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Would this happen in India? Are institutions even running a rehearsals to understand how they need to respond if this happens (or prevent them from happening?)

Only Canadians seems to side with liberals. Others are leaning towards right-wing. Don't know if this is good or bad. Time will tell - for Canada and others.

Why I don't use any of Adobe products - even the free ones.

And we wonder why scientific temper is going down the drain in this country

Homeschooling should become lot more popular in India: It is not just the raising cost of education; it is also becoming useless.

If we have to improve our startup culture and increase academia-industry partnership we need more stories like this.

Social media automation done wrong What makes you think GenAI + MCP automation will go right?

what? I thought node_module hell was the worst. Seems Rust is catching up

Highlight of the week: I swam multiple 25-meter laps in all four styles. For someone who almost drowned when I was 12, this is huge. My weekly notes (of 17th week):

How to steal from citizens ... distract them

don't take advice from random strangers on social media

These are some of the reasons I love Go(lang) too: 15 Reasons I Love Go

How to buy t-bills in India?

It’s easy to say “don’t care about money” when you don’t have to care about money

The frustrating thing about history is: When you study it, you see it all happening again.

> we are a next-generation …. As soon as I hear this, I switch off. Similar phrase: We are reimagining future You are a bloody AI tool. Tell me how it improves my life. If I hear fluff, I associate you with fraud.

Really appreciate this gesture India announces three-day state mourning on passing of Pope Francis - The Hindu

> Most startup engineers do want to be missionaries, but the cap table turns them into mercenaries. Incentives drive behavior.

They need to read: "This is water" by David Wallace

This is what Nehru attempted to do. He found "unity in diversity". Current regimes and those who support the regime are into dividing us again. A divided house never stand. Embrace the diversity. We will raise.

- High-performing companies hire more engineers—AI tools increase the ROI of engineering investment - Invest as much in UI/UX design as model quality - Hire high-agency team members—AI tools are making traditional role boundaries more fluid.

One coding model can do the work of fifty ordinary coders. No model can do the work of one extraordinary coder.

The Data Engineer's Guide to Efficient Log Parsing with DuckDB/MotherDuck understand different types of logs and how you can handle them via duckdb

You need to have an unhealthy obsession with your goal of you want to succeed; which means You will need to focus on that goal leaving everything else. Not gym Not relations No other distractions

It felt like a good day to reflect and write why I believe:

probabilistic statistical models should not and cannot be used as sources of fact, even if they have access to sufficient information.

I taught about Isiah Berlin’s hedgehog & fox concept to my boys as part of homeschooling. My elder one researched more and published his essay. As he says most of us will be both.

How I Use Audio Journaling and AI to Improve My Trading Decisions

Airport scanning has become slower even with automations. Is it because of traffic or productivity is lost in bureaucracy?

the pot belly isn't just a punchline - it's a warning sign.

I think we shud be grateful that govt leaves any money at all in our pockets

BBMP's new garbage fee bloats property tax; shocker for owners

Guess the place where I am? (Tip: it is India)

Earlier cab drivers used to speak on mobile all the time while driving. Now they watch movie on a big screen. Upgraded distractions

Are MCP servers next evolution of SDKs? Like we had a SDK to check weather from within apps. Now we use MCP servers to check weather?

Have options. Don't be an option. How to have options without being an option? • Emergency fund • Diversified income • Diversified skills • Spending discipline • Growing revenue I wrote about it here:

Beware any dopamine hit that doesn’t require effort:

2,100+ Free Tailwind CSS Examples

Frankly, I don't know the answer. But that is the question I'm asking - @david_perell That's the growth mindset. That is what we should have in these troubled times.

Font sensei - Google fonts categorized by tag names Interesting way to browse Google fonts

Hacker Laws: Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.

Travel tip if you are in Bangalore: Double the time shown in Google maps. Even then you might be delayed 😳😱

Only lesson you should learn from WarrenB is: "Learn to think for yourself" From "cigarette-butt investing to pay enough for value" to "invest in stocks to for most index is better investment" there are lots of "flip-flops". He is right for his context. You be right for yours

Loneliness is swallowing us, and technology is not the saviour. Yet, that won’t stop entrepreneurs from trying—and profiting. True connection isn’t built in DMs—it’s forged in real moments. Show up, be present, and live the experiences that no algorithm can replace.

Being an intellectual in a nation of idiots is a curse

Crawl4AI simplifies web crawling and data extraction, making it ready to use for LLMs and AI applications.

Watched “ministry of ungentlemanly warfare” with my sons. Love the plot, direction, music, characters, dialog … Well made movie.

According to Unbounce’s latest Conversion Benchmark Report , industry medians range from just 3.8% (SaaS) to 12.3% (Legal)

What are the top sources of traffic to personal blog? These are the top sources in Q1 LinkedIn & Hacker News sent more traffic than Twitter; but Twitter sent more traffic than Bluesky.

Is there a naming convention you follow to create slack groups for your organisation?