Maharashtrians - "ये मेरा भांडण नही हैं. मैं तो खूप छान हिंदी बोलता है."

Dear @narendramodi , You want us to use our cars less and walk more. I am willing. The only small challenge is surviving the walk. In Pune, the footpaths are often occupied, damaged, or simply non-existent. At many places, @MSEDCL departments have taken over pedestrian space. Before India becomes a walking nation, can we first make sure Indians have somewhere safe to walk? A footpath would be a good start. Btw JFYI, Pune is one of the smart cities where your govt burnt Rs 3333 Cr. @PMCPune @Dev_Fadnavis

Twitter search is broken badly. "Top" stopped working some time ago, but now even "Latest" is broken. I may have to use 'grep' on desktop like a caveman.

Answer - Falguni Nayar. She maintains a low profile, but I wish more people from Indian start up ecosystem knew her.

Muting this.

Growth is not a strategy. Growth is what happens when free people are left alone to pursue their desires, constrained by respect for others property and liberty. I don’t live to fulfill some dreamers coercive “strategy”

Muting now. Feel free to DM/WhatsApp me if you disagree.

Guess who is India's richest self-made woman.

Looking forward to next weekend's release (purple hint). Connections #1098 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩

After access to Mythos was restricted, the sovereign model crowd in India is out in full force, this time using national security as the reason. It's curious that we are expected to panic about dependence on AI models, a technology that is barely a few years old, while remaining comfortable importing critical defence hardware such as fighter jets, submarines, and aircraft carriers.

Scratch the surface, and the free-market enthusiast often turns out to be a socialist who wants tax payers to fund his pet idea.

Bank websites remain unusable because they have regulatory cover provided by RBI. Unless RBI issues universal banking licenses to tech startups, there will be no end to customers' suffering.

I've been using baby gates wrong my entire life.

When Musk acquired Twitter, many people didn't just predict his bankruptcy, they rooted for it. Turns out they were all wrong. Admittedly, I was wrong as well, but in the other direction.

Haven't seen such blatant attempt with paid PR to sway retail public. 1022 reposts, 2 likes.

At the farmers market, a woman selling vegetables told a customer that her son works at Accenture. Only among a tiny circle of people who mistake sneering for sophistication are such jobs dismissed as "coding coolie" work. For the rest, it is a source of social mobility and pride.

As it wasn't an official sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, Levi's was asked to hide its logo on Levi's Stadium (Santa Clara, California). And they did it in the smartest way possible. #WorldCup #FIFAWorldCup #Levis

When Nokia engineers examined the original iPhone in the summer of 2007, they found a 2-megapixel camera with no flash, no autofocus, and no video. Their flagship phone, released three months earlier, had a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss lens (the optics brand used in Leica cameras), autofocus, an LED flash, and video recording. Nokia beat Apple on every camera specification. Nokia also no longer makes phones. Apple's advantage came from three engineering decisions, none of which appeared on a spec sheet. Speed was the first. Nokia's camera took 6 seconds just to open the app, with the whole process reaching 8 seconds before a first photo could be taken. Apple chose fixed focus deliberately, locking the lens at a fixed point where anything from arm's length to the horizon stays sharp. With the autofocus delay gone, the whole process took under 2 seconds from pocket to saved photo. For the actual photos people take of people and places, that speed was worth more than 3 extra megapixels. The second decision was matching resolution to the actual use case. A 2-megapixel image is 1,600 by 1,200 pixels. The iPhone's own screen in 2007 was 320 pixels wide. The most common destination for a camera phone photo was a text message or an email with a file size limit. Apple sized the sensor for where photos were going, not for what looked best on a product box. The third decision was the path from shutter to shared. Sharing a photo on the Nokia N95 meant opening the image, pressing Options, choosing Send, picking Bluetooth or email or a picture text, and working through sub-menus from there. On iPhone, every photo went straight into a built-in album, swipeable with a finger, emailable in two taps. Apple designed the camera as a communication tool first. Nokia held roughly half of global smartphone sales in 2007. By 2013, that number had collapsed to single digits. Microsoft bought Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion and wrote off virtually the entire investment as a loss within 15 months. Digital camera shipments peaked at 121 million units in 2010 and fell 94% by 2023. Apple became the company most closely linked to the phrase "digital camera" in media analysis by 2013, built from a sensor that lost to Nokia on paper. The Nokia engineers who analyzed that first iPhone were right that the numbers didn't add up. The market had simply stopped counting them.

PSA: HDFC Mutual Fund has been hacked 🤦‍♂️ If you're a customer your data has probably been 'accessed', though your units are safe -- no monetary loss. They're advising customers to change their passwords (I've just changed mine). Do it.

The earliest humans to walk aimlessly were called Meanderthals