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Do you know what is Goldilocks rule and then do you know what is Goldilocks for AI!?

All in good time my friends!

So I am assuming you know who is Goldilocks!

If not then either you had a sad childhood in which you had not heard any fairy tales or a very good one and you did not need one!

But knowing the Goldilocks story is almost general knowledge!

Then again if you have FORGOTTEN the same then fret not! You have the blog to the rescue!

So Goldilocks is a character from the story called “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” which is a classic fairy tale about a curious young girl who enters a bear family’s cottage without permission, tries their food and furniture, and is discovered sleeping in the youngest bear’s bed!

The cottage has three bears who are the Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear!

They leave their hot porridge on the table and go for a walk. A curious girl named Goldilocks finds their empty house and walks inside!

Goldilocks then tastes three bowls of porridge. She finds Papa Bear’s too hot, Mama Bear’s too cold, and Baby Bear’s “just right,” eating it all up!  HOW RUDE!

Then she tries three chairs! And as expected she finds the Papa Bear’s chair too hard and Mama Bear’s too soft, but Baby Bear’s chair is “just right”—until she breaks it by sitting in it! More rude!

Then feeling tired, she tests the beds. Papa Bear’s bed is too high at the head, Mama Bear’s is too high at the feet, and Baby Bear’s bed is “just right,” so she falls asleep!

Finally in the end the bears return and notice someone has touched their food, chairs, and bed. They find Baby Bear’s bed occupied. Goldilocks wakes up, sees the bears, and runs away through the window, never returning!

So you can see how the story can teach you many things just like any other Fairy tale! But the Goldilocks rule is the lesson in this blog!

The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities—not too hard and not too easy, but just right!

Have you ever played a video game? This is not a question for the younger generations who have played games by default! So the crux here is that if the game is too hard you will not like to play, if it is too easy then you will lose interest soon but if it just RIGHT then you will stick to it or continue playing! That is the Goldilocks rule!

The rule was popularized in James Clear’s bestselling book Atomic Habits, this concept describes the sweet spot for human engagement and dopamine release!

This means that when the task is too easy or Mama bear; they come  significantly below your skill level lead to boredom and apathy!

When they are like Papa bear or Too Hard then they are far beyond your current capacity which result in frustration, anxiety, and discouragement!

Then comes the just RIGHT BABY BEAR! These work on a challenge about 4% beyond your current baseline and keeps you focused, releases dopamine, and triggers a state of deep flow!

Inadvertently you use the Goldilocks Rule for your work and life and most of the time settle for the baby bear!

So what is the Goldilocks Rule of the AI!? You will find that in the next blog MAMA bear!

Meanwhile you can know that Upendra Rao is a versatile actor!

See if your bed is just right and sleep now!


Shub ratri!

So you know Crowd Mentality and then you must also know about crowd effect!
Like our human body is a combination of organs and the organs are a combination of onganelles and so on; they still work as a unit!

In the same way, till it is broken, the crowd WORKS as a single UNIT!

Which is why you have so many SIGHTINGS of the FLYING SAUCERS or UFOs!

The modern history of flying saucers began on June 24, 1947, when American pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine fast-moving, disc-like objects near Mount Rainier in Washington!

Now comes the Mislabeling!

Arnold described the objects as crescent or disc-shaped, but newspaper headlines mistakenly called them “flying saucers,” giving birth to a lasting cultural term!


Then comes the CROWD of Copycats! Following Arnold’s account, hundreds of similar sightings were reported across North America within weeks!

When so much investigations and enquiries are done for any NEW phenomenon then more often than not, even simple things which would have been normally ignored, becomes more pronounced!

Which leads us to the Roswell Incident!

Later that summer in July 1947, a mysterious debris field was discovered near Roswell, New Mexico, which local newspapers initially tied to a downed flying saucer before the military identified it as a weather balloon!

Then again when so many things are DISCOVERED in such a short time then you know that the conspiracy theories will have a wild run! So this simple piece of news in a corner of the world snowballed into a cultural phenomenon!

During the 1950s Cold War, the sleek, uniform shape of flying saucers symbolized underlying public fears of foreign threats, nuclear conflict, and unknown technological invasions!

The news also was  huge Sci-Fi Staple! Films, novels, and early novelty songs quickly adopted the flying saucer as the definitive visual shorthand for extraterrestrial spacecraft!


In fact this even lead to official Investigations and involvement of several goverments!
Governments took notice, with the U.S. Air Force investigating numerous reports—often attributing them to weather phenomena, high-altitude balloons, or conventional aircraft!

Of course there are many who believe that the Government is hiding stuff (which they probably are!) and once in a while look up to see if they can see some saucers flying!

Or a shooting star!

Then again a super star and amazing artist is Shri Anant Nagarkatte or Anant Nag!

A well deserved award indeed!

Now stop looking out for UFOs and sleep!

Shub ratri

So now you know what’s Crowd mentality!

If not you can go through yesterday’s blog!

https://ramadocblog.com/2026/09/16/the-crowd/

Then again it is not a bad thing if you can use crowd mentality for your gain or progress!

James Clear in his novel Atomic Habits actually makes this point!


Clear Weaponizes Crowd Mentality!

So normally herd mentality can lead people to adopt bad habits (like drinking, gossiping, or overspending simply because “everyone else is doing it”)!

You must have the latest phone or the biggest sofa only because HE or SHE has it! Add to it the almost perfect life people have in the Social media and you JUST have to FOLLOW the crowd!

Then comes James Clear who teaches readers how to reverse-engineer this psychological bias to build better lives!

The first this is to identify the good habit you want to develop and find a group!

Clear calls it Join a New Tribe!

In fact Clear’s number one rule for sticking to a behavior is to change your crowd. He states, “The key, if you want to build habits that last, is to join a group where the desired behavior is the normal behavior.”

Which means that if you want to read more, join a book club! If you want to get fit, join a running group! If you want to pray more then join a satsang group!
When the crowd’s normal behavior matches your desired behavior, your herd mentality works for you instead of against you! So when everyone around you reads, exercises or even prays then you will also be FORCED to do so but in this case, it is a DESIRABLE habit!

Another thing which happens when you do join a group with a GOOD overall habit is that you get a Shared Identity!

When you join a new crowd, your habits shift from “this is what I am trying to do” to “this is who we are”. The herd mentality provides the social validation required to make a habit permanent!

Of course this is the reason why CULTS become famous! But now since you know this you can CHOOSE to be swayed by the crowd mentality!

In short; MAKE FRIENDS with GOOD PEOPLE or CHOOSE your FRIENDS wisely!

That’s the power of crowd!
Crowd also powers democracy!

Wishing the PM of the biggest democracy in the universe Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi  a very happy birthday!

Shub ratri


Jai Hind…

There’s a book called Atomic Habits by James Clear! Of course it is a best seller and then some!

In one section he describes an experiment where a GUY is asked which line is short or long! He is not the only one though, there are two others with him! Like you know! Two is a company but three is a crowd! But that is not the point here! At least not the complete point! This is because the crowd goes on increasing!


So unknown to him the other participants in the study were actors! Now the GUY can see that the line which he thinks is short is actually short! He knows that he is right! But over a period when others consistently tell the WRONG answer, he starts to get doubts or just goes with the flow!

They other participants who are actors are all told to tell the wrong answer purposefully!
So for a while if the participants number is less then the GUY sticks to his answer! As the number of actors increases and they all tell the wrong answer, the GUY finally goes with the crowd albeit reluctantly!

Thats crowd mentality!

You would rather be wrong with the crowd or be right and alone!


In the novel James Clear frequently explores how the crowd mentality (or herd mentality) shapes individual human behavior. He frames it not as a personal flaw, but as a powerful, ancient biological mechanism!

The summary is that  “Most days, we’d rather be wrong with the crowd than be right by ourselves.”

When you are right you are usually alone!


The Reward of Belonging is the chief issue here since human evolution prioritized social acceptance over absolute truth. In early human history, being separated from the tribe meant death. Because of this, our brains evolved to view social isolation as a major threat!


The desire to fit in is often stronger than the desire to achieve a goal or find the truth. Clear writes that “the reward of belonging to the tribe and being accepted is often greater than the reward of winning an argument, looking smart, or finding truth.”


Clear explains that we do not blindly follow just anyone. We naturally experience crowd mentality by imitating the habits of three specific groups!

We tend to absorb the habits of those around us—family, friends, and coworkers. If your friends eat healthily, you are more likely to adapt to that standard!

If a behavior is normal for the majority, we adopt it to avoid standing out or looking foolish! We also follow this behaviour if it is followed by the Powerful!

We mimic the habits of successful, high-status individuals (celebrities, CEOs, experts) because we desire the status and power they possess!

So now you know what is crowd mentality! Do not worry! Clear has a CLEAR way of using this for your benefit! The only catch is that, it will be discussed in another blog!

For now be aware of the crowd mentality without going mental!

Then again sometimes crowd can be right! Like how a whole crowd knows that M S or
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi was a legend!

Now don’t join the crowd in waiting for the next blog!

Shub ratri!

Do you know what is Michhami Dukkadam?

Michhami Dukkadam is a word from Ardhamagadhi, a Prakrit language derived from Sanskrit, which was used by Bgahgwan Mahavir to deliver His spiritual discourses.

The phrase Michhami Dukkadam literally translates to ‘Mithya Me Dushkrutam,’ which means, May all my wrongdoings be nullified. In essence, these words express a profound prayer: “May every kind of negative action or hurt I have caused, be dissolved and made fruitless.”

The beautiful thing here is that the phrase actually includes many actions as wrong doings which we may do with or without our knowledge!

It includes any action that causes even the slightest bit of pain or suffering to any living being; for all such actions, practicing pratikraman (to confess, apologize and resolve not to repeat a mistake) is absolutely essential.

The basic essence of asking for forgiveness means that you MUST not KNOWINGLY do a mistake again otherwise it has no value!

So whatever mistakes we may have done with or without our knowledge needs to be first acknowledged and then you must ask for forgiveness with a clean mind and heart! Only then your forgiveness will be true and be granted!

Also do note that you must also try to forgive others too who have knowingly or unknowingly wronged you! Only then your “Michhami Dukkadam” will be accepted!

Furthermore, it also applies to occupations that involve unavoidable, direct harm to living beings such as trading in agriculture or groceries, where insects and tiny organisms are inadvertently harmed.

In this philosophy is has been said that even if we have no desire to do it but are forced to fulfill it as a duty, we should never take pleasure in it.

Instead, we must practice pratikraman and pray, “Oh Lord! Why did this task fall to my lot? I deeply regret it.”

Which means that “Michhami Dukkadam” is not just a greeting to be causally passed around once a year on Samvatsari (annual pratikraman ceremony), like wishing someone a Happy New Year.

Instead, these words are meant for recalling our mistakes and expressing genuine repentance for them. That very repentance is the essence of the pratikraman performed on the day of Samvatsari which is today!

When someone wishes you with this phrase then you can wish back with  “Micchami Dukkadam” as well, or say “Khamat Khamna,” which means “I forgive you”!

Today is also the engineers day which is of course in honour of Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya!

God bless one and all the forgive you for your mistakes…

Shubh ratri…

My father used to ask this question, “Which animal has two heads and six legs!?”

The answer was, “A man riding a Horse!”

Then again if you do see some animal which has more than one head or different legs then you know that it is not natural but magical!

On that note have you heard of the Navagunjara?

Navagunjara is a magical, legendary creature from Hindu literature—specifically appearing in the 15th-century [Sarala Mahabharata] from Odisha—composed of the parts of nine different animals and a human, representing an awe-inspiring, cosmic form of bhagwan Krishna!

The nine parts actually symbolize different things!

The name translates to “nine forms” (nava meaning nine, and gunjara meaning animal/form)!

The head is usually of a Rooster which indicated courage and awakening!
The neck is of the Peacock which depicts grace and beauty!
The Hump usually belongs to a Bull which is known for its strength and endurance!

The Waist/Back is of the Lion which indicates bravery and leadership!
The snake or the sepent is a often repeated animal which actually means transformation and cyclical time!
One of leg is of the Elephant which is both wise and stable while the other two are of the tiger or deer or horse  which indicates respectively power and gentlenes!

The fourth limb is a raised human arm holding a lotus flower which of course depicts the vishwarupa of Bhagwan Vishnu!

The Navagunjara symbolizes the core Hindu philosophy of unity in diversity! That all living things and contrasting elements of nature are part of a single universal consciousness!

All beings are created by the supreme and must be respected and loved!

Like how I respect and love my father!

No one forgets the birthday of the three boys of the family since they fall on April 1st, May 1st and dad’s is on Vinayaka chaturthi day!

So when bharath celebrates Vinayaka chaturthi, we also celebrate dad’s birthday!

Happy birthday dad…

And a very happy and blessed Vinayaka chaturthi!


Shubh ratri….


God bless….

Do you know what is Illusion of Explanatory Depth?

Familiarity is not knowledge!

There was this story in which the king asked his courtier about the number of bangles his wife wears everyday! The courtier could not of course answer the question! The king then tells him, “you see your wife everyday, but do not know how many bangles she wears!”

The courtier then asked the king, “How many steps are there in the stairs to the palace!?”

The king of course could not answer that!

Just because a thing is familiar it does not mean that it is known to us!

In the same way you have the illusion of Illusion of Explanatory Depth which is a cognitive bias where people believe they understand how complex things work much better than they actually do!

Yale researchers Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil named and first studied this effect in 2002!

In this case though people actually have a high level of confidence about their knowledge of familar things!

So the test goes like this!

People rate their own knowledge of a common device (like a zipper, a toilet, or a speedometer) as high! Which means that they know how it works and they can actually replicate the machine or device!

Then comes the Breakdown, literally!
Here researchers ask people to write down a step-by-step description of how the object works!

This is when the realisation dwans and confidence falters!
People quickly get stuck and realize they do not know the real mechanics. Their self-rating drops significantly!

This is routine though! This happens because of familiarity breeding a false sense of knowledge!

People confuse seeing or using an item with knowing its inner workings! Like even a nail clipper with just a few parts! But if you actually ask someone how it works, they will be stumped!

The human brain uses simple mental shortcuts instead of deep causal logic.

In fact complex systems have infinite layers, making it easy to assume the bottom layer is simple!


If you thought that this is only limited to simple things, it actually gets on to day to day life also! Like how a person sitting under the comfort of a sofa gives EXPERT comments to Roger Federer on how to play Tennis!

Even this reflect in common things like Strong Political Views!

People hold rigid opinions on huge public issues (like tax reform or foreign policy) while knowing very little about the actual details!

Like when the inflation happens and many jump sceaming that THEY could have solved the issue! Without realising that they cannot even get a tissue!

Actually at this point if you ask them how they would do it, the whole realisation comes into play!

When you force people to explain how a policy works instead of just why they support it, their extreme confidence fades and they become more open-minded!

The solution!? Read and learn first and then comment!

You can start by reading some blogs! Then you will khow who Usha Nadkarni is!

Shub ratri!!

Everyone knows Howard Hughes! The movie has made him famous, BUT (the wrath of the BUT!); behind the glamour and and glitz and the popularity was the truth!

This is simply why you must never meet your heroes! There is always a high chance of disappointment! Or you can meet them and understand the truth which you seek anyway!

Even the best teachers or surgeons you meet at conferences have the perfect allure or an AURA! Then you meet them in their raw or free state, you would realise the human behind the mask! Whether you like that final PERSON behind the facade is of course up to you!

The issue here is the ILLUSION! Or as Robert calls it, ‘The Illusion of the MaverickPublic Image’

Robert Greene uses Howard Hughes in his book The Laws of Human Nature as a prime example of why you must judge people by their actions and behavioral patterns rather than their public image!


The world viewed Howard Hughes as a glamorous, brilliant aviator and a successful Hollywood mogul.

Then there was the Lure! People were easily drawn to his bold, larger-than-life persona and self-proclaimed success.

Greene argues that looking only at a person’s words or appearance blinds you to who they truly are!

Behind the shiny facade, Greene describes Hughes as having a fragile and toxic character with poor Business Sense!

In fact despite his fame, Hughes was actually a terrible businessman who created chaos and lost control of his ventures!

Hughes’s compulsive behavior and intense need for control stemmed from an anxious childhood where his mother projected her fears onto him. Once his parents died, his true, rigid, and destructive patterns fully emerged!

Now this is not to belittle Howard; but he is just an example of all the layers of make up which hides the real face!

Greene says that people never do something just once so we must look at recurring habits and past actions instead of believing a charming presentation!

We must Ignore the Hype and stop listening to what powerful or famous people say about themselves. Their true nature always shows up in their actual behavior over time!

At the end of it all, apart from maybe BATMAN; all of us are mere mortals! Why Batman is the exception you ask? Well, as the Joker says, “There is nothing mere about that mortal!”


So who is that famous shining knight you are impressed with so much!? If you can handle the truth, do meet him or her!

Then again I would not mind meeting Kumaravadivel Natarajan! Even looking at him makes me laugh!

You may know him as Vadivelu!

Shub ratri…

One of the best pin up was this small cartoon  I think it was Peanut or Charlie Brown though that is not important at the moment.

One person was starting his words like this, I know what you say BUT…and he is stopped! and then the quote comes

“Do not say anything else! Cause anything you say after but is going to be bad!”

Another quote which is bang opposite is a quote from Game of thrones!

Jon Snow in Game of Thrones says, “What did Father use to say? Everything before the word ‘but’ is horse-shit”

The inclusion of the word BUT actually makes the statement less rude that is all!

You know that anytime a comment or compliment comes with a BUT, the compliment or the comment is not the real thing! The real opinion is what comes after and it is never going to be good!

Then again maybe adding that BUT makes it less rude and more frank!

It has been said that Being frank focuses on clarity and truth, while being rude adds unnecessary hostility or disrespect!

If the statement comes with the words like Frank or let me be frank or frankly speaking; then more often that not, it is going to be rude!

Though the intent may be different! Frankness aims to share an honest observation or hard truth to foster understanding. Rudeness aims to belittle, dismiss, or disregard another person’s feelings!

Being frank sticks to the core issue or behavior. Being rude includes extra, hurtful comments or personal attacks that do not help solve a problem!

Frank communication can be firm yet respectful. Rudeness relies on harsh language, condescension, or hostility!

Finally being frank actually address specific behaviors rather than attacking someone’s intrinsic character which is considered rude!

My personal opinion is that you need to be more truthful than FRANK since the final judge of opinion that your opinion is frank or rude is how the person receives it!

For a teen, all statements made by the parent are rude! While if you love and respect someone, his or her statements would always be true! Rude or frank does not come into picture!

Now my non rude frank advice is that; if you actually want to be frank and truthful and not rude then you need to deliver your opinion in private! We often criticize in public while we compliment in private!

While the fact of the matter is that you must praise in public and criticize or comment in private!

Then again try not to be rude to Clint Eastwood! The dirty Harry may not like it! Chum!

Now frankly though it’s time to sleep!

Shubh ratri…

The era nowdays is the era of cracking the code!

But did you know that an Indian was responsible for cracking one of the most difficult codes ever!?

The genetic code!

The ATCG and the AUCG are the codes which make the whole universe!

The basic gene is just an amalgamation of these four codes!

To think that the Indian scientist who cracked the code had his early schooling in a school which had classrooms under a tree!

The scientist was Har Gobind Khorana!

He was a pioneering Indian-American biochemist who co-won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his groundbreaking work in deciphering the genetic code!

Alongside Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley, he helped prove how the four-letter chemical alphabet of DNA dictates the creation of proteins, laying the absolute foundation for modern biotechnology and genetic engineering!

Khorana built custom RNA strands with specific, repeating chemical patterns.

By observing the amino acid strings they produced, his lab helped crack the “dictionary of life”—showing exactly how three-letter combinations (codons) spell out specific proteins. He also helped identify the “stop codons” that tell a cell when a protein chain is finished!

In 1972, Khorana went a step further by chemically synthesizing the world’s very first fully functional artificial gene outside of a living organism!

His early methods for assembling DNA and RNA fragments chemically paved the way for modern genome sequencing, PCR, and contemporary CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing technologies!

So which are the four codes!

Well the DNA code: Uses four bases—Adenine (A), Thymine (T), Cytosine (C), and Guanine (G). In DNA pairing, A binds with T, and C binds with G.

While the RNA Code: Uses four bases—Adenine (A), Uracil (U), Cytosine (C), and Guanine (G)—where Uracil replaces Thymine. In RNA transcription and pairing, A binds with U, and C binds with G!

These four interplay and CREATE you me and everyone else! The magic of GENES! All created by initially sitting under a tree!

Now of course if you sit under a tree you will be, well regarded with suspicion! Then again you do not have to suspect the acting prowess of Ramesh Aravind!

Now try craking the sleep code!

Shub ratri…