Kunal S

Hoping this account stays lowkey/

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An extremist group in Washington, DC has claimed credit for the terrorist attack on the Iranian bridge, promising further attacks on civilian infrastructure if its demands aren't met

[Gurgaon LIVE! @gurgaon_live]

Interns - do your city a favour. Call out the issues. You are the future of this country!

[Aaraynsh @aaraynsh]

Didn’t expect such a bold move from Indian media.

[biased indian @RakeshK32229480]

>If posters could fix cities this place would be Singapore
>When political banners grow faster than basic infrastructure
>The banner got installed on time. The infrastructure didn't.
Sum up democracy in india 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[biased indian @RakeshK32229480]

This was the condition of Faridabad New Town Railway Station. Have @MCF_Faridabad and @sdm_faridabad cleaned up this mess? No part of the country 🇮🇳 should look this filthy, especially in Faridabad one of the richest regions of the country
I can't visit the location right now .

[Kunal S @Kunal_Samar]

Every dataset has noise.
Every bell curve has outliers.

But the model runs on median and mode, not exceptions.

And that’s where the classic reply comes in:

“Not all people…”

Of course not.

But humans don't make decisions using edge cases. We use patterns.

[Kunal S @Kunal_Samar]

Stereotypes exist for a reason.

Your brain is basically running a machine learning model on life.

It sees patterns.
Stores past data.
Then makes fast predictions when information is limited.

That’s what stereotypes are - compressed pattern recognition.

Are they perfect? No.

[CA Himank Singla @CAHimankSingla]

Gems of @IncomeTaxIndia

Your TDS gets deducted from Day 1 of the Financial Year....

Government earns interest on it for full FY and upto the date of ITR processing...

You don't get your ITR refund after even 7-8 months of filing your ITR...

You are wholly dependent on CPC for processing of ITR and release of refund and only 6% interest - that too after ITR filing date!!

Is it fair @IncomeTaxIndia ??

[Kunal S @Kunal_Samar]

@JaimeeUSA @grok Please fact check this statement

[CA Himank Singla @CAHimankSingla]

New day.
New drama by @IncomeTaxIndia

Now, if an employee hasn't reported any deduction claims to employer but has claimed those in ITR, does that mean he is a tax evader ?

Assessees claiming genuine deductions are receiving this email treating them as tax evaders and creating panic!

Also, when will @IncomeTaxIndia serve Notice on the MLA who lit up Rs. 70 lakhs worth firecrackers on a wedding ? Probably never!!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation."
I don't know what Agile means.
Nobody does.
That's why it works.

I make $425,000 a year.
To move sticky notes.
From left to right.
On a board.
The board is digital now.
The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
Progress.

Day one, I said "we need to break down silos."
Everyone nodded.
Silos are bad.
I don't know why.
But destroying them is a career.
My career.

I introduced "squads."
Squads are teams.
But disrupted.
We disrupted the teams into teams.
Different names.
Same people.
Same problems.
But Agile problems now.
Agile problems are strategic.

A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing.
I said, "The mindset."
He asked what that means.
I said, "It's a journey."
He asked where we're going.
I said, "Toward agility."
He asked what agility means.
I pointed at the sticky notes.
They were moving left to right.
That's velocity.
We have velocity now.

The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work.
I said, "That's waterfall thinking."
Waterfall is bad.
Like silos.
I don't know what waterfall is.
But I know it's bad.
She stopped talking.
Waterfall accusations end conversations.

We had a retrospective.
In the retro, we discussed what went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
We put it on sticky notes.
Then we moved the sticky notes.
Into a column called "Parking Lot."
The Parking Lot is where problems go to die.
It's full.
We don't look at it.
That's agile.

Velocity is up 40%.
I defined velocity.
I also defined the points.
I also defined the stories.
We're crushing it.
At the things I made up.
To measure.
Ourselves.

The CEO asked for ROI.
I showed a chart.
The chart went up.
Charts should go up.
This one did.
I didn't label the Y-axis.
Nobody asked.
Leadership is confidence.

We do standups now.
Every day.
We stand.
For 45 minutes.
Standing is agile.
Sitting is waterfall.
My legs hurt.
But we're transforming.

The transformation is now "Phase 3."
Phase 1 was assessment.
Phase 2 was implementation.
Phase 3 is "continuous improvement."
Continuous means forever.
Forever means job security.
I'm very secure.

My contract was extended.
Three more years.
For "cultural impact."
The culture is confused.
But impacted.

Agile transformation isn't about being agile.
It's about transforming.
Continuously.
Toward more transformation.
The destination is the journey.
The journey is billable.

[Kunal S @Kunal_Samar]

#RandomThoughts
Shouldn't midnight be 12 PM instead of 12 AM?
Chronologically its 10 -> 11 ->12, so logically 11 PM should be superseded by 12 PM.
What am i missing?

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

While we all are hoping for a successful #Chandrayaan3Landing, here is a reminder-

In ISRO, there is NO caste based Reservation for the recruitment of the Scientific posts.

One and only organisation in India that respects merit.

No wonder ISRO makes us proud every day.

[Kunal S @Kunal_Samar]

You know you've grown up when you bring a separate jute lunch bag to office!! The correlation of corporate seniority to the above is astonishing 🫠

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

The mysterious NW-SE line that shows up in the most unexpected places in iip maps

1. In political preferences

[Kunal S @Kunal_Samar]

Sci-fi movies are dumb (atleast the recent ones).

[Samantha Leal @samanthalcc]

7 ways to make your price look like a steal (without discounts):

[Brian Bourque @bbourque]

The best startup employees love solving problems.

After all: much of the work is figuring out how to do new things.

But you can't solve problems without:

• Curiosity
• Logical reasoning
• Analytical skills
• Tenacity

Test for these up front.

[David Perell @david_perell]

We're living in a commitment crisis:

[Sajith Pai @sajithpai]

Some chartbait.

Indian ecommerce + commerce majors and their GMVs (FY21) - via Bernstein.

(Reliance's digital / nondigital colours seem to have inverted. The lighter blue is for offline, and darker blue is online).

Meesho's $5b is interesting. (Flipkart includes Myntra)