Nithish Kumar

DeepTech VC | The Greater Fool

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

Stress is great for brute-forcing mindless tasks, but it absolutely destroys your ability to think spatially. It destroys your creativity, which is the one thing that will give you a competitive advantage over everyone optimizing for productivity.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Profound wisdom often needs few words.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This should be the energy for the rest of 2026:

[Vishnu Som @VishnuNDTV]

➡️25 years ago, when the IAF projected a requirement for 126 Medium Role Combat Aircraft, Sweden came to the table with the Gripen C fighter.
➡️The baseline Gripen C would likely have been cheaper than India's upgraded Mirage 2000s (which were already between 26-30 years old when the upgrade process started).
➡️Successive Air Chiefs checked out the Gripen. Many told me this was EXACTLY the aircraft that they were looking for at the time. Single-engine, nimble, genuinely multi-role, upgradeable. With robust EW systems and an unmatched man-machine interface.
➡️The Gripen ultimately failed the IAF's down-select and the Rafale was picked, though only 36 were eventually ordered. Many in the know openly say the Gripen didn't have a chance given the Tejas programme. The Swedish competitor was in the class of the Tejas and Make in India was the priority.
➡️Fast forward to 2026. Sweden is now inducting the Gripen F as is Brazil - a jet which is comprehensively superior to the Tejas Mk-1 which we have in service.
➡️Number of Tejas Mk-1As in IAF service: Zero.
➡️Number of Tejas Mk-2 prototypes: Zero
➡️The point is this: Delays matter. Capabilities cannot be stagnant and fighter-jet development projects cannot be a national level SUPW exercise.
➡️Debate all you want - I reiterate - there is only one word that matters - `capability.' You either have it or you don't.
➡️China isn't waiting around. Neither is Pakistan.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

You can just do things.

[Sindhu Hariharan @SindhuHarih]

Agnikul Cosmos, GalaxEye , ePlane, Mindgrove , Ultraviolette , Qnu Labs, AstroGate Labs, and many more..

These are just a few of the startups that VC firm @SpecialeInvest backed before deep tech became a buzzword in the startup world with a lot of FOMO around it..

For a new episode of @businessline #DigitalPlaybooks, I sat down with @visheshrajaram of Speciale to get the low down on deep tech investing , the new Rs 1 lakh cr RDI fund they have applied for, and the strategic tech areas for entrepreneurs to focus on ..

Don’t miss the rapid fire at the end 😅

Catch the full chat here:
https://t.co/JRVmBkTEIP

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I'm in love with this sentence:

“Forgive yourself for not knowing earlier what only time could teach.”

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Marcus Aurelius was right. Discipline is the art of not betraying yourself.

[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

Elites in India are always analyzing and over-analyzing what US is doing, what US thinks of India etc.

I can tell you one thing, hardly any of the elites and almost nobody else in the US is thinking of India. They are busy with their own business and economy. They don’t care about India or for that matter any other country.

The borderline obsession in India, especially in the media, of US VC, tech,AI, its markets and economy is weird.

[Wow, He’s Tsonga! @_aboihasnoname]

If someone at work tries to micromanage you, micromanage them back.

Send them too much feedback, ask them a lot of questions, do follow ups when they go quiet or even when you know they are busy don’t let them rest.

[Joseph Suarez 🐡 @jsuarez]

You can train drones in 30 seconds. This was a year ago. PufferLib is 5x faster now!

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.

[Stoke Space @stoke_space]

The sun has set on our Stage 1 structure's time in Moses Lake, but it will soon rise over our launch site in Cape Canaveral.

No one said the road to launch was easy, but it sure is a pretty ride. 🚀🌅

Read our blog to learn more about the proto-qualification campaign: https://t.co/TFKfrM2n2B

[Pyrate @CEOLandshark]

If winning was guaranteed &certain, you'd go 10x harder at it.

Paradoxically, if you went 10x harder, the win would almost be a guarantee, on a long enough time horizon, for any goal.

It's easy to mentally recognize this, but it ideally should be felt in the body as a fact.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

dont be confident, be over confident. be delusionally confident. be so confident that doors open for you and reality bends for you. be sure that GOD walks beside you. The meek inherit nothing if they never believed they were worthy of more. be too much. be impossible to ignore.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Many people are doing.

[a16z @a16z]

American Dynamism at its best.

@Saronic is remarkable.

[Jaya Gupta @JayaGup10]

AI will disproportionately benefit ADHD minds because it externalizes the boring, parts of cognition like planning, sequencing, drafting, remembering, prioritizing and amplifies the parts ADHD minds often cook at: rapid association, novelty-seeking, pattern recognition, emotional intensity, and divergent synthesis

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Fable 5: a Mythos-class model that we’ve made safe for general use.

Its capabilities exceed those of any model we’ve ever made generally available.