JK Maravan

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

Getting mad or acting impulsively while driving ends in a lifelong regret. Life lost, future lost. Road Rage is never worth it, the impulse to react just to satisfy your ego can be deadly.

[TOI Bengaluru @TOIBengaluru]

#Bengaluru Road Rage Turns Deadly!

A Kalaripayattu trainer & his wife were arrested for killing a delivery agent near JP Nagar: They rammed their car into his bike after its handle grazed their rear-view mirror. The pillion rider survived the crash.
@timesofindia

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@DCPSouthTrBCP If suspension (not to report to duty, just stay at home) is the max punishment for slapping a law abiding citizen... then tell me why would anyone in the police dept would ever change?

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@SandeepMall That's why he was poisoned and banned. https://t.co/fanHWSLaAn

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@garganshul392 @SandeepMall They didn't just ban him, they poisoned him. https://t.co/fanHWSLaAn

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@pofunder @sandeep_PT India missed the AI wave when Infosys fired Vishal Sikka, the visionary in 2015 who wanted Infosys to invest in openAI. This would've got him a board seat in OpenAi and most IT companies would've followed suit. https://t.co/9WJMzhVj82

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

100K H1B visa fee? Biggest selfgoal for the US. Yes. Silicon Valley would hesitate to pay this high fee, but they also wouldn't hire local talent if it's mediocre. This is great for countries that produce these talents, because that's where companies would eventually gonna shift.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@prmordialwatrs @IndiaHistorypic Gujarat.. really 😉

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

Tears. Goosebumps. Inspiration Guaranteed. Karthik is a Prodigy🔥🔥🔥 So many lessons in this video. Watch fully and only then share with your audience...

His parents are so so inspiring to raise an Autistic Child. What talent.

God bless...

#FI

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@metheMahapatara @Iyervval Another area that's different from government issues. There's a Spice Board that decides if you can export spice, which isn't a government agency, it's set up by the major spice companies. Basically a cartel that won't encourage competition.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@tirumuru_87 Anybody who says the matter needs escalation to the courts hasn't run a B2C business. There's no point in them. Labour, BBMP, etc. are leeches. Also, there are Olatagaras-guys looking for donations - they'll pretend to be inviting you to an event.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@GadSaad Jainism or Judaism ✡️ ?
And people voted for Jainism?
Do they even know that those guys won’t kill a 🐜

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

When you look back on the best decisions you’ve ever made, you didn’t overthink, you simply went ahead with the audacity of ignorance, then when you realized it was too late to back out, you simply rose to the level of your challenges, and you found a way to make it work.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

I love this. So true.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Ah. Why are European-Americans suddenly so inferior at math since like 1998? Why are the people of Newton, Einstein, Dirac, Crick, Feynman, Heisenberg etc suddenly no longer able to do first rate science? Excellent question!

Do you want the brutal answer? Those "white kids" are being forced into trying to figure out how to capture the value created by those brown kids, because STEM careers in actual research have cratered in prestige, freedom, support and compensation. It's awful. But true. Do you want to raise a serf?

I'm torn. Which is why I fight for scientists to capture wealth; science is my life, but I cannot stand the exploitation and abuse.

You actually know this already, you just don't realize it.
How many STEM researchers and research scientists have you seen at Mar-a-Lago in photos and stories? Name them. Try.

When you think modern AI do you think about the 8 authors of the Transformer LLM architecture that changed our entire world with one paper? Can you name them? Any of them? Or do you think Altman, Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. like the rest of us (myself included)? Be honest. You think C-Suite or Sand Hill road VCs.

The researchers simply vanish or become businessmen.

We too often erase the people who do the actual STEM research. The PhD most responsible for the GFP revolution in biology (Douglas Prasher) got to drive a shuttle bus in Alabama for his career. Those who exploited his research felt so bad that they flew him to Stokholm to watch *them* get the Nobel prize. It's totally insane. No one knows this because we keep looking to Billionaires...those who capture the most value...to represent STEM.

STEM rests on "SCIENCE COOLIES". That is what a UCSF lab head (PI) called his army of Chinese and Indian biologists in an interview with me around 2000: "My Science Coolies tell me..."

The absence of white kids is because they generally come from native English speaking families before the 1965 immigration act that have been in the US a long time. Thus they get accurate information that grueling STEM research careers are now a terrible investment due to STEM EMPLOYER practices (e.g. H-1B, illegal collusion, lobbying) and the abandonment of STEM by the Federal Government beginning with the Mansfield ammendment 50+ years ago. They will eventually almost all move from the lab bench, the blackboard and the command line to signing pieces of paper in VC shops or Private Equity or some such higher value endeavor. We in STEM are all being pushed from creating the value to capturing the value. It's awful.

"गोरे बच्चे यहाँ क्या कर रहे हैं?" or something like it is what I heard in New Jersey when our family traveled to the science fair. Literally asking "Why are there white kids here?" Can you imagine?? In New Jersey!

Those Tamil and Bengali Brahmins from English speaking households will soon leave research too, to be replaced by Nepalese and Biharis. Then they will all get the message as well and search for non-research jobs.

Before long you will see a push for Vietnamese and Cambodians. The Nigerians, Philipinos and Ethiopeans will be welcomed, but will soon depart in turn as the STEM employers continue to search for servants and 'coolies' anywhere they can find them. All using one bizarre mantra "The Best and the Brightest!"

Because the employers treat researchers like servants. Fungible geeks. That is the culture we have to break.

Those brilliant brown American kids winning our Olympiads will dream of flying Business Class. Maybe even First Class one day. Those equally brilliant white kids who would have loved to do science leaving the olympiads, now dream of not even being on the same airplane as long as they are also avoiding coach.

Sorry "Cornered Hindu". I hate it. But you asked. Don't shoot the messenger.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

@hay_banda Institutional autonomy in the US makes it great. US allows you to criticize the govt while India is tough. In the US, you can thrive if you work hard & follow rules. It’s corruption everywhere here, try getting a DL or death certificate. Indians need US, not the other way.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

People who don't have the courage to decide on what they want often spend a decade running around just to end up where they started, and the problem isn't just that you are wasting your time, you are also wasting the time of all the people who believe in you.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

A masterclass for entrepreneurs on DIY, perseverance, and resourcefulness.

[Isaac French @isaacfrench_]

At 24, I borrowed $2.3M to build 7 luxury cabins on a lake.

Weeks after opening, Airbnb suspended us. No bookings. No sleep. As a last-ditch effort, I spent $950 on an IG giveaway. It changed everything.

18 months later, we sold for $7M.

Here’s how it all happened:🧵

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

There’s so much that can go wrong with these rides. I know it’s gonna be one in a million chance to be stuck or thrown away but the risk is not worth it.

[Naveena @TheNaveena]

This is why I am scared of rides - battery issues!!

An amusement ride at Hyderabad's Numaish got stuck upside down for more than 25 minutes on Thursday evening, January 16.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

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[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You don't struggle because you don't have a mentor, a supportive circle, an environment where you can focus; these appear after you spent thousands of lonely hours working on yourself and got incontestable results: get rid of your entitlement, clarify your goals, get things done.

[JK Maravan @jkmaravan]

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