Saloni Mehta

Interested in all things media, consumer and health. Currently @Youtube. | Always on the lookout for good chai

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@nikitabier Damn, is this for real?

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

@lufthansa you’re the worst airline I’ve ever flown. Flight cancelled. Trapped in Mumbai airport for 6 hours and counting. Still waiting. A total mess. Caution anyone from flying this third rate airline

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

Our kids are going to grow up in a world where B.C. refers to “Before Claude”

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

The real MVP of the India Pakistan match today was my pilot on the BLR - DEL flight. Dude turned the cabin into a stadium, wicket updates every 15 minutes, strangers high-fiving in the aisle. What a fun flight!

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

I've been working on getting better at systems design interviews, so I built a voice powered systems design interviewer that can give you instant feedback.

Check it out at https://t.co/cBcVLQEd9j

[Garima Mann @MannGarima]

After 3 attempts and a whole year, we successfully held an in person session on the theme of r/AskWomen. A social experiment that turned into a room full of amazing women and deep, honest conversations.
@VeniGupta5 thanks for making this happen!

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@PrakashSanker3 Congratulations! Can’t wait to use the product

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

RT @PrakashSanker3: We're OPEN for Beta for FREE - check us out at https://t.co/pkUGxcH2Hr

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

We're cooking! First beta users have started using the product.

Getting to this functionality took us 3 weeks, so we're shipping quickly.

Right now auth and stripe are going to work seamlessly (without you having to worry about supabase).

More to come!

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

I'm building something new! https://t.co/TYW53UAnMR

Check out why

https://t.co/zJEk5FXmDf

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

1/ I got tired of seeing great ideas die before they even launched.
Building an MVP should be easy in 2025. But it’s still slow, expensive, and frustrating. I’ve been there. So I decided to fix it. Here’s why I built [https://t.co/kQU1avs23f].

🧵👇

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@PrakashSanker3 Looks very cool, excited to try your product out!

[Prakash Sanker @PrakashSanker3]

MCP Servers are all the craze right now.

Github. Asana. Blender.

I wrote a MCP server that let me do something more mundane - find good flight options for me.

👇

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@jzux @PrakashSanker3

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@nikillinit 1. India
2. Like: Some of the best priced, specialized treatments in the world (big on medical tourism)
Dislike: 60% of healthcare expenditure is OOP pushing ~55 million people into poverty every year

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@RudhirMehra @PrakashSanker3

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Maybe someday, women in America will have as many rights as guns do.

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@kriti_kg @HarvardHBS Congratulations Kriti!

[Saloni Mehta @SometimesBaloni]

@DDukes12 @PrakashSanker3 lol