Suyog Gaidhani

Be Still.

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

Arunachala.

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

The Atlantic’s new cover story about the end of reading is absolutely frightening.

Here are 5 concerning facts from it:

1) 51% of adults read 0 books a year: According to the National Endowment for the Arts, which conducts the most comprehensive survey of the nation’s reading habits, fewer than half of all adults reported having read a book of any kind in 2022.

2) Reading for fun has gone from a mainstream hobby to a niche one: Americans who read for pleasure on any given day fell from 28 percent in 2004 to 16 percent in 2023.

3) Everyone is reading less: The decline in reading cuts across age groups, gender, and education levels. Even the demographics that traditionally read the most—retirees, women, and college graduates—have seen a collapse.

4) Books are getting simpler and shorter: New York Times best sellers today have sentences that are about one-third shorter than they were a century ago.

5) Kids are struggling to read and doing less of it: Fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores have slid for the past decade. From 1984 to 2025, the percentage of 13-year-olds who said they rarely or never read for fun rose from 8 to 29 percent. "Every year older a child gets, the less they like to read."

For most of history, the biggest reading problem was illiteracy. People didn't know how to read books.

But today the biggest problem is post-literacy. People know how to read books, but don't.

A society that doesn't read loses more than just books. People lose the ability to think critically, focus deeply, and see life through multiple perspectives.

The world needs you. Please consider picking up a book today.

https://t.co/P8Sq3pAa6K

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

Being a life long Malleswaram resident, I can confidently state that with the actions taken by @krishnabgowda, the soul of Malleswaram has been returned back to its inhabitants. Thank you, Sir and more power to you 🙏

[Prapthi @prapthi_m]

The soul of Malleshwaram has been stolen. Sadists are celebrating the dismantling of a vibrant and thriving ecosystem. It is ugly classism dressed up as civic virtue and nothing else. The street vendors existed and thrived because they offered value for money and quality that isn't available in the stores.

Livelihoods have been wiped out today. And yet again, what will follow is indefinite harrassment, torture and corruption. It has been happening for years.

The first two pictures are mine, from one of my visits to Sampige Road. The last two pictures are how Sampige Road looks today (not my pictures).

[DP SATISH @dp_satish]

Clearing footpaths for the use of pedestrians is a great move. These people have grabbed every inch of footpath across Bengaluru causing daily accidents and huge inconvenience to pedestrians. They have turned city into a garbage dump. A huge racket involving police and GBA officials, in some cases in connivance with local MLAs is collecting “rent” running into several crores every month from them. A commendable job by GBA minister @krishnabgowda . It does not help him politically, but he is doing it to make Bengaluru liveable and beautiful again. Hope he succeeds.

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

@IndiaPostOffice This has been sent by by ordinary post. And this is a recurring incident. You need to make sure that postal workers do not keep pilfering philatelics material.

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

@IndiaPostOffice Time and again, I am experiencing pilfering of philately material sent by my friends - stamps, postcards. Please look into this matter. Just this happened today - a mini sheet stolen. We cannot have thieves working in the postal department! @CPMGKARNATAKA

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

If no one was affected by that bug for https://t.co/hiIN4Zgce6.Years, it's not a bug 😉

[Wise @trikcode]

So Anthropic built a model that found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD.

Twenty. Seven. Years.

Millions of developers looked at that code.
Millions of test runs.
Thousands of security audits.
Claude found it overnight. For $50.

And Anthropic said "this is too dangerous to release."

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

In the corporate world, if you have:

- a decent salary,
- a manager who trusts you without micromanaging,
- the flexibility of a hybrid work setup,
- the freedom to take time off when needed,
- opportunities for growth and skill development,
- a supportive and inclusive company culture,

You’re already among the top 1% of professionals enjoying a truly balanced and fulfilling work life.

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

@aryan_kochhar In recent times, I loved watching Tehran, the Israeli series.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

At current pace of technology, companies can no longer survive through purely incremental improvement, u either choose to disrupt or be disrupted.

[Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct]

@zeeg Or for that matter, pioneering new open source projects that’s not some personal productivity tool.

Where’s the next generation of file systems, databases, orchestrators, device drivers etc? Vibecoders not interested in solving hard problems?

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Had a friend tell me once: "When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do... get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress."

Some of the best advice I've ever received.

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

What's the point of showing Amsterdam houses on the canal for selling apartments in Yelahanka? @godrej

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Thankfully, this interaction required only a selfie, no undercover work! #Fauda

[Parimal @Fintech03]

When you speak to Gemini, your audio is recorded, compressed, sent to a massive data center often in the US/Singapore, processed by 1000s of GPUs, & sent back. If your internet lags for a sec, the translation breaks. Sarvam’s Edge models run entirely on your phone's hardware w/o an internet connection. It is a 294MB micro model that matches the accuracy of Gemini’s multi tb cloud models. Also, it means even a farmer in a dead zone in rural Bihar can have a live, private conversation with a doc in Chennai with zero data costs & zero latency.

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

@amshilparaghu Lord Shiva as the holy mountain Arunachala is available to all at all times giving darshan 🙏

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

@chandrarsrikant "Sometimes, you really do just have to take your shot." Loved this line, @chandrarsrikant !

[Chandra R. Srikanth @chandrarsrikant]

How Moneycontrol got the byte from President Trump at Davos

A little behind the scenes piece on what was a high point at Davos

And I know this feels like undue excitement for a 20 second sound bite.

But the odds of a reporter from India getting a question across to Trump in Davos was zero. There was a crush of global press who were in line.

Hence the adrenaline 🙏🏽

https://t.co/ns9ezS02yX

[Naval @naval]

The solution to anxiety is action.

[Connor Ewing @ConnorMEwing]

"The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory."
- Daniel Kahneman

[Suyog Gaidhani @suyogg]

The only reason @arrahman is not getting enough work is because his musical genius has faded away. Shifting blame to other reasons is stupidity.