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INDIA, INTERNET, INTERNATIONAL
If you're Indian, don't move to America.
Because the US left hates technocapitalists.
And the US right wants no more immigrants.
Moreover, as the sovereign debt crisis worsens...
It only gets worse. Possibly murderously worse.
So: Indian immigrant technocapitalists need alternatives. And there are three options: India, Internet, and International.
1. India
India itself is the world's fastest growing economy, with the #1 growth rate in the world over the last 10 years. Every major company is investing in India. So you can do well in the Indian economy:
2. Internet
The Internet is taking over from a fading NYSE/NASDAQ as the world's largest capital market. The decline of Delaware and NYC accelerate this; everyone from Elon to Elad Gil to a16z to Dropbox have moved out of Delaware for incorporation, and Mamdani is catalyzing a capital exodus to Miami.
So: the US is no longer a stable place for capital formation. And Solana and Ethereum already put Indians on a level playing field with the entire world, with digital rule-of-law. No one can discriminate against you in a smart contract simply for being Indian, so you can do well in the Internet economy:
3. International
Finally, at the exact moment that the US has stopped recruiting tech talent while India is generating enormous amounts of it, the rest of the world is opening their doors to digital nomads.
Dozens of places from the UAE to Singapore have created many different kinds of talent visas. And so Indian technologists have begun rerouting there, especially to Dubai and Singapore. So that's the third option: the International economy:
In short: do not expect the US to suddenly become more friendly towards immigrant capitalists. The long-term financial outlook is not good, so America is unfortunately no longer a good place to build a stable life and a career. Which is why Americans themselves are in a zero-sum mentality.
You can't fix that.
Instead, if you're an Indian technologist, rely only on TCP/IP rather than H-1B. And build yourself up in India, on the Internet, or internationally.
I've noticed that the most accomplished people I know share one trait
They have an enormous capacity for independent thought
A subtle tell is their instinct to question the things most people accept without thinking:
- Being reachable all the time
- Chasing cheap status symbols
- Assuming goals must be linear
- Believing your personality is fixed
- Believing that effort equals impact
- Treating failure as confirmation bias
- Saying yes because of peer pressure
- Treating money conversations as taboo
- Believing that success comes from luck
- Letting group chats dictate their opinions
- Taking other people's urgency as their own
- Assuming you need to be liked by everyone
- Assuming that people who are older are wiser
- Assuming their work hours match everyone else's
- Treating weekends as a recovery instead of creation
- Thinking identity must be consistent across your life
- Thinking you must respond to everything immediately
- Asking "what do people usually do" instead of "what do I want to do"?
@sama please tell your team to fix the voice to text translation part of chatgpt mobile app, it's so frustrating when all the I have given doesn't even gets converted to text and loses lot of time..
@gauravmunjal Risk-taking.
Got that explanation from @nntaleb in his book Anti-fragile. It's because of risk-taking and experimentation not just talent
Only the Curious and Courageous people will dominate in the coming times..
Soon there will be a huge gap between the Curious and the non-curious ones.
Current tech is amplifying this
That's it for the key takeaways I have taken from this conversation .
Practical action is to develop the 7 liberating arts skills, create a Belief Audit ,introspect ,identify the limiting factors and fix them.
So that you can Improve your agency levels
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Itโs about trust. Be interesting. Be authentic. Make something people love. Trustworthiness = the ultimate product.