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Hi All! Here is my weekly wrap up email. If you love this content (please share it), but also… Check out my , connect with me on / , and Podcast YouTube Twitter Subscribe to my weekly newsletter Join our free slack community What’s in today’s newsletter? Bikeshedding Idea: Paralysis Triggers Question: Latticework Thinking Quote: Podcast: Renée Mauborgne, Researcher & Author of the Blue Ocean Strategy Jairek Robbins, Author, Coach & Speaker 7 Steps To Become A Millionaire Article: Idea: Bikeshedding Have you ever been in a meeting where the for the break room sparked a passionate hour-long debate? Meanwhile, the – the real reason you're all there – barely got a nod. choice of coffee business strategy for the next quarter That's Parkinson's Law of Triviality, or . bikeshedding Cyril Northcote Parkinson showed us this with an example of a committee assigned to build a nuclear plant. On the grounds of the proposed nuclear power plant was a proposed bike shed for employees of the plant to store their bikes while they worked. Meeting after meeting, the employees spent more time discussing details of the simple bike shed issue and at the complex nuclear reactor plans. barely glanced Why? Maybe fear, maybe confusion. Here’s a possible explanation, complexity is like . deep water We stick to the small things because they're . It's like floating in the shallow end. easy In the boardroom, on something like logo fonts. It's simple, it's subjective, it’s the safe zone. everyone’s a critic But ask about the ? You could hear a pin drop. ROI on a big project We lose ourselves in minor details and miss the . Like obsessing over a font when you should be crafting a winning strategy. major issues But you can conquer bikeshedding. Try this: . Stick to it like glue. Each topic gets just enough time, no more. Set a laser-focused agenda . Address the big stuff while brains are fresh. Dive into the deep end first . Less people, less noise, more action. Small team, big thinking . Ideas are team sport, decisions are not. Appoint a decider. One voice to rule them all is just step one. on it, that's the leap. Knowing about bikeshedding Acting So, at your next meeting, . prioritize Are you talking about the shed's color while your project's own nuclear reactor gets sidelined? It’s not about the shed. It's about the . journey ahead , not the distractions. Focus on the destination That's the key. That's what pushes you . forward This idea is from my short, daily newsletter. Read it here. Question: Paralysis Triggers Here’s a question on what’s stopping you from taking action: What are the that keep you from moving forward in your life? “paralysis triggers” As you pursue your goals and dreams in your life, there will be situations, events, thoughts, and emotions that trigger a sense of paralysis in you. These are your “paralysis triggers” in your life. You have a clear vision of what you want to achieve, but these “paralysis triggers” make you , , or . freeze procrastinate give up They prevent you from taking the necessary actions to make your vision a reality. Some examples of “paralysis triggers” are: that overwhelm you with too many choices, options, or possibilities. You feel confused, indecisive, or stuck. You don’t know where to start or what to do next. Situations that challenge your beliefs, assumptions, or expectations. You feel threatened, insecure, or doubtful. You question your abilities, your worth, or your purpose. Events that fill your mind with negative, limiting, or self-defeating messages. You feel anxious, fearful, or hopeless. You focus on the worst-case scenarios, the potential failures, or the reasons why you can’t. Thoughts that consume your energy, motivation, or enthusiasm. You feel angry, sad, or depressed. You lose interest, passion, or joy in what you do. Emotions It's easy to get stuck in paralysis if you don't take time to: your personal triggers Recognize where they come from Understand with them effectively Deal But this paralysis doesn't have to be permanent - you have the power to overcome it. This week, carve out some quiet time for self-reflection. Ask yourself: What specific situations, thoughts, or emotions tend to paralyze me? Trace these back to their roots. Did something happen that led you to develop these patterns? What beliefs or assumptions fuel the paralysis? Once you have more clarity, make an action plan. How can you respond differently to defuse your triggers when they arise? What affirmations or mantras can you use to stay motivated? Who can you turn to for support? Small steps add up. Regaining momentum is a process of patient persistence and with some critical thought, compassion for yourself and commitment to moving forward, you can break through those paralysis triggers so they don’t freeze you in your tracks. Quote: Latticework Thinking “The first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts... If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form." - Charlie Munger It's about the links between the facts. Business giants don’t just amass information. They construct frameworks to use it. Isolated facts? Useless. A single bee isn't a problem. A swarm? That’s a different story. Consider Elon Musk. His companies might look unrelated at first glance. But look closer. Energy. Efficiency. Innovation. These aren't just sectors. They're principles. They're the framework. Mental models are the new currency in the knowledge economy. Education rewards memorization. Real-world rewards those who synthesize. Are you just collecting facts? Or are you crafting a lens to view them through? It’s not about knowing more. It's about understanding better. . Look for Step back patterns, systems, connections. A fact is a single point. Knowledge is seeing the grid. Wisdom is navigating the map. When you wake up today, think: Are you simply gathering? Or are you truly linking? Because after all, Knowledge is only potential power. The true power is in the connections you make. Podcast: 1. Renée Mauborgne - Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute | | YouTube Spotify Apple Renée Mauborgne is a prominent figure in the world of business and strategy, known for her groundbreaking work in the field. She is an INSEAD Distinguished Fellow and a professor of strategy at INSEAD, one of the world's leading business schools. Renée is also the Co-Director of the INSEAD Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, a center dedicated to exploring and promoting innovative strategies that create uncontested market spaces. Her most notable work, "Blue Ocean Strategy," published in 2005, has become an international sensation, selling over two million copies and translated into 42 languages. 2. 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Quantum mechanics is a wonderful theory that explains nature at the very fundamental level. At this level, nature behaves very differently from how we perceive it in our everyday life. A quantum particle can be at many places at the same time. A quantum cat can be simultaneously both alive and dead. A quantum particle with a well-defined position has undefined momentum. A watched pot never boils, and so on. There is this ever-growing interest that the weird rules of the quantum world may help us resolve the greatest mysteries we are daunted with. Can quantum indeterminism restore free will in the otherwise deterministic universe? ? Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? Can the true randomness at the quantum level help settle the debate between intelligent design and natural selection In this article, I discuss reality in the quantum world. With few simple examples involving the spin of the electron (we talked about it in the ), I will show that the . I will go through several examples to make my argument. I will then briefly talk about some philosophical implications of the quantum notion of reality. last post objective reality of science is constructed from subjective quantum realities I will take you to a wonderland where the rules of could be applied to human interactions, beliefs, and value systems. Our most daunting philosophical questions might have very simple answers. quantum mechanics The objective reality of science is constructed from subjective realities at the quantum level. A spin of an electron Remember the ? The spin of the electron that can have only two values labeled as and ? quantum coin spin-up spin-down Spin is a vector quantity having three components. When we talk about the spin-up electron, we usually mean an electron with a component of the spin having a value corresponding to the state. There is nothing special about the component though. You could, if you want, measure the or component of the spin or the component of the spin along any arbitrary direction. However, what you cannot do is measure two different components of the spin at the same time. z spin-up z x y Nature does not allow us to know about the two components of the spin of the electron at the same time. These are what we call incompatible observables. They can not be measured simultaneously. Of course, you can measure the second component of the spin after measuring the first component. But the moment you make the second measurement, the result of the previous measurement becomes void. This is not a spin-specific restriction only. We have a number of quantities in the quantum realm that makes sense only if we consider these individually. The moment we start to take them collectively, we run into problems. You must have heard the joke that . if you know where you are, you cannot know where you are going Some of you must be wondering Or it is just an artifact of the mathematical formalism we have employed to explore nature. if this really is a restriction imposed by nature itself? This is a profound question, and your humble quantum physicist is unable to address the issue. All I can say is that our best minds have not been able to come up with a better theory in the last one hundred years. On the other hand, the theory, with all its weirdness, has brought about a technological revolution. We are promised to witness another quantum revolution in information systems in our lifetimes. Everchanging reality? The notion of reality becomes a little ambiguous with the rule discussed above. Let's imagine a scenario where you have an electron (say in a box), and you measure the component of its spin. Say you get a result corresponding to the . So you write in your notebook that the electron in the box has a component. x spin-up state spin-up x Now you pass the electron to your friend and request him to verify the result. If your friend is careful in setting up the apparatus and aligns it such that he too measures the component of the spin, then all will be ok. He would have verified your result. But let’s say that by mistake or intention he sets up the apparatus such that he measures the component of the spin. Now quantum magic has been invoked, and there is no going back. No matter what result he obtains for his measurement, your result has been erased. The electron no longer has a definite component. If you perform your measurement again, there is a chance that the component of the spin will now be down. This leads us to a natural question: x y spin-up x 50% x What is the real spin of the electron? Is it up along the as you first measured? Or down along the as your friend might have obtained? Or down along the according to your second measurement? Which measurement will hold precedence over which? Was the previous measurement along the more real than the second one you have performed after your friend destroyed your first measurement? Was the measurement by your friend more authentic? Or should we arrange for an unbiased measurement by an independent observer along, say ? These seemingly difficult questions have a simple answer. x-axis y-axis x-axis x-axis z-axis But first, let’s look at another example to appreciate better how weird things are. Suppose you have a ball that can have one of two colors, say blue or red, and the surface of the ball can be either rough or smooth. Assume also that these two traits — color and texture— are incompatible. This means that nature has put the constraint that you cannot touch the ball while you are looking at it. And you can not look at the ball while you are holding it in your hand. Suppose you look at the ball and you see it is blue. Now you close your eyes and feel the texture of the ball in your hand. You find it rough.  Now you remove your hand and open your eyes again. You might find the ball red. Isn’t it surprising? And magical? You keep on repeating your experiments, and the ball will keep on randomly acquiring one of the possible values for the trait you are examining. This is quantum reality. It comes into being after a measurement, and it keeps on changing as you keep on repeating your experiments. Quantum reality comes into existence after a measurement, and it keeps on changing with repeated measurements. A Small World Experiment We have learned enough quantum mechanics to follow the next argument about quantum reality. Consider a small world (an experiment)  where we have a source from which identical electrons are emitted.  All these electrons have the same (yet unknown) spin state. This is our unknown objective reality in the small world we have created. Next, let's introduce a few subjects in the world. A few experimentalists whose task is to measure the spin state of the electrons, i.e., to work out the objective reality. The electrons from the source are distributed among these observers. Each observer has his separate apparatus and is allowed to set the apparatus independently. When the experiment is run, each observer will have an independent result for the spin state of the electron he has measured. God will play dice each time a measurement is performed,  and a different reality will be invoked after each measurement. Some observer will get spin up along a direction say , someone else will get spin down along some other direction say , and so on. In fact, it is possible that some two observers may have accidentally aligned their measurement apparatus and are, in fact,  measuring the spin of their electron along the same direction. But in this case, too, it is quite possible that they get opposite results—  spin up for the observer one and spin down for the other. a b God does play dice in the quantum world. The spin state of the electron in this experiment (so far) is thus a subjective reality. Every observer has his own random result for the spin of his electron. This is despite the fact that all electrons were initially in the same spin state. We can now make some interesting observations regarding the outcomes of the small world experiment just discussed above. This is true even if any two observers obtain contradictory results. For example, the two observers may accidentally align their instruments with measuring the x-component of the spin. The result obtained by the first observer maybe spin up. The result obtained by the second may be spin down. Both these results are simultaneously true. This is astonishing but true. Quantum mechanics allows having cats that are both alive and dead at the same time. All measurement results are correct. Say that the actual spin of the electron coming from the source — objective reality — was spin up along the x-axis. If it were the case, then no observer can get the spin value down along the . The only way to obtain the wrong result is either the observer is too careless in performing the experiment or is dishonest in communicating his result. It is impossible to get the wrong result. x-axis All subjective experiences hold an element of truth as all of these have some overlap with the true objective reality. All subjective experiences hold an element of truth. Subjective Science? The message up to this part is that science at the level of few quantum events is subjective. No two observers can see the same photon. No single quantum particle can be detected by two detectors. There are stars out there beyond the ones we can see with our most powerful telescopes whose existence can not be objectively ascertained. Not because they do not exist. Simply because very few photons from those distant stars reach us, even if we develop the technology to isolate single photons coming from the distant stars, we will still not see those stars as objective reality. Some of you must have started wondering if anything I am saying is true. Science would not have come so far as an established domain of knowledge if it were just toying with subjective realities. The world we see and perceive around us is an objective reality. How does this fit with the subjective chaotic dance happening at the quantum level? The answer to this question is simple--- . repetition The objective reality from subjective experiences The objective world we see all around us results from a mind-boggling number of subjective quantum events. The repetition of the experiments brings order in the chaotic quantum dance. Let's go back to our experiment where identical electrons were distributed among several observers, and each observer measured a separate spin state of the electron. The observers can reach the true objective spin state of the electron if they keep on repeating their experiments and then combine all their results. This is the lesson we can learn from the quantum world. All our subjective experiences combined together may constitute the objective truth. Even a single observer who keeps on repeating the experiment can vary the measurement apparatus in a clever way to make it align with the objective spin state of the incoming electrons. At this point, all subsequent measurements with his apparatus will give consistent results. This might very well be nature‘s way to find the truth. We might be required to keep on changing our views and our beliefs until we get rid of all contradictions in our philosophy of life. There are other examples where we see objective reality coming out of subjective experiences. For example, consider yourself in a well-lit room with a number of other observers. You, along with all the observers, can agree on the objective reality all around you. This reality is again the result of an enormous number of quantum events. If the room is lit with five hundred watt electric bulbs, then in one second, roughly a billion trillion photons are being emitted from the light bulbs that scatter from all the objects present in the room and reach your eyes. If you could squeeze these many observers in the room, you will lose the objective reality. Alternatively, if you could slow things down to individual quantum events or reduce the intensity of light to the level that only a handful of photons are available in a given time, again you will start experiencing a reality that will be different from the ones experienced by other observers in the room. For example, you may observe a photon scattered from the painting on the right wall, but your friend sitting next to you may experience a spark from the photon scattered off the showpiece on the left table. At this time, you two have different subjective realities. But if you wait long enough, you will get few photons from the showpiece and your friend from the painting. If you two keep track of all your observations, you will eventually agree upon the same objective reality. A philosophical wonderland? What I've discussed above is backed by science. What if this also holds true for our everyday life? What if the lessons learned from the quantum world could be generalized to the different philosophies of life? Nature may hold answers to the philosophical questions we are facing. We all have different value systems, different beliefs, and different religions. What if all these subjective experiences are simultaneously true? What if all these hold an element of truth? Both believers and non-believers are right at the same time? What if the ultimate absolute reality does exist? What if it consists of all our subject experiences combined together? What if the purpose of life is to make as many subjective experiences as possible to realize the absolute reality?

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