Akash Thakur

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[books 📖 @bookpoets]

“we should be nothing but grateful”

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Peak Michael Scott energy

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Technology company Plex took its 120 employees to Honduras for a weeklong bonding experience. It was a disaster from the moment they arrived. https://t.co/PrzMSHyUq3

[Akash Thakur @AkashThakur]

Clean. Neat. Tasteful. 🤌

[Sarvam @SarvamAI]

The all-new Sarvam is here.
Designed for all of India.

https://t.co/O78H03Jcki

[Akash Thakur @AkashThakur]

😂😂

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude https://t.co/LR1v4xz9ds

[Masuko/Pizza 4P’s 益子 🇯🇵🇮🇳🇺🇸🇻🇳🇰🇭🇮🇩 @Yo_maco]

インドの店舗が5カ国で一番予約が取れなくなっているので(週末1,500人お断りしています)、インド人の方からホーチミン、ハノイ行って4P’s食べてきたって言われることが増えてる。有り難い🙏

[Akash Thakur @AkashThakur]

When Bangalore says no table, Hanoi says Xin Chao

Pizza 4P’s - definitely worth the hype.

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@astronomerio

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 1997, at the age of 27, Matt Damon won his first Academy Award for Best Screenplay ("Good Will Hunting").

After Damon won the Oscar, he went home, sat down on his sofa, & looked at the award.

As he looked at it, he was suddenly overwhelmed by a heartbreaking thought.

"Imagine chasing that, and not getting it, and getting it finally in your 80s or your 90s with all of life behind you and realizing what an unbelievable waste of your life...It can't fill you up. If that's a hole that you have, that won't fill it."

"My heart broke," Damon said. "I imagined another one of me [not getting that award until I was] an old man, and going like, 'oh my god. where did my life go? What have I done?' And then it's over."

Takeaway 1:

Many successful, rich, famous, etc. people talk about chasing success, money, fame, etc., getting it, and realizing that it didn't feel like they thought it would. That it didn't, as Damon said, fill the hole they had.

One of my favorite analogies for this pattern comes from Sam Hinkie.

Hinkie was asked about what he's learned from reading Robert Caro's books—about some very successful, rich, famous, etc. people.

"I think of it like the Pacific Salmon," Hinkie said. "They spend their whole life making this journey upstream to spawn in this one spot. And as soon as they do, they die. That's largely what Caro shows you."

Takeaway 2:

Before he was a big-time comedian, Hasan Minhaj was asked if he thought he was going to become a big-time comedian.

“I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.”

Because that question implies that he is only doing comedy as a means to some end (success, money, fame, etc.).

“No, no, no,” he said, “The set I get to do tonight at 7:20 PM is the win. I get to do comedy—I won. It being predicated on doing X or being bigger than Y—no, no, no. To me, it’s always just been about the work."

"The work is the win," as Ryan Holiday once told me.

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"It's such a gift to be able to [do] something and to love it for the sake of it...I see people with talent, with all those things. But the one thing they don't have is just that love for doing it for the sake of it...So if there's anything, just find joy in what you do for the sake of it." — Rodney Mullen

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@Pratyakshya2 @masterchefindia @masterchefau And the forced product placement. Cringe. 😭😭

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[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

In 2022 I learned hundreds of useful concepts that improved my understanding of the world.

Here are the 10 best:

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@schmmuck @QarnMehta 🤣

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.

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A story of hope ♥️

[Xavier Chatel @Xavier_Chatel_]

There is a story I have been meaning to tell for a while. During the Afghan evacuation operation, a girl arrived at Al Dhafra airbase, exhausted, with an unusual possession: a bird. She had fought all the way at Kabul airport, to bring the treasured little thing with her.

1/8

[Akash Thakur @AkashThakur]

What an insane game this is turning out to be #FrenchOpenFinal

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Oh yes!

[Sprinklr @Sprinklr]

Members of our Sprinklr family have created a resources dashboard for the ongoing COVID crisis in India.

The data shows open beds, oxygen, and more, organized by location and updated in real-time.

We are proud of their efforts to support those in need: https://t.co/RmXDzkJonK

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Being around plants, trees, running water, pets, kids, lively people, busy streets etc. makes us feel more alive.

Life is short to be around people and things that suck life out of you.

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♥️

[Tiny Buddha @tinybuddha]

We are all wounded people dealing with messy emotions in a confusing, uncertain, sometimes scary world...

[ESPN @espn]

Diving coach Cliff Devries is paralyzed on the right side of his body, and what he manages to do on his birthday each year is truly inspiring ❤️

He turns 47 today. (via @E60)

[Akash Thakur @AkashThakur]

@QarnMehta @memorable_90s Absolutely! #KVKiYaadein 🤩