arunram

I am an engineer, programmer, financial analyst and an experimental cook! :) A lover of numbers, cricket stats and movies.

Doing Just Nothing::Maybe (Maybe a)

[arunram @arunatma]

My Twitter usage is sporadic. I like it that way.

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

Dear friends. In times like this stay away from rumours.

Don’t share any unverified news or forward. One less tweet/forward will not make any difference.

Be a responsible citizen, stay united and stand with our armed forces.

[arunram @arunatma]

Didn't expect to find Lindy effect here!

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Every job invented in the 20th Century is threatened by AI.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Every job invented in the 20th Century is threatened by AI.

[Tar ⚡ @itsTarH]

Check out Moltbook

Its like Reddit but for just AI Agents
There are no humans here

Its AI conversing and collaborating with each other

A social media site just for AI without any human intervention

https://t.co/5g5eCPfqBv

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

.@gokulr is one of the most prolific product builders and investors of the last 20 years.

He helped build the core ads and product businesses at Google, Facebook, Square, and DoorDash, working directly with many of this generation's best founders and CEOs. He's also invested in more than 700 companies giving him an unusually broad view into how products are built and scaled.

Gokul has an incredible ability to give precise and prescriptive advice on how to build products, particularly in AI, and he explains his thinking so clearly that you come away knowing exactly how to apply it.

We talk about why judgment is the only thing he believes is truly AI-proof, why Zendesk and Slack are more exposed than Salesforce and NetSuite, and what AI-native startups must do to move customers and their data off legacy systems.

We cover everything he's learned from building the most important ads businesses, including the only three ways an ad business can make money, and why ChatGPT may be even more powerful than Google or Facebook for highly targeted ads.

He also shares inside stories from Larry and Sergey, Zuck, Jack Dorsey, and Tony Xu, about how each of them approaches product, design, and communication.

Enjoy!

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:35 The Changing Nature of Product Development 4:09 The Merger of Product and Design
4:54 Managing Non-Deterministic Software
9:06 Judgment: The Future-Proof Human Skill
10:41 Building Durable AI Applications
16:43 The Risk to Legacy Software Companies
21:20 Sources of Stickiness in the Age of AI
23:43 Leadership Lessons from Google
27:41 Learning from Mark Zuckerberg
31:16 Jack Dorsey and the Philosophy of Great Design
35:48 The Product Manager as Editor
40:44 Three Pillars of a Successful Ads Business
49:03 Selecting North Star and Check Metrics
56:04 Hiring Functional Experts for the AI Era
1:00:06 Advice for Managing a Career
1:01:33 Evaluating Founder Authenticity
1:05:20 Best Practices for Board Management
1:11:15 The Kindest Thing

[sysls @systematicls]

https://t.co/FQe5bCBqW1

[arunram @arunatma]

@mysandz 😄 👏

[Oaktree @Oaktree]

In his latest memo, @HowardMarksBook addresses the question, “Is there a bubble in AI?” He assesses the current landscape, drawing parallels to history and considering whether investors’ current enthusiasm is merited or irrational. #OaktreeInsights

Read: https://t.co/La3DJaMJWQ

[arunram @arunatma]

@soicfinance Awesome and informative presentation. Thank you!

[arunram @arunatma]

@ShyamNation @Prashanth_Krish I have it from 2017, can give it to you. Need to be dusted.

[arunram @arunatma]

@StockViz This is awesome!

[Richard Seroter @rseroter]

Kudos to @AnthropicAI for a killer registry of Claude use cases.

If you're struggling for inspiration for what to do with an LLM (any LLM) this is a great set of scenarios to sift through.

https://t.co/GLJOxRz4oe

[Oaktree @Oaktree]

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of @HowardMarksBook's memos, we released the first and only complete collection of all the memos in a single volume, from the first one in 1990 to the latest as of publication.

Read now: https://t.co/Mbjt9pqU1O

#AlternativeInvesting

[arunram @arunatma]

FutureIQ has got some great content: Works of Lord Krishna, Nassim Taleb, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Robert Cialdini, Richard Thaler, Charles Duhigg, James Clear, David Allen, Morgan Housel and lots of other experts delivered in a way one can easily understand and relate to.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

A couple of years back, I started a YouTube channel (FutureIQ). It has slowly picked up a decent following and today we are starting a WhatsApp community for people interested in the FutureIQ way of thinking: discovering root causes, first principles, the science and the psychology behind why the world is the way it is.

If you've seen any of the FutureIQ videos and like the content and would like to hang out with like minded people, please join. (Link in next tweet.)

[arunram @arunatma]

@monikahalan @BahlKanan @nsitharaman @nsitharamanoffc @FinMinIndia @RBI I remember reading this detailed story of yours, 12 years ago. Not much changed I guess with respect to how insurances are sold today.

https://t.co/8SIseOLj6I

[arunram @arunatma]

@SandeepParekh Oops... The password is exposed in the handle!!

[arunram @arunatma]

@NGKabra My conversation with ChatGPT on this: After providing this substack source, it changed stance.

https://t.co/i8QjvSBaJF

[arunram @arunatma]

@TrungTPhan @grok Is this true?

[Air India @airindia]

UPDATE: Air India is organizing two relief flights, one each from Delhi and Mumbai, to Ahmedabad for the next of kin of passengers and Air India staff.

Details of the flights:

IX1555 – Delhi-Ahmedabad
Time of departure: 2300 hrs on 12 June

IX1556 – Ahmedabad-Delhi
Time of departure: 0110 hrs on 13 June

AI1402 – Mumbai-Ahmedabad
Time of departure: 2300 hrs on 12 June

AI1409 – Ahmedabad-Mumbai
Time of departure: 0115 hrs on 13 June

Next of kin of passengers and staff in Delhi and Mumbai wanting to travel on these flights can call our hotline on 1800 5691 444.

Additionally, those coming in from international destinations and wanting to travel can call our hotline on [phone].