Archit Varshney

Founder@SecondSpin @ilumen_earth | Building bw data, climate and culture |

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

@tushaarmehtaa @0xratnakar Haha love it 🫶

[Tushar Mehta @tushaarmehtaa]

we tried building a pitch event.

but that’s yc. and we’re not yc.

we're whyc.

so we ended up creating group therapy for rejected founders.

WHYC - India’s First TechRoast for Top 1% [Rejected]

TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE → https://t.co/5eOQGXYXlR

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Naval @naval]

On Scott Adams.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he exists. After the elation of childhood wears off, he asks, who am I, why am I here, how does this work? These are hard questions, so after a brief struggle, he selects a readymade answer and goes about the motions of life.

Scott Adams was not such a man. He was a live player, ever curious, intent on figuring out this simulation that he found himself in. From first principles, Scott unraveled, understood, and ultimately controlled his own reality. He hacked himself with affirmations, others with persuasion, the world with simultaneous sips. He explained people as moist robots, two movies happening on one screen, his world as Gods’ debris. He carved a personal mission to “be useful,” and made us all better writers, public speakers, and persuaders. He preached the footwear theory of motivation, the Adams Law of slow-moving disasters, the skill stack, systems over goals, and of course, the Dilbert Principle.

Besides cartooning, philosophizing, and teaching, Scott rose to the occasion and displayed, “the one virtue that cannot be faked” - courage. Scott had the courage to speak honestly as he saw it - about Trump, about his nation, and about his time, even though it cost him friends, audience, money, and his ticket to polite society. Scott had true courage, the kind that makes you unpopular, the kind that is always and everywhere in short supply,

At the end, as any hacker of reality, Scott covered all of his bases - he left as a Buddhist, a Christian, and a player in the Simulation.

Scott, we didn’t get enough time with you, but you were a mentor and a marvel. You were useful and you were courageous. You were incompressible and indivisible. One of a kind, and generous with your drawing, writing, and speaking. Unlike your squealing critics in the chattering class, you will be read generations from now.

On this earth there are many long-lived hells but no lasting heaven. Each heaven must be created and nurtured, ex-nihilo, from mind and from mud. Scott, you created a small heaven for us all, and to a larger heaven you go.

A man finds, to his astonishment, that he no longer exists. He asks why, what it was for, and how will the new reality work? When the rest of us get there, we’ll find Scott, ever useful, ready to explain, having figured it all out.

Notes:
• First line paraphrasing Schopenhauer.
• Courage quote via Taleb.

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

Need more engineers in life

[Jole @Joleksu]

@onscreenlol Bad / non-existent grounding on the hdmi cable. Lighter's piezo crystal creates a massive voltage spike to create the arc for the flame, which subsequently creates a magnetic field that induces small currents into the hdmi cable which ruins the signal integrity. Test diff cable.

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

@danifesto Memory

[Daniel Park @danifesto]

I’ll share a small part of https://t.co/UQ4RFIKUwO

Back in med school, I became obsessed with augmenting memory and dreamed of a Notion or Obsidian that completes itself. Today, we’ve built something close.

My self-awareness is sharper and everything feels connected. I genuinely believe AI does not replace humans. It amplifies us.

Huge respect to our engineers and designers who made this crazy thing real.

Bubbles are the episodic units of my life that the system interprets from my raw data. Clouds are the system’s questions, its hypotheses about who I am.
When I answer a cloud, it becomes a bubble again.

There is so much personal data that I cannot fully demo it. Wish I could. This system understands me more deeply than anyone.

Want to try it? Retweet and comment “memory.”
I’ll DM you an access code to skip the waitlist.

[Arpan Gupta @arpangup]

When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams.

It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method.

Here's exactly what Shohei did 👇

1. First, some history.... The Harada Method was created by Takashi Harada, a Japanese junior high track coach. He took a team ranked last out of 380 schools and, using his system, turned them into the #1 team in the region within 3 years. They held that top spot for the next 6 years.

2. You start by placing your main goal in the center of an 8x8 grid. For Ohtani, this was "be the #1 draft pick."

3. Next, you identify 8 critical supporting pillars needed to achieve that goal. These surround the main goal.

Ohtani's 8 pillars were:
• Body
• Control
• Sharpness
• Speed
• Pitch Variance
• Personality
• Karma/Luck
• Mental Toughness

4. You then break down each of those 8 pillars into 8 smaller, actionable tasks or daily routines.

This fills out the entire 64-cell grid, turning a massive dream into a concrete, daily action plan.

To improve his karma, he listed tangible actions like:

• Showing Respect to Umpires
• Picking up trash
• Being positive
• Being someone people want to support

5. The method goes far deeper than just technical skills. It forces you to analyze your weaknesses and build confidence. It also has a highlight on service to others, emphasizing that humility and contributing to your community are essential for personal success.

6. The key to the system is daily execution and accountability. Once the 64-cell chart is complete, you turn the tasks and habits into a daily diary and a "Routine Check Sheet." It’s designed to transform abstract intentions into a measurable, daily practice.

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Here is an update - All three satellite-tagged Amur Falcons Apapang (male), Alang (young female) and Ahu (female) are now undertaking their daring Arabian Sea crossing. Apapang has already flown nonstop for 76 hours, covering 3100 km at an average of 1000 km per day, aided by strong easterly tailwinds. From here, the journey becomes even more extraordinary as they head towards Somalia on their epic 3000 km oceanic flight @sureshwii @wii_india #Amurfalcons

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

@piyush_s_mishra 😂😂

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

there are essays, and then there are "violently shift your entire perception of reality" essays

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

What many don't seem to realise is that we have entered the age of the showman entrepreneur. The beginnings of every industrial revolution is marked by these showmen. They are necessary because it is not the quiet tinkerer who first pulls the future into the world, but the one who can make a crowd hold its breath. They've always been there, we just forget about them because these revolutions used to come every 50-60 years, and now maybe every 20-30yrs. On New Year’s Eve, 1897, Thomas Edison lit a single lane in Menlo Park with his "impossible bulbs".
Hundreds, maybe thousands, came to watch. So many, they had to hook up extra wagons to the trains. They came not to buy anything. No one had yet pulled up an electric pole to their door, no wires laid at their altars, no sockets waiting like open mouths punched into their walls. They didn't need a bulb. Not yet. They all came to see an incandescent beast caught in glass. To stand in the dark and watch the world tilt toward the electric.

We are entering that age again. There will be entrepreneurs who will build in the shade, and they should. And then there will be those who build at the center of the theatre obscura, the theatre fantastica. These founders will pull ahead and win the crowd as long as the story is sound, the act is authentic. The world will pay attention to these founders... through success and miserable failures, but the world will pay attention.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

We must repudiate the idea that "speech can be violence" once and for all. @glukianoff and I wrote about the dangers of promoting this idea on college campuses back in 2017, in @TheAtlantic:

https://t.co/BkFKx2d1Y6

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

It was only last week, I discovered Charlie Kirk while reading about the Reform UK’s Sep 13th protest. He’d made some interesting parallels between the USA and the UK’s cultural shifts.

Spent Wednesday night watching his Oxford Union debate and Turning Point USA 1-1 conversations with average Americans.

Woke up Thursday morning to a YT push video that showed life leaving his body from 6 different angles, as he held a mic, in front of hundreds of people - because someone probably disagreed with him.

Now it’s Friday as I sit here thinking about millions in a generation who saw that too. And who will probably live out a lifetime believing silence and ignorance was just objectively better than even debating to discover your values, let alone acting on them. Because apparently you are just not safe. Anywhere.

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

Tech X is so wild it’s sometimes hard to tell between parody and a serious idea. And perhaps that’s the genius

[tao te chic @taotechic]

posted a bit too close to the sun and now will be in San Francisco between 22-27 september. if you want to build message me. this is not a bit

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

To all the Apple boys, do the right thing

[Miranda Nover @mirandanover]

the orange iPhone is for the non performative males

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

Yes new iPhones at the Keynote and all but wait till you’ve seen what this kid just made

[Archit Varshney @arcquittal]

@Shetty_nhl Value first always, love it!