Tanmay Kachroo

on the atlas — 2

• Librarians are dangerous | Hacker News1 savers
• Strengths Are Your Weaknesses | Hacker News1 savers

highlights — 2

• Fiction, in particular, is a useful abstraction to grow emotional intelligence in hand with critical thinking. It allows - no, it demands - you develop a sense of empathy and live a life in someone else's shoes. You can then bring that experience back to your own idea of self and your place in the World.

  Librarians are dangerous | Hacker News

• Strengths are weaknesses because they create a bias to use the strength rather than developing a weak alternate, and you only get better at what you do - creating a virtuous cycle that can quickly turn vicious. This will happen whenever growth is mediated mainly by feedback loops. (Think hard about that!) The solution is instead to have a model of what you're trying to grow, whether it's a company or a positive presence in the world, and be willing to sacrifice to make that happen.

  Strengths Are Your Weaknesses | Hacker News