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Pratul Kalia retweeted
We recently added a job board to Hard Problems, which has great design jobs related to health, climate, and education all around the world. I think it's already one of the best job boards around for designers who want to make a positive impact. Please RT. hardproblems.com/jobs
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Who doesn't love a good sales story! So cool!
We're finally shedding the .so (thank you Somalia!), and using the .com for @NotionHQ. And for this beautiful moment, I want to share a fun story: Back in 2018, I had just joined Notion, and one of the first things @ivan asked me to do was figure out how we could own notion.com. I had never done a big domain purchase before, so I reached out to a few domain brokers to understand the landscape. We tried different brokers, kept things anonymous, and attempted to surface a price the seller might consider. A year went by… nothing. Meanwhile, it was pretty clear this was only going to get more expensive as we grew. We needed a different approach. A fellow founder connected me to a broker who took a very different tack. Less transactional, more long-term relationship builder. He spent months getting to know the domain owner. Turns out owner was a fellow entrepreneur in the west coast… and a huge Grateful Dead fan. So we figured, why not get creative? Something beyond just price. So I called up our investor Ronny Conway and asked if there was any way he could help set up a private meeting between the domain owner and the Grateful Dead. Ronny is one of those people who somehow makes impossible things possible. A week later he calls me back: “New York City. Halloween. 15 minutes after the concert. Done.” The broker went back to the owner with an offer: some cash, some equity, and a private meeting with the Grateful Dead. That got his attention. He didn’t take the band meeting in the end, but he did lean into the equity (great call, in hindsight). We shook hands, and a few weeks later, the deal was done. I’ve been waiting years for the day we move our product to notion.com. Looks like 2026 is finally the year. Safe to say I’m unreasonably excited about this update!
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Teams sync, Ships sink, Teams ship.
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Time for Mr. Gill to buy cashews and make low cal butter chicken
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Wow insane stuff! This is the best popsicle I've had in decades - blinkit.com/prn/go-zero-jamu…
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Pratul Kalia retweeted
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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Truly end of an era
Android UI development is now Compose-first. Views will be on maintenance mode going forward. All new features will be built for Compose. If you have not migrated to Compose already, now is a good time to start! How? Use our XML Views -> Compose migration skills! ⬇️
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Pratul Kalia retweeted
Photo of the decade.
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This is amazing - we have Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs @VivianBala explaining how he uses a Nanoclaw on Raspberry PI This is a gem; He says the barriers to accessibility have collapsed - his setup was not created by him; and that memory is the next frontier (LOL)
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But it's okay guys we have digiyatra
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Wow @indiranagaraps @BlrCityPolice - illegal parking on the corner of intersection - illegal number plate - illegal dark tint All of this with an MLA sticker!
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Hard to believe that this is an official native app by Apple that ships with macOS 🤮
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If you love this, you should obviously play Super Meat Boy store.steampowered.com/app/4… - available on macOS too!
The Code with Claude keynote intro had no right being that cute.
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Pratul Kalia retweeted
tap me✒️
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Pratul Kalia retweeted
Eat all mangoes. Eat every mango you can. The small, juicy, fibrous, nameless ones you pluck off that old tree down the gully. The planted-a-Dussheri-seed-but-never-grafted Dussheri-ish mango from your masi’s garden in Bhopal. Blushing Sindhuras. Sweet Kesars. Yes eat as many of those beautiful Alphonsos from Devgad packed carefully in cardboard boxes as you can. But also eat Pairi, Neelam, Ratna. And Sindu - a cross between the Ratna & the Alphonso which is slowly gaining more ground because climate change has wreaked havoc on the finicky Alphonso - ask farmers, yields have been down for a few years now, talk to farmers. Eat with the season. Eat the early mangoes from the south - Mankurad, Badami, Banganapalli, Imam Pasad in late April-May. Eat your middle-India mangoes - Kesar, Bombay Green, and also Malgova and Mallika which are late season bloomers from the south, and your Himsagar, Gulabkhaas, beauties from Malda and Murshidabad - try to lay your hands on a Champa, Saranga, or Kohitoor in May-June! And go both hands in, into piles of Amrapali, Chausa, Malihabadi Dussheris, Langdas in July. This is just the tip of the mango iceberg, there are so many more loved & delicious varieties - India has near 1,500 varieties of mangoes. Why would you eat just one? Of course have your favourites but also look at our beautiful biodiversity - please cherish it! Eat widely. Eat greedily. Eat because these mangoes are so delicious. Eat in RESISTANCE TO LOSS, eat like these mangoes might disappear because some of them already are!
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Sheel pls don’t eat tier 2 mangoes There are only two mangoes worth eating in the world, in order: 1a) Alphonso from Devgad (if you can verify). The soil sea breeze on the slopes gives it a distinct flavour, unmatched 1b) Alphonso from anywhere else in Konkan 2) Imam Pasand The rest are mere fruit. Come to London, I will supply!
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