Jaideep Chowdhary

Random thoughts and shares. Don't take anything I say seriously. Apply Sunscreen. AMA.

[Maj Manik M Jolly,SM @Manik_M_Jolly]

I know we all want to know all the details.

Call it personal satisfaction to know we’ve plummeted them, or psychological warfare against enemy.

But we are still in middle of a military operation. It’s not over yet. Maybe far from it. Hence there’s a reason why government gives a very sensible, calculated and minimal details -

1. Every details given DURING the operation helps the enemy. They understand us better. They can plan better.

2. Should never boast before war is over. Because you never know what happens Tom. Why land yourself with an egg on face? Wait to cross the line as winner and then celebrate.

3. Keep enemy guessing. It troubles them even more when we strike somewhere and still don’t declare it. Enemy is left confused - are they not done yet..will they attack again ? Etc etc.

4. This is war time information. Principles of warfare and strategy, proven across thousands of years, have shown that secrecy and surprise will always be your biggest strength. The more we speak, the more we tell. And the more enemy knows, the better he can prepare.

While this gives space to media and social media to engage in misinformation and sensationalism, it still is a low price to pay for keeping your enemy guessing.

So please have faith in government. Wait for official announcements. And even if you feel that so much is happening and gov isn’t announcing more, remember - your original source of information that you’re comparing is unverified and often dubious social media where click bait driven handles hungry for impressions are posting whatever they want to.

Let’s wait for the operation to be over and I’m sure, we will have much more details, and reasons to celebrate.

Jai Hind 🫡🇮🇳

[Mahesh Murthy @maheshmurthy]

If you've EVER stayed in a hotel in #Hyderabad, the Telangana cops @TelanganaCOPS sent your details and that of who you stayed with to an American crypto firm that never took your informed consent for this. (Hat tip to @DigitalDutta for shining a light on this illegal atrocity.) 1/n

#Data #Fraud #DataTheft #Privacy #India

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

[CBC Ahmedabad, Gujarat @CBCAhmedabad]

Heat wave advisory and Assured Minimum Facilities at Polling Booth 🔆📷 #ECI #IMD #HeatWave #Elections2024 #LokSabhaElection2024

[Eelam Musk @CatizenKane]

On January 6th, a friend texted me. He'd found an injured dog by a garbage dump in Bangalore. It couldn't walk, it couldn't even stand. Most of its fur was gone, it was covered in sores. He didn't have the time to help it but sent me this picture. 🧵👇🏿

[Ruchir Sharma @ruchirsharma_1]

In a country of 1408 million people, there are only 46.3 million people (3.28% of the population) who have salaried jobs in the formal sector, able to regularly contribute to their Employee Provident Fund.

Of these, only half earn enough to pay income tax, and a mere one-tenth of them contribute to 80% of income tax collected. That too not by choice but by compulsion, because of tax deducted at source for their salary bracket.

This is a policy choice and a desired outcome for the state.

The leaders of post-Partition "independent" India were so traumatised by rural taxation and famine at the hands of foreign tyrants and occupiers, and so antagonistic to native systems of taxation and governance as 'Manuvadi' and 'regressive', that they were scared of creating a bottom-up ecosystem of formal employment, thinking that to the 'subaltern' social strata, taxation is always and automatically 'oppression'.

But this misses the fact that paying taxes is an essential form of identity-building and nation-building - it gives people a sense of ownership over the state institutions, which means they can demand better service delivery from the state and more people-oriented policies.

In its absence, the masses are instead reduced to begging (in the case of the silent majority, who like sheep, blow on the grass to ask its permission before grazing upon it) or extorting (in the case of the violent minority who honed their skills during foreign minority rule and Abrahamic Apartheid) their mai-baap feudal MP/MLA/DM for access to state patronage.

This meant the Nehruvian elites created socialism for the rich and anarcho-capitalism for the poor.

Instead of being able to fund universal housing, healthcare, and pensions for all citizens, like actual socialist countries, these were treated as feudal privileges that the state would grant to representatives of collective identities, as a form of state patronage to rent their loyalty.

This is also why reservations are seen as the panacea to all electoral ills - because government jobs are not about serving the country or achieving policy goals, it is about the king distributing titles, salaries, and pensions, to keep his vassals and tributaries loyal.

And then intellectuals complain, 'why do these Indians take three baths a day and keep their homes spotless, but then go walk about in filthy streets, are they stupid?', disregarding that owing to these policy choices, the state lacks the funds or incentive to deliver basic services while the public rarely developed a sense of ownership over public property.

Which is why they neither have well-funded public services at the grassroots, nor any pride or incentive in looking after public spaces as their own.

In fact, in a perverted form of Gandhian passive resistance, some people find great joy in breaking anti-littering rules, seeing them as 'unjust oppression' from a state that never did anything for them, and the state foolishly encourages this, feeling pride that the public are 'smashing Brahmanical patriarchal norms' such as hygiene and cleanliness. 🤡

[Szymon Kopeć @szymonkopec]

I've traveled with my mom in India 🇮🇳 for a week and here's what she loved about it ⬇️

It was her first time out of Europe and she doesn't speak English. She's heard a lot about the country from me, read in Polish media, yet everything around here was shocking.

1. The mundanests of things were an attraction - especially taxi rides and grocery shopping. She came with a mission to buy "curry spice" for my sister and couldn't believe there's more than one type.

2. She took approximately a billion photos of weeds and plants in the most random places - she was a gardener before retiring and was at awe with the vegetation here, with what in Europe are an indoor plants requiring tonnes of maintenance just growing our in the wild next to some highway toilet stop.

3. Unfortunately image of India in Poland is mostly portraying slums and overcrowded trains with people hanging on rooftops. Taking a perfectly on-time Vande Bharat debunked some stereotypes.

4. The same goes for Dehli and its green, beautifully maintained neighbourhoods.

5. Tech ecosystem blew her mind. In Poland we're so far behind in that regard, while here I've shown her that there's an app for literally anything she imagines + 6 alternatives from competitors.

6. In school, we don't have even half a less about India's history. Visiting Taj Mahal or forts in Jaipur was a eye-openning to what the country was for centuries, pre colonisation.

7. Lastly, obviously what she loved the most were the people. Though she couldn't communicate with them, seeing joy all around and having these little interactions was precious, as everyone was beyond kind and we've had 0 less-than-positive experiences.

She's home now and I've heard that she hasn't stopped pitching India as an ideal holiday destination to the rest of the family. Well done, county 👏👏

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

India announces the 4 Indian astronauts for the #Gaganyaan mission to space.

I grew up seeing photos of only American astronauts & Russian Cosmonauts.

They were inspiring but I used to wistfully imagine & wonder if & when I would ever see fellow Indians in those adventurous space suits—on their way into Indian Spacecrafts.

That wish now seems to be turning into reality.

And I hope it will stoke the imagination and the aspiration of a whole new generation of Indians!

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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[Marcos Besteiro 👧🏻👶🏻 @MarcosBL]

Every. Single. New. Google. Product.

[Ari Murray @arihappywick]

When you think of "quiet luxury," you're thinking of The Row.

They never advertise. They barely do press. But they're your favorite fashionista's favorite label.

This is the story of two mogul designers who silenced critics and created one of the most coveted brands on earth:🪡

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Einstein slept nearly 10 hours a day. He valued the significance of quality sleep for maintaining his well-being. His sleep routine, though, was out of the ordinary.
He regularly indulged in brief daytime naps, occasionally more than once a day. These quick naps, lasting just a few minutes, were thought by Einstein to revitalize his mental energy and creative thinking.

He felt that these short periods of rest gave him a renewed viewpoint to solve intricate scientific challenges.

[The Eagle Eye @DeshiProfessor_]

Let us see how Nehru family always tried to push India's economy back.

It is imp to learn from the history. Even though our history was distorted to a large extent, there are some facts which cannot be denied. Let me mention those 3 facts today which killed India’s growth.

[Sreeram Ramachandran @ticktockthought]

Hey @DisneyPlusHS possible to not force-feed the same five Disney+ promos in the over breaks? If there's no commercial inventory commitment left to be serviced just stick to the match feed? Will make for such a better viewing experience

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

Job trends in the next 5 years:-

[1] Startup salaries are going to decline:

Most startups have started to realise that they need to control the profits, not just revenues.

Many unicorns who were on track to their IPO had to delay their IPOs. Reason: lack of profitability.

Over-hiring and over-paying is going to decline.

[2] Most CEOs would have a personal brand:

All smart CEOs have started to focus on their personal brands. This is evident on Linkedin as well.

People like to buy from people, not from companies.

Therefore, almost every 'Shark' now feature on their own advertisement. Why? personal brand.

Take a cue and start cultivating your personal brand as well.

[3] Parallel jobs:

Gone are the days when you could depend on 1 job.

Firms are not loyal to you.
And, any smart employee can see through this.

If you are not building backups already, you are doing yourself a disservice. And, the volatile job market is might one day hit you badly.

[4] Rise of remote jobs:

To cut the long story short, if work could be done from home, why would you waste your time, effort, energy travelling?

Not every job fits into 'work from home' culture, but many do.

Video editing, graphic designing, virtual assistants, digital marketing based jobs are going to make more money.

People are going to increasingly pick these skills.

[5] People would increasingly prefer to own small businesses:

AirBnBs/Holiday rentals
Opening digital stores
Launching digital products

Are all examples of small businesses.

With the rise of financial & career education, most people would prefer decent money + family time (OVER) crazy money + no time.

And owning small businesses is one way of fulfilling this goal.

Let me know in comments what other trends you are seeing.

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

They're using the same exact stories about Palestinians that they told about Serbs..... we're going to walk ourselves into another NATO war and this isn't going to end with a Balkanized republic and new NATO members. Pleas learn history I beg.

"In 2020, Samuel Moyn, a Yale professor, admitted that while working as a White House intern he 'planted' stories that were later published in the Washington Post that convinced the public that NATO bombing Serbia was virtuous and necessary.  Strobe Talbott, the Deputy Secretary of State under President Clinton and the leading US negotiator during the war, had written that 'It was Yugoslavia's resistance to the broader trends of political and economic reform—not the plight of Kosovar Albanians—that best explains NATO's war.'"

Stop falling for their lies.

[Borriss @_Borriss_]

Less than 31 hours since OpenAI started dropping the ChatGPT vision feature on pro users...

People are scratching their heads in disbelief.

10 wild examples:

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

Point is: At both these income levels, you would be in top 2% earners in India. And, should not have to worry about things that most Indians worry about.

The magic is: that if you hardworking & sincere, you will easily get to this level.

[Kamal Rathi 🇮🇳 @KamalRathi05]

The quality of a public place (Hotel, Restaurant,Airport etc) is directly proportionate to the density of liquid soap in the toilet's soap dispenser.

#observation

[Jaideep Chowdhary @TweeterSurd]

@singhcredible Run