Redemption | Weekly NishIsHere - Issue 76

Why you are not happy, How the most illegal business mastermind get caught, and is it a retirement gamble?

Oct 23, 2025

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Why You’re Not Happy and What To Do About It
The Most Illegal Business In The World: Silk Road
He turned a SCHOOL BUS into a LUXURY tiny home
The Redemption of Robert Downey, Jr.
The Retirement Gamble

Weekly NishIsHere! - Issue #76

♣ Thought of the Week

◘ Why You’re Not Happy and What To Do About It

This week’s thought I’m working on my own happiness. That’s why I want to feature this video here – in this video creator Ali Abdaal interviewed best-selling author Mo Gawdat to talk about his research on happiness and how we can all potentially live happier lives. They go through why happiness is a choice, why we often struggle to see that and 5 practical ways to become happier in our day-to-day lives.

Here’s my takeaway –

“Happiness isn’t a destination; it’s an incremental choice. Stop focusing on the “gap” between where you are and where you want to be. Instead, practice the “Look Down Principle” by measuring the gain from your past. To be happier now, lower unrealistic expectations and focus on the journey, not just the outcome.”

♣ Tech

◘ The Most Illegal Business In The World: Silk Road

This is an unusual video for this section, I know. But I wanted to feature this to show the dark side of the tech world (mainly the internet). This video dives into the Dark Web and Silk Road, the $1.2 billion online black market run by Ross Ulbricht, a former physics student. It details his shocking double life as a criminal mastermind and explores how authorities ultimately tracked him despite his use of anonymity tools like Tor.

♣ Creator Economy

◘ He turned a SCHOOL BUS into a LUXURY tiny home

I love this type of transformation video. This is what YouTube is about. People are creative, wholesome, hardworking, and great storytellers.

Two brothers and their dad, working hard, having fun, and bringing joy and unity to a complex task, all to make a beautiful couple’s dream come true. The proposal at the end is just the cherry on top. This is beautifully done!

♣ Pop Culture

◘ The Redemption of Robert Downey, Jr.

Robert Downey Jr went from a jail cell to a Hollywood icon. Unveil the man behind the Iron Man suit in this documentary that spans the highs and lows of RDJ. Now the touted king of the MCU, beneath Downey’s career of glitz and glamour lies a tale of redemption — a dark past of drugs, scandals and jail cells. A history of cracking under pressure, this is the story of how Robert Downey Jr battled his personal demons and triumphantly became a role model for all generations.

Just imagine if Mel Gibson hadn’t given that second chance to RDJ, we would perhaps have lost one of the greatest actors of our generation.

◘ The Retirement Gamble

Will your IRA or 401K accounts ensure a safe retirement? Trillions of dollars in Americans’ retirement savings are invested in large and small accounts managed by banks, brokerages, mutual funds, and insurance companies. But whether your IRA or 401K will assure a safe retirement is largely a gamble.

The bankers/investors interviewed in this video exhibited a lot of nervous laughter as they stumbled to answer the questions, and that says it all.