Gouri L

I build products.
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Toddler Mom | Product Manager | Toy Entrepreneur

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

About 3 months ago, I quit my job. I wanted to pursue my dream of launching my own product to make learning toys for INDIAN languages.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Here we go. Results of Citizens Protein Project 2. Please read, share max. We have to bring in change. Thank you for your contributions. Huge thanks to @arifhussaintm who led clinical research division on behalf of Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare to do this...1/15

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

@TylerAlterman I call this one quiet pride. We're holding hands, sitting under a bamboo patch and feeling the evening breeze. Stressed at work but this memory makes it all worth it.

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

@kevinleeme @BrandonMChu I've tuned myself to get up and start work at any hour of the night after the bedtime routine. Extremely hard, but when deadline is close, it's the only way to clock in extra hours.

[stepfanie tyler @stepfanie]

“abolish capitalism!”

cool. who grows the food???

no seriously—who’s out there at dawn breaking their back in the dirt, fixing broken irrigation lines, replacing a tractor axle in 110° heat—for free? because you think profit is mean?

who mines the lithium for your laptop, the cobalt for your EV battery, the iron for your train rails? who refines it? who ships it? who builds the ships? who insures them when they catch fire in the middle of the ocean?

who unloads the containers at the port? who drives the truck across 4 states? who services the diesel engine at the roadside stop in Nebraska when it breaks at 3am?

who keeps track of inventory, repairs the refrigeration system, updates the software, cleans the floors, builds the shelves, trains the workers, manages the risk, pays the legal fees, replaces the lightbulbs, handles the theft, the overtime, the breakdowns, the lawsuits?

who coordinates all of this across time zones and continents without profit?

you think the whole supply chain is just gonna keep running because everyone suddenly caught a case of the warm fuzzies???

you think people are going to wake up and go do hard, thankless, physical labor for vibes?

capitalism doesn’t work because people are good. it works because people are selfish and it figured out how to harness that into infrastructure. it’s the only system that survives human nature without needing to rewrite it

you kill profit, you kill production. you kill production, you kill logistics. you kill logistics, and suddenly it’s day four of your anti-capitalist utopia and the shelves are empty, the power’s out, the pharmacy’s closed, and nobody knows how to fix a fucking thing

anti-capitalism isn’t a philosophy. it’s a death wish dressed up as a virtue signal

it’s the aesthetic of rebellion powered by an iPhone, subsidized by Uber Eats, and resting on 400 years of industrial infrastructure you take for granted because you’ve never built a single useful thing in your life

you’re not oppressed. you’re just ungrateful

and the second you get your little no-profit revolution, you’ll find out exactly how long society runs on vibes: about three days, give or take—then the generators fail and you’re boiling rainwater so you can heat up your shitty powdered food

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

Sounds like a significant %age of the women-folk in this particular apartment are not formally employed full-time :)

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

@AkshayaS90 Tangentially: it is important to diversify the things you identify yourself with. Too little and all eggs in one basket - the entitlement you speak of returns. Have seen people become their enemies in the process.

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

Maybe if they actually spent their resources doing actual research and clinical trials instead of sending defamatory notices and lawsuits, @theliverdoc wouldn't have much to say against quackery. 🤔

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dear friends, the Indian government is unleashing its highest regulatory bodies through the National Council for Indian Systems of Medicine to shut me up and prevent me from educating the public on harms of alternative medicine and unscientific and pseudoscientific healthcare practices through social media.

Please read this and let me know your thoughts? I'm gearing up.

The Constitution of India allows me to uphold public health and healthcare education.

"The Indian Constitution recognizes the importance of scientific temper through Article 51A(h), which states that it is the fundamental duty of every citizen to develop scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform. This provision highlights the need for a rational and inquisitive mindset, encouraging citizens to embrace science and critical thinking."

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

So true, except that this actually works!

[Nathan Baschez @nbaschez]

Starting a chat with 4o and escalating to o3 has “may I speak with your manager” energy

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

If we care about this, let's see what happens with 6 months parental leave for all, followed by fully subsidized daycare + pre-k (and guaranteed placement), followed by fully subsidized + guaranteed after-school and summer camps until kids can legally be home alone. Abundance!

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

I think you have to be a bit obsessive to choose any profession with kids in the mix. 🫠🫡 Go on cruise-mode and you'd get burned out or laid off, with nothing to fight for.

[moved!! @fitzlov]

So this is crazy

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

I've never cared about language supremacy. So the only that bothers me in this thread and replies is that people severely underestimate a child's capacity for picking up languages and that mindset stunts their development.

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

I honestly don't like the cheap imitation of Ghibli-fied pictures flooding the timeline, because it does disservice to so many details that the art style is known to otherwise capture.

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

I'm a programmer, designer and an artist, AND an avid genAI-user. Quoted statement is a vast oversimplification of what is the end vs means of each type of work. In the first two - end > means. Art is something that is almost always end < means. Naturally people will

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

have qualms about anything that takes away from the means - the process, nuances, anything that brings character to the work. Neither of these matter in programming, although you still need skills to discern shit from code that can be made replicable, usable and scalable.

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

4. Respecting personal choices = not trying to market FOMO for stuff that is widely regarded to be misinformation. Stop performative feminism. It's complete BS.

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

Everything about this is disheartening.
1. OP hasn't responded to innumerable comments by qualified medicos who say AMH testing is pointless and inconclusive for fertility.
Case in point: https://t.co/3woguoG1lF

[Gouri L @GouriL1]

3. If you feel compelled to have children because of a ticking clock, you are doing it for the wrong reasons. Both 2 &3 can be true at the same time, AND

[techsiren ♥︎ @techhsiren]

back when i was a depressed 17 year old on tumblr i saw a post that said "i was once 17 and depressed but now i'm listening to my husband play with our baby in the other room. it does get better" and i never forgot about that. now i am listening to my husband play with our baby in the other room

[ratnendu ray @ratnenduray]

My harrowing tale with @IndiGo6E , so that others can be careful. 1/n

On Aug 14 early morning I landed in Delhi's T2 on an Indigo flight from Chennai. As is most common with them, no aerobridge was given, and instead they asked everyone to deboard using their ramps.