Jatin

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Rather long but I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did:

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

*I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.*

*Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.*

*But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.*

For I am an Indian.

*And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.*

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

*Yet I stand tall. For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.*

For I am an Indian.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨The most dangerous idea in math isn’t 0.

It’s 3-6-9.

Because if this pattern is real,
reality isn’t random.

And if reality isn’t random,
neither are you.

I’ve explained it in this article.

But tell me:

Is it a coincidence… or code?

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This isn't alien technology, literally or metaphorically.

The breakthrough here isn't in engineering at all — it's in corporate organization.

See, most machines are broken because the organizations that make them are broken. As an engineer, I would estimate that at least 30% of the parts of any given device exist only to correct for the design flaws in the other 70%.

Works like this. Suppose I, an engineer, design a set of pipes and injectors to feed fuel to a combustion chamber at a consistent and controllable rate.

Except in testing, there's some corner cases it doesn't handle well.

Now, if you're an engineer, you understand this is normal. Nobody ever gets a design right the first time, unless it's so trivial that it's probably been done before. Your first design doesn't survive the wind tunnel, your first code doesn't compile right away, and if does, it segfaults. Your rockets blow up.

And there's a flow problem with your fuel feed lines. It happens. Doesn't mean you're stupid. Means you didn't have enough information.

But you have an even bigger problem.

Middle management.

Middle management is a special variety of hazmat suit, which is worn by the finance, sales, or market guys who run companies, so they don't have to touch the icky engineers.

C-suite guys hate hate hate engineers, because it's a terrifying sensation to be dependent on someone you cannot understand, who doesn't appear to respect you much.

(It does not occur to them that it is also extremely frustrating to have your work paid for, and thus controlled, by someone who cannot understand what you do, who doesn't appear to respect you much.)

The primary role of middle management is talk to engineers so C-suite guys won't have to, and the primary qualification is to be a member of the right social class, and to hate engineers.

This qualification is dressed up in secret handshake buzzwords like "management experience", as used in the sentence "I know you have been an engineer for twenty years and the other engineers all come to you for advice and leadership, but you don't have management experience, so I am going to hire my golfing buddy's 23 year old kid, who just graduated business school."

So the fact that the fuel lines lines are not working quite right isn't your problem. That's part of the normal engineering process. Your problem is that your manager hates you and everything you stand for, and doesn't trust you or take your word for anything. He think his job is to keep you in line rather than help or empower you.

So when you say "the fuel feed lines need to be redesigned", he says "we already spent six months and seventeen million dollars design the fuel feed system, we can't let you do it again."

He thinks you are telling him seventeen million dollars worth of work needs to be thrown away and redone, and he cannot be told otherwise, because he cannot be told anything.

So he says "you have two weeks and fifty thousand dollars to fix it".

So you add another turbopump. What else can you do in two weeks?

Now there's a new part. And if something goes wrong with that, another new part will be added to fix it.

Because the company's actual priority isn't what you are responsible for — the design. It's what middle management is responsible for — the schedule and the budget. You have to play the villain so they can play the hero.

What middle management doesn't understand, is paid to not understand, is what engineering actually is.

Engineering is the process of making mistakes until you run out of mistakes to make.

So when you spend six months and seventeen million dollars, and ended up with a design that doesn't quite work right in all cases, you weren't throwing away money, you were burning through mistakes. You've gotten a lot of them out of the way and won't make them again. But you have to get rid of some more before the design is actually right and doesn't require extra parts.

The work of engineering isn't making the thing. It's teaching yourself to make the thing. Once you've done that, you can make the thing with minimal effort and time, because you know how to make the thing.

C-suite financiers would hate this idea if they understood it.

Why?

Because it's unpredictable. Financiers like safe investments that make money. Not knowing how long something will take or how much it will cost is terrifying to them.

So they train engineers to lie to them, by hiring a middle managers who try to force them to lie, and just interpret every guess as a promise if engineers still refuse to do so.

But lying to yourself doesn't make the truth go away.

The truth is that engineering projects take as long as they take, and cost as much as they cost. And that no one knows how long or how much they will be, because no one knows how many mistakes are waiting to be made, until they actually make them.

The only thing you thing you can do about this is hire really good engineers, who catch more of their mistakes on the white board, leaving fewer to be caught in the wind tunnel, and this makes engineering faster... but it doesn't make engineering more predictable.

Gantt charts are nothing but a collection of lies that corporations have taught themselves to tell themselves, lies that middle managers try to make true by enforcing them as promises.

The ultimate reason that machines are 30% unnecessary parts is that the corporations that build them are 30% unnecessary people.

This is what's different about Elon Musk.

It's not that he's a better engineer. It's that he's a better manager.

He understands engineers and engineering, and he doesn't hate them because he is one. He understood all along that green-field design is full of unknown-unknowns, and that there is absolutely no number-crunching, pie-chart, MBA magic that can eliminate this risk... it can only be hidden from view.

The critical understanding is in the video clip below, where he says that SpaceX only had a 10% chance of success.

You cannot say something like that unless you get it. And when you get it, you are free. Free from artificial anxiety about schedules and budgets.

Anxiety about schedules and budgets is based on the delusion of control. Managers can't make a project finish "on time". They never could. The only power they have is the power to screw it up.

The fate of a project is already written in the unknown unknowns before it ever starts.

And the best, the absolute best, an engineering team can ever do, under any circumstances, is to confront those unknowns with clear-eyed honesty, and a willingness to adapt.

Well, when you say to yourself, "This project has a 10% chance of succeeding", you've already confronted the pain of those admissions, which means you have already conquered the fear.

The fear that makes you try to treat a prediction as a promise.

The fear that makes you insert an extra turbopump, when what you really need to do is get busy redesigning the pipes, even though you have no idea how long it will take or much it will cost.

Even when your rockets blow up.

The SpaceX Raptor engine isn't just, or even primarily, a triumph of engineering smarts.

It's a triumph of character. It's about an entire team with virtues MBAs lack: self-awareness, persistence, courage, humility, and, ultimately, hope.

Because that's what it takes to pursue the best design, the RIGHT design, not even knowing if it exists to be found, much less whether you'll find it before you run out of money.

Great things are not accomplished by middle managers with spreadsheets and Gantt charts. They are accomplished by teams of experts with passion and vision.

Who are willing to risk failure so they can succeed.

So what's the point in me saying all this? Am I just writing a puff piece on SpaceX and the Raptor engine?

No.

The point is that this is not special, one-off, magic alien technology. It's the systematic result of a correct understanding of engineering.

Which means that EVERY COMPANY CAN BE LIKE THIS.

If the people who control the purse strings are willing to learn from this example, and stop managing with spreadsheets and fear.

[mukesh chaudhary @rudraksh3012]

क्या कभी देखी या सुनी है शिव तांडव स्त्रोत की ऐसी मनमोहक व्याख्या?

🙏 श्री शिव तांडव स्तोत्रम् 🙏
(रावण रचित — जब उन्होंने कैलास पर्वत उठाने का प्रयास किया था, तब महादेव की महिमा से अभिभूत होकर यह स्तोत्र उनकी जिह्वा से निकला।

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॥ शिव तांडव स्तोत्रम् ॥

जटाटवीगलज्जलप्रवाहपावितस्थले
गलेवलम्ब्य लम्बितां भुजङ्गतुंगमालिकाम्।
डमड्डमड्डमड्डमन्निनादवड्डमर्वयं
चकार चण्डताण्डवं तनोतु नः शिवः शिवम्॥१॥

जटाकटाहसंभ्रमभ्रमन्निलिम्पनिर्झरी-
विलोलवीचिवल्लरीविराजमानमूर्धनि।
धगद्धगद्धगज्ज्वलल्ललाटपट्टपावके
किशोरचन्द्रशेखरे रतिः प्रतिक्षणं मम॥२॥

धराधरेन्द्रनंदिनीविलासबन्धुबन्धुर-
स्फुरद्दिगन्तसन्ततिप्रमोदमानमानसे।
कृपाकटाक्षधोरणीनिरुद्धदुर्धरापदि
क्वचिद्दिगम्बरे मनो विनोदमेतु वस्तुनि॥३॥

जटाभुजङ्गपिङ्गलस्फुरत्फणामणिप्रभा-
कदम्बकुङ्कुमद्रवप्रलिप्तदिग्वधूमुखे।
मदान्धसिन्धुरस्फुरत्त्वगुत्तरीयमेदुरे
मनो विनोदमद्भुतं बिभर्तु भूतभर्तरि॥४॥

सहस्रलोचनप्रभृत्यशेषलेखशेखर-
प्रसूनधूलिधोरणी विधूसराङ्घ्रिपीठभूः।
भुजङ्गराजमालया निबद्धजाटजूटकः
श्रियै चिराय जायतां चकोरबन्धुशेखरः॥५॥

ललाटचत्वरज्वलद्धनञ्जयस्फुलिङ्गभा-
निपीतपञ्चसायकं नमन्निलिम्पनायकम्।
सुधामयूखलेखया विराजमानशेखरं
महालसः विभोः शिवं नमामि चन्द्रशेखरम्॥६॥

[Maithili @SuvarnBharat]

This will give you goosebumps... Shivtandav stotra

[ExploreBharat @ExploreBharat47]

Thr best version of Shiv tandav stotram🔱

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

Came across this video of Edwin Rayner, a 92-year-old from England. I needed something lovely today and thought I’d share.💖

[Todd Jacob @thetoddjacob]

1896: At a Manhattan society party, Nikola Tesla meets an Indian mystic.

Their conversation would challenge physics... decades before quantum mechanics.

A hidden story of how ancient wisdom shaped modern science: 🧵

[Jatin @deltapad]

@anishshah21 @anandmahindra @MahindraXUV700

Anish / Anand,
My wife has rejoined the workforce after a 8-9 year career break as a Engg. Professor and I would love to gift her an XUV700 on her birthday on 23rd July.... Anyway you can help make it happen 😀!
Thanks in advance..
J

[ANI @ANI]

Uttarakhand: Kedarnath Temple decorated ahead of #Diwali.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

You're educated doesn't necessarily mean you're intelligent too. There's a difference between education and intelligence. 🧠

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you're the smartest person in the room, then you're in the wrong room. 🧠

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science.

*Cornell University Lecture, 1964*

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Schrödinger's Plates: The plates are both broken and not broken until you open the door.

[Mastercard Arabia @MastercardMENA]

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[Jatin @deltapad]

@ipo_mantra @pdfmakerapp grab this

[Amul.coop @Amul_Coop]

#Amul Topical: About the boycott of Chinese products...

[awakening bhārata 🇮🇳 @TheRawFact]

Why Kailash temple is not considered as a "Wonder of the world”?

Forget constructing this temple again, it can’t even be destroyed!

The archaeologists have confirmed that over 400,000 ton of rocks had to be scooped out to make this amazing structure
400,000 ton=36,28,73,896 KG

[David Perell @david_perell]

MEGA THREAD TIME

Here are 50 ideas that shape my worldview.

These are my guiding principles and the light of my intellectual life. All of them will help you think better, and I hope they inspire curiosity.

[David Perell @david_perell]

@awilkinson You do a really good job of explaining inversion in this article.

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage we have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.” — Charlie Munger

https://t.co/M2iSFM1DnW