For a moment let us set aside the fact that changing the name of the AIFF to the Football Federation of Bharat or adding Vande Mataram in addition to the National Anthem before matches is not going to make any material difference to how the Indian team plays football.
My question is, did none of the committee members in the room even think that as the guardians and guiding lights of the world's most popular sport in the world's most populous country, these were not the decisions that every football lover was looking for from them?
And that worries me more than any name change or additional ceremony. They have no idea how tone deaf their decisions sounded in the middle of a World Cup, utterly detached from ground realities.
Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor
Billionaires are wasting money on anecdotally testing longevity hacks.
Here are the best longevity hacks that you learned in high school but forgot as an adult and then some.
Avoid tobacco.
Avoid alcohol.
3 cups unsweetened black coffee a day.
Adhere to vaccinations for age.
Take your booster shots too.
Predominantly plant based diet.
Minimum 8000 steps a day.
Min 154 min of aerobics/week.
Find and do work that makes you happy.
Keep and care for a pet.
Play video games.
Avoid bro science.
Avoid alternative medicine.
Follow real experts. Not role playing ones.
Listen to your doctor. Not the internet.
I flipped the map on purpose.
It shakes up one's perspective to have south be up, and the influence of the Cholas and Tamil traders, respectively, at this time makes a lot more sense from this point of view. #history#India#chola#maps
In a world coupled with crony capitalism and unfavorable economic environment for poor, ths is what u expect - everyone and everything reduced to demand and supply! Basic fair working conditions becomes a demand and these CEOs still goes around chest thumping abt growth stories
It's sometimes far less than 10m for me, and I don't care, i would easily wait 30m, but the dark store is like 200meters away so they could walk and deliver in 10.
The point about the delivery folks not participating in the strike is simply because they don't feel oppressed enough.
Almost everyone cribs about their job. Even founders do
but they don't have anyone to blame. It's ok to feel like you deserve more, but entirely something else to give up your income for that ask.
I regret to inform my recruiting clients that this action by @unacademy has guaranteed that new hires are valuing your ESOPs at zero.
Mortal blow in an already low trust society. Please don't come crying when engineers decide it's more rational to be a mercenary than a missionary.
Thanks for nothing Gaurav Munjal.
Lionel Messi is one of those rare athletes whose story transcends sport. His journey from a child fighting physical odds to a footballer who redefined excellence has moved millions across the world. As someone who has lived the life of an athlete, I hold profound respect and admiration for what he represents perseverance humility and an uncompromising pursuit of greatness.
Yet as his recent visit to India unfolded parts of it felt chaotic and left me quietly uneasy. It compelled me to pause and reflect not in judgment but in genuine concern about what we were really trying to achieve.
I fully understand the economics of sport. I understand commercial realities global branding and the magnetism of icons. I do not fault Messi in any way. He has earned every opportunity that comes his way and admiration for greatness is natural even beautiful.
But admiration must also invite introspection.
As a society are we building a culture of sport or are we simply celebrating individuals from afar.
Millions were spent for moments of proximity photographs and fleeting access to a legend. And yes it is people’s money earned honestly and theirs to spend as they choose. Still I can’t help but feel a quiet sadness wondering what might have been possible if even a fraction of that energy and investment had been directed toward the foundations of sport in our country.
Playgrounds where children can run freely. Coaches who can guide young talent. Grassroots programmes that give opportunity to those who may never otherwise be seen. Spaces where sport is not a spectacle but a daily habit a teacher and a source of dignity.
Great sporting nations are not built by moments they are built by systems. By patience. By belief in the ordinary child with an extraordinary dream.
Icons like Messi inspire us and that inspiration matters deeply. But inspiration must be met with intent. With long term commitment. With choices that reflect not just what excites us today but what will strengthen us tomorrow.
If we truly wish to honour legends like Messi the most meaningful way to do so is not through grand gestures but by ensuring that somewhere in India a young child has a field to play on a coach to believe in them and a chance to dream.
That is how sporting cultures are born. And that is how legacies endure.
TIME Magazine's 'Architects of AI' cover is a loaded riff on the famous 'Lunch atop a Skyscraper' photograph from 1932. The original black-and-white photo from 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building (Rockefeller Center in Manhattan), 850 feet above the ground, was a staged publicity stunt to promote the skyscraper.
The workers in the original photo had little power and the risks (of being perched at such a height) were borne entirely by them, personally. The TIME cover has some of the world's most powerful people on the beam, and the risks (of AI) are not borne by them, but by the entire world. In other words, phenomenally crucial decisions around AI are being made at an incredible altitude, while the consequences play out far below.
TIME's homage actually flips the moral geometry and acts as a terrific visual satire, and the long article in the magazine closes aptly with this line: "But the risk-averse are no longer in the driver’s seat. Thanks to Huang, Son, Altman, and other AI titans, humanity is now flying down the highway, all gas no brakes, toward a highly automated and highly uncertain future".
#AI #artificialintelligence