Karuna Govind

Fintech entrepreneur | Engineer | Doing my own /thang/

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

I've been applying @ID_AA_Carmack's work strategy for a while now. It's a fantastic way to see when you've got a couple days of peak performance and flow state. Which is also a good to way to know when to back off and expect a slow day.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I have kept a work log for a long time, but I recently started adding a grade to each day; some combination of effort, discipline, rigor, and results.

B+ C A A- A- C C B B- B B+ A C B- B A B+ A+ A- B+ C B- B

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@SelaruDaniel1 @joshu Maybe it's meditating? 🧘

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

To win @BBC Sports Personality of the Year, you should have... personality? 🤔 @elliekildunne had a massive impact on the game and the fans. She should have won.

[Harlequins Women 🃏 @HarlequinsWomen]

🥈 Your BBC Sports Personality of the Year Runner-Up

An incredible achievement for Ellie Kildunne 😍

#COYQ | #SPOTY

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@jayvraavi And yet they still don't have an Android app?

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@stinkbug My listening age (73) is older than my mum's age 😂 And wtf is drone music

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@airkatakana Google was already working on AI products but hadn't released them yet. Remember the whistle blower who thought Google's AI was sentient?

Also, competition is usually a big driver of pushing things forward that would have otherwise been considered not production ready.

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@andrei_builds @marclou Mine used to be high despite being very active. I reduced saturated fat - no chicken skin, no bacon, switched to oat milk. It's always been low since.

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@shiri_shh I'm been so busy in my coding life that I never learned lingo like S tier programmer 😅

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@PromptNextAI @juliarturc I need that tshirt!

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

So this is some serious information sharing. I started a @facebook messenger conversation with my parents at 21.40. I mentioned "Jamaican" in the first minute. 5 minutes later this pops up. What is your algorithm doing @elonmusk? Can't be a coincidence.

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@arpit_bhayani That's brilliant! That heart sinking feeling. We've all been there!

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@karpathy For this reason, while I'm sorting out my dinner, I ask Google Home to turn on my TV, wait 10 seconds, then ask it to start Youtube or Netflix or BBC iplayer. After that I need to do everything you said manually.

Android TV and Google home - still shit.

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

Just a 40 storey building hovering in the air.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Thank you, 15-2!

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@t_blom This scene from Iron Man is actually a good depiction of how code is written these days. In the last 12 months, my codebase has gone from 90% written by AI to 99.99% written by AI. Orchestration is the best way of describing it.

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@gregisenberg I need to get friends outside tech 😂 Do these people use https://t.co/kSTEpu6xxr?

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@NVIDIAGeForce GeForce RTX 5090

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@sama can I get a request too? It'll be good to uncognito a chat. Sometimes @ChatGPTapp ends up being too funny/good and I wish I hadn't started a private chat in the first place. Surely it's just a thread with messages and that can be replayed?

[John Collison @collision]

@sundarpichai Could we get Ctrl-click on Google Calendar to duplicate events, like many native calendar applications have?

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@MKBHD @UltraLinx That's a good one. I forget I had it done also (LASEK for me technically).

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@elonmusk I think it was the original F.E.A.R on the PC where it would look up your name on your machine and softly whisper it to you during the really scary scenes. Now imagine if Neuralink can hook into a game and materialise your fears in real time.

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

This is a very good take. For those who are curious I've attached the original flow state concept (ref https://t.co/hx0k63DJ9U).

I think my flow state is more in line with @levelsio also thanks to AI. The biggest disrupter however is realising when the AI has a done poor job and thinking I'd be better off starting from scratch (only happens less than ~10% of time).

I don't think as engineers we ever fall into worry or anxiety though - it's all part of problem solving?

[Karuna Govind @KarunaGovind]

@marclou @ky__zo Doesn't your smart watch calculate VO2 max? Curious to see how it differs from lab tests.