Ganesh Ram

[Ganesh Ram @chirpsfrom_ram]

@frontierindica I eat alone all the time. You are overthinking this bro.

[Anton Osika @antonosika]

The road to entrepreneurship is filled with bad advice. Don't listen to anyone who tells you to try less. Build what matters to you, and if looks like shit, try again.

[Ganesh Ram @chirpsfrom_ram]

@amitgoel78 @LinkedIn It is not a problem with the platform but with the mentality of recruiters or others in a low trust society like India. When the other party senses real need, in high trust societies, they might actually give the candidate a chance.

[Ganesh Ram @chirpsfrom_ram]

@okaythenfuture You are taking this too seriously. Online world is not real life. It is just a football game which lot of folks follow. Just chill and watch the game. :)

[Sekar Vembu @sekar_vembu]

I can't understand why @balajis has to meet with the Chief Minister of Delhi. Why can't he just set up his Network School privately without taking the government's blessings?

I have a real aversion to seeing builders and doers meet politicians before starting ambitious projects. It demotivates me to the core when that's what gets advertised. The whole point of the Network State is building decentralized systems that don't need politicians' approval or giving them credit publicly. I prefer these initiatives to be done with zero personal interaction with the government.

If a country expects you to give its politicians credit for your work, just don't go there.

I'm thinking of investing a lot of money in a deep tech manufacturing R&D lab in Tamil Nadu. Should I also seek Chief Minister Vijay's blessings, give him the credit, and publicize it before I start?

I'd even be willing to burn all my wealth down if I were forced to. That's how much I viscerally hate any government that wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives.

[Ganesh Ram @chirpsfrom_ram]

@mayukh_panja Yeah I dont really care about terminology as long as he asks people to invest/move here.

[FrontRowBrian™ 🇺🇸 ₿ @FrontRowBrian]

No one actually cares about you except like less than 5 people (your parents, siblings, kids). The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.

[Anatoly Karlin 🧲💯 @akarlin]

Didn't comment on Network School's Malaysia issue it until now out of concerns it would come off as counter-signaling, but since it has been forced...

There are always trade-offs in life. ⚖️

You can negotiate economic zones and memorandums of understanding with highly functional liberal First World states. Switzerland would never pull a Honduras (previous government's decision was illegitimate, what's yours is now mine, suck it LOL) or Malaysia (where are you hiding the Zionist spies?) on you. But it's correspondingly expensive, and will not bend over backwards to accommodate your particular preferences.

Or you can negotiate with the less functional polities in the Second and Third Worlds. Leveraging their illiberalism, they can potentially give you much better deals, at least on the surface. But these deals are either less binding (weak rule of law), or are only tolerated in so far as they don't anger local mobs (various populists and Islamists) whom politicians even must appease, to some extent. This is actually more important in states with weaker institutions and less politically sophisticated citizenries.

There's no real solution to this except avoiding putting all one's eggs in one basket. But Balaji knows that.

On Malaysia specifically 🇲🇾

It has an English speaking workforce, a sizable Chinese and Indian "smart fraction" (main reason it's a functional $15k GDPpc country), solid infrastructure, and a commercial law code inherited from the British Empire. This makes it relatively stable and an attractive destination for capital investments that are not "politically loaded."

It's also a country where Muslims are subject to sharia, where 86% (as of 2013) approved of sharia, homosexual activity is criminalized, and elite science production - as proxied by the Nature Index - is on the level of Uganda (i.e. close to zero).

In particular, Muslim Malays have a strange obsession with the welfare of an ethnic group they have no genetic or linguistic ties to. States can legitimately have all kinds of views on the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Spain is notably anti-Israel, but expresses it in civilized ways, such as targeted sanctions and war crimes investigations. Malaysia has a blanket ban on Israeli citizens entering it, which even extends to dual citizens. This is collective punishment which is more characteristic of low IQ mob-like thinking.

I am not saying this makes Malaysia unusually bad. The US under the Trump regime has similar blanket bans on Afghans, Iranians, and several other nationalities whose main crime in the eyes of MAGA ideologues is to have bad/anti-US governments. Nonetheless, from a cynically practical perspective, there is a difference between kicking Afghans and Somalis (already some of the most disprivileged nationalities on the planet), and doing it to Israelis (citizens of a country that is economically First World and a major node in global tech).

This is an OK environment for attracting chip fabs and data centers and the like - it has been perfectly successful at that! - but it's not something that will ever foster a tech cluster with real social, cultural, and creative components. However, I allow that this isn't within the scope of the Malaysian government's ambitions; as a rule, emerging markets prioritize elite enrichment and social stability over grandiose visions of leapfrogging into the future, and Malaysia is no exception to this. But has implications for organizations (such as Network School) trying to brute force this regardless.

[牧原秀樹 まきはらひでき @hmakihara]

インドでの新幹線計画は、私も関わったことがあるのですが、国際会議や交渉の場で繰り返されるインド人の無茶苦茶ぶりが際立っていました。とにかく約束を守らない。約束してもすぐにひっくり返す。自己利益を最後まで主張し続ける。特に担当大臣はひどく、一番上があれではまともな取引なんてできません。
この件が進まないのは100%インド側のせいだと感じていることを頑張った全ての日本人関係者の名誉のため申し上げます。
高市首相訪問でも成果出ず「インド新幹線」の失敗　安全の要である信号システムから排除された日本(東洋経済オンライン)
#Yahooニュース
https://t.co/oSNqHw7kkT

[Ganesh Ram @chirpsfrom_ram]

@GabbbarSingh Still better than our Vishwaguru who didn't even qualify for the tournament and lags so much in economy compared to England that they are almost on part despite having a tiny fraction of our population.

[Ganesh Ram @chirpsfrom_ram]

@IndianMarket0 @naveenkopparam Newspaper ads are not cheap. They are too self obsessed. Very few people in the real world will actually recognize the brand/ad.

[Adam Karpiak @Adam_Karpiak]

“Next, submit a brief video sharing why this opportunity excites you.”

[scar @imfat]

never fucking quit.

life flips insanely fast.

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

So my dad has been ending every phone call with "stay dangerous" instead of "goodbye" for like six months now. We all thought he was just being a weird dad. Turns out he's been mishearing the ending of a podcast he listens to. The host says "stay curious" but my dad is slightly deaf in one ear. He's been going around telling his coworkers, my grandmother, and apparently his DOCTOR to "stay dangerous" this entire time. My mom only found out because his doctor called to check if everything was okay at home. My dad has now decided he likes his version better and refuses to stop. Yesterday he told a nun to stay dangerous.

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Become generous with your assumptions. Assume they were tired, not rude. Overwhelmed, not careless. Preoccupied, not distant. This doesn’t mean tolerate disrespect. It means stop turning every small moment into a personal attack. Grace makes life lighter.

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

[Vishal Sikka @vsikka]

I learnt a long time ago that there is a big difference between making a living and making a life. In the times to come, AI will get increasingly better at the skills that we've used to make a living. Our imperative will be to instead make lives. Not artificial lives. Or artificial lives. But our own lives and of those we love. As machines get better at answering, and solving what they are asked, our work is to get better at asking, at making, creating, and deciding which questions are worth a life, and refusing to outsource that.

[Google Earth @googleearth]

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