Santosh Amin

Account Technical Lead, specializing in Data center & Hosting

[Santosh Amin @contactsanthosh]

@nixcraft Fish tanks... Really thats a surprise

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

https://t.co/irgPw3EBqE

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

And now it is time for some dad jokes now 😂

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

🚶 BENGALURU'S FOOTPATHS ARE GETTING THEIR SPACE BACK

From July 1–10, the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBA) is running a 'Safe Footpath Campaign' across 1,000 km of road network — clearing encroachments from footpaths in all five city corporations.

📊 WHY THIS MATTERS

30% of every 1,000 road accident deaths in Bengaluru are pedestrians. The Supreme Court has been clear: walking on a footpath safely is a fundamental right, not a privilege.

🚫 WHAT'S BEING CLEARED
➡Illegal parking on footpaths (vehicles will be towed)
➡Name boards, chairs, tables, and kiosks blocking pedestrian paths
➡Vendors and shops spilling onto walkways

✅ HOW IT'S BEING DONE
➡Notices will be issued before any action — not a sudden crackdown
➡Action will follow the Street Vendors' Protection Act and SC guidelines
➡Municipal officers, police, and clearance teams will coordinate
➡Damaged slabs and kerbs will be repaired alongside clearance

It follows the #1KmChallenge encouraging people to walk short distances instead of driving — Bengaluru is trying to become more walkable, one footpath at a time.

🗣️ WE NEED YOUR EYES ON THE GROUND

Let's make Bengaluru's footpaths walkable again — together.

#SafeFootpathBengaluru #PedestrianRights #GBA #WalkableBengaluru #BengaluruTraffic #Bengaluru #Citylife #CommuterLife

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

hopeDrivenDevelopment

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Winning against the Chinese. In China.

At the Asian Relay Championships.

Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay.

Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment.

But above all, teamwork.

This clip has it all.

I’m watching it on loop.

More of this please. 🇮🇳

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

Life is short.

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano delivers that line in a way that cuts through the noise. This legendary fan-edit video, often called one of the best “commercials” for The Sopranos, compiles Tony’s raw, hard-earned wisdom across diner tables, bridges, streets, and chaos. It’s not sanitized inspiration. It’s truth wrapped in menace, regret, and reluctant optimism.

Here are the key lessons:
•Life is short.
•Try to do something new every day.
•Dance. Try to dance as much as you can.
•Try to connect to the silence of the sea.
•Give your body a good rest whenever you can.
•Once in a while, surprise an old friend.
•Exercise on a regular basis, a healthy body is a healthy mind.
•Learn to appreciate art.
•Try new things… and yes, it will change your life.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Amazing abundance for all!

[Arindam Paul @arindam___paul]

Been exactly a year since we launched water purifiers

We now have TDS data from tens of thousands of Atomberg water purifiers installed across the country

And we combined that with publicly available data from different government sources like central pollution control board, jal jeevan mission and central ground water board

And built a free tool where you can enter your pincode and check your water quality- TDS levels, TDS variance, chemicals present etc

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

When we were starting @zerodha, we didn't have any money to spend on advertising or customer acquisition. So the only real growth lever we had was word of mouth. We had to build products and services that people liked enough to tell their friends and family about.

Very early on, people who traded with us started referring Zerodha to their friends, colleagues, and family. As a way of saying thank you, we started our referral program.

The idea was simple: if you referred someone to Zerodha, we would share 10% of the brokerage generated by that referral with you, for as long as they traded with us. No ifs and buts. No hidden conditions.

And it worked.

Until we had to stop the referral program in 2024 due to exchange regulations, close to 30% of our accounts were coming through referrals. But even this understated the true impact of word of mouth.

Most people don’t log in to a referral portal or share a referral link. They simply tell a friend, colleague, or family member: “You should open an account with Zerodha. I use it and like it.”

Those people then come directly to our website and open an account. So while the attributed referral number was around 30%, the real number was probably well north of 50%.

Even after we stopped offering referral incentives, about 15–20% of new accounts continued to come from referrals. That, for us, has always been the biggest validation.

We now have regulatory clarity and have restarted referrals. We are also reinstating referral benefits for all old clients who had referred people earlier.

This means that anyone who has ever referred clients to Zerodha will get 10% of the brokerage generated by those referrals for as long as they trade with us.

You can visit https://t.co/OEEA8w7yfw and tell your friends and family about Zerodha.

Given that we don’t charge for investing in stocks, ETFs, bonds, and direct mutual funds, and given that AMC is free or nearly zero for most customers under BSDA, there's no reason for you not to refer someone who wants to start saving and investing🙂

Along with Kite, @CoinByZerodha, Console, @ZerodhaVarsity, @tradingqna, @Tijori1, @BeSensibull, @joinditto, @ZerodhaAMC, and the rest of the ecosystem we’ve built around investors and traders, we hope Zerodha remains a good place for your friends and family to begin their investing journey.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

old school unix people will understand this one...

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Adult gaming routine:

✓ Spend 8 hours earning money
✓ Spend 1 hour deciding what to play
✓ Start a game
✓ Play through exactly one loading screen & 10 mins
✓ Suddenly remember you're 40+ and exhausted
✓ Close game
✓ Sleep
Repeat tomorrow. who is with me? 😭

[Alok Kejriwal (Rodinhood) @rodinhood]

WHY do these things happen?

In two of my three favourite places in India - Bangalore and Kukuchina (Ranikhet region), there are constant power cuts. I don't remember a single day without an interruption.

India has been blessed with amazing sunlight. We have tropical weather so that we can work on all days of the year. We have the space, the environment, and the need for uninterrupted power.

Then why doesn't it happen?

I read this in the ET and had a knot in my tummy:

"Coal-fired power plants in India are blocking solar power from reaching the grid, with about 300 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of renewable energy curtailed (wasted) due to transmission constraints in the first quarter of 2026 alone."

Renewable energy waste occurs when clean power, such as solar or wind, is generated but cannot be used. This typically happens due to grid constraints / or because conventional power plants don't reduce output. As a result, available green energy is wasted."

This sounds dreadful!

I could not understand this part:

"While the government planned to reduce the minimum operating level of coal plants, called minimum technical load, to 40% from 55%, thermal generators are pushing back, citing higher costs and reduced plant life.

"There is still no clarity on compensation, even as costs are set to rise," a senior NTPC official told ET on condition of anonymity. "Running plants at 40% load not only increases operational expenses but can cut plant life by nearly a third. Without a clear mechanism to recover these costs, generators have little incentive to comply."

What is the problem? Why can't we fix this?

See comments for Article Link

#Dhandhekibaat: Feeling bad over losses that can be avoided.

Dhadhe Ki Baat

[Bipul Sinha @bipulsinha]

DWELL ON THE PROBLEM

Hindu philosophy tells us to dwell on the problem until you understand it.

Once you understand it, the solution will reveal itself to you.

That’s because problems are paradoxical.

Within each problem is its solution.

The only way to uncover an inherent solution is to dwell on the problem itself.

Don’t make the mistake of focusing too much on outcomes.

The solutions will unspool naturally.

[Indian Council of Agricultural Research. @icarindia]

ICAR-CIFRI achieves India’s first hormone-free captive breeding of 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘪 (Assamese snakehead), reducing wild pressure and enabling sustainable aquaculture & livelihoods.
#ICAR #technology
@ChouhanShivraj @PIB_India @AgriGoI

[Santosh Amin @contactsanthosh]

@brijwhiz @sidin 🤣

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

I'll admit this might sound odd coming from me, maybe even clichéd. But it's something I've been sitting with for a while, so here goes.

When I started out, like most people, I had a simple wealth goal. I'd actually written it down: hit ₹5 crore, retire in Goa, beach shack, done. That was the dream.

After the Zerodha journey, I find myself on a very different side of that equation, and the dark inequalities of wealth and opportunity are harder to ignore than ever. We all know the numbers on inequality. The concentration of wealth among the top 1% is severe and getting worse, and it's even starker among the top 0.1%. The post-2008 era of rising asset prices has likely made this worse, because the people who hold financial assets are, by definition, people who already have money.

This isn't unique to India. Barring a few exceptions, it's a global phenomenon.

I'm cautious about attributing every socio-political problem we face today to inequality, but it's hard to deny the role it's played in the political upheavals we're seeing across the world. History rarely shows that sustained, extreme inequality ends well. To me, it increasingly feels like sitting in a car with the brakes cut, watching a cliff approach. Btw, all of this even before AI, which has a non-trivial probability of making things worse.

I'll stop short of prescribing solutions. It's too easy to reach for simple answers to complicated problems, and that's a separate conversation entirely. But I think we need to collectively acknowledge this: wealth that just sits in financial assets whose value keeps compounding upward doesn't do much good for anyone beyond those who already have it. And if that wealth isn't in motion, if it isn't doing some social good, the fabric that holds us together will only continue to fray and lead to cynicism, resentment, and worse yet, nihilism. We're already seeing all of it.

What I am saying is that even if a portion of that wealth were channelled into things that could materially improve lives, that seems worth doing. Hoarding wealth, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't really help anyone.

[Komal Shah @KomalShah4]

A client of mine runs a 40-person IT services company in Pune. They landed a contract with a European bank last year. Dream deal. 18-month engagement. Everyone celebrated.

3 months in, the bank's project manager asked for "a small addition." Then another. Then a full module that was never in the original scope.

My client said yes to everything. No pushback. No documentation. Just delivered. Worked weekends. Put his best people on it.

He thought if we go above and beyond, they will renew. They will refer us to other departments. This is how you build trust with large corporates.

Invoice time came. The bank's procurement team pulled out the MSA.

"We only owe you what is in the signed scope."

40% of the invoice. Rejected. Rs 1.2 crore in delivered work. Zero recovery.

The project manager who asked for all those extras? He shrugged. "That was informal. You should have raised a change request."

This is not a one-off. I see this pattern with Indian service providers exporting to large corporates every single month.

They come from a culture where over-delivery builds relationships. Where the client remembers your extra effort. Where trust is earned by going beyond.

That works with Indian SMEs. It is disastrous with multinational corporates.

Here is what Indian service exporters do not understand about how large corporates work.

The person pressuring you to deliver fast is measured on project delivery. Not your invoice.

The person who pays you has never heard your name. They only read the MSA.

The legal counsel reviews every line item against the signed scope. Your hustle is invisible to them.

The procurement team pays against signed documents. Not verbal promises. Not emails. Not WhatsApp messages from the project manager saying "please add this urgently."

These are three different people in three different departments with three different incentives. The person who asks for the work has no power over the person who pays for it.

Every single change in scope needs a written request, a documented approval, and a signed amendment. Before you write a single line of code. Before you assign a single developer.

No paper trail means no payment. No exceptions. Not even if the client's own team asked for the change.

India has over 50,000 IT services companies exporting to global corporates. Most of them are run by brilliant technologists who have never read their own MSA. Who treat the change request procedure as bureaucracy. Something that slows things down. Something to skip when the client is in a hurry.

It is not bureaucracy. It is your invoice protection system.

The MSA protects them. The change request procedure protects you.

The vendor who over-delivers without documentation is not being generous. They are doing free work and calling it strategy.

[La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas]

Perro Araña

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

So true. 😆