Vibhu

engineering @amazon | views are personal | bitcoin fanboy

[Silly Point @FarziCricketer]

Already enough runs for SRH. They aren't going to win this now.

[NanoBaiter @NanoBaiter]

1/ Meet Kabir Singh, an Indian scammer who impersonates Apple support and then rips off innocent vulnerable people.

He tried to scam me......but instead of paying him money, I hacked into his laptop and redeemed $10,000 worth of giftcards live on webcam!

[Mike @mikedolan__]

This is why game theory is so important to understand.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Once you start making real money, you’ll realize that 90% of your problems came from financial stress.

[African @ali_naka]

If you have Oil and don’t have a NUCLEAR weapon. The oil belongs to America.

[Vibhu @dadhichii]

Word.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

No one has an explanation for how BJP won more seats than JD(U) in Bihar despite both contesting on 101 seats.

If ₹10,000, women vote, & pro-incumbency helped NDA, the face was clearly Nitish Kumar.

How then has his party gotten LESS seats than BJP which didn’t even have a strong state-level face?

Only God and Gyanesh Kumar know the answer.

[XY @xydotdot]

Invisible Luxury

If one morning you woke up and realized that no one else could see your lifestyle, your watch, your car, your house, how would your life change?

Most of us would abandon status for utility.

We would choose what makes life easier, not what makes it flashy.

Function would replace display.

The things we own would serve us instead of representing us.

The interesting part is that this thought experiment is already real.

No one thinks about your lifestyle as much as you do.

People barely notice you. They do not remember what shoes you wore or what car you arrived in. They are too busy performing for their own invisible audience.

The difference is that we keep pretending the audience exists because it gives meaning to our consumption.

Status feels valuable because it provides feedback. It creates the illusion of relevance. But relevance based on visibility is fragile because it depends on others looking.

Utility, on the other hand, compounds through use. It gives energy back instead of consuming it.

The transition from utility to status back to utility is a psychological rite of passage.

You realize the goal was comfort, autonomy, and control of time, all of which are invisible to others but deeply felt by you.

If you want to understand how much of your life is performance, ask yourself what would change if no one could see it.

The difference between what stays and what goes is the measure of your independence.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

Prediction: Bitcoin will flip gold.

I don't know exactly when. Might take some time, but it will happen. Save the tweet.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

I am putting out an AI clone of myself to have unlimited conversations with everyone who cares to. I'm also doing it because building and having this AI clone and pushing the limits of what it can do is both exciting and practical for me.

If you want to try this V1 of my AI clone or want to know my thinking about AI clones in general, read on.

https://t.co/Y2zhVVwvam

[Ashwin Mahesh @ashwinmahesh]

Since the Customs department is in the news, I thought I'd tell a Customs story.

A friend of mine got a book from abroad, sent to him by the author. It was addressed to him as Mr. Surname (since the actual name isn't relevant to this story).

The customs sought an ID from him to claim it, but then declined to release the package, saying the ID said his name is First-name Surname and not just Surname.

So he got the author to send the book again with the full name this time and just ignored the first package.

This time, he had the right ID but Customs still declined to clear his package saying that his ID was already 'in the system' as the ID of Mr.Surname, and therefore he could not use the same ID to claim that he is Mr.Firstname Surname.

Eventually, someone traveling to India just brought the book. And the other two? Probably just counted as GDP growth!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The path to solving hunger, disease and poverty is AI and robotics

[Niraj Dugar @contliving]

2% return on a 1 crore investment is higher than 12% return on a 10 lakh portfolio.

You need capital to get wealthy. Only high income can do that for you.

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

TO ALL MEN, YOU CAN:

- Be lost at 26
- Broke at 30
- In shape at 32
- Rich at 35
- Unrecognizable at 40

You just have to keep going.

[Vibhu @dadhichii]

@Cointelegraph For the 10000th time*

[Vibhu @dadhichii]

@GabbbarSingh Word.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

a bit late, but always fun.

[Manya @CSKian716]

Ashwin taking wickets, Dhoni stumping batters and Jadeja taking catches in the deep. Been so long since this happened in 1 game. Life is really good right now.

[Copywriting Sage @CopywritingSage]

Do not speak about how rich you are in front of a poor person.

Do not speak about how happy you are in front of a sad person.

Do not speak about how healthy you are in front of a sick person.

Do not speak about how wonderful your life is in front of someone going through a hard time.

You will thank me later.