Guru Bhat

Senior Director of Engineering, Android at Google. Tennis Fanatic. Runner. Time Zone Athlete.

[Guru Bhat @_gurubhat_]

Grit + Gumption = Glory. What @rogerfederer and @rafaelnadal can teach us about lasting success - https://t.co/90wOeg7or5

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

Huge congratulations @DGukesh my friend !! The new and youngest ever world chess champion at 18 - absolutely incredible !

[Priyanka Kamath @100GirlsInGenAI]

Nandini, its great to see the agri momentum that started in Hyderabad is picking up its velocity, let's continue with the same energy & execution to reach our final milestone - The Farmers !!!

@_gurubhat_ : Appreciate you for being a rock solid support at Charcha'23 guiding participants to revolutionize with android. We have been unstoppable since, now harnessing, transformative potential with Claude AI.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

When something sounds too good to be true - maybe it is?

Did Klarna really fully replace 700 customer support agents overnight?

I did what few retweeting this do: tried Klarna’s AI assistant.

It’s… underwhelming. It recites exact docs and passes me on to human support fast.

[Priyanka Kamath @100GirlsInGenAI]

Final note, had the incredible delight to learn tremendously about building for the bottom billion with a novel inclusive tech for all, thanks to @_gurubhat_

This was a brilliant showcase of the bright young minds we have In India working towards revolutionizing agriculture sector and bringing positive change to countless lives ( ~ 500 million farms globally can leverage the framework) with innovation led creativity, technical expertise, and problem-solving skills to India's Techade!

Kudos to students
https://t.co/C9S5cTxmSZ
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https://t.co/65aJzLrvH4
https://t.co/gnvMKn2yMj

[Dave Burke @davey_burke]

The Transformer model is one of the most important contributions to modern AI. It powers Bard and is the "T" in ChatGPT. The 2017 Google paper, “Attention Is All You Need” is well written, but doesn't really explain how it works. So, here’s my "Transformers in a Nutshell”...

[nasscom @nasscom]

Our #GCC council leaders and Vice Chair @gangadharansind engaged in focused conversations at @saplabsindia. Together, they explored the dynamic landscape of digital transformation, cutting-edge engineering competencies, next-gen #talent and India's role as a beacon for GCCs globally.

#industryleaders #techleadership #leaderthoughts
#engineering #digitalengineering

@debjani_ghosh_ @sangeetagupta29 @RNamb @gangadharansind @saplabsindia @KSVish57 @SrikanthNasscom @Suk_Roy @_gurubhat_ (@Google), Anahita Tiwari (@MorganStanley), Punit Sood (@NatWestGroup), Mamatha Madireddy (@HSBC), Siva Padmanabhan (@AstraZeneca), Arvind Vaishnav (@Philips), Raman Adlakha (@Avaya), Neeraj Sinha (@StanChart), @AJ_AJEYA (@PureStorage), Deshant Kaila (@PepsiCo)

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

Roger Federer GOD MODE 🥶

When @rogerfederer saved 3 match points vs Zverev in Shanghai!

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

Happy 25th birthday @Google! 🎂 Thanks to everyone who uses our products and challenges us to keep innovating and to all Googlers!

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

On December 11, 2021, I picked Robert Greene up from the airport, and we drove forty-five minutes to Bastrop, TX.

At one point, Robert told me he’s had more than 20 research assistants since Ryan Holiday and none have been any good.

Why weren’t they any good? I asked.

He said,

“Some didn’t grasp the spirit of the material I look for. Some couldn’t discern what's interesting from what isn't. Some melted like an ice cube in the sun at the first piece of constructive criticism. Some...”

He paused here and thought.

As he was thinking, I understood the implication was that those first three reasons didn't really cut to the core of his troubles with research assistants.

“Without exception,” Robert realized, “they weren’t interested in boredom. It’s a dividing line between people who are successful and people who are not.”

Takeaway 1:

Mastery, Robert said, requires boredom and tedium.

It requires doing the same things over and over and over.

It requires sitting with the frustration of putting in work that doesn't immediately pay off.

It requires sitting with the uncertainty of, am I going to spend sixteen hours reading this biography only to discover there’s nothing in it I can use?

You have to be able to sit with boredom, Robert said.

Takeaway 2:

In another conversation, Robert told me he believes one of the reasons people struggle to sit with boredom is that they have a false idea about the word “creativity.”

“People have all sorts of illusions about the word that aren’t the reality,” he said.

“The reality is that creativity is a function of the previous work you put in. If you put a lot of hours into thinking and researching and reading, hour after hour—a very tedious process—creativity will come to you…It comes to you, but only after hours and hours of tedious work.”

I like this definition because it means creativity is not some mysterious form of magic. It’s something that is rewarded to those who put in hours and hours of boring, tedious work.

- - -

“One sign that you're suited for some kind of work is when you like even the parts that other people find tedious.” — Paul Graham

Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

[Mishaal Rahman @MishaalRahman]

Neat: You can send an entire folder from your Android device to other Android devices, Chromebooks, or Windows PCs from the Files by Google app!

Just long-press on any folder in the Files app and then tap the Nearby Share icon in the top right.

[T-Hub @THubHyd]

@thenudgeforum with @GoogleIndia and T-Hub, is organizing a 24+ hrs hack to build solutions that can transform the lives of small & marginal farmers in India using Android.

Make an impact for change

Register now: https://t.co/6UsIGZwvIS

@rampapatla @_gurubhat_ @WilsonLWhite

[Google India @GoogleIndia]

Safety 🔐 Innovation ✨ Much more ❤️

Meet Droid 🤝 #Android

[Google India @GoogleIndia]

How to use Nearby Share on your Android phone 👇

1️⃣ Select a file
2️⃣ Click on 'Share'
3️⃣ Select 'Nearby Share'
4️⃣ Ensure that the other device's visibility is on

Ta-da! You're set ❤️

[Sindhu Gangadharan @gangadharansind]

Today, #India 🇮🇳 has ~1,600 GCCs powered by 1.66 Mn workforce - there is a huge opportunity ahead of us to scale up India's #GCC market share to USD 60-85bn in the next half a decade. Honoured to work with the esteemed @NASSCOM GCC Council to leverage this incredible potential🙏

[Guru Bhat @_gurubhat_]

@dale_vaz @Swiggy Congratulations on an amazing run Dale! Very inspiring!

[nasscom events @NasscomEvents]

A passionate technologist, @_gurubhat_ at @Google will be joining as a speaker at #nasscomGCC Conclave.

With extensive experience working at leading tech companies, he is committed to using it for the greater good.
https://t.co/YcfqPvwYc9

🗓️ June 1-2
📌 Bengaluru

[Paul Couvert @itsPaulAi]

ChatGPT has now a big problem.

Google just updated its free competitor, Bard.

Here are 8 things impossible on ChatGPT but that Bard can do (for free):

[Guru Bhat @_gurubhat_]

#mustwatch

Made my day to see someone power through adversity and emerge triumphant in such emphatic fashion!

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

In 3mins, Sifan Hassan from London Marathon will teach you the greatest lesson for life & entrepreneurship. Goosebumps guaranteed!

Sifan ran her debut marathon while training through Ramadan and fasting and was pitted against the best athletes in the world.

Day before the race she said " I'm scared & feel stupid to show up for a marathon"

This is the story of her remarkable win this past Sunday.

-Within one hour of the race, she fell off the pace from the lead pack
-She was struggling with pain and stopped twice to stretch her hips.
-For elite runners, when they stop in a marathon their chances of winning is almost zero.

At this time the commentators said "She needs to stop and somebody needs to give her advice to step off and stop trying to run on. She may not know what to do in a marathon".

-But Sifan showed grit & resilience to stay on the course limping while her competitors raced ahead of her.
-At one point, she was nearly hit by the lead motorbike while trying to get to her water bottle.
-Later she offered water to her rivals.
-With every kilometre she closed the gap with the leaders and soon was with the pack.
-And 400meters away from the finish line she surged leaving her competition almost impossible to catch her.

Sifan won the race with a finish time of 2hr 18min 34 sec

After the finish she said “I learned to be patient and just to run my own race. Just keep going as much as possible and maybe i'll surprise myself.”

What makes Hassan’s story even more special is that she was born in Ethiopia but moved to the Netherlands aged 15 as a refugee where she moved into a shelter for asylum seekers.

Becoming a strong is not an event. It's a process.
Discipline is remembering what you want.

Video source @BBCWorld

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Transformational. Let’s do this. In every city.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Product Strategy—in 1 tweet.

What:
Rigorous treatment of where to play & how to win

Why:
Drastically improve odds of product success
Create org-wide clarity

Outlook:
3-5 years

Components:
Situation assessment
Target customers
Differentiation pillars
Roadmap
Brief action plan