Amit Malik

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[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

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Notes 🧵 on book
No Filter : The Inside Story of Instagram by written by @sarahfrier

Someone should make a movie on NO FILTER

Book provides an exciting 🔥 story of how little features, care for users, commitment to quality & great decisions can lead to great product.
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[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Panic over collapsing fertility
This is the daughter of India's IT Dhandho Nandan Nilekani. She is pushing the idea of 3 kids per family now, after India's fertility has collapsed to 1.9, and may touch 1.5 by 2030. Now this is something we all celebrate, subject to the simple condition that we get rich before we get old, etc.
But can you guess why she is pushing this crazy idea?
1) If population starts reducing sharply from birth-side, most consumption Dhandho models, and government rent-seeking models too will begin to shrink. Horror!
2) The huge govt. surveillance machinery will have lesser and lesser to feed upon.
3) And since isn't an innovation nation, the world's interest in us will collapse faster than our fertility (as they can't sell ever more to us, any more).
4) Of course the daily fear of population explosion that WhatsApp University feeds into innocent minds will end too.
Read again - Indian elite want more kids per family, not less, because their business gets whacked otherwise. For the sake of this nation, reject these Dhandhos and their predatory ideas. Surely this lady has no clue of how impossible it is for a regular middle-class family to educate even a second child now.

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

@AmazonHelp @amazonIN I have completed this form 3 times but still saying the same

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

#BREAKING🚨: Today in Utqiagvik, the sun rose above the horizon at 2:57 AM after 65 days and won’t set again for 84 straight days or until August 2nd!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[Take Action! @takeactionD]

‘Rich kids get capital. Middle class kids get “figure it out.” Poor kids get trauma and told it builds character. The starting line is not equal.’

[Paul Graham @paulg]

You don't know how big a fish you are till you try a big pond.

[Sahil @sahill_og]

POV: Software developers coming to the office ready to prompt Claude Code 5 times and call it a day. 😂

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

As Carl Jung put it, "Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health." Yet most people instinctually avoid pain. This is true whether we are talking about building the body (e.g., weight lifting) or the mind (e.g., frustration, mental struggle, embarrassment, shame)--and especially true when people confront the harsh reality of their own imperfections. #principleoftheday

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

Open source AI isn’t just free software.
It’s a global university.

DeepSeek drops a paper
10,000 engineers worldwide replicate it in weeks. Moats evaporate fast.

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

An agent is just:

LLM + bash shell + file system + markdown + a loop.

Unix philosophy from 1969 is eating the future.

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

80 years of failed AI research wasn’t failure it was compounding.

The architecture was right the whole time. We just needed more compute.

[Chester @chesterzelaya]

the male equivalent to flowers is probably an RTX6000 Pro Blackwell Workstation

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

GPUs are the first asset class with inverse depreciation
a 3-year-old Nvidia chip prints more money today than launch day

Name another asset that works like that

[dany @danywander]

me and @claudeai

[Jim Keller @jimkxa]

The accelerator accelerator accelerator

CPUs are the OG
GPUs accelerate CPUs
TPUs accelerate GPUs (Tensor cores)
LPUs accelerate TPUs

Maybe something simpler could work

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

Complexity is a tax paid in attention.

Status upgrades are actually traps dressed as rewards

complexity shifts who you talk to

[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.

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

Simplicity at scale isn’t asceticism.

It’s leverage.

Every complexity you refuse to acquire is a decision that compounds because your best hours stay pointed at the work that actually moves the needle, rather than the administration of your own life.

[Amit Malik @amit__malik]

Open source models account for roughly 60–65% of token consumption at the enterprise level.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Google's "Attention is All You Need" paper came from trying to get a 3% gain in Google Translate.

Innovation is a consequence of production. "If you don't make the thing, you cede your opportunity to innovate on the thing."

~ Palantir's CTO @ssankar

[conduct|r @conductr_]

Game theory teaches: if someone invites you to play their game, the rules are already written for you to lose. Why else would they invite you? Following their rules perfectly simply means losing without ever having a chance to win.