If you are in industry and you've some experience, highly likely you are already doing what the author claims to be his fast learning secrets. There are actually no deep secrets I find in his post, all of those things atleast I instictively do. Even my friends use same approach, so I thought it's so common that I don't have to write a blog post about it.

Maybe the technique in this post is common, but I personally believe that putting yourself and your thoughts out there is a good thing for engineers and critical thinkers in general. It allows us to get feedback and involve others on a wider scale, even if that means writing about things that have been discussed or thought about a number of times before.

Well inflation has to be at some healthy level.

Low inflation means there isn't much money in market chasing goods and services. It can happen if there is simply no demand for goods/services. So you don't see price for goods/services going up.

High inflation means too much money chasing limited goods, leading to price of goods and services soar.

Both are bad for the economy.

In a country like India, government expenditure drives economy. If government hoards all cash and sits atop it, sucking market dry - it's bad for economy but you can claim lower inflation only for sometime before the supply also adjusts to the current demand, shrinking the economy and then cycle continues, you end up with slower growth rate or growth reversed.

Look at growth rate, what do you see?

Thanks for the info. Yeah growth is definitely slowing down, quarter after quarter.

> Natural selection means that a trait like male homosexuality, if it had a genetic component, couldn't have persisted over evolutionary time if the individuals that carry the genes associated with that trait are not reproducing.

Not really, if we go back to time people were prosecuted for being homosexual. They used to have a wife and kid but still practised homosexuality in private or killed their desires and gave it up at great pain and sufferings.

It will take time for natrual selection to remove Homosexual genes (if we believe they exit) if they've full freedom and aren't forced to have kids.

Is prosecuting people for homosexuality genetic, or something that could perhaps change pretty rapidly? Perhaps for a million years, there were gay genes and gay people and no problem with it, then for five thousand years people had a problem with it. If humans have a gay gene, almost certainly there's some less social animals have a gay gene.

>but why would anyone in their right mind decide to be gay like 200 years ago, and risk being ostracized from the community, being sexually unsatisfied and/or severely punished (including sterilization and/or death

Some people are way to powerful to be punished like Leonardo Da Vinci who apparently everyone knew was Homosexual but remained close to power because of his importance (mostly due to skill)

Even being terrorist or mass shooter is condemned by society but doesn't stop the determined ones.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying being homosexual is like being a terrorist, just comparing the condemned part of the situation which used to be the case before.

I wonder what if it's a learned behaviour.

I used to very odd kid and mostly spent my life around girls from very early age.

I almost never had male friends which ofc changed in late teenage.

Now, don't find females that attractive and mostly spend time with guys.

Don't call me sexist or smth but I find it's more fun to work with guys. That's my preference.

Proximity can go both ways... You might as well develop a strong liking of girls/women because of proximity.

I've been bombarded from young age (by pop culture, TV, magazines, porn) by thin women wearing make-up. I have a strong sexual preference for thin (fitspo thin, not anorexic thin) women and a strong dislike of women wearing make-up. Go figure...

There is a difference between the neuro-biological sexual orientation and actual sexual behavior.

Sexual behavior is definitely learned. But despite centuries of "theories" or convictions about "what experiences turn people gay", nothing has been identified scientifically.

> Don't call me sexist

Why it would be sexist? It's your personal preference and nobody's else but yours.

Jack Ma talks on completely different level it seems.

But I agree about artificial intelligence is as bad as name as alibaba intelligence.

That would be quite easy, lay a thick metal rod on cage and let it discharge the battery fully before hand held angle grinder cuts through the cage.

I'd mention one thing which I think no one has mentioned so far.

Today we've more freedom than ever, more access to people and more prosperity than ever.

This creates a dynamic were people cluster according to their outlook. No one accepts a "downer" in a happy group.

I'd say more happy, more prosperous country, a country which has more freedom will see higher sucide rates due to loneliness.

I wouldn't be surprised if the examples of this like Scandinavian countries have higher sucide rate if not highest.

I'd be lot better being a "sad" person with other sad people than being the only sad person among all other happy people.

You'd be surprised to find the US has a higher suicide rate than Sweden and Norway then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

>Viewing life - success, output, fulfillment etc - through lenses like this is the issue IMO.

Having met people on streets, I can tell you not everyone thinks like this. It's mostly the audience of this site who are high achievers and focused individuals, they need some way to gauge meaningfulness of their lives and this is how they chose to do it.

I've one friend who only plants trees and another friend who is always creating RC vehicles and uploading videos of his experiments on YouTube. They are happy.

It's the lack of meaningful connections which is on rise.

When my wife was at university, I was shocked being a pretty woman - how lonely she was.

She did try to talk with people and even hang out on weekend with a girl group but it seemed as if during the weekdays nobody had any time for her.

This is the main reason I think.

Men are being treated as disposable just look at the male Vs female sucide statistics. Present society is very toxic to be a man. There is nowhere to get support from if you are a "weak man" for the society, a label which is slapped on you the moment you talk about your issues.

In relationships, there is a new trend that relationship ends when initial spark ends. If you go to any relationship advice forum, you can see people dumping their partner because the initial spark ended, it's too easy to find a new partner for some. Nobody bothers putting much effort into a relationship.