Devaiah Bopanna

Co-founder, Moonshot. Founding Member, @Superteam. Ex Head Writer @allindiabakchod.
📌Dubai/Mumbai

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Our latest for @CRED_club. Wrote this series with @thetanmay, @deathbypun, @LifeOfPai_ and @VishalDayama. Directed by @AyappaKM. Thanks to @kunalb11, @trupthi_s and @neelakshmathur for making Bangalore boy's hopes and dreams come true. :D

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

Never seen this side of Rahul bhai 🤯🤣

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RCB making this match unnecessarily interesting.

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Sai Sudarshan beefing with ex test captain to impress current test captain. Would have made for a good corporate.

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@viraj_sheth In 2018 would have said weird flex but ok.

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Some cars should never evolve into an EV. Ferrari is one of them.

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@ilkirax Where is that in Marina?

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A year since I moved into Marina in DXB. The place FOMOs you toward good health.
Get into the lift, someone is heading for a work out or getting back from a run.
Step out of the building, people are working out.
Go to a cafe, 1000 options for milk.
Post work out plan is to work out in the apartment gym.
Everyone is in tracks at all times, threatening to break into a workout. Tiring.

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@d13008670 Haha that’s so true. Banging out 15k steps on a stroll.

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@EpicfuryKroos they still do.

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jeff doesn't want the bottom half taxed so they have more money to spend on amazon 😆

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

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Friendship is in the details. #DevYTReco

https://t.co/nQhwnoH82N

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Starting a thread of all the interesting videos I come across on YouTube. I’ll keep adding to it as and when I find something fascinating. Using the hashtag #DevYTReco to make it easier to find.

Let's start with this one

https://t.co/vLaOAtqfAn

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This is mental. #DevYTReco

https://t.co/b1xVATLlUA

[Manu Joseph @manujosephsan]

In his first speech as Tamil Nadu chief minister, Vijay said that he grew up in poverty, and that he even knows what hunger is. It's bullshit because he was my classmate in the third standard in Loyola School.
His father was a filmmaker who set up his son for a career in films.
It is possible that like most filmmakers his father may have had periods of financial strife but that's not the same as Tamil-grade poverty. A lot of affluent boys confuse being broke with poverty. Two very different things.

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Available at D’mart?

[Swatch @Swatch]

Introducing Audemars Piguet x Swatch, a disruptive collaboration that fuses joyful boldness and positive provocation with the art of haute horlogerie. Stay tuned! #RoyalPop https://t.co/FuAWwOjGxl

[Aryaman🐧 @brownissance]

Being genetically pre-disposed to cardiac and sugar conditions, I gift myself a comprehensive blood test as a birthday present every year.

With what happened to mom, last year's results were a wake up call — abnormal lipid profile, borderline diabetic and vitamin deficient.

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@creditcardwalah 💯

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Over the past 40 days, Gemini has helped me lose 12 kilos. Forty days ago, my reports were concerning. Had zero motivation to figure this. So I put it all on Gemini and literally asked it to help me improve the numbers. I told it, “I live in xyz area, you tell me what to order and from where.” I stopped thinking about it myself.

I would ask Gemini, and it would tell me what to order. Slowly, it started learning more about me. It started asking me to walk a bit, and I listened. If I went out for dinner, I would just upload a bad picture of the place, and within seconds it would figure out where I was and tell me exactly what to order. Every meal - just a normal picture uploaded with no overwhelming feeling of having to manually break down what I was eating - and it would quite accurately estimate the macros and keep a record of them.

Then slowly, I started uploading my tickets and hotel bookings to this bookmarked health chat. It would literally remember when I was checking out, where I was, and help me order accordingly. I stopped thinking about food and what to do. Then good habits compound, so I started putting in some effort myself too.

I’m much healthier and lighter than when I started 40 days ago. It’s the fastest I’ve ever lost weight and gotten healthy. And to think I don’t even have to screenshot my Fitbit data every now and then to give it more details and that they have built it around solving the problem I was already using it for - just take my fkn money, I say.

I think AI coaches can bring about genuinely positive changes because they’re more well-read than the most well-read trainer on the planet, and you have real-time access 24/7. And when you start giving it more context around your life it compounds in its abilities. Of course, it comes with some hallucinations and inaccuracies, but if you’re not smart enough to navigate that, you’d probably be worse off even without using it.

PS: have I turned my life over fully? definitely not. I know I’ll be back to the weight I started, just don’t know by when. 😂

[Google Health @googlehealth]

Gives new meaning to “light as a feather.”

Pre-order your lightweight, smart, screenless Google #FitbitAir starting at $99.99¹: https://t.co/p4rzwfiAAY

Available May 26.

¹Price varies depending on territory.

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@shwetanshu21 @prashantlive7 Some screenshots on how I have been working it.

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I just found out five days ago that it can’t remember beyond 30 days. 😂 but since I log in almost every meal daily, it has a 30 day memory which is enough data for it? I was 114 kilos when I started. It essentially put me on a keto diet, made me cut out all sugar. Gave me hacks like soda and lime and ice at night to kill
Midnight hunger. Putting my whey in americano - which I didn’t know was possible. Helped me with a bunch of these hacks, which I didn’t earlier know because I’ve never been super into health.

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One other crazy thing it can do. It figures the pool size in every hotel while I’m travelling and calculates how many laps I need to do in order to maintain my daily swim distance accurately.

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@immasiddx How will it measure sleep if you have to put it for charge almost daily while you sleep.

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The fastest way to get disappointed at work is to develop close friendships. I took a month off in 2018. Went and stayed with some of my closest friends halfway across the planet, along with friends from my side of the planet. There was no agenda, just a break. At the end of it, I had an insight that kinda truly changed my life. (Don’t worry, this isn’t a LinkedIn kinda statement to farm engagement. If it was, I would have started with that line to pull people in. Not many would make it till here, trust me, I know the new algo.)

The Insight: I have enough really close friends. I don’t need to make any new ones anymore.

This was the most freeing feeling I had ever felt. I realised I had collected about 14 people in my life I truly loved and cared about, and vice versa. I mean, people find it hard to build 3-4 deep connections, I have 14. I realised I would be absolutely fine if I didn’t make a deep emotional bond with anyone new ever again. And that realisation makes one brave and immune to any kinda emotional setback caused by another human being.

I don’t have to attend anyone’s birthday party for the fear of missing out on friendship. I don’t have to drop someone a nice message worrying no one will do the same for me when I’m low. The fact that I don’t need to emotionally invest in anyone new is freeing, especially when you meet people through work.

Now imagine nobody being able to let you down because you never let them in in the first place. Corporate structures don’t allow for deep friendships. It is loaded with competition, ambition and greed. And a layer of friendship is just too much pressure on that kinda relationship.

If there is one thing I have noticed, people who seek deep friendships at workplaces have the most fallouts and emotional turmoil there. When I see teams partying together and oversharing feelings with each other, I know there is a train wreck on the horizon. Mostly, I have been proved right. Because expectations and outcomes of corporate friendships are super hard to align. I’m not talking about regular friendships, I’m talking about deep ones where you emotionally unpack every problem to seek solace in someone.

Funnily, this “no deep friendship” policy has actually helped me make 3-4 new deep friendships along the way. Because when you never put any effort into making it work, an effortless friendship somehow forms once you move on from the workplace.

But me not caring about friendship has improved me as a colleague. I can be brutally honest with people with zero fear of losing anyone or feeling betrayed by their actions. I don’t have to stab anyone in the back, I can just stab them from the front. I have walked out on people I was putting up with zero regret.

There’s a line from the movie Heat where Robert De Niro playing a conman says, “Don’t let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” True for criminals and corporates.