Gaurav

Marketeer by profession, MBA grad by education. Running, reading & music form pieces of my jigsaw. Views expressed are my own.

[Gaurav @jusgaurav]

“Do not go gentle into that good night…” Full moon eclipsed by raging city lights #Dubai #DubaiMarina #DylanThomas

[Einav Avizemer | עינב אביזמר @EinavAvizemer]

Thank you Captain Smit Machchhar & Thank you India 🇮🇳♥️🇮🇱

[Joakim 🌹🇳🇴🇪🇺 @joakial_]

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products.

[Gaurav @jusgaurav]

https://t.co/HpS8a9cVwx

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

today's finance tip:

accumulate a diversified portfolio of bonds.

[Anwar Ibrahim @anwaribrahim]

Guru mintak izin nyanyi kejap ok!

[Gaurav @jusgaurav]

@WhiteOakCap Thanks for your prompt reply. As your existing NRI investor, I’m unable to make transactions in your fund due this access blocking issue. Pls advise way forward on this.

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

The costume designer for F1 could have picked literally any luxury brand in the world.

Instead, Brad Pitt wore a shirt made using Tangaliya, a 700-year-old weaving technique from Gujarat. That's the kind of thing that gets my attention.

Every tiny dot on that shirt is hand-twisted into the weave, and the people behind it didn't hide the process, they built it into the product.

Most brands sell a story. In a world chasing fast fashion, this Make in India brand proves that craftsmanship, transparency, and patience still have a place on the global stage.

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

LEWIS HAMILTON’S FIRST VICTORY FOR FERRARI!! 🔥

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

INDIA ARE RECURVE MIXED TEAM CHAMPIONS 🏆

Indian Mixed Team stunned Olympic Champion Korea 5-1 to win Antalya World Cup Stage 3

Dheeraj & Kumkum wins World Cup for India 🇮🇳

THIS IS PRETTY HUGE FOLKS 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Gaurav @jusgaurav]

Lmao 🤣 #f1

[🐊🐊🐊 @wherestappen]

2026 season notable rivalries

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM IN SPAIN 🇮🇳🥹

The Indian Racer Kush Maini wins the FIA Formula 2 Sprint Race in the Barcelona, Spain

ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE BY KUSH 🙌

[India First Post @ifpost47]

Indian worker Vipin Kumar has been awarded honorary citizenship by the city of Craiova, Romania, after he jumped into an icy lake and saved the life of a 5-year-old girl. 🇮🇳🇷🇴

For nearly 30 minutes, he held the child above freezing water until rescuers arrived.

This is the side of Indians the world rarely sees in headlines: courage, sacrifice, compassion and humanity.

Yet stories like this seldom receive the attention that anti-India narratives do. No coverage from Western media outlets.

As India's envoy noted, Vipin's actions embodied the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam "The World is One Family." ❤️

[Norway Chess @NorwayChess]

Oops, he did it again! 🔥🇮🇳

#NorwayChess

[Sky Sports F1 @SkySportsF1]

Lewis Hamilton's best result for Ferrari 2️⃣🔴

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

La visita del Primo Ministro dell’India, @narendramodi, sancisce l'apice di un percorso che in questi anni abbiamo costruito con costanza e determinazione.

Oggi a Roma eleviamo il nostro rapporto a partenariato strategico speciale, cioè il più alto mai raggiunto nelle relazioni tra le nostre due Nazioni.

Italia e India sono più vicine che mai e le nostre relazioni sono nella condizione di poter esprimere il loro potenziale al massimo livello 🇮🇹🇮🇳

[Gaurav @jusgaurav]

Just did it! #adidas

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas.

Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours.

Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count.

Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024.

Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds.

Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it.

The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record.

Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

[Gaurav @jusgaurav]

Eat the frog!

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A mathematician who shared an office with Claude Shannon at Bell Labs gave one lecture in 1986 that explains why some people win Nobel Prizes and other equally smart people spend their whole lives doing forgettable work.

His name was Richard Hamming. He won the Turing Award. He invented error-correcting codes that made modern computing possible. And he spent 30 years at Bell Labs sitting in a cafeteria at lunch watching which scientists became legendary and which ones faded into nothing.

In March 1986, he walked into a Bellcore auditorium in front of 200 researchers and told them exactly what he had seen.

Here's the framework that has been quoted by every serious scientist for the last 40 years.

His opening line landed like a punch. He said most scientists he worked with at Bell Labs were just as smart as the Nobel Prize winners. Just as hardworking. Just as credentialed. And yet at the end of a 40-year career, one group had changed entire fields and the other group was forgotten by the time they retired.

He wanted to know what the difference actually was. And he said it wasn't luck. It wasn't IQ. It was a specific set of habits that almost nobody is willing to follow.

The first habit was the one that hurts the most to hear. He said most scientists deliberately avoid the most important problem in their field because the odds of failure are too high. They pick a safe adjacent problem, solve it cleanly, publish it, and move on. And because they never swing at the hard problem, they never hit it. He said if you do not work on an important problem, it is unlikely you will do important work. That is not a motivational line. That is a logical one.

The second habit was about doors. Literal doors. He noticed that the scientists at Bell Labs who kept their office doors closed got more done in the short term because they had no interruptions. But the scientists who kept their doors open got more done over a career. The open-door scientists were interrupted constantly. They also absorbed every new idea passing through the hallway. Ten years in, they were working on problems the closed-door scientists did not even know existed.

The third habit was inversion. When Bell Labs refused to give him the team of programmers he wanted, Hamming sat with the rejection for weeks. Then he flipped the question. Instead of asking for programmers to write the programs, he asked why machines could not write the programs themselves. That single inversion pushed him into the frontier of computer science. He said the pattern repeats everywhere. What looks like a defect, if you flip it correctly, becomes the exact thing that pushes you ahead of everyone else.

The fourth habit was the one that hit me the hardest. He said knowledge and productivity compound like interest. Someone who works 10 percent harder than you does not produce 10 percent more over a career. They produce twice as much. The gap doesn't add. It multiplies. And it compounds silently for years before anyone notices.

He finished the lecture with a line I have never been able to shake.

He said Pasteur's famous quote is right. Luck favors the prepared mind. But he meant it literally. You don't hope for luck. You engineer the conditions where luck can land on you. Open doors. Important problems. Inverted questions. Compounded hours. Those are not traits. Those are choices you make every single day.

The transcript has been sitting on the University of Virginia's computer science website for almost 30 years. The video is free on YouTube. Stripe Press reprinted the full lectures as a book in 2020 and Bret Victor wrote the foreword.

Hamming died in 1998. He gave his final lecture a few weeks before. He was 82.

The lecture that explains why some careers become legendary and others disappear is still free. Most people who could benefit from it will never open it.

[Jaya Gupta @JayaGup10]

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[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Meanwhile in India 🦚