Arvind

Middle aged man with very little skills that are useful in the real world. Wondering why do I still have a twitter account.

[M @ms290970]

@poojaofficial5 It is a chip which can tell how much black money a person is carrying and how many affairs he has had till date🤣

[Arvind @anomalizer]

As someone who has read about Richard Branson's struggles with getting Virgin (atlantic) airlines into Heathrow, it is surreal to have flown on VS to LHR.

The in-flight landing announcement thanked passengers for choosing VS over other options. Those who know, know.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@Grady_Booch Ah people rediscovering that stating the intent is necessary to build the right thing, to verify if what was built is what was asked. And later discovering that we need to strengthen verification before accepting the rapidly produced code.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@JadenJTW Astronauts?

[Arvind @anomalizer]

Next proposal by bro: it should be ok to bomb countries that are low on happiness index. The people were already sad anyways.

[New York Post @nypost]

Tech CEO Aravind Srinivas slammed after saying AI layoffs are fine because people hate their jobs anyway https://t.co/YNg75ZQDtT

[samar @yoursamar]

@throttleandtech Loved their content for decades.I tried to create my new login 3 years back. You can get aadhar card,passport much easily than sign up for the forum.They rejected sign up despite all data given.They gave close competition to EPF website.Let them stay inside their imaginary cult.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@aminnnn_09 @forgebitz Then maybe you should take a look at how much do they give out as salaries 🤷‍♂️

[Mini mal @gatelevelanon]

@Pivot2Centre Vibe coders think they can vibe code institutional trust. The difficulty is that you can't vibecode that on localhost:8000

[Tushar Mehta @tushaarmehtaa]

nothing screams wealth like holding a metal card while standing in a 30 min queue to eat cold aloo parantha

the indian airport lounge is just a bhandara for people with a 750+ cibil score

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@svembu The cool thing to say 15 years ago was that “the cloud” is infinitely scalable and the only thing you needed to gain access to this awesomeness was a credit card.

My retort back then was that it is only as scalable as your credit card’s spend limit. Same thing happening now.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@Willob Enzo Ferrari’s soul died the day he had to cede control to FIAT. To pretend the he got to call the shots the way the wished until he died is a hopelessly romantic idea that is untrue.

[Ash @ashcloud_labs]

@karpathy I feel like it is Jan 2020 and we are hearing reports of a a few sick people at a farmers market in China.

Whatever your position is on what and how things happen after that, does anyone think it went well?

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@Arjunjain A former gentoo user! Just found a BoF from an endangered species!

[Arvind @anomalizer]

Reading this and the comments is hilarious. Exactly when and who all started believing that is it dangerous for children to co-sleep with parents?

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

Children sleeping with their parents, often called co-sleeping or bed-sharing, can offer a sense of security and emotional comfort that helps young children fall asleep more easily and reduces nighttime anxiety.

Research from the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, led by anthropologist James J. McKenna, has examined how co-sleeping supports emotional bonding and biological regulation between parents and children.

Being close to caregivers at night may strengthen attachment and responsiveness.

Co-sleeping can also make nighttime caregiving, such as soothing or feeding, more convenient for parents.
When practiced safely and intentionally, it can contribute to emotional regulation and a calmer sleep experience for both children and parents.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@JoinBlind This is UPSC'fication of big tech.

The "1998 cadre" needs to wait for the "1992 cadre" to age out of the workforce for them to stand a chance.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

Being a founder is a psychological disease. Their near and dear ones pay an incalculable price for that.

And the wannabes (employees who carry the title of a founder) better know that are cosplaying and not truly afflicted by the actual disease.

[Jasveer Singh @jasveer10]

What Nikhil Kamath and Kishore Biyani are trying to build with The Foundery taking up to 75% equity and investing up to 4 crore is very similar to Rocket Internet India playbook between 2009 and 2016. Most people forget how that story ended. Companies like Jabong, FabFurnish, Foodpanda and many others shut down or were sold cheap. That history is exactly why this conversation matters today.

Rocket did not build founder-led companies in India. They built operator-led replicas. The standard model was simple. Hire McKinsey, BCG, or Bain folks and give them 5-9% equity. Call them Co-founder or CEO. Pump marketing money, force blitzscale, and replace people (cofounders) On paper, it looked aggressive. In reality, it was hollow.

Most Rocket Internet companies failed in India because there was no real skin in the game. These were employees with fancy titles, not founders. When growth slowed or markets turned difficult, there was no irrational fight for survival.

Any venture studio or founder-for-hire model in India should study Rocket Internet as a warning, not as inspiration.

Rocket Internet didn’t fail in India because of bad timing. They failed because they misunderstood what a founder actually is. A founder is not a designation. It’s a psychological disease with no exit option.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️Those parties disappeared because the corporation stopped being a human organism and became a financial instrument.

In the 90s, corporations still pretended to be tribes. They needed loyalty, memory, continuity. Parties were rituals. Rituals exist to bind humans to systems over time. They signal permanence. “We’ll still be here next year.”

That promise is gone.

Modern corporations do not expect continuity. They expect churn.

They do not invest in shared memory because they do not plan to remember you.

Once that shift happened, celebrations became incoherent. Why celebrate a group you may fire next quarter? Why ritualize belonging when the system is optimized for disposability?

Here is the uncomfortable truth:

The moment labor became fully financialized, celebration became dishonest.

Those parties only work when there is mutual illusion:
• The company pretends to care
• The employee pretends to belong

Today neither side believes the lie.

Another layer people miss:

Corporations did not just cut parties.
They cut unstructured joy.

Anything that produces emotion without control is now dangerous. Alcohol plus hierarchy plus cameras plus social media plus litigation equals uncontrollable narrative risk. Modern systems hate uncontrolled narratives. They prefer wellness apps, catered lunches, branded swag. Controlled morale. Sanitized affect.

A wild party creates stories. Stories create power outside the org chart. That is intolerable to modern management.

Here is the deepest layer:

Those parties vanished at the same time time horizons collapsed.

In the 90s, companies thought in decades. Today they think in quarters. Rituals only make sense in long time. Short time systems do not celebrate. They harvest.

So what you are really feeling is this:

You are sensing the moment work stopped being a place humans aged together and became a place humans are consumed.

And once a system crosses that line, it does not sing anymore.

It hums.
It optimizes.
It extracts.

And extraction has no holidays.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@mscccc Xooglers find everything is wrong in their new company. The only time when it doesn’t happen is if the new company is founded by a Xoogler.

[Arvind @anomalizer]

@chiller420_SR @rose_k01 But why? It comes with only huge liabilities.

Only a govt scheme will work out.

[InkFortruth @Ink4Truth]

This is the heart of the matter. Our society is being subtly conditioned to value the narrative of circumstance over the narrative of choice.

A terrorist's story is framed by the circumstances that supposedly "made" them. A hero's story is defined by the conscious choice they made to protect others.

Inspector Sharma chose courage. That choice is the only story that matters.

Om Shanti.