Paarug Sethi
@paarugsethi
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swiss army knife • jiu jitsu nerd • nCMO @solana • celebrating @SuperteamIN • resident at @thenetworkstate
Joined June 2013
I went from being a non-tech college student with no work experience to working full time in web3 within 8 months.🌐. A laptop and an internet connection are all I had. Story time.🧵.
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rich guy in bangalore: has a 42-inch monitor & ergonomic chair, wears apple watch, oura ring, dinners at LUPA — makes ₹50 lakh/year. rich guy in delhi: owns 2 pairs of tshirt & shorts, goes to paharganj for work in a santro, enjoys halwai ke cholle bhature — makes ₹5cr/month.
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honestly, ritu phogat probably took the smartest path of all phogat sisters:. > left wrestling and nonsense of sports in india.> took up MMA.> competes in ONE championship, known worldwide.> lives & trains in singapore.> makes more money than all others.> can become coach later.
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coldplay concert did not happen in delhi because we have not had a sky full of stars in 15 years.
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I might be biased against beer biceps but what kind of a podcast interview is this?
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🇮🇳 "Fancy ice creams, hyperfast groceries. but where’s the real innovation?". Union Minister @PiyushGoyal calls for a reality check on Indian startups at @StartupMhakumbh ⚡️. Here's what he said about China—and what should India focus on? 👇. #Startups #IndiaVsChina
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the only advice i would give to someone younger would be: have multitudes. do different things, play different sports, read different books. do kickboxing one day & learn about skin care the next day. learn cooking & physics & bouldering & more. be interested. be interesting.
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lex finding out huberman got 6 women at once while he has been looking for love for the last 30 years.
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Switzerland’s people have been a mystery to me:. - Don’t go to the gym.- Eat cheese and chocolates.- Drink a lot of alcohol.- Bread is a staple. And yet, I’ve not seen one fat person on the streets yet. What are we doing wrong?🤔.
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instagram and twitter people colliding on threads is literally barbie and oppenheimer audiences coming together.
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one of the best narrative shifts in recent times has been the habits of the “cool” person. cool in 2010s: goes to parties, drinks, smokes & other vices. cool today: lifts heavy weights, banger sleep scores, fixed routine, eats clean etc.
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running is to cardio what a bicep curl is to strength training. peak mid-curve, very low ROI, makes you think you did something.
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I, a Delhiite, tried out Bangalore metro for the first time. You know what’s coming. You know it. I almost didn’t tweet this. But I have to. DELHI METRO IS BETTER.
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I’ve seen people throwing shade at Zomato, Blinkit, Swiggy etc for working extra on NYE. These are the same people who’ve ordered from the said apps themselves & never even tipped a waiter in their lives. Indian version of an American hating on capitalism using their iPhone.
Indian capitalist bros will ask employees (slaves?) to come to office on the eve of new year and act like they are in the middle of some kind of war zone.
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and good on vinesh phogat for retiring. idk what keeps non-cricket indian athletes going in the first place. you get no support but all the hate when you don’t perform. vinesh is 29, she can do what her sister did — take up MMA/jiu jitsu, become pro, exit this wretched system.
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my prediction is that india will produce MMA and jiu jitsu champions before it produces olympic gold medalists. simply because MMA and jiu jitsu are lucky to have 0 involvement of the govt. and brilliant people are moving things forward with incentives aligned.
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Blinkit's UI is at least 10 times better than Zepto's. Fits more things on one screen but feels so much cleaner. Zepto looks like the app itself was designed in 10 minutes.
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the greatest piece of audio content ever created in history. there is no comparison.
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@anmo7singh podcasts are conversations, not weird interrogations. i never commented anything about eating at all lol, I don’t mind that!.
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one major reason why indian podcasts are cringe to watch is all of them start working for clickbait and the algorithm — because all of them are by podcasters who only podcast for a living. meanwhile most globally successful podcasts are by people who have other things going on.
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Hot take: Bangalore eats SF for breakfast in the next 10 years. It’s already started.
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Used the Delhi Metro Airport line for the first time. - Check-in (luggage as well) at the metro station.- Airport station right at at the T-3 Departure terminal.- 19 minutes travel time from Central Delhi (Shivaji Stadium) to the airport. Which other city in the world has this?
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The biggest roadblock that web3 faces at the moment is college exams.
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“trump is my president 🇺🇸”. brother you live in ghaziabad relax and continue your gedi.
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i don’t think the indian @solana ecosystem has ever been this alive 🇮🇳. so many builders, so many new projects, and so much to build. if you’re a project/individual looking to grow and need any kind of help (tech or non-tech), send me a DM!.
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@keshavchan i am the CEO at swiggy and would love to hire you. i only want 10 lakh rupees for the first year. please check your DMs for bank account details and send asap.
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very happy personal update:. i have joined the incredible team at @SquadsProtocol this week. been a huge fan of the team and what they've built for a long time so when this opportunity came up, saying yes was an absolute no-brainer. big thanks to @SimkinStepan for giving me the.
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Delhi has an extremely underrated tech and startup culture. Ideas on how to bring it to everyone's attention (or Twitter timelines)?.
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They really thought @solana was dead 3 months ago. They made jokes, looked down on the community and spread FUD. But we're still here. Still building. Having more fun than we've ever had and Q1 has just started.
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i’m so lucky i found pavel’s work early into my fitness life — wiry strength, never sore, simple and short protocols, kettlebells maxed out.
The new Huberman Lab episode is out: Pavel Tsatsouline: The Correct Way to Build Strength, Endurance & Flexibility at Any Age. The first 4 hours are posted here (current X limit), and the full episode is available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all podcast platforms.
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irfan’s family is in jammu. imagine your parents sending you a video of drones flying in the sky. the amount of armchair quarterback, IYI, keyboard warrior retards commenting like they know something is a huge part of the problem on this app.
Stop celebrating a war 🙏.
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fireside chat between @levelsio and @balajis on “how digital nomads enable network states” at @thenetworkstate conference. here are some sound bites (along with my thoughts on some):. • 100-200 million people are digital nomads today — these are all ideal candidates to join a
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Instagram young people and Twitter young people are two different sets of human beings.
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The @balajis thesis of Indians building global products that are not “Indian” by nature and rather globally competitive is being played out in front of us. Exhibit A being @UltrahumanHQ. Incredible product & tech, great communications and world class quality.
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won gold at the @ADCC_Federation india open yesterday.🥇. i talk a lot about jiu jitsu because it forces you to make decisions in a high stakes situation pretty much every time you do it. but a competition takes that pressure to the next level. every move, every breath, every
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officially moved to bangalore last week 🏡. i remember reading @akshaybd’s blog called “don’t focus” about 3 years ago when i was just checking out what @superteam was — he had mentioned 4 ways of finding your global maxima in professional/personal life: travel, working many
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took my parents on their first international trip and we’ve ordered dal makhani and paneer lababdar from sagar ratna for lunch, i love this.
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Rumour has it that crypto tech bois have misheard 'Merge' as 'Merch' and are lining up outside Vitalik's house.
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I’m a cricket fan from India working in crypto right now. AMA.
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I repeat that “only possible on @solana” is not a meme, it is very much a matter of fact. No amount of 25 tweet long threads can change that. I also respect that most discussions I’ve seen till now have been civil and constructive which comes like a breath of fresh air. But.
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- @cloutdotme .- @tribedotrun .- @timedotfun .- @BagsApp .- @bangerdotlol . founders, apps, tokens. socialFi szn on @solana.
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"what's up with @solana these days?". - @SuperteamDAO going global w/ @SuperteamDE, @SuperteamTR & @SuperteamVN (i'm based).- @jump_firedancer new validator client in the works.- the future of wallets @xNFT_Backpack led by @armaniferrante.- @solanamobile in 2023.
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exception is the people who take it up as a sport and go on to do long endurance runs and iron mans. exponentially harder physically and mentally than a 5k run most people do. and btw, all forms of running long distance are very bad for your knees & net negative for longevity.
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“The Dormroom Founder is the Ascending World Founder”. Watched the recent @SuperteamDAO’s podcast with @balajis around 10 times and took some notes from the conversation.
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if you live in india and still don’t use an air purifier, why do you hate being healthy?
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More @solana projects should write more about what they’re building & how it relates to the ecosystem. Every legit ETH project does this extremely well. Communication as a culture needs to be adopted not just at the fndn/individual level but also at the project level.
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A surreal fanboy moment for me to catch the likes of @ggreenwald and @AshleyRindsberg at The Network State conf yesterday. @balajis has started a movement.🌐
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the man, the myth, the legend. the greatest of all time. @Casey again with an all-time classic. what guy.
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This is how a peak male eats his lunch in 2023. Deal with it.
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@AgnosticRabbit a lot of them were in restaurants/cafés too having communal dinners and having a good time in general. very refreshing to see and for sure plays a part!.
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you don’t know how dots would connect in retrospect, so increase your surface area of dots. if nothing works out, at least you become someone who can hold a conversation regardless of who you talk to, and that is a superpower no one talks about.
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life update + looking for a flatmate 🏡. update: indiranagar is officially going to be my 2nd home. looking forward to spending a lot of time in BLR now & use my place to meet people, build cool things & have a lot of ghee podi masala dosas. and i’m looking for a 3rd flatmate!.
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yeah love is great but there's literally a @solana summit focussed on DePIN and hardware happening in BLR next month.
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Multiverse creature spotted in the wild. Please make your presence felt if you’re seeing this.
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Solana was at rock bottom at the start of the year. But the community stuck around. Four months into 2023 & @solana city is now growing faster than it has ever grown before. 🧵
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siliconhalli cooked!. one of the best events i have ever been to — super interesting prompts, great people and insanely well done. big ups @10kdesigners, @spacekayak and @824club 🫡
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TLDR of Indian Crypto Twitter next week:. - Blr airport is very far.- Blr roads have potholes.- Blr traffic is worse than the bear market.- It’s impossible to find an Uber ride.- Whitefield sucks, it is not in blr and takes 2 business days to reach from the city.
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gave a talk about auroville at the network school:. - a social network.- a moral innovation .- a recognised founder.- collective consciousness .- archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories .- diplomatic recognition.- in-person civility . all points mentioned by @balajis in
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Was lucky to visit @itsarnavb’s lab, The Lagrange Point today. Inspiring to see the space him, @thel3l and the crew have built - experiments on how to solve liquid waste, software to read better, and so much more. 🇮🇳/acc at its peak. [4th picture was a banana & eggs once]
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vibecoded the breakout website in a couple of days with cursor. i hope we never stop appreciating the magic of AI.
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