Hari / Pickyourtrail

Co-founder @Pickyourtrail. Co-producer - Diya & Arjun. Contributor for The Hooked by Nir Eyal. consumer behaviour PHD aspirant. 34 countries and counting.

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

Im perennially dis-satisfied.
Im eternally grateful.

This balance between wanting to do more and being thankful for what I have has been a great process of self discovery.

[Pickyourtrail | Create Sooper Hit Holidays @Pickyourtrail]

Travel Update | Vietnam

We are deeply saddened by the tragic boat accident near Phu Quoc Island. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and everyone affected.

As rescue operations continue, the Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian Embassy are coordinating with Vietnamese authorities. In the coming hours and days, affected families can expect support such as:

▪️Verified updates from the authorities

▪️Consular assistance and emergency helplines

▪️Coordination with local hospitals and officials

▪️Help with documentation and travel-related formalities

▪️Assistance with repatriation, where required

For immediate assistance, the Government of India has activated emergency helplines:

📍Ho Chi Minh City
[phone]
[phone]
[phone]

📍Hanoi
[phone]

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

via @skift

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

feels good when platform is capable of such things... 32 days across south east asia :) 100% automated bookings and human in loop for reassurance + support!

@SatanAtWink @Pickyourtrail @outofofficedaku

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

The engineering marvel that makes such work safe. 🔥🔥

[Li Zexin 李泽欣 @XH_Lee23]

Chinese people are baffled by the AC rush in France and EU, as AC in every home is taken for granted.

Even if you live in a high-rise apartment, there’s always a Spider-Man or Spider-Woman ready to install it. She is insanely cool!

[Nikesh Arora @nikesharora]

The AI Business model trap: LLMs want cash flow to fund the race to AGI or the next model. Enter free consumer AI - they are losing a lot of money on the breadth of models to serve consumers for free! They are caught in the post training data trap, free consumer usage feeds post training needs, it can't be right to stop serving customers for free?

But they need money for the compute:

The monetization challenge is being pointed to Enterprises.

Phase 1 - seemed easy, value capture in coding, the most bottom up motion in enterprise - with low customization per customer. Developers continue to train coding, tasks and eventually will train flawless skills.

Phase 2 is where the challenge lies, showing true enterprise value. The promise of efficiency, accuracy, elimination of resources - that requires a different approach, build depth with harnesses, context, memory, solving for edge cases with deterministic guardrails! Build skill libraries - enter FDEs. Yes,FDEs will train the enterprise Waymos of the world.

The risk - high token pricing for enterprises while consumers for free! Yes for consumer distribution businesses (aka Google, Meta, Apple, etc) it makes sense to hold on the distribution with free AI.

If you want to win enterprise, you should be forward pricing tokens. The cheaper the tokens for enterprises it will allow for experimentation, workflow reimagination - instead CIOs are busy restricting AI use and working on making the use more efficient!

Paradox: They still haven't fully understood and embraced the value of AI in the enterprise.

If I were them:
1. Cut token pricing now, else send enterprises to secure opensource and end up with friction filled routing layers.
2. Show me how enterprises can use their context, training and data as their competitive advantage.
3. Build tools for rapid edge case learning and reducing false positives.

@HarryStebbings
@sama @DarioAmodei @demishassabis

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

@mtrajan @steipete What according to you is then most critical for how culture is formed.

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

@mtrajan @steipete But you can reinforce acceptable behaviour. And its always easier to do that in person. Wdyt?

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

I pray that what @nikitabier did to Twitter @kunalb11 does to whatsapp! congrats!

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

openclaw? hermes? - where are they. not being a skeptic.

as a founder am swaying - id lose 2 years of my precious working years either turning a blind eye to noise or getting FOMO and wasting tokens :P

life is all about balancing such dichotomies. and judgement is what takes us past the finish line.

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

so many positive notes coming about current govt - i just hope this is not social signalling and we see real changes
1. cooum river
2. CMDA news
3. HRCE news
4. lesser corruption

Hope is the quintessential human delusion :)

[Chennai Updates @UpdatesChennai]

🚨🚨CMDA which is a planning authority will exit all its construction businesses - Vada Chennai thittam, libraries, padipagam, toilets and other things which has pushed them to loses . To solely focus on land pooling, urban layout, approvals etc. The new Govt has abolished the CMDA Ministry too. Chennai barely saw any new layout & land pooling which would now change. Previous Govt had totally ruined CMDA and we might finally be looking at urban planning bodies act like one. Used to pray for things like this. Well done @CMDA_Official @CMOTamilnadu 🙏🙏👏

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

Robert's son, Robertson. #IYKYK #Kamal

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Day 1 of vibecoding

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

Saturday cricket rituals ✅

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

@brucewayne_lite @thede_plandude pls share with me too - this is a massive use case

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

@irajparekh @tweeterwagon @Pickyourtrail hi Raj, not the experience we set out to deliver. the ghosting should not have happened - pls allow us to fix this in the next 24 hours.

[Ritesh Banglani @banglani]

The problem with brutal honesty is that nobody specifies the ratio. It is inevitably too much brutal and too little honesty.

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

follow this handle if you want to learn how to not take yourself seriously and live life on your own terms!

[Ritesh Banglani @banglani]

My learning from the VC pitch stories is that founders get really annoyed if there's food in pitch meetings. Watermelon, peanuts, burrito.

I had always assumed that breaking bread together brings people closer and reduces power distance, and have closed some of my best deals over chaat. But i can understand that it might give the impression of the VC not being interested.

Of course nobody eats in india without offering food to the the guests. Is this only a firang problem? Is the issue that the founders are busy pitching so only the VC is eating? Is this a blanket no or only some food is disrespectful? I'm constantly munching on nuts during meetings - should i stop? Full blown existential crisis now.

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

the more ministers live their customers lives the higher chances of change! sooper happy! hope this results in actions across the state. as one of the women minsters said - "as a woman, a clean toilet gives us confidence". focus on drugs, women safety and sanitation can go a long long way. hope they do something about pavements too - make cities walkable :) go TVK!!

[Chennai Updates @UpdatesChennai]

Way to go...👏👏 @TVKVijayHQ
Public toilets & drinking water facilities are in pathetic state across such bus terminals in TN. Need a complete overhaul! Maintenance is key!

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

@oktatabye23 i I could not understand if there was a problem with judgement. It felt like the kids had their own lives. The wife was comfortable taking care of kids and he was not having enough "life in his life"

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

1. travel :) meet new people, see new things
2. pick up a passion - dance, drums, tennis, swimming
3. learn a new language - meet ppl also keeps alzhimers at bay :)

what else would you do if you were in this place?

[Dr Mouth Matters @GanKanchi]

Confessions and realities

42M, 55LPA

I am a 42-year-old man with a senior job in IT. I have a house in Chennai, a supportive wife, and two children. On paper, everything about my life looks perfect. I have achieved all the things society says a man should achieve.

In my twenties, life felt different. I had friends to spend time with. We would hang out at Marina Beach and Besant Nagar beach, watch movies at Rohini, Udayam, and Kasi theatres, and ride around Mount Road on my RX100.

In my thirties, I had colleagues to talk with over tea breaks. We would discuss apartments, onsite trips, and share random stories about life and work.

But now, in my forties, life has turned into a quiet routine. My phone rarely rings for anything personal. Most calls are about office work, bank alerts, or someone from home asking me to pick up milk on the way back.

The loneliness of a man in his forties is unusual. I am not physically alone, but I often feel like a machine.

When I enter my home, I am simply “Appa.” I am the person who pays school fees, fixes the Wi-Fi, and handles repairs. My wife is busy with her work and the kids. My children are teenagers now, living in their own worlds and their own rooms. They love me, but they mostly see me as the person who provides comfort and stability. They no longer see me as an individual.

At the office, I am the senior person. I am expected to have all the answers. I cannot tell my team that I feel tired. I cannot tell my boss that I sometimes struggle to keep up with new technologies. I must appear confident and strong, even when I quietly worry about the future.

Sometimes I drive home slowly from work just to spend a few extra minutes in the car. I listen to songs from my college days.
For those fifteen minutes, I am not a manager or a father. I am simply myself again.

I realize that I have not had a real conversation about my feelings with anyone in years.

My old friends now exist mostly as names on WhatsApp. We send “Happy Birthday” or “Congratulations” messages, but rarely talk. When we meet at weddings, our conversations revolve around our children’s grades or the cars we drive. We never talk about what we actually feel.

The hardest part is that I cannot even complain. If I tell my family that I feel lonely, they look confused and say, “But we are all here with you.”
They do not understand that a person can be surrounded by people and still feel like they are on a desert island.

Society teaches men that if they provide money and security, they have succeeded in life.
But no one teaches us how to deal with the silence that comes with it.

I have built a beautiful life for everyone around me, but sometimes it feels like there is no space left for me inside it.

And maybe… this is what life in your forties feels like.