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[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@deepigoyal @MKBHD @LinusTech @hubermanlab @pmarca @naval

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@sama @GauravSharma What was your hypothesis back then sama????

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

The BJP social media ecosystem needs to move beyond an excessive obsession with every gesture, expression, or statement made by Modi ji.

No body language expert will explain that when Indian sailors were killed in an attack involving US actions, India had limited options to respond. No body language analysis will tell why India or in fact other all countries remain silent when US continues to erratcally impose tariffs.

If experts must be consulted, ask them to analyze what happened with China. The US President travelled with a delegation of top CEOs to repair ties and strengthen business relations with Beijing.

And if you want to read body language, look at the body language of millions of Indians who are waiting for a system where merit is rewarded, corruption is reduced (if not eliminated), and opportunities are created through competence.

[Dinesh Pai @dineshpaii]

This whole Gen Z categorisation feels very incomplete. When we were all younger in our generation, buying a house still felt like a distant dream. And it's not really changed massively. So what has changed?

Perhaps what's changed is glorification of experiences through social media. The yearning of validation. And yeah, it could be one of many reasons. But I don't think it's fair to say there is only one specific reason why people are spending more on experiences. Some of it is just natural as we get better choices and better products.

[Jared Cook @jkimballcook]

easy 150K

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@SagarAwatade @IndianExpress @timesofindia @the_hindu @livemint @ravish_journo

[Akshay G Jain @Ajain112]

One of the best superstition of smoking is tghat u never light three cigarettes from the same matchstick, cos during WW2, that amount of time was enough for the sniper to catch you and shoot you.

[Varun Mayya @waitin4agi_]

I really like this article. I think that the capabilities of a country are fully dependent on the local buying capacity and the size of the local economy. Whether physical or digital, the farther away you have to distribute something, the more expensive it is. Local distribution is always much easier but if local buying power is low then companies have to export which carries a bigger distribution cost because you have to compete against locals in other countries who have a much lower distribution cost. Actually it’s not just distribution: it’s everything from consumer insights to feedback to key relationships that are a distance away. So if you do innovate but you have to necessarily export that innovation to make money, you’re at a disadvantage against local players.

One personal example is that India has never made high quality games simply because the local purchasing power is low. If we had a lot more PCs things would be very different. China has roughly 320 million PC gamers and India is about 39 million. So on players alone, China’s PC base is roughly 8x India’s. BUT China’s PC game spend is on the order of 80–100x India’s, even though its player base is only like 8x larger. The difference mainly is monetization as Indian gamers spend much less (core ARPU has run around $0.29/month), so 39M PC players translate into very little premium game revenue. Game Science’s art director Yang Qi confirmed that nearly 70% of Wukong’s sales came from China itself. Knowing a local buying market exists justifies spending. The only way we can justify what we are spending now on UTA is because we found inroads into global markets through content otherwise this would be a money losing exercise.

The other problem is that low purchasing power economies have too tiny a market for early adopters. If you built an OpenAI in India before anyone else 50% of people wouldn’t believe you and 50% of people will tell you it won’t work or doesn’t have use cases. I think you need a crackpot high purchasing power early adopter network with high failure and bullshit tolerance to make truly innovative things and also forgive crazy companies during early mistakes because history teaches us that the best companies all had v0.1s that were not very convincing to the masses.

Thats why it’s critical for anyone who wants this country to succeed to first really create more jobs, more disposable income, even if that means creating the nth packaged food brand (American grocery stores still have a much wider variety of biscuit brands than India for example) or food delivery apps before they take bigger bets. Not because they need the capital themselves to try bigger bets, but so that they can diffuse more capital into the ecosystem via jobs and the rewards of equity ownership such that that cohort of people become early adopters for other innovative companies.

Success comes from satisfying local market demand (sometimes like in the case of Tesla or Ford there is hidden demand and entrepreneurs need to unlock it) and rarely comes from creating something that has no local demand. After studying Chinese social media so much I have a long thesis on why they did well (bans on global social media platforms constrain desire of products to local players only who now get revenue and profit to do RnD. Think about what % of disposable income from India is being spent on global brands where the desire to buy starts on a global social media platform).

Anyway people complaining about India building “easier businesses” are really not spending the mental energy to think second order. And 9/10 times this same type of person will completely ignore local innovation that is almost always happening in parallel but gets less media coverage.

[gen z superboy (official) @shin_kale_rider]

New York operates on a kind of magical realism that makes things like this not only possible but commonplace

[Aakrit Vaish @aakrit]

Looking for a team of 10-12 cracked researchers & engineers to build a new AI Lab in India.

Funding and compute secured.

DMs open.

[Kodaishutir Kochuri Karyakarta @BarkusMaximus]

If he can ask this, you can ask her out. This is your sign.

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@kshashi @nileshtrivedi @_raghavan Haiku more like Hike kyun????

[Sachin Singh Bhadoriya @version0chiro]

Love that we still think Bollywood actors are naturally ripped

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@GothamChess Magnus vs Coughing baby

[Bhandari ka Vyang @GurugramDeals]

A high-level auto industry source told me that all companies are under strict instructions from the Govt. to keep silent on the issues being caused due to Ethanol. Similar pressure on auto publications and journalists to not reveal the true state of affairs.

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@CMOTamilnadu @itherocky @TVKVijayHQ @rpraggnachess @HansMokeNiemann that's 52k usd fyi

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

Am I missing something or @Crunchyroll does not have a playback speed option????

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@techie_piyush @mehulmpt @Hiteshdotcom ji was praising @todoist for the same

[Samarth @SomeEarthSays]

@abhishekcode42 @mannupaaji @liftplaycode

[Abhishek @abhishekcode42]

Only thing I have seen more than this video is Sooryavansham on setmax.