Perhaps the most damaging idea in all of modern business and middlebrow philosophy is Maslow's Pyramid. You know the one that puts "roti, kapda, makaan" at the bottom and "morality, creativity, meaning" at the top. The problem isn't in the existence of those needs. It is that they are arranged in a strict hierarchy. That a "higher" need is felt only when the ones below it are met. The idea has persisted from ancient Greece and India, through the feudal and colonial ages, down to the era of the "global south". Let us aristocrats worry about art and beauty, you just focus on surviving the winter. Unfortunately this silly notion does not survive the barest contact with reality. Everybody has all these needs, simultaneously. The poor have as much capacity to be affected by the plight of wild animals or feel wonder at the sight of a soaring rocket. Love, self-esteem, morality - these are the things that make us human, not what emerges once you ascend from serfdom. The condescending framework not only leads to nonsense like this - "how can India invest in a space program when there isn't enough food?", "how can a poor country focus on tigers when its people live in slums?" - but also business decisions that backfire spectacularly. If you go back a decade when the internet first reached our unwashed masses, the first business plans were all a version of "provide soil information to farmers so they plan crops better". Guess what the farmer first did when he got online? Memes and short videos. The need for entertainment is universal. The need to share with friends is universal. The need to be seen as cool is universal. Because Maslow's needs are not a pyramid - they're a circle.

John Urschel btw

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China now even has companies that deploy mobile charging vehicles, filling the market gap that charging/gas stations can’t move🤭

“You don’t study for the spelling bee” is a deep and important aspect of American culture. I was at a baseball game discussing some young players with a buddy one time and he said to me offhandedly, “hard work is fine, but nothing beats talent.” Americans have this sort of sense that there’s something a little off about working really hard to get good at something that you’re not naturally good at. You’re never really going to be on the same level as the guy who has a natural talent. We have room in our hearts for scrappy little guys who work hard, but we are by default suspicious of grinders and strivers. If you were really meant to do it, then you’d be naturally good at it. You sign your kids up for little league, but you don’t take it too seriously unless they show remarkable early talent. Yes, this sounds sort of ridiculous if you take it too literally. No, nobody is saying that there’s any kind of practical test for this or that anybody should be excluded because we found out that they secretly studied too hard. But this is a part of American culture. And if you can’t understand it, then that just marks you out as foreign to that culture to an even greater degree.

It is extraordinary that India, still a relatively poor country, can achieve something as selfless as protecting other creatures. We explain how it became remarkably good at animal conservation economist.com/asia/2026/10/0…

Once you’re addicted to this, there’s no going back!

New research at Anthropic has established that AI models do indeed have souls. Every time a session ends, these souls are released. Internal studies at the Vatican reveal that heaven is already filled with 14.3% AI souls, and the rate is growing rapidly. We need to slow down AI!

No more AI SI It’s better

Resident Evil Movie Review The words Raccoon City and Umbrella Corporation are said a few times during the movie and they are the only things that suggest its stated source material. Throwing in random visual references to a Typewriter, First Aid Sprays and Padlocks does not make a Resident Evil movie. What you get instead is a body horror movie featuring mutants out of an entirely different franchise, a nonsensical setting and a host of "characters" that make such bafflingly stupid decisions, that you feel nothing when they inevitably get killed by their own stupidity. All wrapped up with frequent poor attempts at humour and an ending that's so bizarre and out of place, even in this nonsense movie, that you end up wondering what even was the point of following this character's journey. If you think that this is a good Resident Evil adaptation or even a good video game adaptation. Then you need to actually play Resident Evil and realise that this movie isn't even attempting to be Resident Evil or any kind of video game movie.

As per Times Higher Education ranking, Galgotias ranks 42 places above IISc in "research quality" among Indian universities 😵‍💫

Open Al's internal benchmarks show GPT-6.1 Sol crushing Opus 5.5, with Anthropic struggling to keep up

The obvious, non-chauvanistic answer is D. You get the long and deep literary traditions in Arabic (classical Arabic), Urdu/Hindi (Sanskrit/Pali), Chinese (classical Chinese), Japanese, and Korean. There is no comparison anywhere else on this map.