Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri

#Global #Digital #Health | Thinker, Doer, Leader @ TCS Interactive Europe = CX optimization + data-driven marketing evangelist. Opinions are personal.

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

Okay. Now I’m curious about this book.
Liked the simple but effective sample ideas - e.g. the bought-status test. @SahilBloom thanks for sharing your personal story of connecting with @BillAckman . It proves that good idea can get attention of good minds, even in a crowd like @X

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I have recommended only one book on @X, Outlive by @PeterAttiaMD. Now I am recommending a second one, which is as well written and important, The 5 Types of Wealth by @SahilBloom.

In short, the book is a guide to how to live your life. The earlier in your life you read it, the better your life will be.

Sahil compiles decades of wisdom in a few hundred pages with powerful charts that will cause you to make positive changes in your life.

I like asymmetric investments and I don’t know of a better return than this book. Read it. You will thank me and Sahil.

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

This is the best articulation of why I also stand with #JensenHuang

His infidelity is not okay but this show he too is human like us and just screwed up.

My guess is he was intellectually engaged by these terrible side quests and just fell in the trap.

This won’t be the end of Jensen, I’m pretty convinced that he’ll stage a come back soon. Curious to see his next avatar.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

NVIDIA letting Jensen go is a huge mistake, for America and for humanity. It's Apple firing Steve Jobs all over again, but much bigger, given the role of AI in defining the future of our world.

I've been keeping quiet on this out of respect for Jensen's family and team, who I've met and who are amazing humans, and because I personally hate infidelity. So my heart goes out to them in this difficult personal family moment.

But I can also say that Jensen is human, and makes mistakes like all of us do. Not that I matter at all, but I've known Jensen for a long time and have gotten the chance to spend a lot of time with him, behind the scenes, away from mics and cameras. I have seen him show kindness, humility, care to everyone around him, including strangers, including from the poorest most struggling parts of society, treating all the same with the same thoughtfulness and attention, because they are fellow humans and not because he has something to gain from them. That shows rare character, to maintain humility and humanity through all of it.

Another data point is what people who know him well have said privately to me about Jensen over the years. I've never had anyone tell me anything but how awesome he is or how much they love him. Probably over a thousand people at this point. This includes hundreds of engineers, CEOs, colleagues, friends, etc.

Also, since there was some spy talk. Jensen is as proud an American as it gets. I'm in shock frankly at all of this, including the mass hysteria around it. I love America, and I think NVIDIA letting Jensen go is terrible for America.

I stand with Jensen.

Love you all ❤️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Jensen

[Shaun Maguire @shaunmmaguire]

1) Jensen is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of this generation

2) he did something incredibly dumb

3) it was bad for America

4) but my guess is there was no bad intention

5) two mistakes don’t make a right, and I believe Jensen is irreplaceable for America’s AI leadership

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

What an inspiring story that laid the foundation for both consumer behavior shift and hospitality business model evolution.
#Airbnb

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

On this day seventeen years ago, Airbnb launched.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Who is Zelensky?

For 7 years, Volodymyr Zelensky has been the wests darling, a khaki clad symbol of defiance, pleading for billions in aid and NATO’s embrace amid Ukraine’s self inflicted war.

To many well meaning, but willfully ignorant Americans and Europeans , he’s a hero battling overwhelming odds. But behind the curated image lies a far uglier truth, a stooge comedian turned president, propped up by a criminal oligarch, surrounded by cronies, and presiding over a regime of corruption, repression, and broken promises.

An actor playing a role he’s woefully unfit for.

As Ukraine spirals deeper into chaos and its brutally harvested conscript army dwindles, it's important that decent Americans and Europeans understand who and what this man really represents.

Let's start with Kvartal 95, The Oligarch’s Launchpad, Zelensky’s story starts not in politics but comedy. Born in 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, he co-founded Studio Kvartal 95 in the 1990s with a group of friends that had hit it big by the 2000s, ironically their big breaks were made in Russia, performing in Russian and focusing on Russian and Ukrainian political and cultural life. The key to all this success? Ihor Kolomoisky, a billionaire ukrainian oligarch with a laundry list of crimes, including fraud, money laundering, and brutal violence. Kolomoisky then owned 1+1, the TV network that handed Zelenskys Kvartal 95 a national platform starting in 2012. He didn’t just offer airtime. He bankrolled Zelensky with cash, security, and legal and criminal muscle. This wasn’t mentorship. It was a transaction. Kolomoisky, later sanctioned by the U.S. for “significant corruption,” saw Zelensky as a pawn in his game. By 2019, when Zelensky ran for president, Kolomoisky’s DNA was all over the campaign providing vehicles, lawyers, bodyguards, and a media blitz. Zelensky was never an outsider; he was a "made man"

This is where it gets almost unbelievably bizzare. In 2015, Zelensky starred in "Servant of the People," a hit satire aired on Kolomoisky’s 1+1 channel, where he played a teacher turned president railing against corruption.

Ukrainians, tired of the endemic corruption in the post Soviet state, lapped it up. Then, in 2018, his Kvartal 95 crew decided to turn fiction into reality, registering a political party called, you guessed it, "Servant of the People." It had absolutely no manifesto, no policies, and no plan of action, just a TV title and Zelensky’s face.

Running in 2019, Zelensky promised to end corruption and the Donbas civil war, which had erupted after the CIA backed Maidan Coup, winning in a landslide thanks to Kolomoisky’s media machine. An actor who played a president on TV was now remarkably in the real job.

Zelensky didn’t waste any time handing power to his showbiz pals. Ivan Bakanov, a Kvartal 95 co-founder, became head of the SBU security service with no experience. Serhiy Shefir, another comedy crony, took a top aide role, no experience. And then there’s Andriy Yermak, a now disgraced former film producer turned Zelensky’s right-hand man, who headed the Presidential Office, dubbed Ukraine’s “shadow president.” Yermak, physically and intellectualy towered over Zelensky, controled policy and access, a fixer running the show while the president flounders.

These weren’t appointments based on merit. They were placements, a Kvartal 95 clique utterly unfit for a grossly dysfunctional war-torn nation.

Zelensky’s laughable anti-corruption pledge met reality in 2021 with the Pandora Papers. The leak revealed he and his inner circle,including Bakanov, were funnelling cash to Kolomoisky with Zelensky stashing millions offshore.

Zelensky swore to end corruption and the Donbas war. Instead, he’s delivered more of both, a million plus lie Dead, the free Media crushed, billions stolen, languages and religion banned. This criminal is no hero. No Churchill. And no friend of Europecor America. He should be treated accordingly.

[Marta Havryshko @HavryshkoMarta]

Remember the 14-year-old boy who was brought out yesterday from Azov’s secret detention facility in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv, where mobilized men and deserters were allegedly being beaten and held against thier will?

Well, the boy is now in hospital.

He has recorded a video telling his side of the story.

And what a charming little tale of military honor and Ukrainian democracy it is.

According to the boy, he came to the protest and climbed onto a fence. That's when soldiers struck him with a shovel, knocking him down onto the facility's grounds. They then dragged him inside and started beating him.

Yes, beating a 14-year-old child.

Not that his age was some great mystery. One look at his face and you can see he's a kid. Apparently, that wasn't quite obvious enough for these brave warriors.

But it gets worse.

The boy says they didn't just beat him. They cut the clothes off his body, including his underwear, leaving him standing in front of them "almost naked."

And that, dear friends, raises serious questions of sexual violence and degrading treatment of a child. Allegedly perpetrated by Ukrainian servicemen.

The beating, he says, stopped only when Budanov arrived.

Meanwhile, Azov's propaganda machine and its loyal cheerleaders have already rolled out their crisis-management circus: the boy was a "provocateur."

Ah, yes. The classic defense. When a child ends up in hospital, simply rebrand him as a national security threat. Problem solved. Perhaps they'll award themselves medals for neutralizing a teenager armed with the terrifying weapon of climbing a fence.

Except the story appears to be rather more complicated.

The boy alleges he was a victim of violence at the hands of Ukrainian soldiers.

So who is going to answer for the ill-treatment, humiliation, and degrading treatment of a child?

Where the hell is Ukraine's Human Rights Ombudsman? Has he misplaced the address of the hospital? Or is visiting an allegedly abused Ukrainian child simply not on today's democracy-defending itinerary?

And where is Zelensky?

Why hasn't he visited the boy in hospital? Oh, right. He had more pressing business in Germany, asking for more money.

Zelensky does love telling the world how much children matter to him.

Apparently, some children make better speeches than hospital visits.

So when, exactly, does this grotesque circus of the Zelensky mafia finally come to an end?

And how many more victims will it take before someone remembers that human rights are supposed to apply to actual human beings — including children — rather than merely serving as decorative slogans for international donors?

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

European Leaders would approve of that and invite him for another party to be lectured on moral and philosophy.
#RemoveZelensky

[Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX]

So, let me get this straight:

This little coke head asshole has been given $196 billion of American tax dollars, blows up diesel refineries, kidnaps people off the street, and now has been caught running black site torture dens with victims as young as 14 years old.

And, America is still supporting this guy instead of ending this war entirely?

Seriously, what are we doing anymore…

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

A torture chamber of Zelensky was uncovered near Kiev, where over 40 mobilised men were held captive by Ukraine's National Guard. The youngest victim was reportedly just 14 years old. There is now great outrage and riots in Ukraine against the henchmen of Zelensky and NATO.

[Alice Weidel @Alice_Weidel]

Ich erwarte von der Bundesregierung, dass dies heute in Berlin zum Selensky-Besuch thematisiert wird.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
https://t.co/JIhXN7OSh1

- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊

A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.

Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

@karpathy Wow! AI in daily action

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

This is inspiring at multiple levels. Let’s go!

[Praneeta Pujari @PraneetaPujari]

I left @Apple to build healthcare that listens and acts early. Today, I'm excited to introduce UniqueHuman.

We're building proactive healthcare agents that handle every step of care for people with chronic conditions.

Our mission is to end chronic suffering. Today, we begin with migraines.

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

Merz indeed MUST go!

[Sahra Wagenknecht @SWagenknecht]

Ukraines Präsident Selenskyj forderte auf dem jüngsten EU-Gipfel weitere 70 Milliarden Euro für das kommende Jahr – zusätzlich (!) zu den bereits zugesagten 90 Milliarden Euro. Auch Kanzler Merz macht sich dafür stark, die Zahlungen an die Ukraine zu erhöhen. Als hätten wir nicht schon genug Steuergeld an die korrupte Selenskyj-Clique verschleudert!

Über 100 Milliarden hat der sinnlose Ukraine-Krieg Deutschland bereits gekostet. Obendrauf kommen die EU-Zahlungen, die zu einem erheblichen Teil vom deutschen Steuerzahler getragen werden müssen und nun ausgerechnet mit Unterstützung des deutschen Kanzlers noch einmal aufgestockt werden sollen. Schluss damit! Es kann doch nicht sein, dass die Deutschen immer weiter geschröpft werden, während andere Länder, allen voran die USA, ihre Zahlungen längst weitgehend eingestellt haben.

Wenn Merz in seiner letzten Regierungserklärung behauptet, dass kein Euro, der in die Ukraine fließt, in unseren Sozialsystemen fehlt, dann ist das einfach Schwachsinn! Denn es ist doch so: Merz reist morgens mit dem Geldkoffer nach Kiew und holt sich das Geld abends bei den Bürgern über Kürzungen bei Pflege, Rente und Gesundheit zurück. Dieser Kanzler macht Politik gegen das eigene Volk. Merz muss weg!

[Sahra Wagenknecht @SWagenknecht]

Ukraines Präsident Selenskyj forderte auf dem jüngsten EU-Gipfel weitere 70 Milliarden Euro für das kommende Jahr – zusätzlich (!) zu den bereits zugesagten 90 Milliarden Euro. Auch Kanzler Merz macht sich dafür stark, die Zahlungen an die Ukraine zu erhöhen. Als hätten wir nicht schon genug Steuergeld an die korrupte Selenskyj-Clique verschleudert!

Über 100 Milliarden hat der sinnlose Ukraine-Krieg Deutschland bereits gekostet. Obendrauf kommen die EU-Zahlungen, die zu einem erheblichen Teil vom deutschen Steuerzahler getragen werden müssen und nun ausgerechnet mit Unterstützung des deutschen Kanzlers noch einmal aufgestockt werden sollen. Schluss damit! Es kann doch nicht sein, dass die Deutschen immer weiter geschröpft werden, während andere Länder, allen voran die USA, ihre Zahlungen längst weitgehend eingestellt haben.

Wenn Merz in seiner letzten Regierungserklärung behauptet, dass kein Euro, der in die Ukraine fließt, in unseren Sozialsystemen fehlt, dann ist das einfach Schwachsinn! Denn es ist doch so: Merz reist morgens mit dem Geldkoffer nach Kiew und holt sich das Geld abends bei den Bürgern über Kürzungen bei Pflege, Rente und Gesundheit zurück. Dieser Kanzler macht Politik gegen das eigene Volk. Merz muss weg!

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

https://t.co/fyBGWQbsvn

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

@CryptoScout24 @NinaDSchick I would just make a small edit, “Germany has the most undereducated, unintelligent, and ILL-INFORMED (apart from the topic of Russophobia) politicians in the DEVELOPED world. The way politics operates needs an upgrade in Germany.

[Nina Schick @NinaDSchick]

As a German, it is a tragedy: in a parallel universe this would be Germany’s moment, as it requires so much that Germany has traditionally excelled at: industrial capacity, engineering, world-leading physics, design and manufacturing excellence. That was exactly what ‘made in Germany,’ stood for.

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

@NinaDSchick True that….

[Sahra Wagenknecht @SWagenknecht]

Es ist doch vollkommen verrückt: Die US-Regierung importiert jetzt wieder Diesel aus Russland, um die explodierenden Spritpreise für die amerikanischen Verbraucher zu senken. Doch die Bundesregierung hält immer weiter an der sinnlosen Sanktionspolitik fest, die unsere Wirtschaft in den Ruin treibt und die Bürger immer ärmer macht. Schluss damit!

Die Spritpreise sind immer noch unverschämt hoch. Auch Deutschland braucht einen Diesel-Deal mit Russland und eine generelle Rückkehr zu russischem Öl und Gas! Ohne preiswerte Energie aus Russland wird der Niedergang unserer Industrie nicht aufzuhalten sein.

Auch darüber wird der Magdeburger Landtag am Mittwoch abstimmen: In einem gemeinsamen Antrag mit der AfD fordern wir die Bundesregierung auf, die sinnlosen Sanktionen gegen Russland aufzuheben und sich für eine diplomatische Beendigung des Ukraine-Kriegs einzusetzen. Das wäre die erste Mehrheit in einem deutschen Parlament seit Kriegsbeginn für Frieden und preiswerte Energie – und ein starkes Signal für einen Kurswechsel in der Energiepolitik!

[Vivek (Vik) Chaudhuri @digitalv]

Gotta read this as the headline is optimistic. However it doesn’t mean your job will NOT evolve. Regardless feels like it’s the age of random dots connectors. #AI

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

https://t.co/nV5QAL9hgu