youngsters don't know this but twitter used to be bird themed. the bird icon. bird house for home. egg for new account. never forget what they took from us

Dear @AshwiniBhide Ji and @mybmc, If such a nuisance is not removed by tom, I'll be forced to gather a crowd of runners, and we'll silently spoil all the posters early morning on Saturday before the city wakes up. Prepared to be beaten up to death! #PosterFreeMumbai

Three months after I wrote to @AshwiniBhide highlighting the urgent need for mobile connectivity on Mumbai’s #AquaLine, I welcome the rollout of mobile services across its underground sections. My thanks to @MumbaiMetro3 & telecom operators for responding to commuters’ concerns & making the journey more convenient for millions of Mumbaikars. #MumbaiMetro @mieknathshinde

I remember when the aqua line was limited to BKC, I used to get proper connection, and I was able to play songs and play YouTube videos effortlessly. As soon as it was extended to Cuffe Parade, something happened and now coverage is totally gone after going one floor down.

Compartmentalizing your friends (like not being able to mix friend groups) is a sign that you’ve set your life up in a way where it’s mandatory to wear masks and you’re living in third person pov caring way too much about how you’re being perceived

First double digit run of the season👟 I was so tired that I didn't even bother to stretch or cool down. Just got back home, drank water, got fresh, and goodnight at 10am 😴😴

never waste a good crisis

Need this in Mumbai fr

Back at training. Week 1 was good enough.

2016 -> 2026. Took a decade to get from there to here. Excited for the next chapter of learning, building, nd creating meaningful impact. Lets see what we build by 2036.

Day 1, Again. 5km ez in Bandra Satara Hill HM prep started. Very excited ✌🏽

You can see the Chicago skyline visible from nearly 50 miles away in the Indiana Dunes sunset.

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

You know I am feeling slightly angry today. This image triggers me but also brings some melancholia. I grew up reading Tolkien. His works, especially The lord of the rings, carry a recurring warning about “diminishment”. We fade and become as shadow of our former selves. Everything nobel faces a gradual loss of vitality, nobility, creativity, and human potential in the face of power, and the pursuit of domination. The “long defeat” of history amid glimpses of victory. This image represents that. I have seen this nation rise from utter ruin to greatness, carried aloft on the shoulders of her daughters and sons who engaged in the grand project. We were supposed to be transformed into a great nation by 2020. We wrote books about that future. We dreamed as we toiled at this. But I have seen her diminish. The worst instincts of her worst unleashed. Bound by the chains of civilisational trauma. This can’t be the end. Feels like it though. It’s late and I have been driving all day and maybe I am just tired. I will feel better about this tomorrow. I read a poem , an essay and a short story every week. I will read Tagore tonight . I need the hope. “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action— Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.” I will feel better tomorrow morning.

Dear Prime Minister @narendramodi , After your advise to stop using cars, Today I decided to walk to my office and sharing some realities with you. Citizens are not addicted to cars. Most people would happily avoid taking their cars out if cities simply offered three things properly; safe footpaths, protected cycling tracks, and dependable Metro connectivity. Give us these three basics and I can confidently say private car usage will reduce massively on its own. But today, the reality is different. Cities like Pune, where public transport demand is exploding, still struggle with incomplete and delayed infrastructure, while Metro projects are inaugurated in places where the urgency and density are comparatively lower like Bhopal or Nagpur for political advantage. Footpaths are encroached upon or broken by your own goons or electric dept. Cycling tracks exist mostly for presentations, events, and photo opportunities instead of daily commuting. Then citizens are lectured about reducing car usage. Sir, roads in India are still unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists. Asking people to give up cars without first guaranteeing safety is unfair. A middle class citizen choosing a car today is not choosing luxury; he is choosing survival and, predictability. If you truly want us to adopt public transport and sustainable mobility, then please first make walking and cycling safe, and then focus on public transport reliable enough that citizens choose it willingly rather than being morally pressured into it.

I got married this past weekend so I did what any rational @AnthropicAI employee would do and had Claude Code analyze 12 years of iMessages with my wife, then Claude Design used that data to whip up a website for our guests in just minutes.

We no longer have skill issues, we have skill-md issues.

We've got loads of problems to solve, but we also need to appreciate how far we've gotten in less than 80 years of independence.

North End and South End. Oval Maidan.

A historic front page that marked the birth of #Maharashtra. A proud moment frozen in time. #MaharashtraDay #History #Mumbai #ProudMoment #VintageNews #FPJ #Freepressjournal