Varun Paliwal

Living to learn, learning to live!
Giving to some, what I have been gifted
@BitsPilaniIndia #loveTech @MorganStanley @Oracle #pluviophile

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@pankaj @glean @jainarvind @tonygentilcore @tr_vishwanath Congratulations @pankaj and to glean for having you! Wishing you a journey of a lifetime at Glean

[Varun Paliwal @BitsVarun]

Kindness warms the heart like no other

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Never underestimate the power of small good deeds... because its always matters

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Loved this quote about Sol Price - the father of warehouse based retailing by Jim Sinegal (co-founder of Costco).

Sol's philosophy was - "business is about more than making money and that a company also has an obligation to serve society"

[Varun Paliwal @BitsVarun]

Tried Grok to compare Indian health insurance plans. Disappointed it doesn't reference tweets to distinguish good from bad companies. For example, assessing HDFC Ergo Optima Secure's claim settlements lacks insights from customer tweets. #Grok2 @elonmusk @grok

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Can't agree more!
People matter the most, and having nice, well meaning, intelligent and motivated people to work with has an exponential impact on building great products

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“There are three qualities to look for in a partner: intelligence, energy, and integrity. You need all three. You can't compromise on any one of them.”

— @naval

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Another reason to do something difficult physical each day as well as some hard, productive cognitive work each day:
look around… most peoples autonomic threshold is set at “trigger easily, and spend rest of day seething, in thumb and index finger battle, no sleep, repeat.”

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Can totally resonate with this! Spend time with people than things

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

The best advice Warren Buffett gave at this weekend’s Berkshire conference had nothing to do with investing.

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

The best advice Warren Buffett gave at this weekend’s Berkshire conference had nothing to do with investing.

[Varun Paliwal @BitsVarun]

Very interesting read. Indeed very thought provoking and am seriously considering substitutes

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

SOURCE of modern man's weakness, stupidity, and general lack of vitality?

His leisure activities

Aldous Huxley predicted the degeneracy of modern amusements in a 103 year old essay: Pleasures (1920)

Huxley on why and how to radically rewire the way you spend your free time���🏻

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@The_AdProfessor @SaveToNotion

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@dmuthuk @dmuthuk -
1. Can you pls elaborate on why HDFC Bank is not the industry leader?
2. Which banks are better and why? Thanks!

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@RaulJuncoV @SaveToNotion #thread #apiintegration

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Amazed at this!

[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

@TimesAlgebraIND No Name is Greater than Prabhu Ram ❤️
Amazing artwork ❤️👏
Jai Shri Ram 🚩🚩

[💪🎭..Rai ji..💪🎭 @Vinod_r108]

@TimesAlgebraIND No Name is Greater than Prabhu Ram ❤️
Amazing artwork ❤️👏
Jai Shri Ram 🚩🚩

[Varun Paliwal @BitsVarun]

@shushant_l @SaveToNotion #thread #booksummaries

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@jarrodwatts @SaveToNotion

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@haider1 @sama Didn't @sama announce earlier that they will never use our data to train on?
Seems like that stance has changed

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@safalniveshak Term insurance is only needed if one has liabilities (like home-loan) right?

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Very insightful indeed!

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

A NEW MENTAL MODEL MEGATHREAD HAS ARRIVED!

In 20 tweets I’ll summarize 20 key principles to understand the world.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes.
Value: potentially a lifetime.

[Varun Paliwal @BitsVarun]

@joncalhoun Thanks for sharing!