I use Twitter as a commonplace note: https://t.co/vPr6DeA0d4 CTO In Sales • Homeschooling dad Building @siteaudittools & @thoughttonote
> India is only looking at Trump's statements and getting into details. What is required is to have right chemistry. These details are of least importance to Trump and he is desperately seeking validation from India. This is how negotiations work. Don't give facts to a bully
Looks like "The Hindu" is the only paper with spine today. Everyone else is crawling when asked to bend
India has everything a tourist would love • deserts • waterfalls • natural beauty • architecture Do you know why tourists don't flock to India? There are no roads without potholes States ban dependable cab services for taxi unions Then there are bigoted attacks ... Fix them
Why homeschooling fails in India? I have interacted with many parents who chose to homeschool their children but eventually returned to traditional schooling. One primary reason is common among many of these cases.
We used to have many desktop apps. Browsers consolidated all of them. (Desktop) apps became tabs That moment is repeating with AI models. (Web) apps will become a MCP action.
When I first heard the advice, "learn to deal with ambiguity", I thought it was another mgmt platitude. I was wrong. As a CTO, 80% of work is dealing with ambiguity.
🛒 “Put more buy buttons on the internet.” That’s the motto of my next podcast guest, Ayush Chaturvedi, a lifestyle entrepreneur turning digital ideas into income. What would you ask someone who lives this motto? Reply with your questions 👇 #indiehackers #solopreneurs
I taught preliminary stock analysis to my boys (13&15) as part of homeschooling. They are starting to understand financial statements, MOAT, etc. Here is their analysis of Sonata software: • •
Picture > 1000 words You can reduce multiple iterations of wireframing and long descriptive texts with a vibe-coded prototype. This is a good news for IT services companies. Vibe-coding will reduce feedback time like agile did for waterfall method.
70% of developer’s time is spent on non-coding activities - email, meetings … So even the best code generating tools are only targeting very minute part of developer’s life.
Attitude > Skills Do you know why most skill training fails (either in corporate or in country)? Before skill training, foster positive attitude towards that technology that you are teaching. If you are in L&D, this is important From a research:
In Tamil, we have a saying, "whether a saree falls on the thorn or the thorn falls on saree, the result is same: the saree gets torn" And we are trying to state "facts" on a negotiating table. Trump thinks he can walk away with tariffs. Can we walk away with stating facts?
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AWS won over Joyant with volume. Being first or the best doesn't matter, if you don't have distribution. True then, true now.
Small goals finely executed, can lead to a big life. BHAG goals didn’t fit me. I am not after goals that motivational speakers talk about. I go after goals that make me who I am. Surprisingly now people ask me how to build such life.
Looks like anyone who educates masses attract wrath of certain section of Indians. Surya's Agaram lifted 1000s of people out of poverty via education. But these faceless trolls throw dirt at them
Chinese startup Manus is building an orchestration tool coordinate scores of AI agents for research. The Chinese have moved beyond core AI research. They are building platforms to use AI based research in other domains.
I am already a customer of lenskart. May be time to buy its stocks too.
I love this from @saastr Specific is terrific Write about what is specific to you and your space. Go deep Talk about earned secrets that only you can talk about
I agree memorization helps. You cannot think with ideas that are not in your head. But time to time, if someone can explain how and why those memorized ideas help, it would be awesome to be enthusiastic about those facts.
One advice that completely changed my perspective on leadership is this Learn to deal with ambiguity It is hard for a developer to deal with ambiguity since software development is deterministic.
On the journey to hit 30k pageviews on personal website. Got 27k hits this year so far. Can I get another 3k in 4 months? I think so.
In our monthly meditation session, today we meditated about "Forgiveness" This is one of the Christian concept I struggle with. What we discussed👇
Thank you @orenellenbogen for including my podcast interview in this week's SWLW newsletter: Read the transcript: Watch the video:
If you haven't read @nikunj 's writing, give it a go: Ideas pop out when each article reads smoothly. Started with but read other essays too.
You cannot think with ideas that are not in your head Powerful. Thank you @jreighley
You have heard of “revised charges” from banks & SAAS apps. Have you gotten “revised customer delight services” from anyone?
UnoCSS seems to be a nice balance between tachyons css and tailwind css
Exactly the same can be said about India. There are states that make money. They are not the states that are given that money from union govt (TN as an example). So when the right-wing folks say India is growing thank those 3-4 well governed states.
GitHub's official MCP Server is written in #golang
If you've doubt about scaling #golang apps, check this out. 1 million chess moves all using #golang Running a million-board chess MMO in a single process ·
What happens when AI leaves code and enters chaos—traffic, warehouses, weather? In this episode of Gravitas WINS, we explore how AI is reshaping real-world logistics with Sarang, CTO of Prayog. 🎧 Listen: #AI #Logistics #CTO #GravitasWINS
Am I online? How to find out if your app is online. #golang #nodejs #python code included
Cloudflare is facing network issue in India. Indian sites with @Cloudflare cdn will face issues (my site with CF CDN doesn't display images) Looks like sites proxying with CF are also not accessible (not all; one of my site is accessible; other is not)
While our glorified babus build thick walls of idiotic rules, we wonder why India can't build world class digital products and OSes.
Finally I hope the hype is dying. People are waking up to software engineering
MCP is an existential threat within 12 months to every B2B company. Model Context Protocol and similar technologies threaten to commoditize the data advantages that platform companies have built over decades.
We read code more than write. ⇒ we shud be able to reason what we read. As I use cursor more and more I realise I lose the ability to reason the generated code. It works but it has lot of unneeded code or complex code. Have you come across that?
Is @tachyons_css website () down?
We cooperate to compete (in sports, business, war) We compete to cooperate (biz compete but cooperate to improve economy)
We have gone from "quality is value" to "volume is value" And that shows where we are going And what you should do if you want to stand out.
Arrest the goons. Not the nuns
Master math • Master life Weight loss? Investing? Project management? Understanding math can enhance your success in each of these areas, and many more.
My frustrating experience with @claudeai , @v0, & @lovable_dev in designing a UI for a hypothetical bookmark manager. Note that I'm not a designer. I am a developer and wanted help with designing UI for this app.
How many more has to die before an action taken to eliminate stray dogs? Kids, elders, rich, poor ... Looks like only when a politician or a judge falls victim there will be action Bengaluru Man, 70, Out For Walk, Mauled To Death By Stray Dogs:
does this mean @Pinboard will have to move to another domain? Now it lives in
Did you notice marketplace fee in Amazon now?
Most kids are told how to learn. My homeschooled kids get to explore why and what they want to learn. That freedom means they’re not stuck in a rigid system. They’re free to try, fail, reflect, and evolve. And that includes how they use new GPT tools. 1/7
