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One of the more subtle pitfalls of starting a startup when you're too young is that you can't hire well, because you haven't had enough experience to be a good judge of people. You can judge technical ability but not character, so you end up hiring smart jerks.
The universe responds to clarity. Not sacrifice.
I spent years believing the opposite.
That if I just suffered enough sacrificed enough the rewards would follow. Like pain was the price and the universe was keeping score.
It isn’t.
I’ve watched people grind themselves to dust chasing things they couldn’t even clearly describe. Sacrificing everything for a “someday” that stayed forever blurry.
And I’ve watched others calmer, clearer move mountains. Not because they worked harder. Because they knew exactly what they wanted.
Clarity is the real currency.
When you’re clear, opportunities find you. The right people show up. Doors quietly open.
Not because the universe is magic. But because a clear mind notices what a confused one walks past.
Define exactly what you want. Write it down. Say it out loud until it stops feeling uncomfortable.
The universe was never asking for your suffering.
It was waiting for your clarity. 🙏🏻
I had a heart attack at 41.
I wasn't obese, a smoker, and I thought I was too young to worry.
Here's 8 things I wish someone had told me sooner:
1. Don’t eat Instant Ramen.
We recently built an AI assistant inside @Razorpay called Slash.
It reads our entire codebase, debugs production incidents, reviews specs, writes code, reviews every single PR, answer tech queries and also raises PRs for small features.
It's easily accessible through Slack. We can tag it in any Slack thread, describe the problem in English, and it gets to work.
Six weeks ago, Slash handled 122 tasks in its first week. Last week it handled 14000+. Queries, analysis, bug fixes, PR reviews, test runs and work that earlier lived across scattered tools and teams can now be done with Slash right within Slack. 1000+ people used it in a single week because it got their work done faster. The whole adoption has been completely organic.
The numbers from last week have been very encouraging - 14,854 tasks completed. 2,150 PRs raised, 1,152 merged, 45% of those PRs shipped with zero human rework.
A payout gets stuck mid-retry during a live incident, an engineer tags Slash and within seconds, it cross-references logs with code and pinpoints a state machine bug blocking the retry-to-failed state transition. Tells the team exactly which logs to check and how to resolve the incident.
With its K8s analyzer skill, Slash scanned a single namespace, right-sized all 11 workers using 48-hour P95 pod metrics, and raised the PR. One run saved $560/month.
A marketing banner bug was fixed with few prompt iterations with a PR raised, merged to prod and deployed in minutes. No front-end developer touched the code.
Security teams ran static security testing and remediation through Slash at org scale. Thousands of findings were purged and many more got validated autonomously.
But Slash isn't just an engineering tool.
Account managers now trace stuck customer payments and integration failures through Slash instead of pinging engineers on Slack. L2 product support tickets get triaged by Slash before they reach engineering.
250+ non-engineers ran thousands of sessions last week. PMs used it for research on our payments infra, customer interviews and product features sometimes raising PRs of their own. Analytics teams built SQL pipelines. 11% of all sessions came from people outside tech and product.
On our company bakkar (watercooler) Slack thread, someone asked Slash jokingly to assign tasks to everyone and it responded in the same tone. It seamlessly started participating in inside jokes and conversations.
The quality compounds with use. Engineers who shipped 11+ Slash PRs averaged a 63% merge rate without rework. First-timers averaged 37%. Across the org, human review comments per PR have dropped more than 40% with Slash starting to do in-depth review of every single change.
We're still early. Large cross-repo refactors, fully agentic sdlc and plan mode are next. But Slash has already changed how people at Razorpay build, debug, and ship every day.
As Carl Jung put it, "Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health." Yet most people instinctually avoid pain. This is true whether we are talking about building the body (e.g., weight lifting) or the mind (e.g., frustration, mental struggle, embarrassment, shame)--and especially true when people confront the harsh reality of their own imperfections. #principleoftheday
Sawan Barwal has just shattered one of the longest-standing records in Indian athletics! At the @MarathonRdam Rotterdam marathon, Sawan clocked an incredible 2:11:58, officially becoming the fastest Indian marathoner in history.
This performance finally eclipses the legendary Shivnath Singh’s 48-year-old record of 2:12:00, which had stood untouched since 1978.
#SawanBarwal #IndianAthletics #RotterdamMarathon #NationalRecord #Marathon
TMM 2026 Route Preview is Live 🚨
We’ve broken down the route mile-by-mile. We’ve put together a detailed section-by-section breakdown covering:
- The new Coastal Road dynamics.
- Elevation traps & where to save energy.
- Pacing guidance for a strong finish.
Hope this helps you crush your goals on Sunday!
Please RT and share.
https://t.co/tPdoJCNcPI
@TataMumMarathon excited and looking forward to this.
Folks - If u r targeting a sub 2 Hr Half Marathon in TMM, I will be there & will look fwd to running together!!
3 Stoic Truths That The Sooner You Realize, The Easier Your Life Will:
1. You can’t control everything. Only focus on what you can control.
2. It’s not about you, so stop taking things personally.
3. Know that you know nothing.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. —Viktor Frankl
@imYadav31 Very valid point, its a huge win for people who realize the power of Swiggy vouchers bought thru the right credit card. PS: Gajender Bhai - Swiggy vouchers are powered by Razorpay (using the opportunity to do a bit of self promotion) 😃
A 7-year-old boy in a Serbia torn by war built a Wimbledon trophy out of cardboard and slept with it every night.
29 years later – exactly 29 – that same boy, now 36, stood on the Roland-Garros center court holding the real thing… as the greatest player who ever lived, with 23 Grand Slams in his arms.
Then Novak Djokovic did something unforgettable.
He stopped his victory speech, looked straight into the camera, and gave every kid on earth the most powerful 55 seconds of motivation you’ll ever hear:
“I had the power to create my own destiny.
I don’t just believe — I FEEL it with every cell in my body.
To every young person watching:
Forget what happened in the past.
The future doesn’t just happen.
YOU create it.
Take the means in your hands.
Visualize it.
Feel it.
Build it.”
From a war-torn balcony with a borrowed racket…
to the top of the world.
If he can do THAT, imagine what YOU can do.
Save this clip.
Play it when life feels heavy.
It hits harder every single time.