Srivats Sivanandan
@srewats
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Product builder. Fintech nerd. B2B SaaS nut. Startup helper. Angel investor. Rasmalai lover.
Seattle
Joined June 2009
Based on conversations with multiple people, active in-town grandparents, are worth about $30,000 a year.
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"That’s why naïveté is such a gift. New people can see the absurdities a team has normalized, the opportunities they’ve stopped noticing, the improvements they no longer imagine. But it only works if they’re bold enough to speak up"
boz.com
Organizations only improve when people are brave enough to question normalized nonsense and others are humble enough to listen.
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Thank you for all the memories and for personifying the quote on your left forearm Stan. "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
🎾ONE LAST PUSH🎾 Every book needs an ending📕 It’s time to write the final chapter of my career as a professional tennis player 📝 2026 will be my last year on tour P perseverance A ambition S sacrifice S success I injuries O obsession N never give up D discipline R
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I had no business getting this right! ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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I wonder how much of "being hot" is a skill? I mean you can't deliberately look "not hot", right?! Then genetics rule.
Being physically attractive and projecting sex appeal will become an important *career* asset in an AI-first, robots-everywhere future. It'll be a way that humans stand out -- growing the "pretty privilege" gap even further. Interestingly, thinness may become a commodity due to
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"I’m principled but too lazy to be highly principled" 🔥
If any payment comes to me, please send it back to Anthropic with my thanks for including my books in their AIs. The judgement website offers a way to opt out of the payment, but I found it cumbersome, so I didn’t. (I’m principled but too lazy to be highly principled.)
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"The good thing about everything being so fucked up is that no matter where you look, there is great work to be done." ~ Derrick Jensen
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After a deep convo, realizing that people in tech are accustomed to relying on our intellects to power us through our days and we can get jumpy at the idea of relying on them less: of not always stopping to do research or thinking things through before acting on our intuition.
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Love love that karma is in here. Such an overlooked component of achieving BHAGs.
When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams. It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method. Here's exactly what Shohei
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This is IMO the 💰💰💰 page from the excellent Obvious Adams. Its the ultimate kernel of insight. Thanks for spreading this obvious recommendation @rorysutherland, hope to see a Ridiculous Rory on bookshelves!
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Money chart from the update. At Amazon, inventory turns (in $) was the key input metric we managed/measured maniacally. Operational excellence was the need of the hour (given low margins) to drive free cash flows. Contrast to where Meta/Alphabet/Microsoft sit!
4/ Report available here:
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"Why aren't PMs/Designers also Developers?" My answer draws from David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage.
@zebriez because the highest-leverage work for each role is different? each persona could still use the same tool to drive the outcomes that matter by bringing comparative advantages to bear
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And SaaS apps devoid of any AI have decided to take advantage of this by replacing their "loading" states with "thinking".
SaaS apps are much, much slower since AI It's OK because they do much, much more But not something I would have expected 24+ months ago
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5YO claims to have located Mars with his newly acquired telescope. I don't want to break it to him that he's been looking at the neighbor's pumpkin shaped lights. He is Galileo.
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This is so tempting and I think there's an awesome opportunity for @AnjanKatta to bring Daylight tech to bear. A little too addictive for kids IMO.
Introducing Board – the first ever face-to-face gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games into one beautiful new platform. Available today!! https://t.co/yK0QjdzbSc
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The Art of Spending Money by @morganhousel is an instant recommendation. Worth reading for this singular framing: Wealth = what you have - what you want He does it yet again! Amazing writing.
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"That is how operating systems are born. They do not begin as products. They begin as behaviors that become impossible to unlearn." Love this love letter to @wabi penned by Hiten
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