Alex Honnold: "Nobody achieves anything great because they're happy and cozy. It's about being a warrior. It doesn't matter what the cause is. This is your path, and you'll pursue it with excellence. You face your fear because your goal demands it."
Congratulations Amma on winning the Kaloji Literary Award for 2025!
This is Telangana's highest literary award, presented to one person each year for their contributions to literature and culture.
Absolutely well deserved for your 40+ years of efforts. First woman to win it!
Folks, if you see a picture of an absolutely jam-packed road in Bangalore tomorrow, don't immediately think that it is RCB being welcomed home.
It's just a normal day.
Anthony Edwards to Obama: "Y'all better stand down, I'm the truth."
Obama to LeBron: "Are y'all talking to this young man. He just keeps on saying he's the truth."
LeBron: "The truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth."
(via @netflix)
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Wednesday was World Autism Awareness Day.
Publicly I talk a lot about robotics, leadership, ai, startups. Privately, autism has significantly shaped our lives. Meet our older daughter Belle. Belle is now 17. At 22 months she was diagnosed with autism after having her evaluated because she had not developed speech.
We knew life with no communication skills would be extremely challenging. For the next 4 years, we pushed Belle to work extremely hard to learn basic phonemes before she could even start to put together individual words. And she’s continued to work hard to develop speech ever since.
Autism presents very differently in each kid. Belle is a sweet kid with gifts in emotional intelligence and physical coordination that many of her autistic peers struggle with. But we’ve never had a back and forth conversation with her, and may never. She understands a lot, but she can’t tell us how her day went at school. She simply lacks large language model generative capability.
It wasn’t until age 15 that she could consistently answer “do you want A or B?” questions without simply repeating the last word.
But we obviously love her deeply. The attached video in the comments is deeply meaningful to us because in our little night time game of tossing her her stuffies, she’s learned to string together three phrases: {stuffie name}… throw it to me… up high.
For Belle to get here has taken as much work as getting accepted into a top university and we’re just as proud of her.
A special thank you to the army of educators and specialists who have helped Belle along the journey and in doing so offered deep support to our family. We’re endlessly grateful.