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When fat is metabolised, 84% leaves your body as CO₂ through your lungs — exhaled with every breath. The remaining 16% exits as water through sweat, urine, and breath vapour. Your lungs, not your sweat glands, are the primary fat-exit organ. Exercise works partly by making you breathe faster and more deeply, accelerating that exhaust.
Source: Meerman & Brown, BMJ, 2014
₹5,000 per month invested at 12% annual return from age 25 grows to ₹3.2 crore by 60. Start at 35, same rate, same amount — you end with ₹94 lakh. The first decade of compounding does most of the work, because growth accelerates on an ever-larger base. Time in the market is not a cliché. It is the actual mechanism.
Source: SEBI Investor Education
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in Taiwan manufactures over 90% of the world's sub-5nm chips — the processors inside every modern smartphone, AI model, data centre, and advanced weapons system. No country, including the US, can independently replicate this supply chain. It took Taiwan 40 years and enormous public investment to build. This single geographic concentration is now considered the most consequential choke point in the global economy.
Source: CSIS Semiconductor Supply Chain Report, 2023
Psychologists call this the Bias Blind Spot. In a study of over 600 people, virtually everyone rated themselves as less biased than the average person — statistically impossible. Worse: people who scored highest on cognitive ability showed the largest blind spot. Intelligence gives you the tools to rationalise, not to see clearly. The fix is to examine your reasoning process, not just your conclusions.
Source: Pronin, Lin & Ross, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2002
Aza Raskin, a designer at Mozilla, patented infinite scroll in 2006 to make web pages feel seamless. He estimated his invention alone costs humanity 200,000 hours of attention every day. He now co-runs the Center for Humane Technology with Tristan Harris, arguing that the attention economy harvests human psychology the same way industrial farming harvests land — efficiently, at scale, and at enormous long-term cost.
Source: BBC Interview with Aza Raskin, 2018
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