A good API doesn’t just return data. It handles rate-limiting, caching, auth, validation, logging, versioning, and graceful failure. If you only return JSON then you're not building an API, you're just exposing a database.

2nd Place - Pravah 🥈 Electrical grids are overwhelmed with data needed to manage complex operations. Pravah developed an agentic grid orchestration framework to intake multimodal data, analyze it, and coordinate response actions Mohak Mangal

working theory: the purpose of life is to die a surplus human. to have contributed more than you consumed. most believe the opposite. thinking it's all about buying more, eating more, watching more. but in reality, it's all about making more, creating more, building more.

start explaining why your balance sheet looks like it just got hit by a bus

the only things to look for when hiring AI/ML people is - do they have a good sense of how to evaluate if something (model/system) works. can they go really deep into setting up evals, data, cohorts, etc. - do they set up a high throughput experimentation harness - do they keep

Attending the first cohort of the Frugal Science program was a life-changing, transformative journey for me. I used to stay up until 3 am in the harsh Delhi winters, learning about research and the world around me. I discovered so many things and realized that research is for

Feeling embarrassed by your past work is not a sign of incompetence. It’s a mark of growth. Regretting your prior decisions doesn't reflect poor judgment. It reveals new insight. Cringing at your old opinions doesn't display ignorance. It demonstrates an open mind.

Art and suffering have always been intertwined, for both are attempts to make sense of what otherwise feels unbearable.

If you are fortunate to be appointed an umpire, be a Simon Taufel than a Steve Bucknor, no matter who appointed you. A Simon Taufel is always admired and respected.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

'Girls just wanna be told' a single line of code that solves all of humanity's problems. If only I knew sooner.

gaussian distribution is just god speedrunning character design

Moats aren’t something you sit down and plan out on a whiteboard; they form as a byproduct of building something people can’t stop using. They come from network effects, brand loyalty, community trust, and execution over time. The moat will show up naturally as your product

Your professional success mostly has to do with what you don't have to deal with on a daily basis. People who are "lucky" in life don't constantly deal with avoidable health issues, ego-based disputes with people with no goal, chronic stress that comes from financial

If you never allow trust to be the default, you will always have to earn it.