Product + Story. Shipping products since 2008. Wrote and produced "modern-day Catch-22" feature film on immigration- For Here or To Go?
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In 2017, I released "For Here or To Go?" – a feature film about legal Indian immigrants.
It was mischaracterized by Breitbart as a “cheap labor lobby funded H-1B movie.”
The same flawed arguments are making the rounds today.
Here’s why they’re wrong 🧵
There are now only two class of problems that will be worth solving- extremely hard ones no one attempts and extremely personal ones only you can attempt
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Mr. Musk, yes, no billionaire should dictate a nation’s policy - Indian or American.
India must welcome competition in satellite internet, from Indian and global providers, whoever offers the most practical and affordable last-mile solution for those in remote regions. In countries with lower per-capita incomes, satellite internet must be affordable too. High subscription fees and equipment costs risk putting it beyond the reach of ordinary households. Connectivity must bridge the digital divide, not create a new one.
India knows our networks and spectrum are strategic infrastructure, not merely commercial assets. India’s national security safeguards are non-negotiable.
Every country makes choices based on its own interests. Those in the West cannot preach free markets while practicing protectionism at home. USA imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect its domestic industry, just as India takes measures to protect its own domestic manufacturers. Both India and the US have restricted Huawei over security concerns. One cannot demand a level playing field from others only when it suits its own agenda.
Indians will internally debate, question and address our strengths and shortcomings as a democratic country.
Take BharatNet, India’s programme to bring broadband to village-level local bodies. We will question why, as the CAG’s 2026 audit report found, the programme is struggling to meet its original objectives. Why were only 33.2% of service-ready Gram Panchayats operational, despite ₹39,888 crore being spent? At the same time, we know to appreciate our telecom sector and regulations, which has made internet data among the world’s most affordable, bringing millions online.
India is a democracy, not a colony. We welcome the world, but we, the Indian people, will decide our own future - not Western vested interests, their double standards or any billionaire - Indian or American.
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"User interfaces are largely going to go away.
Because the agents speak English, or other languages. You can talk to them. You can say what you want. The UI can be generated.
So I can say, generate me a set of buttons that allows me to solve this problem, and it's generated for you."
- Eric Schmidt is the former CEO of Google.
Today’s websites are designed for humans, with carefully crafted UIs.
But we are probably moving towards UI-less web.
automated bot traffic has already surpassed human activity on the web. with AI agents, this number will explode.
In near future its very plausible that 90% or more of web traffic will be non-human.
Imagine a web with no websites. All your favorite apps are now just databases, queried for information by agents that zip around on your behest.
In a world primarily composed of bots, what happens to websites? Do agents learn to navigate them like a human? Do they go away entirely? 🤔
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The new UI gap is between the agent's context and the human's context.
Part of taste is what not to do.
What matters more than your taste is effectiveness of your solution. The design has to support the effectiveness.
That effectiveness is not just about users doing tasks successfully, it also includes internal persuasion, timeliness, feasibility, viability, desirability and brand fidelity.
The ability to design for that effectiveness should be the hiring bar.
And a lot of times actively not introducing your taste filter gets you to be most effective.
Design has obsessed over craft and forgotten to evaluate and hire for effectiveness. As a result, the core UX is owned by other functions.
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The vast majority of large companies survive purely by launching things and discovering what works by Process of Elimination.
There is no rhyme or reason -- or conviction -- in anything they do.
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Anti-Indian racists in America really are the top-tier of racists.
Today they're mad at them for raising kids who get into good colleges and become football fans?
Yes they are timeless traits. But “mattered” should be unpacked. How you define winning in life is what matters.
“Don’t make work your identity”, was the popular advise. But those who did won on finance and power axes. Those didn’t won on other, less objective axes.
The biggest piece to imagine is interfaces becoming dynamically manifested verification surfaces instead of action surfaces.
The software of the future promises more power and flexibility for more imagination.
We started with use-case software, moving to platform software, moving to all-purpose coding agents.
Interface design is shifting rightward. A few things to keep in mind for designers:
1. Make the interface malleable.
2. Let preferences reach past the rule book. A descriptive vision beats fifty toggles.
3. Let feedback change the product.
4. Treat the seams as part of the experience. Nobody lives in one tool.
And of course, the hardest of all: help people imagine bigger.
Imagination is now the scarce resource.
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In 2017, I released "For Here or To Go?" – a feature film about legal Indian immigrants.
It was mischaracterized by Breitbart as a “cheap labor lobby funded H-1B movie.”
The same flawed arguments are making the rounds today.
Here’s why they’re wrong 🧵
“That’s the third time now I’ve stated something with confidence I hadn’t earned — first the design being “better,” then “much more expensive,” now this. You should probably just assume I do this and keep pushing back.”
This is exactly why craft and taste is not a moat
I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong.
"AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence of text and predict what typically comes next. Great design is exactly the opposite of this. Great design bends the rules and delights users with memorable, unexpected choices."
@anshuc led design and engineering teams at Apple for 12 years. In his words: "Most people only see 1% of AI's creative potential. I want to show you how to tap into the other 99%."
His 8 techniques for breaking out of the 1%:
1. Use seed strings to inject variety
2. Be much more ambitious with your prompts
3. Create positive feedback loops with subagents
4. Use image generation to enrich designs
5. Use video generation
6. Cut out elements that don’t add value
7. Remove AI tells
8. Rewrite copy by hand
Read the post here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-t…
P.S. This design was made by AI 👇
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Interfaces that are generated, not coded.
Solaris is our first step toward our vision of end-to-end neural software, where user interfaces are streamed directly onto your screen by a real-time video model, without any intermediate code or HTML/CSS. Today we're releasing a technical report and opening it up for limited testing by the community.
Amazing work by the team, combining the best of our research in general world models with Runway's HCI spirit.
Today, we're sharing new research on Solaris, our first Interface World Model.
Solaris is a new kind of operating system that generates interactive interfaces frame by frame, in real time, with no code. We find that Solaris outperforms frontier LLMs when generating new interfaces, across structural similarity and information retention. Read more and request early access at the link below.
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ENOUGH with the Hindu hate.
This is a beautiful people who immigrated to America + have done nothing but BUILD + make all American lives better.
From tech talent to tech CEOs, life saving doctors, scientists, lawyers, politicians, comedians, actors, writers—BUILDERS
ENOUGH!
El-Sayed's racist swipe at Usha Vance is badly backfiring with Indian-Americans and women trib.al/9ESLpDu
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Since this article took off, I put together 3 real examples of the process in practice.
A marketing agency, a PE firm, and a multi-location healthcare group. Three very different sizes and considerations, but the same process.
Each one includes what the assessment found, the full tech stack and infrastructure we built on, what we absorbed vs. kept vs. killed and why, the overall timeline, and the results after launch.
Want it?
Just drop a comment below and I'll DM it over.
I send every DM manually, so RTs will be prioritized.
