Notes

The black liquid was a message sent to The officials that Kala Babu, was on his way to the police station. A police man, who did not wish to be named, says,'Those days,it was his way of saying: I am coming to meet you. Make necessary arrangements. He had the …

1. They are familiar with your track record and trust you.
2. They have a pre-existing relationship with a history of benefit to them.
3. You come highly recommended by someone they trust.

They do this for 2 reasons:

1. As a thank you for previous …

Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable. The first step of that journey is understanding where we are, what we're up against, and where we need to go. I think we can best do that by …

Pixar films often feature two main antagonists - one benevolent and one malicious - Buzz/Sid, Princess/Hopper. Ratatouille has three main antagonists: one evil (Skinner), one benevolent (Linguini) and a third, Anton Ego. Ego isn't malicious the way Skinner and Muntz are, but I wouldn't call him benevolent either. He is …

Change always comes with a price.

The best kind of conflict offers a chance for both destruction and construction, which would have a fortifying effect against the antagonistic forces.

Change is the measuring unit of conflict.

In a way, stories are a series of conflict - questions presented and answered. Some deal with external forces and some with internal forces.

If a character cares deeply about something, a storyteller must explain the emotional constitution that allows the character to have these opinions - formally known as exposition.

1. Product making and product marketing are completely orthogonal skills
2. It takes a village to create a youtube video - everyone chips in, creates stories, adds diverse content
3. A script with clear narration and accompanying picture (storyboard) is the edge in video making
4. There's no point memorizing …

Since AI and large language models work by scanning texts that are already available—including texts already generated by AI—the result seems expansive, but in terms of rhetoric it is limited and may, like copying a document repeatedly, introduce errors, reduce sharp focus, and lessen impact.

The style of writing …

With 'unconditional positive regard'.

Unconditional positive regard is an attitude, not a feeling.

But unconditional positive regard doesn't mean the therapist necessarily likes the client. It's a framework for valuing and respecting the person right to determination, even if her choices are at all with yours.

Pain can be protective - staying in a depressed place can be a form of avoidance. Her inner critic serves her. "I don't have to take any action because I'm worthless". And there's another benefit to her - she may feel that she stays alive in her kids' minds if …

"So what i say is this: you can have compassion without forgiving."

Granted, for some, forgiveness can serve as a powerful release – you forgive the person who wronged you, without condoning his actions, and it allows you to move on, but too often people feel pressure to forgive, …

Inspired by a leadership style of leaning in when there is an org gap (you dont want to do it and the junior either needs grooming or can't or won't do it), so that you do the IC work while simultaneously ensuring youre closing the gap through external hiring.

"The visible layer gets the hype. The foundational layer gets the wealth."

Same for Lists - basics like filters and search are the foundation for user desire. Working on them will provide the foundation for monetization.

You don't have to curb superiority... you have to upgrade others to come to your level. And the key to that is acceptance.

The core reason of mediocrity is when when people curb their superiority and come down to other people's level and then try to manage them at …

"Find the recurring themes in your life, then look for extremes."

Write down a list of quirks about yourself. Then find stories that explain these quirks.

Dont hide your quirks - take a close look at them. They may be the key to a great story.

https://blog.mitaleem.com/2026/feb/17/note/how-do-humans-actually-change/

Follow up - Day 6 of no sugar. Don't feel like eating sweet stuff anymore and it simply cannot be because of my body needs changing.

It took just one shift - from "what will it take to eat that barfi" to "what do I gain by not …

My Github profile in the year of a major life transformation. We come to know about denial only post-facto.

Viktor Frankl wrote - "Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."

Reacting vs. Responding = Reflexive vs. Chosen

More than sixty years later, Wendell was saying I could …

pregnant. present. enveloping. begging to not be relieved.