“I feel the responsibility, but also the excitement.” 🙌🗣️

Few months ago, I set up a small AI hacker team at @Razorpay 2 people. Today, they are 100x builders. With AI, people aren’t the constraint. Org structure is. So now I’m scaling this. If you’ve spent the last few months deep in Claude Code / OpenClaw / agents (or anything similar) and feel like you’ve seen the future - this is for you. What you’ll do: Review workflows. Rebuild them with AI. Ship fast. Perks: • Unlimited tokens. Any model. Any tool. • Real problems at massive scale • No hierarchy. Direct access across the org No compensation ceiling. Pay scales with output, not title. Outperform the org, out-earn it. No resume. Send me what you’ve built with AI. (Form below) Bangalore | Full-time | Builders only.

🚨 Pep Guardiola: “Real Madrid have not been my biggest challenge. My biggest challenge has been Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool”. “Maybe you’re in Spain [journalists] and you didn’t notice… You have no idea how it was like to face Liverpool in those games, a great learning experience”.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

Research reveals that holding your baby during sleep helps build the neural pathways essential for lifelong emotional resilience. Science is increasingly validating what many parents have intuitively known for generations: the gentle act of holding a sleeping baby plays a profound role in shaping early brain development. Research demonstrates that consistent, soothing physical contact—such as skin-to-skin holding during rest—helps strengthen functional and structural connections between the prefrontal cortex (the brain's hub for higher-order emotional regulation, decision-making, and cognitive control) and the amygdala (the core region for processing fear, threat detection, and emotional reactivity). These prefrontal-amygdala pathways form a critical top-down regulatory circuit: the prefrontal cortex modulates amygdala responses, dampening excessive fear signals and enabling calmer emotional processing over time. By providing reliable, nurturing touch early in life, caregivers essentially "wire" the infant brain for better stress resilience and emotional balance. This early reinforcement promotes more efficient neural patterns that support self-regulation, reducing vulnerability to intense fear responses or anxiety as the child grows. The benefits extend well into adulthood, establishing a foundational biological scaffold for healthier mental health outcomes—helping individuals cope more adaptively with future stressors and challenges. In essence, that quiet moment of embrace during sleep transcends mere comfort; it actively contributes to building a child's long-term psychological resilience through targeted neurodevelopmental sculpting. [Tottenham, N. (2020). "Maternal buffering of human amygdala-prefrontal circuitry during childhood but not during adolescence." Nature Neuroscience]