worried about […]
Stop Doing Women Favors You Won’t Do For Men
I bumped into a guy I know from the gym. He’s not a friend but we’ve lifted some weights together. He looked really tired and had sunken eyes. I asked him, “Is everything alright?” He looked at me with pride and told me he hadn’t slept because he had been helping out a few girls […]
“Inflation Will Come Down” Does Not Mean What You Think
One thing you will hear politicians say in their speeches goes along the lines of: “I will bring inflation under control” “I will make inflation come down” “Inflation is transitory” “I will reduce inflation” “I will beat inflation” All of these are misdirection with the exception of the last one because that is an outright […]
How an Extra $2500 Can Be Life Changing
The Complete Graphic Design Course™ was launched 2 days ago. In the launch email, I said that making an extra $30k a year from graphic design is what you should expect if you take the course. This got me some interesting replies: “$30k a year is too little” “Anything below $10k is shit hahahahahahahah” “I […]
How to Make Yourself Unfireable From Your Job
If your primary source of cash flow is a job, it’s of paramount importance that you become an unfireable employee. Like the name suggests, an unfireable employee is one the company wouldn’t even dream of firing. There are a few ways of making this happen: A) Be an extremely profitable employee The company makes so […]
Masculine Traits: What Makes A True Man
Modern society is controlled by groups who have vested interests in making men weak and docile. A population where men are physically and mentally weak is easy to control and govern. High testosterone masculine men are a problem for the true masters of the world. This is why they use their institutions to promote down […]
How Athens Conquered its Allies
There’s a very interesting observation by Plutarch in the Life of Kimon: A long time ago in the 5th Century BCE, there was a city-state in Europe called Athens. Athens and its allies had two wars with a much more powerful and rich empire called the Persian Empire. They won the wars – the first […]
Short Term Trading is a Waste of Time (What to Do Instead)
We had another one of those bad days in the stock markets (they tend to happen every once in a while). Stocks are down. Crypto is down. Commodities are down. A lot of people are freaking about their investments declining 30% in a day (especially the people who used leverage as they are forced to […]
What Will Your Life Be Like at 70?
The thing about life is that over the long run, most people get what they deserve – at least in the health department. The 5 Broad Categories of Health For Senior Citizens As people get older, they start to fit 5 broad categories: Very strong: These are people who trained regularly in their youth, avoided […]
Not Your Keys, Not Your Coins: Explained For Noobs
“Not your keys, not your coins” basically means that if you do not keep your coins in your own wallet where you know the seed phrase (private key), you don’t truly own your coins. The general idea is that you should always withdraw your crypto coins into your own wallet that you control instead of […]
The Importance of Being Around The Pros
There is a big difference between training at a real gym vs training at a casual gym. I was staying with a friend recently and went down to train at their society gym. The biggest dumbbells this gym has are 30kg (each). This is not heavy and will be your warm-up within 2 years of […]
Why Did People Start Getting Heart Attacks?
My father says that back when he was young (70s and 80s in India), dying of a heart attack was considered to be a rich man thing. Poor people would live into their 90s and die slowly of old age, and rich people would die in their 70s before that from a “heart attack”. In […]
16 Commandments of Poon by Chateau Heartiste
This post is in memory of Chateau Heartiste, who’s blog is now dead (his blog we censored/deleted by his web hosting provider Automattic). A backup is available here. I. Never say ‘I Love You’ first Women want to feel like they have to overcome obstacles to win a man’s heart. They crave the challenge of […]