Avneesh Saini

Solitude merchant. Curious soul. The Arsenal.
Tech obsessed. 🎹 Classical Piano.

[Avneesh Saini @iAvneesh]

THREAD: Takeaways from #TEDxGateway via short notes I scribbled during a one of its kind event featuring the minds transforming ideas into significant impact in our society.

[Mustafa @oprydai]

you need four hobbies. no more, no less.

create
bring something into existence. write, build, draw, code, cook. creation grounds you. it turns thought into reality.

consume
read books. watch films. study art. this feeds taste and perspective. good input sharpens good output.

cavort
move your body daily. walk, lift, run, dance. motion stabilizes the mind. a stagnant body distorts thinking.

commune
have a community. friends, family, peers. isolation corrodes judgment. shared reality keeps you sane.

miss one, and the system degrades.
keep all four, and life stays balanced, generative, and human.

[kage @sukikage_]

can’t wait to get past whatever the fucking fuck this fuck ass stage is in my life rn bc genuinely what the fuck.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

just realized that his bio is something we should really take by heart

[ishmohit @ishmohit1]

Strong suggestion:

Do watch Nadal's documentary on Netflix. Suffering is necessary in order to achieve big things in life. Nothing comes easily.

Human brain is wired to seek comfort, but the real development happens in solitude and ability to put in the reps again & again.

Follow the DCP framework to achieve your goals

Discipline
Consistency
Patience

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

https://t.co/PTeDiv1b6L

[NVIDIA AI @NVIDIAAI]

As AI models continue to grow in scale and capability, shaping a model matters just as much as its size.

We're introducing a new series on AI Model Co-Design exploring the synergy between models and hardware. The first post focuses on how model dimensions influence GPU performance, and how the right design choices improve both system throughput and per-user responsiveness.

You can read it here: https://t.co/tvK9kRjgQx

[Vidit Gujrathi @viditchess]

https://t.co/kIVoUFGrYX

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Fable 5 would be ‘boredom-maxxing’

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

The Myth of “Love Learning”

People often ask me how to get better at chess. My answer is almost the opposite of what people expect.

You don’t have to love learning.

In fact, if you wait until you love the process, you’ll probably never become very good.

We romanticize improvement. We imagine great players waking up excited to study endgames, analyze losses, or memorize opening lines. Sometimes that’s true. Most of the time it isn’t.

Improvement is often boring.

The difference between an amateur and a professional isn’t that the professional enjoys every minute. It’s that they keep going when they don’t.

People say children are fearless learners. I’m not so sure.

Children quit things constantly. Piano. Swimming. Languages. Football. Chess. They usually continue only because someone else insists they do. Parents. Teachers. Coaches.

Discipline often comes before passion, not after.

The same is true for adults.

We tell people to “follow your curiosity.” That’s wonderful advice if curiosity happens to last. Usually it doesn’t.

Every meaningful skill has a point where curiosity runs out and routine takes over.

That’s where improvement actually begins.

Chess certainly did not always feel like play to me.

There were tournaments where the last thing I wanted to do after six hours of defending a miserable endgame was analyze another five hours.

There were openings I studied not because they fascinated me, but because my opponents forced me to.

There were positions I analyzed simply because they were objectively important.

Not because they were fun.

Because they needed to be done.

People often criticize schools for asking the wrong questions.

But there’s another side to that story.

If everyone only studied the questions they found interesting, most people would develop huge blind spots.

Sometimes someone else knows what you need to learn before you do.

Nobody is naturally curious about tax law before becoming an accountant. Or anatomy before becoming a surgeon. Or rook endings before losing enough of them.

External structure isn’t always the enemy of learning.

Often it’s the bridge that gets you to the point where genuine curiosity develops.

The biggest obstacle isn’t fear of looking stupid.

It’s our addiction to doing only what feels rewarding today.

Modern life gives us endless opportunities to switch the moment something becomes difficult.

A new opening.

A new productivity system.

A new app.

A new hobby.

Very few people simply keep doing the same useful thing for years.

That’s the superpower.

So when people ask how to improve at chess, I don’t tell them to fall in love with learning.

Love helps.

Curiosity helps.

Being willing to fail helps.

But none of those are reliable.

Build habits that survive the days when none of those feelings are there.

Because mastery isn’t built on motivation.

It’s built on showing up after motivation has left the room.

[Photon @EvelMorty]

1 war, 1 calamity, 1 recession, 1 famine, 1 cyber attack and you will love the kitchen more than that waterfall in Meghalaya.
Females are basically dumb and cant see far.
They dont realize the fragility of this world and think in days or even in hours.
Like a kid.

[Anna @Anna_96_10]

There’s no hatred in his heart at all man, it’s over he thinks it’s a friendly

[IFORLEMRE @iforlemremessi]

🚨𝐍𝐄𝐖: Semi Finalists at World Cup 2026

🇪🇦 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻

Most Goals — Oyarzabal
Most Assists — Cucurella
Most Key Passes — Porro
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Yamal
Most Chances Created — Baena
Most Big Chances Created — Cucurella
Most Accurate Crosses — Rodriguez

🇲🇫 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲

Most Goals — Mbappe
Most Assists — Olise
Most Key Passes — Dembele
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Barcola
Most Big Chances Created — Olise
Most Chances Created — Mbappe
Most Accurate Crosses — Dembele

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱

Most Goals — Kane / Bellingham
Most Assists — Gordon
Most Key Passes — Declan Rice
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Eze
Most Chances Created — Bellingham
Most Big Chances Created — Declan Rice
Most Accurate Crosses — Madueke

🇦🇷 𝗔𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮

Most Goals — Messi
Most Assists — Messi
Most Key Passes — Messi
Most Successful Dribbles (p90) — Messi
Most Chances Created — Messi
Most Big Chances Created — Messi
Most Accurate Crosses — Messi

At 39 years old, still carrying the hopes of a billion on his shoulders. Greatest Of All Time.🐐

[sasha na copa @lobotosasha]

HAHAHAHAHA OS CARAS ESTÃO INDO LONGE DEMAIS NOS MEMES

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

«I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with»

— Isaac Asimov (I Asimov, 1995)

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

The coldest, funniest opening line uttered by a Wimbledon finalist ever!

Muchova 🥹🥹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

[𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖊 @anne_alyst]

your lack of personal purpose is causing your romantic obsessions btw

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

Napoleon, by Emanuel Bachrach-Barée, early 20th century

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this…

[LinkedIn Lunatics @LinkedInLunat1c]

Not a lunatic, but worth sharing