Phone addiction now seems graver in our parents' generation than any of the younger generations. Many of their attention spans are gone, they can't do without their phones, and even worse - there's no remorse about it like the younger generations have.

Really harrowing story of mass layoffs in TCS. Seems like the tip of the iceberg of the pain ahead. Hope these IT layoffs do for India what State Enterprises layoffs did to China in the 1990s - usher local entrepreneurship in India's small towns and cities 🙏

Incredible intellectual honesty by Dwarkesh LLMs are great but it is kind of daft to think that a human mind can be fully explained through linear algebra alone. The only people who seem super excited about the idea that LLMs alone will get us to AGI are the ones building LLMs

If you want to predict the future, just read this book. It is astonishing how many of Lee Kuan Yew's prophecies have come true. He predicted in early 2000s that the West will shoot itself in the foot by embracing multiculturalism. He also predicted that Japan will re-arm

he's braver than me. id think twice before agreeing to drive to andheri (w)

y'all will never guess how this thread starts 😭

There's a common fallacy we moderns about ancients. When we find a great ancient idea, we are surprised. We think how genius of our ancients to have thought of such an idea that far back in our past. The assumption is that we, moderns, are somewhat smarter than our ancients.

it's wild being a millennial on internet because we have memories of old discourses. observing karwa chauth had negative social capital for a good many years. given the number of posts i have seen from women on karwa chauth, the discourse seems to have completely flipped.

Simply not true. This is how an average Mumbai billionaire dresses. Mumbai lost to Bangalore in the last 10 years due to crazy high Real Estate prices. That will change now given the extremely high RE supply building up. That said, as of today, Bangalore is the best place to

This is the single best thing anyone could ever send to a writer. I'm holding back tears.

🔥 Chandra runs marathons even at this age. He can lead the Tata group for another 15 years no problemo

Is it only me or Anita Anand, the Canadian FM and Anita Anand, the journalist and host of the Empire podcast kinda look the same? Full confusion only Anita Anand anita anand

The sun set on the British empire during the 1950s Suez Crisis when its wacko Prime Minister Anthony Eden acted out of his mind by overestimating his power in the world. Other powers including America stopped trusting the British in the 1950s, and thus began its decline. If

Anyway, here's a picture of Sharm El-Sheikh from my visit in 2018. Surreal place. A beachtown in the middle of a desert.

One simple difference between civilizational nation-states like India/China and an empire like the US/UK: if the North Sentinel Island were in the US, they would have invaded it by now. Their state policy is downstream of that moral policy.