committing your whole heart to something seems far more freeing in the long run than eternally chasing optionality. true of relationships, careers, maybe life in general
Amidst all the SM noise, we did not celebrate Vimag labs enough. They built India’s 1st software-defined, magnet-free electric motor platform.
Standard EVs rely heavily on Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors. These require physical, rare-earth magnets embedded directly into the motor's rotor to create a magnetic field. Vimag Labs completely eliminated the physical magnets.
This is a win for cheaper EV manufacturing, but the real, strategic importance of what they did goes far deeper into global geopolitics & structural engineering:
- The global processing capacity & supply chain for rare-earth materials is overwhelmingly controlled by China. By engineering a completely magnet-free motor, Vimag Labs quietly handed automotive OEMs an escape hatch from a massive geopolitical supply chain vulnerability.
- Vimag Labs designed this architecture to scale up into massive high-power systems ranging b/w 200 kW & 600 kW. This means the software-defined, magnet-free platform is directly targeted for critical, heavy backend sectors: defense applications, robotics & advanced cooling infra, allowing India to build high-performance military & industrial hardware entirely free from foreign mineral dependencies.
- The breakthrough is the result of 87600+ (~10 person yrs) engineering hrs spent by co-founders Manish Seth, Rahul Krishnamurthy & their team. They built a massive IP pipeline (including 5 granted patents, 10 active applications & 15 trademarks) & signed a manufacturing MoU with Jendamark to scale the physical production of these motors right out of India.
Vimag labs handed a rising nation the ultimate industrial escape hatch: a future where our engines run on Indian brainpower, while leaving the rest of the world fighting over the dirt. 🙏🙏
the art of keeping in touch:
> please please ALWAYS feel free to reach out to your friends that you've lost touch with. it will be the most welcome surprise
> if you're insecure why you lost touch; it happens and it's a normal part of life. that doesn't make your memories together any less special
> old friends are next level comfort. it’s history, past, and context that doesn’t need to be explained since they lived it right beside you
> there are life seasons - people move, change jobs, start school, start dating, breakup, get sick, grieve - all of these can impact how easy it might be to stay in touch and it's generally never personal
> make it a habit: whenever someone comes to mind, text them immediately. don't overthink it! this helps to maintain a lot of relationships at once
"hey, was just thinking about you! how you been?"
"just remembered the time we <funny memory together> it made me smile"
"saw <thing that reminds me of you> and thought of you"
> getting this type of message will likely make their day and bring back good memories for the both of you
> from there you can: have a back-and-forth texting convo, send voice memos, hop on a call, or figure out when you'll be in the same city again and make plans (woohoo!!)
> just as you're changing over time, your old friends are changing too. they're growing up right alongside you. even if you don't connect in the exact same way you did before, the shared context and memories are wonderful and irreplaceable
don't wait for the 'perfect moment' to reconnect - that perfect moment is now 🤍
Psychologists once had 600 angry people hit a punching bag. One group pictured the person who had wronged them while they swung. Another group just sat quietly and did nothing. The venters walked away angrier, and more aggressive, than the people who sat still.
That result keeps showing up. A 2024 review out of Ohio State pooled 154 studies and more than 10,000 people. Slow breathing, meditation, and gentle movement brought anger down. Rage rooms and screaming into a pillow did nothing. One of the lead researchers put it plainly: venting anger is like using gasoline to put out a fire.
Talking about a bad experience feels different from punching something, so you would expect it to work better. A Belgian psychologist named Bernard Rimé spent years tracking what happens after people share an emotional event. Almost everyone does it, usually within hours. Across sixteen separate datasets, the sharing left people feeling supported and closer to whoever listened. It did not lower how much the memory still stung. If anything, retelling the story switched the feeling back on for both people in the room.
There is a specific version of this that lands harder. Amanda Rose, a psychologist at the University of Missouri, named it co-rumination: two people rehashing the same problem again and again, fixating on the worst of it. Her work keeps finding the same trade-off. People who do this grow closer to their friends and carry more anxiety and depression at the same time. The friendship does get closer, which is why it is easy to mistake for healing.
The approaches that hold up in the research are quieter. Name the feeling, briefly, in plain words. When people label an emotion as angry or scared, brain scans show the amygdala, the alarm system, going quiet while the reasoning part of the brain switches on. Writing helps too. In the first study of this, people who spent fifteen minutes over four days writing about a painful experience went to the doctor about half as often over the next six months.
None of this means bottling it up. Sitting on your feelings damages your health as well. The line the research keeps drawing is between one person who helps you make sense of something and an audience you keep re-performing the pain for.
India enters the big 5 in manufacturing toppling South Korea. At current growth rates, even considering rupee depreciation, India will displace Japan to become the world's third largest manufacturer (> $1 trillion) by 2029.
Also,
1960: $3 billion -> 2015: $328 billion
2015: $328 billion -> 2025: $781 billion
So India has added as much in manufacturing in the last 10 years as it added in the last 70+ years.