Dheeresh Chandra

Overstimulated Nervous System

[Dheeresh Chandra @Dheeresh1107]

@kushika_twt Also nobody know what you actually do!

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@harishupadhya Bangalore's become so cosmopolitan, so full of opportunity.The Cauvery issue was the wedge for a while, and now with nothing else that really divides, all that's left to politicise is language.That there's so little to divide people on is actually a good sign.This'll die out too

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2/ Even more so if you're a generalist solving lots of problems, you're never fully on one thing, you're doing five at once. So how effectively you can use AI comes down to how many tabs you can keep open in your head at the same time. That's the real skill now.

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1/ The hardest part of working with AI every day isn't the AI, it's the constant context switching. You give Claude a task, it takes 5-10 minutes, so you jump to something else while it runs. Stack a few of those and you're never really in one place, always half-somewhere.

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3/ Just in the last few days, so many scams and articles have come out against ministers in the government. And the public mood is turning with it, more and more people sounding openly anti-incumbent. A tide that took years to turn finally seems to be turning.

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1/ Something I've noticed lately: my timeline has shifted. Accts that used to post only good things about the govt are now openly critical. Feels like the mood turned somewhere around the fuel price and ethanol blending frustration, and the scandals surfacing one after another.

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2/ It took a while for anti-incumbency to catch up to the BJP. For a long time they ran a really tight ship, the narrative online was almost entirely in their favour. But that grip seems to be slipping now, and you can feel the ground shifting.

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3/ That's the thing, fame becomes a free pass. A heritage tag or a long queue makes us assume the kitchen is clean, when it's often the opposite. Tunday gets away with it because it's Tunday. Maybe the famous old places need checking more, not less.

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1/ Finally ate at Tunday Kababi in Lucknow, the famous one everyone tells you about. The kababs were good. But the place itself? The floors were dirty, not mopped, grime everywhere. For somewhere this iconic, pulling in this many people daily, I expected better basics.

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2/ And it made me think about what's happening in Hyderabad right now. Food safety teams have been raiding big famous restaurants and finding cockroaches, expired food, filthy floors, the works.Names people trust and eat at all the time.The raids don't spare you for being popular

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6/ No traffic. No walking. Dropped right in front of the shop we wanted. And here's the kicker, the shops the drivers pushed weren't just different, they were pricier and lower quality. If we'd trusted them we'd have paid more for worse. Imagine how many would be falling prey!

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1/ Was in @Lucknow recently & Wanted to buy some chikankari. We'd done our homework, a local friend recommended a few shops and we cross-checked on Google, the ones with thousands of ratings, not just high scores. Booked a cab to one of them. That's where it got interesting.

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5/ They said there's nothing like that, the cab drops you right at the door, zero walking. And that these drivers run on commission for certain shops. Their fix was clever: tell the driver you're going to a well-known old sweet shop nearby instead, to buy sweets. So we did.

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5/ This time I tried Shoffr.Landing at 1:30am it was only ₹300-400 over Uber, a total no-brainer.Separate pickup line, driver helped with my bags, water in the car, clean ride.None of that happens in an Uber. I'm using Shoffr for airport rides from now on.@shoffr_in @vikasbardia

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1/ Coming back to Bangalore is its own ordeal. If I land between 10pm and 1am, I have basically never gotten a cab in under 20-30 minutes. Sometimes I've waited 45 minutes to an hour, standing outside the airport in the middle of the night.

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4/ What I don't get is that both demand and supply clearly exist. Hundreds of cabs are literally parked behind the terminal, waiting. Uber has years of data on exactly how many people land and when. Not sure why this problem even exits!