at a real estate summit and the common sentiment is that we’ll be able to continue to sell resi coz: “ai won’t take your jobs - someone using ai will” lol

i hate the ‘larger scheme of things’ i suffer greatly, but in the larger scheme of things are 8 billion humans who supposedly suffer i need to imagine the sufferings of these other beings. i need to think it. i can’t feel it. i can’t be sure if its just code???? i am so unsure

the other is imaginary

yahan pe sona gadha hai

probably the most scarce skill in the world is “think big, execute small.” mostly because it requires holding competing paradoxes in your head at all times.

[scene: bojack horseman's messy living room \ todd chavez lounges on the couch, eating spaghetti from a hat\ ayn rand's ghost appears] todd: whoa! are you a ghost of some kind? … spooooky librarian Ayn Rand: I am Ayn Rand. Philosopher. Novelist. Champion of Objectivism. todd:

money is a work of fiction and affects the real world so much. same with god. what are some other collective imaginations only possible through language that affect the real world similarly?

what if consciousness isn’t meant to ‘evolve’? what if it’s just a side-effect of surviving too well?

gloomy days make it easier to disappear no one expects you to show up fully you can just sit, half-there, blaming the clouds

i keep trying to solve life like it’s a puzzle. but most days it feels more like… background noise

roads in baner-balewadi suck

“uber driver - drive & deliver” for knowledge workers

need to live more in my body for a while

who’s building agent wallets?

Founders who use Claude Code and think "distribution is the only thing that matters" have it backwards. Claude will fix bugs, unblock you, help you iterate. But the product matters even more now. You need to sweat the details. Care about the craft. Slop doesn't win.

jobs we imagine in the construction industry: orchestrator (promoter, engg head) define outcomes, allocate budget/ time/ scope, approve exceptions auditor in the loop (transactional expert) review digital artefacts (eg. indent, po, grn, bill) made by ai, catch anomalies, raise

as the observer, do not theorize stay with what is not what it might mean

where’s the building builders area of twitter?

Noah Tye Paul Graham You are a pattern in motion, unless you believe in magic sentience atoms

emotions are realtime dashboards. ignore red lights, don’t blame the engine