I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
Whenever I interview candidates, I prefer it to be a discussion rather than an investigation. The more a candidate engages in the conversation—sharing their views and even asking clarifying questions—the better the interview. At the end, I ask, "Do you have any questions for…
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Ladies & Gents: I present idiots of the first order Pollute the air we breathe. Burst Diwali crackers wearing mask
Not surprised @coursera is down along with all other digital SAAS. What a day.
Feeling super happy after seeing an AI chatbot successfully help finish a task. I use Typefully to post on social media and love storing what I've posted, as I use social media as a commonplace for notes. Yesterday, I tried using @zapier AI for the same purpose with the same…
This is what @googlemaps & @MapmyIndia are showing. Google is correct and MapMyIndia is wrong. Not by small margin
The simplest way to capture podcast insights: When you hear something worth saving, take a screenshot of the podcast player. Send an email. You get the transcript. No login. No subscription. Seems interesting.
> Successful investing requires thoughtful attention to many separate aspects, all at the same time. This is the key lesson from this book. Most of what the author says is applicable to building a fulfilling career and a satisfying life too. Go read it:
> People don't mind BJP losing, they mind Congress winning. And that's why BJP is always winning. Congress hasn't won the hearts and minds of people even in the states they govern - Karnataka. Win the hearts of businessmen & commoner alike. Maybe then we can talk about Congress…
Elon Musk is a savvy businessman.
People who are active on social media platforms don't vote. Plus election is not about just popularity. It is about getting enough votes to get elected. Most don't understand the difference. BJP under Modi knows this extremely well.
Clients are now talking to ChatGPT and estimating how long it will take to develop an app. Obviously our estimates are much higher and they say chatgpt told me this can be done for far less. Earlier we all used to Google our symptoms and tell doctors to prescribe a certain…
Very nice Diwali decorations in jubilee walk mall, Mohali Happy Diwali
Mohali has so many malls and new ones are opening too. And all of them are filled all the time. Only window shoppers or actual shoppers too?
I have visited 17 countries 8.6% of the world! I have a lot of food to taste, people to make friends with, soils to smell, and stories to hear. Who wants to sponsor my world trip? (Thank you Xavier Roy for this obsidian plugin)
The arrow of tech only moves forward. In 2022, I asked an image-generation model to create a photo of an Indian family walking down a street. The result wasn't good. It looked grotesque. When I used the same prompt this year, the image was shockingly realistic, featuring…
One lesson I've learned in value investing, which I've applied to life: Think and act independently. Gather insights from everywhere. Study what others are doing. If they're doing the right thing, follow suit. If not, do what's right. This advice applies even to your heroes.
> Corruption is a highly valued skill in India. Unfortunate but true
India is at 85th rank in @HenleyPartners global passport ranking. 57 countries allow Indians to travel without visa. I'm packing my bags. Lot of countries to visit ;-)
Slowly building my endurance to jog for 12k
Knowing what I know at 53, I would do differently. I will invest the same EMI in stock markets (mostly high yield MFs but also individual stocks that give dividends). Hopefully in 10 years, I have built enough corpus and by 35-37, I will know where to settle down. I will buy a…
I can't believe @svembu still codes & ships. Respect. I talk to 6-7 year experienced coders who say, "we don't code; only manage". And then we wonder how did we end up with so much of unproductive middle management.
Testing out Lunacy app: It is a MacApp that retains all keyboard shortcuts of Sketch App. I was also able to export existing images as svg and import into lunacy. Good thinking to capture existing sketch market. Going to test this out more.
Just reading about offensive & defensive investment styles in the book: "The most important thing ..." You need to use both styles though they don't come naturally to us.
Marcus Aurelius wouldn't have liked twitter or for that matter any social media platforms.
Will there be same level of outrage on this barbaric action or is that limited only to Israel's actions?
Omnichannel coming to Twitter 😜
If you are attempting something novel, GenAI coding tools are unhelpful.
AI coding tools have become infrastructure. Like AWS. Like GitHub. Like your IDE. Your team generating 30% code using cursor isn't your leverage anymore. Then what is? Interesting article from:
Glad to see a honest officer join active politics. Hope he doesn't disappoint as Kejriwal. We need more educated, well trained people in politics. Hope Congress leave space for such people to flourish and contribute for the country
With suggestion from @SangramRaj78397 ordered "Quad Store Electronics Circuit kit with 25+ projects" for my #homeschool boys. Hope to have fun filled Sundays For those interested:
8 km with a cadence of 161. Starting the week by achieving a strong fitness goal. Since the swimming pool in our town is closed for winter, I started jogging. Initially, I began with 4 km, then moved to 6 km, and today I jogged 8 km. If I keep this up, I might soon be jogging…
Wonder what @smitaprakash would say to RG now that Kejriwal is out.
Indian civic sense A woman sitting in next chair in a car showroom speaking loudly with speakers on. Everyone can hear the conversation. This isn’t some random scene. It repeats in almost all public places - trains, airports … Why?
Is silver a “silver bullet” for investors now?
When I went to college, my mom expected me to write daily. Sometimes, I'd write "I'm good, Amma. How are you?" on 20-30 postcards, leave them on the table before heading to college, and tell her to read one each day. Time passed. I got a job, married, and had kids. My parents…
1️⃣ Everyone has a formula for success. But real success isn’t copied — it’s crafted. Here’s the framework I built after years of reading, trying, and reflecting 👇 The WINS Framework for Success.
We expect more from the Indian diaspora than from Indian elites themselves. @ShashiTharoor recently wrote that Indian immigrants in the US should “speak up for India,” especially as Trump turns protectionist. It sounds noble—but perhaps it’s a misplaced expectation. He’s asking…
Serve Others. It helps you > Of the 90 different stress-reduction strategies tested in corporate settings, which included meditation, massage and breathing exercises, only one consistently mitigated the negative effects of stress: serving others Our sacred texts encourage us to…
Look around all physical infrastructure. Bridges, metro stations, airports … all opened with lot of fanfare. They brake or leak within years if not months. Unfortunately that seems to be the case with digital infrastructure too (exceptions like UPI are there). That’s why the…
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - William Ralph Inge
On WhatsApp you can paste a number and if the number is on WhatsApp you can start the chat. Unlike on WhatsApp, I can’t chat with @Arattai without giving access to contacts.
Is parivahan site like irctc site?
Even before this, billings by consulting companies bordered on cheating. They would bill three clients simultaneously. GenAI has simply provided senior consultants with yet another tactic to cheat further.
China started with copying things. Look where there now. I am ok Zoho copies. What matters is can they bring quality to their products? Can they excel in their engineering, customer service? Those are the things that will differentiate them from other services.
I was working in Ministry of Corporate Affairs when Sachin ji was the minister. He had a short stint but achieved much in that period. He laid out his vision and asked the IAS officers what he needed to facilitate to get those changes done. And he did.
Indian politicians & bureaucrats are not interested in providing "corruption free" services to the citizens. They just want their "cut". In the last few days there have been so many tweets on variety of stories about corruption in govt offices across govt departments. If there…
Tried buying new fasttag from @ICICIBank After filling in all the details, it goes to this page. Tried different browser still the same error. Tried on iMobile. Leads to "technical error" This is the digital infra at one of the top Indian Pvt banks @ICICIBank_Care
My prayer every morning.
> we have a distributed framework that allows us to distribute the workload among many servers and databases, and provides fault tolerance, performance monitoring, security and so on. Hope to see more in-depth tech talks around this framework, lessons learned etc. Should be…
