Hotels are a superior vacation experience specifically because the relationship is transactional. I pay and they provide a clean room and hospitality. If I need something, there’s a front desk to provide. Nobody has to pretend we’re friends, nobody has to do unpaid labor, and everyone understands this arrangement. Honestly, my favorite hotel amenity is not having to speak to the landlord. I would pay extra for a hotel specifically to avoid the experience of communicating with an Airbnb host. I am not interested in subsidizing somebody's mortgage in exchange for the privilege of washing their dishes before I leave. Give me the most aggressively average hotel in America every single time.

Immigrant discovers how bad mass immigration is.

I'm done with traditional travel. I'm tired of dragging luggage through airports, rushing through cities, standing in queues, and travelling thousands of miles just to look at a monument someone built hundreds of years ago. I don't care about ticking off the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids. Fuck 'em. I want to find a quiet place in the mountains and stay there for 10 days. Wake up slowly. Drink coffee with a view. Listen to the birds. Go for walks. Read books. Think. Do absolutely nothing. That's it. Stillness and peace. That's all I want.

I've noticed that the less money a startup makes, the more aggressively its founder describes the company. $0 revenue: "We're fundamentally reshaping human civilization." $10K MRR: "We're building the operating system for an entirely new economy." $2M ARR: "We sell accounting software." Success really takes the poetry out of entrepreneurship.

Heights of stupidity… suppose, I have saved a contact as ‘Balaji’ and some unknown person by the name ‘Balaji’ calls, I wouldn’t be able to differentiate without picking up the call. The whole point of saving a contact is now useless and we are back to landline era.