Yesterday was a super productive day, I was stranded for more than 8 hours in immobile traffic. OTW to the AI Summit from Gurgaon and back
I was able to finish all my pending tasks from 2024, could call back all the people I had been avoiding for years
I even talked to Bajaj Finance for 15 minutes to kindly explain to them the 143252nd time that I don't need a home loan.
I was so out of things to do that I even ended up watching Pakistan - Namibia match yesterday
A huge thanks to all the VVIPs crossing the roads and blessing me with all these closures and traffic jams that allowed me to have one of the most productive days of my life.
You think its sarcasm?
No. Really, I even made a WhatsApp Chatbot for my company while being stranded, and even listened to a 3-hour monotonous podcast by @lexfridman Fridman with Peter Steinberger on @openclaw .
By the time I reached home, I wasn't just another AI Enthusiast, I was a changed man.
Thank you, @IndiaAiExpo
#AISummit
#IndiaAIImpactSummit2026
Domestic Flights over 1 Lakh, and all the news of airport chaos, it really stirs up some thoughts. It's not just about money.
It’s about how the pure economics of supply and demand directly hit our raw human psychology.
Think about it: reliable supply and people's urgency... when that balance breaks, things get primal.
Another example of this was the past week's Black Friday Sales. That adrenaline-induced stress.
Hitting 'add to cart,' racing to checkout, only for it to be sold out: Frustration.
The same feeling, but for something truly essential like getting to a critical meeting, a loved one, or a medical emergency.
That's the aviation crisis playing out right now.
The airports becoming arenas of chaos, passengers getting giddy, escalating into genuine havoc.
Airport Staff been calling it - "shitty human behavior."
I think it's rather predictable human behavior under immense pressure and perceived scarcity.
It suggests something deeper about our world: when vital resources (like a seat on a plane) become scarce and expensive, our veneer of calm quickly cracks.
The system's failure to provide reliable supply can fray the very fabric of public order.
A powerful reminder that stable infrastructure isn't just about efficiency; it's about maintaining social equilibrium.
These moments teach us a lot about ourselves
#Indigo #IndigoDelay #IndigoFlightsCancelled #BlackFriday
I've had this weird af thought that I can’t shake off.
Why is all of this happening now? We’ve had humans on Earth for ~200,000 years.
Physics, chemistry, mathematics, nature... all the laws were the same 2,000 years ago, 20,000 years ago… even 200,000 years ago.
So why:
- Why did electricity become a thing only in the 1700s?
- Why did Volta build a battery in 1800 and not 20,000 years ago?
- Why did the internet show up in the 1970s, not in the 1500 BC?
- Why are AI, GPUs, semiconductors, “new energy” all exploding now, and not 5,000 years back?
- Why did smartphones and global communication networks arrive in this tiny slice of time?
I get the usual answer:
“The stack wasn’t there then. Knowledge, institutions, tools had to compound.”
But then the next question is even more interesting:
Why didn’t that stack start compounding much earlier?
What were we doing for the first 198,000 years of human existence that we couldn’t see what we can see now?
What was missing in how we thought / organised / collaborated that delayed this curve so long?
Because every single piece of tech we have today is ultimately a by-product of:
the same physics, chemistry, maths and natural phenomena that existed for every human who ever lived.
So why did we only get “smart enough” for GPUs, AI models, and iPhones… now?
In my next few posts, I want to play with this idea:
Pick a modern technology — say smartphones — and then backtrack it.
All the way down: from iPhone → semiconductors → quantum mechanics → electricity → writing → agriculture → …
Basically, the butterfly effect trail that had to line up for you to be doomscrolling this post today.
I think that could be super interesting to map out.
Would love to hear your thoughts:
Why do you think this wave of progress is happening now, and not 2,000 or 20,000 years ago?
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