Abhi

Software Engineer.
Learning. Sharing Memes. Thinking across dimensions.

[Abhi @_abhi0x]

When Netflix showed up, Blockbuster didn’t lose to movies.
It lost to faster distribution.

Email didn’t replace letters.
It replaced waiting days for a reply.

GPS didn’t erase geography.
It erased getting lost for hours.

Excel didn’t remove accountants.
It removed manual arithmetic.

Cloud didn’t kill data centers.
It removed the need to guess demand upfront.

AI won’t replace engineers.
It replaces slow feedback loops and work that takes longer than ideas last.

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

100 years old and still the coolest person alive. Happy birthday, Sir David!

[y @ysuckme]

stay rare, most are just copies.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.

The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.

This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.

A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

[lexi @elextra__]

they look like two different species of toads with a distant common ancestor

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

People don’t realize isolation is your one way ticket to the permanent underclass.

[Big Tech Alert @BigTechAlert]

Note: it looks like @LarryEllison closed his X account

[brigitté🪽 @iamallthatis_]

now take this information and flip it. constantly pointing out the things you are grateful for can train your brain to notice more things to be grateful for. constantly noticing abundance will train your brain to notice even more abundance. flip the script & stay in control.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

it’s staring at a wall guys. he only stared at a wall 10-20 mins/day and limited unnecessary screen time and the results were noticeable:
> easier maintaining focus
> more flow state and creativity
> mental clarity and presence
seems like all you need to do,
is just do nothing.

[Max @minordissent]

This sounds absurd but it's actually true.

While you can't just magically delete it in the moment, realizing that depression, anxiety, etc, are a habit you have rather than fundamentally who you are is the first step.

The way your mind works is that every thought you have "grooves" your brain to have more thoughts like it.

Every time you have a negative thought, you make it easier to have a negative thought in the future. Similarly, every positive thought makes future positive thoughts easier.

If you let your negative thoughts run rampant without any positive counters all day every day, you deeply groove your brain such that it becomes really good at producing negative thoughts and really bad at producing positive ones.

Thoughts produce feelings. If all your thoughts are negative, all your feelings with be. And thus you become "mentally ill".

The solution is not to "solve all your problems". It is impossible to solve our your problems. Life in an infinite game of problems forever. And you won't solve any of them until you stop having only negative thoughts first (because you'll just say "whats the point?" "This is too hard!" catastrophize about how you'll fail, etc rather than actually fix them)

The solution is to reduce the negative thoughts and increase the positive ones. This is what CBT does and why it's one of the few therapeutic techniques that is remotely effective. It's basically James Clear's Atomic Habits but for thoughts instead of behaviors.

The CBT process is:

1. Notice that you are having a negative feeling
2. Specify what feeling it is
3. Identify the situation and thoughts around it
4. Isolate the unhelpful (negative) thoughts
5. Challenge them with more helpful (positive) thoughts

When you do step 1-4 it helps you detach from and loosen the grip of the unhelpful negative thought, such that it doesn't keep digging. When you do step 5 you start digging the trench for helpful positive thoughts.

Do this enough, and you slowly reduce the depth of the negative habit and start to build a more positive one.

Yes, your genes and life experience can prime you to be more naturally drawn to positive or negative thinking. but such is true of all habits.

Some people are biologically wired to have a unique enjoyment of alcohol. Others, exercise. Some grew up in a household that read a lot of books so doing it daily is easy. Others who grew up in TV only household find it harder. But everyone understands none of these behaviors are fundamental. Bad habits, maybe even addictions, but still not fundamentally traits.

And thus, literally just deciding "actually I am not neurotic and depressed and angry, I am capable and driven and filled with joy" and repeating that to yourself 100 times a day DOES work. Its slow and crude and often needs more targeted assistance, but it will do far more than you might think, if you can simply get yourself to do it and be remotely open to the possibility that you could believe it.

[Blond @BlondB00]

realising viscerally existentially wholeheartedly that continuously checking your phone will disrupt your capacity to deep-work and take anything seriously and that will rob you of your essence as a human being and keep you a shell of what you could’ve turned out to be.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Someone asked if it's a good idea to start a startup when you have nothing notable on your resume. Absolutely. All that matters in a startup is whether users like the product, and users don't care (either way) what's on your resume.

[Sag Harbor Capital @sagharborcap]

The saddest thing about all the AI stuff is that it’s rendered the Khan Academy guy’s life’s work totally obsolete

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Meta, $META, is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, per Reuters

[Nick Khami @skeptrune]

bro's out here flogging a dead horse

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Enterprise software firm Atlassian announces its laying off 10% of its workforce to restructure around AI.

[gabe @allgarbled]

Noticing a lot of people are letting the way they work with coding agents totally fry their attention span. If you do this, you are giving up your biggest remaining advantage over AI, which is your ability to think deeply across very large contexts.

[Luke Leisher @luke_leisher_]

I can't believe humans were gifted a planet full of famine, disease, and death and invented fusion, vaccines, moon rockets, and so much food that most people die from obesity.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

Unlike bad things, which tend to happen suddenly, good things tend to be built gradually, so are rarely newsworthy on any particular day. Thus, bad things dominate the news, even as overall the world gets better (albeit too slowly for us to notice).