Baskar Ganapathy

Seeking truth…

[Baskar Ganapathy @BaskarG]

"Brahma satyam jagat mithya jivo brahmaiva naparah"

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

ಹೊಸ ಮೆಟ್ರೋ ಮಾರ್ಗ, ಹೊಸ ಆರಂಭ!

400 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ಮೆಟ್ರೋ ಜಾಲದ ಮೂಲಕ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರನ್ನು ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಸುಸಂಪರ್ಕಿತ ನಗರವನ್ನಾಗಿಸುವ ನಮ್ಮ ದೂರದೃಷ್ಟಿಯ ಗುರಿಯತ್ತ ಇದು ಕೇವಲ ಆರಂಭವಷ್ಟೇ. ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಬ್ಬ ನಾಗರಿಕನಿಗೂ ಸುಗಮ ಸಂಚಾರ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸುವ ನಿಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ ಪಯಣ ಮುಂದುವರಿಯಲಿದೆ.

ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಉತ್ತಮ ಸಂಪರ್ಕ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥೆಯೊಂದಿಗೆ ಸುಸ್ಥಿರ ಮತ್ತು ಸುಗಮ ಸಂಚಾರದ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿನ ನಿರ್ಮಾಣದತ್ತ ಮುನ್ನಡೆಯೋಣ!

A new Line, a new beginning!
This is only the start of our vision to build a 400 km Metro network, making Bengaluru more accessible for every citizen.

Onwards towards a better-connected #BetterBengaluru!

[Ramanajyothi @Searchof_WhoamI]

लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु ।

Leave all the burdens on the Supreme being. Om Namo Ramana ।

Another wonderful video of Sri Bhagavan... 🙏

#Sri_Ramana_Maharshi
#Tiruvannamalai

[Baskar Ganapathy @BaskarG]

@DanielLurie @bchesky It would be nice if they can divert 5% of this to Kasavanahalli development :) cc @kdevforum

[Coefficient Giving @coeff_giving]

We think the world is short of thousands of high-impact nonprofits, and the people to run them.

So we’re launching a Request for Proposals for incubators: organizations that identify promising ideas, recruit and train founders, and support new organizations through launch.

There are two streams:
1️⃣ Scaling existing incubators: For incubators, studios, and accelerators that want to run a larger or dedicated cohort, expand into a new cause area or geography, or offer seed grants.
2️⃣ Seeding new incubators: For individuals or teams who want to start one, especially in geographies where many high-impact organizations could operate but few incubators exist, like India and Nigeria.

Initial applications should take 2–3 hours to complete. Apply by December 18: https://t.co/9w2wxjLPbl

[Daniel Lurie 丹尼爾·羅偉 @DanielLurie]

Today, I stood with Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky to announce his $100 million gift to San Francisco’s parks. This is the largest single-donor gift to the city in San Francisco’s history, and will support the development of new parks, upgrades to existing spaces, expanded hours at recreation facilities, and much more. 

An initial $39 million will help unlock five projects in neighborhoods across our city. SoMa, the Mission, Bayview-Hunters Point, Potrero Hill, and downtown will all see transformational projects finish sooner, bringing more welcoming public spaces to residents across San Francisco. 

As Mayor, one of my top priorities is making San Francisco a city where families can put down roots and build their futures. Earlier this year, we launched our Family Opportunity Agenda—a citywide effort to bring down the cost of living and expand economic mobility for San Francisco families. 

We're building more housing, protecting tenants, expanding access to affordable childcare, and keeping public transportation safe, reliable, and affordable. We're also investing in the public spaces families rely on every day. 

Our parks are an essential part of what makes San Francisco such a special place to raise a family. Our recreation programs provide exceptional and affordable opportunities for San Francisco families. With this investment, we're bringing those opportunities to more neighborhoods across our city, expanding access to recreation, and making our parks even better for the families who use them. 

San Francisco has created enormous opportunity for the people who have built their businesses here. And with that success comes a responsibility to give back to the city that helped make it possible. So, my ask to every leader who sees what Brian has done today is simple: help us create more opportunities for the people who call San Francisco home. Now is the time. Our city is coming back. Don’t just watch it from the sidelines. Be a part of it.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Cool! Kudos to @bchesky. https://t.co/ffA4ZQcaYI

[Irushi @Im_IrushiK]

Anthropic should give affected users a FREE reset and fix Opus 5.5.

The reports of Opus 5.5 degrading since early November are getting seriously concerning.

We're talking about unfinished implementations, missed details, repeated mistakes, and bugs silently making their way into codebases.

Users are paying the same subscription price while potentially spending more of their quota correcting problems that shouldn't exist.

And if users have genuinely been affected, free usage resets would be a reasonable gesture.

I'd genuinely rather have a slower model than a dumber one.Anyone else noticing these changes in Opus 5.5??

[Kiran MMK @KiranMMK22]

Happy Deepavali #Diwali2026

here is a skit about #NARAKA who represents holding on to the unreal..

https://t.co/6BgD20u753

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

Our administration is leveraging the technological strength of Bengaluru to deliver smarter public infrastructure.

Through centralised monitoring and automation of streetlights, we aim to improve public safety, reduce annual energy consumption and progress towards a sustainable and #BetterBengaluru

[Baskar Ganapathy @BaskarG]

Turmeric benefits https://t.co/yjh484zOU7

[sarah guo @saranormous]

the problem with writing an essay
is you really think you know what you're going to say
and then you say it
and it's ordered wrong
and then it's too long
and then it doesn't hang together
and then it doesn't have its meat anymore
and then...

sadly, AI cannot yet help with that

[Baskar Ganapathy @BaskarG]

Thank you @KotakBankLtd

[Baskar Ganapathy @BaskarG]

. @KotakBankLtd credit card with priority pass works smoothly in any international lounge, very good!

[Baskar Ganapathy @BaskarG]

Air India check-in in LHR is self-service all the way, I have never scanned my own bag and put it on the belt! We need to get 10% off on the ticket price if we are now going to do these things @airindia what say?

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Earlier this week Tristan published his top YouTube channels:
https://t.co/NZ3UCNo6cT
Which looked excellent so clearly I had to turn it into TristanTube:
https://t.co/l0KyW1WdNH
47K super nerdy videos +TV mode for laid back watching. (One-shotted with Claude Code in 3 minutes)

[Leo Babauta @zen_habits]

Conversations are an exchange of worlds. We bring our experiences, questions, stories, and ways of seeing things. Someone else brings theirs.

For a little while, we get to see life through another person's eyes.

This is one of the gifts of spending time with each other.

[Baskar Ganapathy @BaskarG]

If a man's wants can be removed for an hour, it is helping him indeed; if his wants can be removed for a year, it will be more help to him; but if his wants can be removed for ever, it is surely the greatest help that can be given him - Swami Vivekananda (Karma Yoga)

[Chargebee @chargebee]

As finance teams transform into AI-native organizations, we’re sharing an inside look at the operating principles required to run one.

Our Finance Director, Neerav Patwa, sat down with @AlonaMysko (Founder of @fuelfinance_ and author of The Finance Engineer on Substack) to break down how our finance team operates from the inside.

Today, the office of the CFO at Chargebee runs on 50+ agents and automations across billing, accounting close, FP&A, treasury, and procurement.

That transformation comes down to deliberate operating choices:

⟡ Distributing technical ownership: Rather than waiting on IT or engineering roadmaps, three to four finance teammates stepped up as internal "finance engineers," creating a peer-led system to help the rest of the team build their own workflows.

⟡ Strict human-in-the-loop governance: Agents handle recurring execution on schedule, but every process routes exceptions to human review and judgment.

⟡ Total visibility over shadow IT: Every script and automation is tracked in a central inventory, supported by per-person AI budgets and regular reviews with finance leadership to monitor what runs.

The result is tangible operational capacity: cash application runs in two minutes instead of 45, and our quarterly capitalized software accounting—previously 16 spreadsheets consolidated by hand over nearly a week—now runs in one day.

We built Traceable, the AI summit for finance teams looking to learn how to use these exact blueprints, bringing finance, RevOps, and engineering leaders together to unpack how operating models actually function behind closed doors.

Thank you to Alyona Mysko for capturing the full architecture in the latest issue of The Finance Engineer.

Read the deep dive on The Finance Engineer here: https://t.co/OpFkb9FpiN and join us at Traceable for industry insights from top finance leaders here: https://t.co/ib3OW7N2H9

#Chargebee #Traceable #FinanceAndDevOps

[Sri Ramakrishna Math @ramakrishnamath]

Retreat with Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj at Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai and cherish the timeless wisdom of Vedanta.

#ramakrishnamath #chennai #swamisarvapriyananda

[Bhagavad Gita 𑁍 @GitaShlokas]

Hare Krishna everyone ✨