Nikhil Bidkar

I just use this space to pen down my thoughts

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Fitness is not big muscles. It’s not that easy. Fitness is flexibility of body, tenacity of mind and oneness of the soul with the universe.

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What outlasts the laugh

In all standup comedies I watch, two types keep showing up.

The first builds jokes around a target. An ex, a community etc. The audience laughs because someone loses, and the whole set depends on that someone staying fixed in place, never getting to respond.

The second builds jokes around a situation. A flight delay. A bad first date. Their own middle-class upbringing. Nobody loses. The joke works because it's true, not because someone got taken down. Both get laughs. Both fill rooms.

Was listening to a podcast where the host said something that stuck with me: "what joke you enjoy tells a lot about you." Made me think about why some jokes land for me and some don't. The insult ones get a quick laugh, then nothing. The observational ones, the ones that turn a mundane moment inside out, stay with me for days.

Maybe it's because one kind of humour needs a victim to work. The other just needs to be true. Also possible I just have a bad memory. Can't rule that out.

Fin.

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Why positioning isn't thinking

I have been thinking about contrarianism.

Last week, I came across a senior columnist writing that a girl who killed her fiancé was justified because it apparently was her ‘last resort’. Do you have that one person in your circle who always has the hot take? The one who disagrees with the room on principle?

Growing up, I used to read columns like this and think, What a mind! she's going somewhere no one else will. That must be what intelligence looks like. I was wrong.

What I was actually watching was positioning. The conclusion had already been decided. The argument was reverse-engineered to support it. The surprise was the product, not the byproduct.

And it works. Disagreeing with conventional wisdom gets instant attention. On LinkedIn, on Twitter, in a room. People mistake the confidence of the contrarian position for the weight of real thinking. But I don’t think it’s the same thing.

Real thinking doesn't have a direction. It follows the evidence wherever it goes. Sometimes that lands somewhere unexpected. Sometimes it lands exactly where everyone else already is. The destination is never supposed to be the point.

The best thinkers I have read weren't trying to surprise you. They were trying to get it right. For them, accurate thinking was the goal. Disagreement was an occasional byproduct.

Fin.

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Really @Olacabs?

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@ayeejuju That’s for managing expectations.

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Delhi has wealth. Mumbai has income. Bangalore has equity. Three very different cities pretending to have the same conversation about money.

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Delhi is a rich city.

If you go to any decent restaurant, very high probability that 50% of people eating there have networth of 10 cr+.

How? Bcz most people in Delhi live in owned property than rent.
And, Delhi is mostly plots, not flats
Now, check avg home price in Delhi.

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@TheCinesthetic Everyone who controls what Teddy touches knows what Teddy is. The audience just wasn't in on it yet.

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You can fake competence. You can fake confidence. You can even fake culture. Sincerity is the only one that fights back.

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The scariest part about the age of content? You can build a career on the appearance of thinking without ever actually doing it.

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@chesscom If* you just

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Can happiness truly be solved?

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@readswithravi Envy

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@SahilBloom Marrying rich.

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Congress sending youth to create ruckus at the AI summit is peak stupidity. What exactly were they hoping to achieve? Hard to see this winning any traction. If anything, it only attracts backlash. Peak clown behaviour 🤡

#AISummit

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Three friends got stuck in a cable car in Switzerland. People on the ground started throwing snowballs at them. If this had happened in India, there would already be 50+ tweets about Indians' lack of civic sense.

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@archeohistories Well, they look happy

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@chesscom: there should be no place for uncivilised behaviour in the world of chess.

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Credit card bros: how many reward points he’d have got? 😧

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Billionaire Buys an Entire $65 million Sky Scrapper on A Credit card

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Life feels so f’all when your favourite philosopher launches a ₹199 course 🤦🏻‍♂️

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“From ours to yours” in Diwali captions sounds warm until you realise nobody knows who ours is and what yours did to deserve it.

#Diwali #Diwali2025