So this happened last night at @SaaStrAnnual. In @mrgirish's keynote, he spoke of me as an example of how Freshworks had hired fresh, unproven talent, and how that paid off. 😮😭 What made this even sweeter was that @amnigos and @AparnaChugh were also right there!

bc I don't want dates laddu or some weird fruit mysore pak, who the hell is eating these things? I want Anand Sweets laddu and Krishna Sweets ghee mysore pak, I refuse to eat anything else.

My Russophile great-uncle was a great reader of magazines, and had huge stacks of these on his shelves. I read them all, and absolutely loved the condensed book anthologies they published. I discovered so many great writers and books because of it.

There is a particular kind of Bangalore Twitter circlejerk in which someone in the in-group does something, others in the in-group hype it up a bit, and then it becomes a thing for a day or two, and the next day everyone forgets about it completely.

After months of dragging my feet, moved all my Pocket articles to Readwise. End of an era.

rare earth this rare earth that. there's nothing more rare on this earth than affordable housing in a walkable neighborhood

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when the rules of literally any card game are explained to me

Some days it be like that.

TIL: Lakmé Cosmetics was named after the French opera Lakmé, which itself is the French word for the goddess Lakshmi.

Conversations as a means of learning are underrated, IMO. I find that I actually start to understand my own ways of thinking as I try to explain them. And I also quickly become aware of gaps in my knowledge and comprehension.

seri September October vandhurchu inime oru moonu naalu maasam nalla pogum nu eppo nenecheno, annei lernthu oru naal kooda nalla pogala

We Indians are suckers for someone who can speak well. We just assume they are smart. Except articulation is not intelligence. It's just packaging.

A challenge I'm facing these days is how to be mentally and physically fresh so I can indulge in my own interests, the things I actually want to pay attention to. Instead I'm drowned in distractions that move the needle in every other way than towards my own fulfilment.

I first read Timeline in 03 or 04, and even though I have loved other Crichton books, this has remained the one book of his I remember fondly. Reading it again 20 years later, and it's still a banger. What a glorious, ridiculous yarn!

so much ambition is just the hunger to succeed enough to feel like you finally belong

An entire Asia Cup was hijacked by the India-Pakistan rivalry. The game and the region were left poorer for it. https://t.co/bUDQ0Oky52

Leo Rosten, what a line

There's just so much to read into this novel. A portrait of a place and time between the wars, a feminist vision from 1943, also an east-meets-west fable. But at it's heart it's a love story, and aren't they all?

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Terrific account of the AI race and the characters involved. Required reading.