Darveen Vijayan 🚀

I (re)tweet stuff that's in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, business, strategy, investing, psychology and poker.

[Darveen Vijayan 🚀 @DarveenVijayan]

Platinum goals.

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

AOC with zero life achievements: "Elon Musk is not a scientist, he’s not an engineer, he’s a billionaire conman with a lot of money" 🤡

Elon Musk: "Can you believe it? That's crazy, anyway... what did you get done this week?"

[Ayman Al-Abdullah 🧱 @aymanalabdul]

Be Zuck
>Build Facebook before you can legally drink
>Bet wrong on mobile. Admit it. Rebuild everything
>Buy Instagram for $1B to stop it from replacing you
>$10B gone overnight when Apple nukes your ad business
>Rename company to Meta
>Everyone agrees: "He's lost it"
>Stock tanks 70%
>Fire 21,000 people
>Burn ~$60B on VR while Wall Street screams
>Put AI in Ray-Bans. Sell 2 million pairs
>Stock hits all-time highs
>Meanwhile Jobs gone. Bezos retired. Gates out
>You're the last OG founder standing

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

The incredible things that happen in your body when you fast

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

When you understand physics

[Darveen Vijayan 🚀 @DarveenVijayan]

Accurate

[intern @intern]

guys basically believe that you can solve every problem in your life by getting jacked and making more money

[kache @yacineMTB]

the best way to learn anything is by actually just doing the thing. Doing the thing is actually hard. That's why universities spend so much time making students memorize things without understanding, without doing them. How many people "know" things yet don't understand them?

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The developing world is now more modern than the developed world

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services:

- frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs)
- hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling)
- database
- authentication (custom, social logins)
- blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed)
- email
- payments
- background jobs
- analytics
- monitoring
- dev tools (CI/CD, staging)
- secrets
- ...

I'm relatively new to modern web dev and find the above a bit overwhelming, e.g. I'm embarrassed to share it took me ~3 hours the other day to create and configure a supabase with a vercel app and resolve a few errors. The second you stray just slightly from the "getting started" tutorial in the docs you're suddenly in the wilderness. It's not even code, it's... configurations, plumbing, orchestration, workflows, best practices. A lot of glory will go to whoever figures out how to make it accessible and "just work" out of the box, for both humans and, increasingly and especially, AIs.

[kache @yacineMTB]

one thing i've noticed: people who win keep on winning, and people who lose keep on losing

[kache @yacineMTB]

maybe the reason people think that you can't learn things in two weeks is because dull normies are scared to attempt things because they need the social permission that traditional learning and imitation gives them

[Darveen Vijayan 🚀 @DarveenVijayan]

@jxnlco Proposal

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”

— W. H. Auden

[kache @yacineMTB]

the existence of "experts" is a myth

the fact that certain skills are "deep" is a meme. you can learn anything in one or two weeks. the only thing that exists is depth

[kache @yacineMTB]

the secret to success is having unwavering belief in your future success, such that you aren't even worried about it

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.”

— Aristotle

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Elon Musk’s advice to ambitious people:

Try to read a lot of books (read broadly), ingest as much information as you can and develop a good general knowledge.

[E-go @EgoDriv]

The winning formula is to lower your expectations and increase your standards.

Fuck relying on hopes and wishes.

You don't expect from yourself, you demand it.
And you deliver.

Because you're a man of your word.

This is the type of relationship you should have with yourself.

[Shaan Puri @ShaanVP]

An engineer who can “build anything” is worth $1M

An engineer who can figure out “what to build” is worth 100X that

In business, the GPS creates more value than the engine.

[DHH @dhh]

The merchants of complexity will try to convince you that you can't do anything yourself these days. You can't do auth, you can't do scale, you can't run a database, you can't connect a computer to the internet. You're a helpless peon who should just buy their wares. No. Reject.