Arjun Batra

[Prapthi @prapthi_m]

I keep saying it. If this world is ever going to be saved, it will be because of women. And this country is no exception.

[TTOpinion @opinion_tt]

Sumana Roy reflects on endings — be it a day or a year.

#NewYear2026 #NewYearsEve #LANGUAGE @leo_mukherjee

https://t.co/aAGEiZ5uCU

[I ❤️ Snooker @ILoveSnooker_]

Sometimes you just need to rewatch this majestic safety shot from Mark Allen 🤩

[Arjun Batra @CaptainBatra]

@anuradhasays Such magnificent cinema!
Beautifully layered & evocative.

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

https://t.co/poUJ2BO9ny

[Mukul Kesavan @mukulkesavan]

The triumph of virtue (or good guys finish first)

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[Rakhshanda Jalil @RakhshandaJalil]

आज की रात बहुत गर्म हवा चलती है,
आज की रात न फुटपाथ पे नींद आएगी,
सब उठो, मैं भी उठूं, तुम भी उठो, तुम भी उठो,
कोई खिड़की इसी दीवार में खुल जाएगी
--Kaifi Azmi

[Chitra Viraraghavan @CViraraghavan]

Dear friend, editor and colleague Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri writes most kindly about Running Head and us. @film_worm

https://t.co/PyJlKvc99O

#independentpublishing
#indiepublishing

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

.@Rukmini: The monthly average salary in India increased by about 90% from 2012 to 2024 in nominal terms, meaning that it nearly doubled in just over a decade. But adjusting for inflation, the average salary actually fell 4% over the period. https://t.co/Bxbrxhzwdb

[Rakhshanda Jalil @RakhshandaJalil]

“Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets

[Rashi @rashi_kakkar]

"Hierarchy doesn't exist because it's a good way to run a company. It exists because, for 2,000 years, it was the only reliable way to move information through a large group of humans. Span of control, layers of management, the whole pyramid ....it's information plumbing..." - @jack

This came from the Jack Dorsey / @bhalligan episode of Long Strange Trip Podcast.

In design thinking there's a practice of surfacing orthodoxies.

Orthodoxies are invisible constraints - things we accept as fixed simply because "that's the way it's always been done."

One of the first principles of a good design workshop is to surface these orthodoxies, challenge them, and ask: if we were starting from scratch today, would we design it this way?

Dorsey is essentially asking that question about the entire architecture of the modern company.

AI is a paradigm-shifting technology... on par with fire, the wheel, the printing press. Which is why you must ask yourself this question: are you rebuilding around intelligence, or bolting AI onto what already exists? Are you using AI to fundamentally rethink how you and your team work or just as a co-pilot?

Jack's hypothesis: move away from the pyramid, create a circle. Intelligence layer at the center. Humans at the edge, constantly steering toward the right outcomes, making the final calls ... with AI surfacing the ground truth that politics and hierarchy normally obscure.

The intelligence layer, in Dorsey's framing, is an attempt to close the gap between what's actually happening and what leadership thinks is happening.

That gap, in most organizations, is enormous. I'm not convinced this is THE org model of the future. But it is A model and an interesting one.

As you think about the next half decade, it's worth asking honestly: are you rebuilding from first principles, or just retooling what already exists?

[Søren Kierkegaard Club @Kierkegaarddd]

“Trouble is the common denominator of the living. It is the great equalizer.”

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Probably the funniest graph ever published by the FT: our 3 possible futures are either 1) infinite wealth and abundance, 2) human extinction or 3) 0.2% faster GDP growth 🤣

[Henry A. Giroux @HenryGiroux]

My article "Pedagogy in Dark Times: Resisting the Technocratic Takeover of Education," in multiple formats:
https://t.co/Qqp0Jkxlbu

[Gita Gopinath @GitaGopinath]

This speech by Governor Andrew Bailey on the difference between central bank 'independence' for monetary policy versus for financial stability is just great. I suspect this difference will attract increasing attention. @bankofengland @BoE_PressOffice
https://t.co/K3wdLYUgIO

[T M Krishna @tmkrishna]

I usually avoid responding to singular tweets, but this one from the Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs cannot be ignored. It is the right of every opposition party, in fact every citizen to question all the arms of government. Calling it an attack on democracy is against the very grain of democracy. This idea propagated by the present government that the entire opposition is a negative force is the real threat to democracy.

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades.

In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%.

Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Beware the Power of Prediction: What do the story of Oedipus and your insurance premiums have in common? They are both driven by self-fulfilling prophecies

Brilliant on AI from @CarissaVeliz

https://t.co/LJmSkMAqZz via @YouTube

[Adam Tooze @adam_tooze]

Because it combines technological waves with macroeconomic quantities, this is such an important graph (quibbles about quantification aside). More on this in the Chartbook Top Links.