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The ongoing protests and upcoming tax filing deadline got me thinking — what exactly are my tax rupees funding?
The ₹upee Report visualises how the Indian union government spent your tax rupees, down to the individual line item.
Took me 4 days to clock Fermi isn’t a game of estimation, rather a game of (making the closest) assumptions.
Was making small talk with a mathematician today
Mentioned how my existing knowledge of the subject was limited to the humanistic body of work by educators like Feynman & Tao — lone example being Rich's letter to his (late) wife
Funny how fate (and the algo) comes full circle
Out of everything that's gone wrong this year, the event that absolutely wrecked me is losing my second favorite enamel pin. Little over a year post losing my favorite one.
Sigh. Grief manifests in the most innocuous of ways.
A buried lead amongst all the blow money hullabaloo is Snabbit still not paying contractors a living wage
T1 cities require ₹23-25k pm to sustain a family of 4
Zomato partners in 2025 netted ₹21k
UC Instahelp estimates ₹21-25k
Snabbit claims ₹22-40k (8-12 hrs)
Insanity
If you look past conventional superficiality of attractive people racing fast cars, F1 is the worst viewing experience of all the major sports.
Like genuinely, wym Mercedes is winning cause of “better battery deployment and energy management”?
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It’s always bothered me that the Boston Globe took down this article because every time I see a story like this I want to post it: web.archive.org/web/20210504…
Find it utterly fascinating that this is the exception rather than the norm.
Parentheses is the most versatile tool in rhetoric. Helps throughline several concepts, whilst injecting humor, all (without) breaking the fourth wall.
The anti-immigration argument is hysterical, especially re Microsoft and Adobe when both their CEOs who collectively are responsible for ~$3.5 trillion wealth creation over the past decade, were direct beneficiaries from this.
.@Sonderling47: "I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world — Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini — and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, @USDOL is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program."
Funnily enough, there's precedent aplenty
Because of CCI probes, Swiggy sold The Bowl Company and Amazon divested Cloudtail & Appario
Funnier still, CCI penalties go to India's Consolidated Fund rather than to aggreived consumers
Everything really does lead back to taxes, lol
Outside the tech working class, AI faces a huge trust deficit. Which makes this demo that much more insane
The message isn't "Use AI to book your flight" (after a 5 min context dump)
It is "Use AI to chase that overdue airline refund" (reclaiming 30 mins and your peace of mind)
Spent the past year trying out different avenues to find 'community.'
Came to the conclusion the single highest leverage way to achieve it is by giving strangers the opportunity to comfortably be themselves in a space that you call your own.
New newsletter: THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN HOST
The share of Americans who say they host friends or family at their home at least monthly has declined by 70 percent in the last 50 years.
derekthompson.org/p/the-deat…
Insane how Zuck basically pioneered the authoritative stewardship governance model.
One unreplicated by the remaining 21st century cult of personality founder cohort — Kalanick, Neumann, etc.
Lesson here on how figuring out FCF and profitability early on allows one to say no.
Psychologically, self-armament treads a fine line between deterrence and instigation.
To the predator psyche, this might be viewed as less of a risk, and more of a challenge; as fucked up as it sounds.
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My greatest claim to fame is beating Prison of Elders sub 5 hours post launch.
Crying shame it had no completion tracking like raids.
Took this picture of an absolute unit of a dog back in '16 Dilli.
Spent 15 minutes just to find out it got deleted during a digital clean up.
Day ruined.
In a digital first world, going analog is a benefit reserved for the socio-economically privileged.
I know the world is ending but I'm in @nytimes today explaining how switching to a dumbphone ruined my husband’s life.
