Nishaan Desai

Too schooled for cool

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@FinanceGhost I don't disagree with you on focusing on what matters.
As we all know tone is lost on this platform so my irreverence didn't come through.
I think the ethics component of the syllabus was really good/important: it is a pity it gets lumped with compliance (as in real life too)

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@FinanceGhost Just read Ghost Bites and saw this bit of news. Searched 'Mantengu' on this platform. Stories about salaries not paid in Jan, then a bunch of headlines from news-sounding accounts, all started in Nov 2025, talking about profits and ethical leadership around 4 Feb. Then this...

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@RyanCoetzee The other problem, as @GvanOnselen pointed out a while back, is that these forecasts typically overshoot what actually occurs, and the further out the estimate, the more unbridled is the optimism.
https://t.co/rJSLysQ8bI

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@LouStagner This you?
https://t.co/Zcucb1xZOZ

[Lou Stagner (Golf Stat Pro) @LouStagner]

“Lowest common denominator” is subjective. What seems rude to one person might feel like innocent fun to someone else. Laying down rigid rules on what fans can or cannot do can come across as elitist, suggesting that only a select kind of supporter belongs at tournaments.

Golf has a long-standing reputation for exclusivity. Saying “Golf is special and must remain different” can reinforce the notion that the sport is meant only for certain groups. Is that what you want?

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@RyanCoetzee Thank you Ryan. A good explainer of the world today, and our choices. Depressing opening though, for those of us who believed that going along with a rules-based order, albeit imperfect, was done not because of expediency, but because it was the moral arc bending towards justice.

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@FinanceGhost Definitely not the tax issue.

Just pointing out the same person who front-ran UT trades at the expense of retail UT investors is Chair of the entity that according to the TRP, provided untrue sworn statements and attempted to mislead the market as it built up a position in MST

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@FinanceGhost Section 3.3 of the TRP report determines a breach of S 122 of the Act - not disclosing when ownership thresholds were reached. This undermines markets.

Novus is controlled by A² Investments (https://t.co/PDBn8R9n2i), which owns 28.5% of Novus.

Also:
https://t.co/d4k0xqwene

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@5827hz @FinanceGhost More frustrating are the ones who say things like 'well if it is unrealised and you can't pay tax on it, why can you borrow against it?'

E.g. is the original video to which this reply was made:

https://t.co/2X3cjTEIbu

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@RyanCoetzee "You shouldn't be able to use a thing that is unrealised as collateral.", i.e.
I can't give you a mortgage to buy a house because you haven't earned the money yet.
Whether it is due to ignorance or for cheap populism, it is highly embarrassing

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@dbbovey @scrumming_ten Just you wait until the Indian fans find your timeline tomorrow...

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@dansmywholename I'm not wishing our history away, or trying to police the language we use to speak of it in. I'm saying that by continuing its heinous classification system, we give it power by implicitly accepting it was somehow right.

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@dansmywholename So there are better redress approaches that are harder to abuse, and eliminate stereotypes that some groups are inferior and constantly need a leg up.

But maybe I am too ptimistic about humanity in thinking we have the ability to understand, and
the patience to try.

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@dansmywholename If we want to honestly move forward, let's look at redress differently. A solid C from a bottom quintile school may be a bigger achievement than a weak A at a top one.

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@ESPNcricinfo @the_kk Awkwardly, the first series had 2 (Indian) centurions, and 12 fifties across the 12 innings. SA made 408 in Centurion'23. It was gripping, competitive cricket in 4 of the 5 tests in SA.
But Cricinfo can't upset its sensitive and wealthy Indian audience, so we get this rubbish.

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@ESPNcricinfo @the_kk could get a job in the White House with the Trumpian level of misinfo and propaganda:
Talks about teams making less than 200 - conveniently ignores the 190s. Says "Most of these contests, however, have lacked any semblance of balance between bat and ball." ...

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK @DalrympleWill @GabrielleWalk3r Just listened to this episode and enjoyed it greatly. For a brilliant account of Shackleton's voyage, beautifully interwoven with a wonderfully-told personal journey, I highly recommend "Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End" by @dbbovey

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@LouStagner https://t.co/qPqKA7wdXq

As stated before...

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@LouStagner All for bringing more scientific rigour to a process. But this is a psychological exercise, not a mathematical one. It is too imprecise. 1/3

[Nishaan Desai @des10nish]

@LouStagner Who needs statistics when you have Bryson, New York crowds, Keegan Bradley running around with a flag screaming LFG at 6AM, and genius chants that say you believe!

https://t.co/lBuDDnECfC