This is me so far in the journey which started two years ago with one dream to bootstrap a company Top Learning: Speed of execution is your only friend when new data changes your reality every week. Can sense the Sun on the horizon, inflection point is near. God bless the hustle

We live in a world where ROI in being a sales rep >> Programmer, while the effort being same. With distribution being the biggest moat, we are heading towards it. Not FDE, talking about proper sales, a polygot capable of speaking six different languages with four different accents, a human behavioural scientist masquarading as a sales personnel, who judges a stranger, puts them into categories of people he has already interacted with, to simulate them in the brain and predict exactly how they are going to make a decision. A POLYMATH, who can impress people at will, an instant friend who can disarm the ego battles each human being is fighting themself - Gave this contrarian advice to a 19 year old, worried about software engineering being dead. Sales has levels. The best ones hide in plainsight, without any ponytail

So we heading towards a cold war again

The opposite of paranoia is pronoia, the irrational belief that the universe is conspiring in your favor. I have built my entire career on pronoia and I highly recommend it.

I was one of the early hires at Hexo, most have no clude what their team is capable of. Textbook 'perseverance'. With less than 4 researches they just beat CC/Codex by a mile * LawBench ~305% over Claude Code * Denoising MSE score ~32.6% over Codex * TriMul CUDA ~835% over Claude Code SOTA at three diff task benchmarks. GPU kernel optimisation in one hand, single-cell RNA denoising on the other. Not many can claim that.

i'm doing: > aggresive sales w F50 companies > going to private night dinners with customers and pitching cold to the us govt. officials > still programming 10 hours a day > iterations on company's vision > linkedin outreach at this point, you think i am still employable?

Got rejected by 500 companies in a single calendar year, throwback to 2023 AD. Remember where you started ❤️

📍Guys, I saw 15 falling stars from Bengaluru sky yesterday. At 2AM overheard a guy in our shared office space that Lyrid Meteor shower is happening, sneaked to the roof top of the office building, couldn’t see shit. Then went to this strangers house, sat there for four hours, first saw fireballs, light flashes lasting 0.1s, thought I must be hallucinating. Around 4 to 5:30AM, it was moving stars with a trail, one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen. Then we had this wild idea, let’s go watch Project Hail Mary at 6:30AM :)) Serendipity ✨

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era. Almost nobody understood what he said. Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.” Not tech startups. The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees. The businesses that actually run the physical economy. They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it. Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Software is dead. The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever. AI ends the contract. The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business. But customized by whom. The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is. Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?” That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves. Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer. Let them fight. Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero. Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built. It collects where the brain meets the business. Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic. Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy. Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates. Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue. That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born. You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system. The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in. 33 million companies are standing in the dark right now. Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

using context graphs to find best gift for parent's 28th marriage anniversery. ~10 days left, but too lazy to sit and think. so index'ed transcripts of >50 hours of call recordings with my mom and dad into the context graphs sitting on top of supermemory and graphiti. now i let claude 4.6 query it (enterprise, zero retention plan). for mom, it suggested me to buy the most no brainer thing of all: gold bangles🤦🏻‍♂️ what it recommended me for dad blew my mind - a trekking tent, could not even think of it in a million years, but makes so much sense, he probably mentioned it years ago that he struggled in an overnight camping trip. this technology is surreal

I build (& killed) 7 indie products in past 2.5 years To realise Nights and Weekends is SHIT Building products on the side while having a fulltime job is half ass'ing on both the boats. N&W is for upskilling, learning tough engineering concepts. N&W are for hitting the gym, going on dates, building hobbies and enjoying life. As an employee with a regular salary, you have the right to all of this Why are you fighting on multiple fronts? You are trying to mitigate the risk of not having a job, working on your product and failing. Hence you compensate by working harder. There are a few outlier cases like Paras Chopra from Wingify, who left his fulltime job, only when side product was earning him as much as full time job. But the markets have changed, the low hanging fruits to build stable saas are dissappearing. We live in a different hypercompetive time. You are literally battling against venture funded startups for the tinest of the ideas. Do yourself a favour, build products only to experiment and learn new things. Don't put up a paywall, you are better than that Entrepreneurship is a luxury, which needs to be earned. Just make sure when you finally earn it, you hold nothing back, and go ALL IN.

Things which changed the day I got a $100K job: > It stopped motivating me meh, getting that job didn't even require a top quality effort from my side. fresh $4.5K deposited biweekly? wasn't even able to use the money earned last month > Existential crisis -i started wondering if this was even impressive? -is this the best way to spend my 20s? -am i probably getting the tiniest section of a pie and the biggest ROI is reserved for founders and investors -am i just a claude code wrapper? > I could buy stuff -From a month's salary, I could buy every apple product that I'd ever need, but that didn't seem logical -Confused about what to really do with money, I went back and paid my sisters education loan -Now the only logical move left? Pay back that another debt dad has been trying to clear for decades now Back to being purposeless again, I over decorated this goal in my head for so long, had no clue what todo next. If I stick to my current burn rate, I had multiple years of savings on me. Only logical thing I could do was to - TO QUIT. The best this $100K job could afford me was FREEDOM (**Pharrell singing in the bg) Freedom to take more risks and experiment. Freedom to take on an entrepreneurial journey. So here I am, in middle of no where, waiting for my 24th birthday to come through, left my job, rejected counter offers and planning to never return to corporate as a software developer.

Folks, both me & Aadit are 23 But he is the speaker on the stage and barely able to find a place to sit in this hall packed with 2000 people. This is what happens when you start building products at 17, drop out to burn the ships, keep betting on yourself again and again.

Today expecting speakers at YC startup school to tell: what exact micro decisions are giving them moats in 2026, what is their next six month strategy to survive and stay relevant. Instead of 1. founders personal life story (it’s a decade old, world has changed) 2. their company’s origin story (irrelevant, markets have changed) 3. motivation to do startups (anyone appearing is already motivated enough) 4. marketing their product, hiring