Aryan Kukreja

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Open letter to Indians in America.
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:

Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.

Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.

You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.

Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.

Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.

As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.

Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I suspect with rising job loss and ease of launching an online business, we’ll see an unprecedented rise in entrepreneurship.

But most of such new businesses will resemble more like your neighbourhood shop instead of a fast growing startup because it’ll be harder to dislodge existing scaled incumbents (as they consolidate their advantages and use AI to react fast).

So, we will see a return of artisanal businesses that serve a niche that’s too small for a large players to bother.

(Until such niche personalisation and automation is also automated by the incumbents).

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

if you're a teenager or young, your biggest strategic lever is that your cost of failure is basically close to zero.

so use it to your advantage. take career risks. try building a startup.

you'd have such a long adulthood to recover that a few years of failing here and there wouldn't make an ounce of a difference.

but if even one of your crazy attempts works out, it'll change your life.

[Aryan Kukreja @Aryank1111]

@NoahRyanCo @grok what does it imply?

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

Never let your ego come in the way of love.

If you’re angry at a loved one, just gulp away your ego and go hug them.

It’ll be better for you, better for them, and better for your relationship.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

You should make notes on everything you learn.

First, the act of making notes forces your brain to understand the topic much better than passive reading.

Second, written notes allow you to stitch a web of ideas and discover new connections b/w previous thoughts and new ones.

[Aryan Kukreja @Aryank1111]

@spectatorindex @grok is this true?

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Don’t just read books, re-read books. What's your favorite book to re-read?

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Anyone who is interested in history but struggles with predicting the future enjoys history for the stories, not for the lessons.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make money, and if you are not defensive, you are not going to keep money.”

— Ray Dalio

[Business Mindful @BizMindful]

How to Get Things Done Even when you don't feel like it:

-THREAD-

[David Altizer @thumbnaildavid]

Not only is this moment historical, but the photo that @evanvucci took is also perfect.

The level of compositional mastery comes from over two decades of experience in the field and a sharpness that only comes from thousands and thousands of "reps."

1/5

[Gaurav Munjal @gauravmunjal]

Learnings from the last 24 months:

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

In 2 pages @JeffBezos teaches you more about high standards than you'll learn from reading 2 books. The art of summarising that which resists summary is critical to achieving greatness. The world will forget you, except what you've written down, then what you've written down well

[Aryan Kukreja @Aryank1111]

@danmurrayserter *respond

[Balaji @balajis]

Hardware is hard.

That’s why Elon is by far the greatest founder of all time.

Remember — countless startups die just while trying to put stationary beige boxes on desktops. Very smart people get crushed by supply chain disruptions, or China tariffs, or lockdowns, or shipping interruptions, or regulatory delays.

Not Elon. He didn’t just survive financial crisis and coronavirus. He managed to build physical things in America while fighting the state and the laws of nature at the same time.

Somehow he managed to simultaneously build not just a car company but a rocket company. Those don’t just have “moving parts”, they are a moving whole.

The difficulty level here is insane. Hardware is completely different from software. One recall, just one serious bug, can destroy your company. If you are charging $50 for something that costs $40, and you need to recall and replace a million units, you’re usually dead.

So just one of these companies — just Tesla, or just SpaceX — would be an incredible accomplishment for anyone. Even a very intelligent and hardworking person would have to live an incredibly boring, disciplined, focused life to possibly maintain the extremely low error rate needed to profitably ship such complex products.

Not Elon. He did SpaceX and Tesla while having N children by K women. While also cofounding OpenAI and Neuralink and Boring Company. While fighting and defeating countless journalists, politicians, haters, and short sellers. And of course while buying Twitter, posting all the time, and building a following larger than almost any politician.

The better you are, the better you understand how much better Elon is. If you’re good at math you appreciate Ramanujan’s greatness. If you’re good at basketball you respect how amazing Michael Jordan was. Elon is like that, for tech. Everyone in tech understands the sport we’re playing, and he really is the greatest of all time.

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[Aryan Kukreja @Aryank1111]

@paraschopra Hands down #kodaikanal

[Aryan Kukreja @Aryank1111]

@thebigbook

[lemmichill @I_mparzival]

@thebigbookbox Where are the orders for Gatsby and gray?? Or do you check the calendar only to look for the next spot of scamming people?

What date is it today? 15th July never came around for yall it seems