Reborn Maker. Next: TBA! Formerly: Product & Growth @HaticaHQ, Product @GetVymo, Developer relations @Microsoft Always: Running, Food, Beer
Bangalore, India
Joined April 2008
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How about banning firecracker altogether? And a country-wide ban on firecrackers for ALL occasions!
Entire industry is <$1B, employs <1M w/child labour & fire-safety issues galore.
99% of the produce is domestic use because it's not world-class goods either.
We're talking about AQI now, so it must be November, it must be post-Diwali, must be that time of the year when we "start demanding answers"
Seems familiar!
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I often quote that "there is never only 1 cockroach" i.e. there are always many... looks like the High Court has raised the Bar on this too.
#DemoCrazy
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Turning things up to 11 on the 10-point scale for a race 6 months out, because you’ve busted your ass for 15 years to earn the right to train for Boston Marathon! 🤌
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Kindly to RT!!
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🚀 Ready to crush HYROX? 2 epic workshops are coming to Vera Fitness, Blr with 2x World Champs qualifier Manikantan Narayanan!🔥
• Getting Started: 14 Nov, 10:30 AM (First-timers)
• Closing the Gaps: 15 Nov, 9:30 AM (Training 3+ months)
Secure your spot: manikantannarayanan.com/#wor…
Running is dangerous
Swimming is dangerous
Walking is dangerous
Cycling is dangerous
Tweeting is dangerous
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Welcome to India, the world's largest democracy? 🙂
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Harish Vaidyanathan retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed with a message for JD Vance during his victory speech:
"JD, habibi, there is this delicious irony in the fact that you're constitutionally obligated to swear me in in January" 🤣💀
This! Unnecessary scaremongering.
Fit != healthy. Do your tests. Eat healthy. Don’t frame running as a dangerous activity. Driving on Indian roads is way more dangerous.
Running is not an extreme sport, unless you make it one by ignoring your health!
There is a legitimate conversation to be had about the risks of marathons and Hyrox. These are demanding sporting events, and preparation, appropriate training, medical awareness and race-day safety matter.
But the framing needs perspective. In one of the largest such studies, an analysis of 29 Mn marathon/HM finishers in the US (2010–23) found 59 cardiac deaths, i.e. roughly one fatality for every 500,000 participants (0.0002%). That's a risk, but an exceptionally low one.
Loose analogies: we don't judge the safety of air travel by isolated crashes. For context, India recorded 1.73 lakh road deaths in 2023 (474 every day). The same perspective is needed when discussing endurance sports. These aren't directly comparable risk measures, but the contrast is worth reflecting on.
The bigger public-health concern is physical inactivity. WHO estimates that insufficiently active people have a 20–30% higher risk of death than those who are sufficiently active. Its recommendations are hardly extreme: 150–300 mins of moderate physical activity a week (30 min on five days), or equivalent vigorous activity, along with strength training twice a week.
We should absolutely encourage people to train sensibly, build up gradually, understand their health and respect the demands of endurance events.
But presenting marathons/Hyrox "primarily" through the lens of rare tragedies risks getting the public-health message completely backwards. For the overwhelming majority who don't get even 30 minutes of regular physical activity, the priority should be to just get moving: walking, running, cycling, swimming or strength training.
We need more people embracing an active lifestyle, not more people being scared away from one.
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If this man runs 42.6Ks in the marathon, what chances do we mortals have in following that mythical blue line in Majors. I for one can’t even see the line because of the crowds I’m surrounded by at my pedestrian paces 😅 #running
Harish Vaidyanathan retweeted
BREAKING: Revolut moved ~2,000 engineers onto self-hosted GLM for coding and pushed Claude Code and Codex to the exception list.
Per David Abitbol, who leads AI ops there: 56 Nvidia B200s, a blended 30 cents per million tokens, roughly a tenth of what they paid Anthropic and OpenAI. Engineering lead time improved 70%.
Here's the part that matters: the gains showed up when tokens stopped being rationed. Engineers quit saving AI for the hard tickets and pointed it at everything.
Frontier models become the exception, open weights become the default. That's a pricing problem for every lab heading to IPO.
h/t @OliverMolander
Would you move your team off frontier APIs if the bill dropped 90%?
