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Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

In this session, we talk about confusion and why it is such a common problem, especially early in your career. We look at how having too many options, constant exposure to new opportunities, and fear of making the wrong choice keeps people stuck. The idea is simple, most people are not lacking ability, they are just unable to decide and commit.

Uploaded 29-03-26

We then break down how to deal with this. Instead of chasing everything, we focus on choosing one thing and sticking with it long enough for it to work. We also...

In this Kata, we break down how risk actually works in real life, especially in careers and business. We move away from the idea that success comes from taking big risks, and instead focus on understanding risk properly, reducing it over time, and making better decisions.

Uploaded 20-04-26

We then look at how decisions should be made in practice. Instead of overthinking or guessing, the focus is on running small experiments, learning from real results, and adjusting as you go. We also cover the gap between what people say they want and what they...

Welcome to the sixth session of the 16-Kata series. This one takes on one of the most quietly destructive problems in business and life: attribution. Figuring out what's actually responsible for your success or failure, and why most people get it completely wrong.

Uploaded 09-03-26

The session walks through how Nike lost $25 billion by chasing what was easy to measure over what actually built the brand, why Indian startups stay unprofitable by overdosing on performance marketing, and why tools like coupon codes, ROAS, and "how did you hear about us" forms give you garbage...

Is AI making you dumber? New research is starting to show how AI tools actually affect the way our brains think, focus, and remember. In this video, we break down real studies, including an MIT experiment and large education research, to explain why using AI sometimes hurts learning and sometimes helps it a lot.

Uploaded 24-01-26

The difference is not AI itself, but how you use it. We look at what happens when AI does the work for you versus when it helps you think, why vague prompts lead to boring, generic answers, and...

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Uploaded 17-02-26

In this video, we explain how most people misunderstand writing because they treat it as self-expression, when it is really applied psychology. We break this down through the Soham Parekh cold email example, showing how great writing works like a psychological program. We then get into the core lesson here: world-building. How the goal is not what we want to say, but what the reader actually reads.

We then connect this directly to AI and prompting. How a va...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

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Uploaded 22-06-26

After 6 months of hard work, we're ready to show what's next.

Get a glimpse of the latest gameplay trailer and story bits featuring Johnny Yong Bosch (who voices Ichigo from Bleach) as the voice actor of Vikram.

This game is a work of fiction produced by an independent game studio. It is set in a fictionalized version of India and features imagined characters, organizations, locations, and events. Any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead...

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Uploaded 28-07-19

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In this video, we take a closer look at Anthropic’s latest model, Fable 5, and try to answer a simple question: is this yet another incremental LLM, or is it an actual jump over the previous models?

Uploaded 12-06-26

And instead of talking about benchmarks, we put Fable 5 through actual real-world tests. We build games, apps, research reports, simulations, and a bunch of other projects to see what the model can actually do. Along the way, we also compare it against previous models and talk about where it genuinely feels different.

Finally, we...

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Uploaded 17-07-18

Remember, you're an overgrown biological computer! 3-Pass learning is a science based way to study, retain and understand absolutely any concept/topic by hijacking all that we know about human cognition and memory.



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Uploaded 16-07-26

In this Kata, we talk about one of the most important ideas we've learned after building content for years: distribution. We discuss why it's often more valuable than the product itself, how it creates opportunities that you can't predict, and why building an audience is really about building trust over time, not just chasing views.

We also break down how people actually make decisions. From buying products to hiring people, we explore why repeated exposure matters...

If you like this and want to learn more, don't forget to follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thevarunmayya/

Uploaded 12-07-18

Tbh, email made me who I am today.

Learn how drip emailing works, with a live example. Here, I show you how to use powerful email tools and common sense to help you do sales, land projects and reach absolutely anyone.

Follow me on Instagram at instagram.com/thevarunmayya for more!



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Uploaded 06-07-26

In this video, we explore how AI coding tools have evolved and what they actually mean for software teams today. Instead of talking about the future in theory, we walk through the internal tools we’ve built at AEOS using Lovable, and where this approach genuinely works today.

We show how we built dashboards to track content performance, onboarding systems for new employees, eq...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Overhaul your legacy code with https://modelcode.ai/morph
Use my code "VARUNMAYYA" to get 50% off your first year!

Uploaded 27-06-26

In this video, we look back at 10 projects we built over the last 19 years, from early startups and games to AI products, content businesses, and everything in between. Some of them worked, some failed, some got acquired, and some taught lessons that ended up shaping everything we do today.

We talk about what it was like building products in very different eras of the internet, how our thinking changed over...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Don't forget to follow me on Instagram!
http://instagram.com/thevarunmayya

Uploaded 06-08-18

With Webflow, the time I take to build a website has dropped from a few weeks to a few hours.

A personal website is your calling card - it will replace business cards, resumes and even the way you introduce yourself.

In this video, we'll learn how to build a personal website from scratch, without the need to write code. You'll learn the basics of HTML and CSS without the need to actually write any. The...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

In this Kata, we discuss wealth, risk, and how rich people think about money and constraints. We talk about how money changes the way you think about time, attention, risk, and opportunity. We look at why some expenses are worth paying when they remove a major problem, and why the real question is often not “how much does this cost?” but “what does this give me back?”

Uploaded 14-08-26

We also discuss ownership, investing, and why building wealth is ultimately about separating your time and energy from the money you create. Along the way, we look...

Down the rabbit hole we go

Uploaded 12-07-19

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In this secret Kata, we start by talking about world-building and why creating your own world can sometimes be a better way to think about life and business than simply following the paths that already exist.

Uploaded 12-09-26

We discuss why people often get risk completely wrong, either by being too scared to try anything or by taking massive bets without really thinking them through. We also talk about FOMO, social pressure, and why doing what everyone else thinks is safe does not always mean it actually is.

We then look at...

The new trailer for Unleash the Avatar has had an incredible response. It's gone viral with millions of views across India and China, and we're truly humbled by all the love and support.

Uploaded 30-06-26

But along with that, we also saw a lot of your feedback. So in this video, I'm going through some of the feedback you guys have shared, in the comments and in general on the internet. I'll show you what we've already fixed, what's intentional design and what we're still working on.



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In this conversation, we sit down with Carl Pei, founder of Nothing, to talk about how he built a phone company from scratch in a hypercompetitive market like India. We get into how Nothing stood out not by having the biggest budget but by noticing a simple thing: all the big brands were trying to sell to everyone, which meant nobody was really selling to anyone specific.

Uploaded 21-03-26

We then go deep on how a phone actually gets made, from deciding what the product stands for to managing hundreds of supplier relationships, keeping...

Learn more about Emergent here - https://app.emergent.sh/?via=d61151

Uploaded 06-02-26

In this video, we walk through OpenClaw, an early-stage AI agent that can run through WhatsApp and control parts of your computer. We bring in Sid from 100x Engineers and test real use cases, like ordering groceries, browsing Reddit, and triggering simple workflows through chat commands instead of doing everything manually.

The main point we make is that agents like this are powerful but extremely literal. They do exactly what you ask, which means clarity and security matter...

In this conversation, I sat down with Daniel Shapero, CEO of LinkedIn, and got him to reverse engineer his entire career on a whiteboard. Yes, a whiteboard where he walks us through starting a company as a math student back in 1998, watching three startups collapse one after another, getting an MBA to regroup, spending four years at Bain doing due diligence on companies for private equity deals, and then landing at LinkedIn almost by luck, where he built a sales org from just himself to a team of 1,500 people before working his way up to COO and eventually CEO.<...

In this Kata, we break down how to manage projects when you don’t have all the answers from the start. We explain why traditional project management methods no longer work as well, how clarity comes from building instead of planning forever, and how we used Unleash the Avatar as a real example to develop our own way of managing projects.

Uploaded 05-08-26

We then walk through the entire process of turning a rough idea into a structured team. We cover how to decide what needs research, what already works, when to hire, when to...

In this Kata, we talk about why simplicity almost always beats complexity. We discuss why so many people assume that doing more, building more, or adding more systems leads to better results, when in reality it often creates confusion, slows teams down, and makes businesses harder to scale.

Uploaded 26-07-26

We also look at how great companies stay simple as they grow. We cover topics like delegation, team structure, decision making, reducing unnecessary work, and why the best managers focus on making things easier for everyone around them instead of adding more layers. Along...

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Uploaded 21-08-26

We’ve finally kicked off Build What Moves India, and in this video, we go through exactly how the hackathon will work, what you need to build, and how your project will be judged. The focus is simple: take a public service platform, rethink it from the point of view of an everyday citizen, and build a working proof of concept with ideas that actually make the experience better.

We also cover the submission process, how the projects will be shortlisted, wh...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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More:

At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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More:

At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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More:

At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences lab and on people.
On Instagram, I've noticed how putting out any advanced content...

Credit to https://twitter.com/foone for inspiring me to do this video.

Uploaded 12-07-19

Cero means "Zero" in Spanish.

Business was my gateway drug to philosophy and understanding humans.
In these short podcasts, let's talk black holes, computing, physics, business and philosophy, and let's try to keep it short.

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More:

At the end of the day, everything from product to marketing to sales is fundamentally about psychology.
I spend a lot of time reading research papers and running experiments in the neurosciences...