Nirav Kanodra
@niravstoons
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Interested in Financial Markets, Macro, Politics and Economics. Want to revive the hobby of drawing cartoons. *Views are mine alone, don’t reflect my employers*
Singapore / Mumbai
Joined November 2010
My predictions for coming decade (in a thread of thread format) ...
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Kapil Dev scored 175 vs Zimbabwe in England. (1983 cricket World Cup) Sooryavanshi scored 175 vs England in Zimbabwe (2026 U19 World Cup) Both unbelievable innings. #U19WorldCup #CricketTwitter #indvseng
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Suryavanshi is hitting sixes for fun. Stop doing anything else and watch u19 cricket World Cup finals now. #INDvENG #U19WorldCup
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Bitcoin was always about narratives and historically has been pretty good at flitting from one story to another (payment system, fiat money hedge, protection from the banking system but also the beneficiary of massive institutional interest, etc.) Constant new narratives meant
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Major life cheat code: Don’t romanticize potential. Measure yourself by what you consistently do, not by what you believe you could do one day.
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Epstein Files emails on an app. That someone who created a Gmail replica for loading all Jeffrey Epstein emails, is greatest app maker alive under the sky. A salute of 21 guns to you man. Its not fun, its a total riot.
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This Fulani prince survived the Middle Passage, was enslaved on a plantation in Maryland, gained his freedom, because someone noticed he was literate and had connections to his slave trading father in West Africa. Went back to Africa and returned to slave trading….
Yep, this man is a great example of that. He was a scholar and a prince and remained a practicing Muslim during his time in slavery in Maryland in the 1730s. The idea that Muslims being in the United States is a modern thing is just ignorant.
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Jeff Bezos was expected to lose $100 million a year on the Washington Post, forever, because he could afford to. This is the worldview of the left.
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CEO of a Indian IT services firm before COVID was fired for investing in OpenAI(what could now be worth billions), his self driving car project was shutdown by the same boomers who had banned internet inside company for decades. This is how toxic office politics works in India.
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Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people. When he says “something I was very good at is now free and
It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness. I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so. Something I was very good at is
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The man who shockingly awarded the newly elected Barack Obama the Nobel peace prize in 2009, and who was chair of the Nobel Committee from 2009 to 2015, was an Epstein Island regular
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"Please listen to this carefully…", says HSBC’s Pranjul Bhandari @pranjulb breaks down the missing link in India’s growth story, why tax cuts, public capex and stimulus didn’t lift private investment, and how to change the cycle. @_nirajshah
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Tell me you’re working for our adversaries without telling me you’re working for our adversaries.
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NEW: 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore. The family was on kayaks & paddleboards when they were swept about 2.5 miles out to sea. After a
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This opening graf.
One of the most significant internal migration stories in America, Jews form no small part—bringing to Miami’s Jewish community a conservative tilt, a rise in Orthodoxy, and unsurprisingly, tensions. From @aniwilc & @isaacdecastro in our February issue. https://t.co/lDCOgRe9WG
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BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez is attacking Elon Musk for the crime of sharing news of his decision to legalize 500k illegals to win elections and change the face of Europe. He’s now calling for censorship of X to silence criticism of his policies.
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If you shoehorn 50th percentile kids in a course designed for the 99th percentile, it is but obvious a lot of the former will be simply unable to cope up. It is blindingly obvious to all but the willingly-blind. The whole debate is ill-framed, soln is worse-framed...
Equity is not merely about securing admission. It is about surviving the academic journey with dignity. Perhaps it cannot be enforced by UGC alone seeking institutional accountability, these guidelines become moral signals that we cannot ignore. @dpradhanbjp @ugc_india
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