ahunawar

Software Engineering, Bitcoin, Lightning Network and Financial Markets enthusiast. My opinions are solely my own and do not represent any organization.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@elonmusk @yacineMTB Seen this always. While it’s no guarantee, Elon’s mindset and values always been this way

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@elonmusk They learned from what the Brits got wrong. Invading a country and ruling it against the will of their people has no sustainable long term benefits. Better to have jnfluence in a way that helps the United States. We don’t have some crazy moral superiority.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@Jason You mean you ate all the bitcoin and a few years later you shat it out

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@unusual_whales Because you can’t tax wealth. You tax income. That is why it’s called income tax.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@elonmusk Around 60,000 Zoroastrians in India today who migrated from Persia to escape persecution. They are known as Parsees. Fun fact Freddie Mercury for Zoroastrian.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@elonmusk A religion with simple tenets - Good thoughts, good words, good deeds.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@elonmusk I love my Tesla. I just want to see more Tesla models. Make it happen boss man

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

Complexity is the tax that success levies on the unguarded mind.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

When your working life rewards you, it’s easy to ratchet up the complexity: homes, cars, travel, possessions etc.

I have found that all that complexity comes at the sake of your most fleeting asset: your time. Instead of building things, all of a sudden you’re dealing with minutiae and logistics. Instead of talking mostly to engineers, you’re talking mostly to non-engineers. The building stops…the business of managing self inflicted complexity begins.

It’s worth noting that the best players in the game (Buffett, Elon) have kept their life extremely basic, almost monastic/nomadic, as success ratcheted them ever higher.

I think it’s the biggest secret hiding in plain sight:

When the world upgrades your status, downgrade your complexity.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

NDIS EXPOSED: Massive 52 minute investigation with @PeteZogoulas into Australia's immense disability fraud crisis.

This is Minnesota on a national scale. The NDIS budget - now approaching $50 billion a year - is closing in on Australia's entire military budget, and there is so much fraud in the system that the official government regulator told the Australian Senate there are not enough judges in Australia to try all known cases of fraud. The entire Australian legal system would collapse if they tried.

Up to 99% of alleged NDIS fraud goes unprosecuted. Out of over 7,000 tip-offs alleging fraud in the March quarter of 2025, just 16 cases (0.22%) were prosecuted.

So alleged scammers don't even bother to hide abuse.

To give you just one example: we visited a West Sydney NDIS provider operating out of the exact same address as a previous NDIS business the Australian government shut down for fraud four months ago. They were using the same accountant and THE EXACT SAME PHONE NUMBERS!

When we confronted them on camera, the owners physically assaulted us, smashed $800 worth of @PeteZogoulas's equipment, and staff screamed "RETARD" at us.

These people work in disability care.

Very legitimate and professional disability service business.

Watch the whole thing now. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

[signüll @signulll]

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person.

when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that.

i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it.

& the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start.

the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled.

before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

Vinod is truly an Indian legend

[Activate @ActivateSignal]

Signal Dialogues #01 is live.

We built Signal because there wasn’t a clear, consistent voice telling the story of AI in India — across founders, capital, research, and policy.

For our first episode, @aakrit sits down with @vkhosla and @mukundjha to go over the rise of Emergent — probably the fastest growing software company in history to hit $100M ARR.

Shot at the sidelines of the @OfficialINDIAAI summit at the iconic @iitdelhi.

Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro: Fastest Growing Software Company Ever?
07:28 – Mukund's Journey: Google → Dunzo → Emergent
22:23 – You're Limited by What You Think You Can Do
27:08 – The $3M Bet That Built the Internet
47:11 – $100B AI Company From India?

[Eva Fo𝕏 🦊 Claudius Nero's Legion @EvaFox]

A young Elon Musk predicting the impact he wants to leave on the world:

“I think what I'd like to do is help solve some important problems.

So, I think, in a small way, help build the internet.

And then with respect to the global warming problem, the transition away from oil and other hydrocarbons to something which is clean and sustainable, I hope to have an impact there.

And then with respect to space, the long-term ultimate objective, the holy grail, is to help make life multi-planetary.

That's really what I would like to do.”

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

Same same

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

It's weird.

I totally support the government's ability to use frontier technology to keep us safe.

But at the same time, the sequence of events with OpenAI coming in at the last minute, the AMA etc. makes me now trust Anthropic a lot more.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

Gold. Serve and create value to build a good consumer business.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Brian Armstrong shares the most important lesson from his startup failure before Coinbase

After realizing he could make $60/hour tutoring as a college student, Brian and his roommate decided to build an online marketplace for tutors. They would match tutors with students and take a 10% fee on all of the payments.

It worked great but there was one hiccup:

“What would happen often is they would meet the tutor and do the first payment, but then afterwards they’d start paying them under the table. So I realized at a certain point, we were basically just getting in the way. They wanted us to just match them, but they didn’t want us to be the whole billing apparatus.”

After struggling with this problem for years, Brian decided it wasn’t working and took a job as an early employee at Airbnb. He was initially planning on shutting down the site, but because 5,000-10,000 people were still using it every month, he decided to remove the payments and just make it a free online tutoring directory. He also added the option for tutors to pay $10/mo. to promote their profiles on the site.

Then he stopped looking at the site to focus on his new job. But the site suddenly began to take off. It doubled every year, and eventually Brian was able to sell the business for $2 million.

Brian concludes:

“The lesson was to stop trying to extract value and start trying to create more value.”

Video source: @StevenBartlett (2022)

[Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research @SIEPR]

A 13% drop in jobs for young workers in #AI-exposed roles is now 16%, according to this update from SIEPR's @erikbryn (@DigEconLab) on AI's labor market impacts. The latest analysis rules out changes in #InterestRates as a factor, finds that AI-linked job declines began in 2024.

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@saylor This man knows how to make sense to a large group of analysts. Great presentation. Calmed the markets down in a meaningful way.

[Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin @jasonlk]

https://t.co/d9Wch0HBzh

[Sean League @SeanLeague2]

As a personal example. We had Kaiser, my wife had to get an ultrasound for some female issues. We went in and asked how much it would cost. They told us, with insurance, $2800 because we had not met the deductible threshold yet. While I was waiting, one of the secretaries told us that if we went to another Kaiser facility and asked to pay cash it would be at least $2000 cheaper. We canceled the appointment right there and went to the other facility in Irvine, CA. We just said that we didn't have insurance and they charged us $290 minus $50 cash discount, so $240 for the same scan! This is the scam, and it has happened to us 3 times in the last six months, so we just started paying cash all the time and canceled our insurance. We now get seen same day, any doctor we want and save up to 10x the price. I am getting a CAT scan next week for $350 cash. https://t.co/iSaPTo2boL

[ahunawar @ahunawar]

@NBCS49ers @gkittle46 You are a rockstar my man. If we win this superbowl that ring is every bit yours as it is of the rest of the team.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Absolutely insane headline