Karthik Venkataraman (KV)

A wannabe polymath.

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@christophersaum Checkout @Neuro_stellar!

We build cognitive performance trackers for peak performers like you! We are currently in open beta and we would appreciate if you would like to try.

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@NickDiFabio1 Ebook

[Sarah Drasner @sarah_edo]

🛠️ We in Chrome wrote security guidance for WebMCP:

Agent Devs: https://t.co/upuA4FGIj3
Site Devs: https://t.co/QDJdUYZBbS

Written by the wonderful @JuliaPagnucco, a Sr. Security Eng & @AlexandraScript, great tech writer. If you're using WebMCP, this is important guidance!

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@harinidesignss So good!

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@WeirdoWizard We need a Leetcode for designers. May be this is a start!

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Everyone building AI agents is focusing on building the prefrontal cortex. Planning. Reasoning. Multi-step chains. There's value here. CEO-stuff.

But also, a reframe: there is value in building the cerebellum. It's offloading boring tasks into reflex so the complex thought can focus.

Your mortgage gets paid by a standing order, not a committee. The things that are not fun, not interesting, but have to be done? Done. Most agent frameworks will fail because they treat all cognition as high cognition.

The winners will nail the boring stuff first.

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@Ayussheth Count me in! Already working in Hardware firm working on design aspects of it but always curious to tinker.

[∩ @zachpogrob]

it only takes everything

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@RamaKrishnaUX Have dm’ed you in Linkedin regarding the same!

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

Seeing more hacker houses and builder communities across Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Chennai.

Looking to connect with people who’ve stayed in, run, or are planning hacker houses. Curious to understand the space better.

#HackerHouse #Builders #IndianStartups #BuildInPublic

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

After advising 50+ consumer companies over the last year, the one thing that separates those who can execute and those who can't:

Having a full-time designer in the room at all times

I've met with countless companies that have raised millions—and even one that has raised billions—that do not even have a designer on payroll.

This makes product development broken:

1/ You simply cannot have constructive conversations about ideas without visualizing them in real-time
2/ Your experiments will frequently have inconclusive results because users cannot discover features or they misunderstand how they work
3/ There is no one who can galvanize the team with a vision of what the product could look and feel like

And to be abundantly clear: I'm not referring to visual UI or graphics. I'm talking about someone who can think through the fundamental building blocks of product comprehension—like navigation, interaction and copywriting—and is technically savvy enough to visualize those components in high resolution.

There can certainly be exceptions to not having a designer, like where the CEO is an exceptional visual thinker, but that does not scale beyond a small team.

At the end of day, products live and die in the pixels: it's what the users see and tap. And without someone shepherding that process, you are effectively wandering the desert blind.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@aishashok14 Would love to try it but I am getting an error. Could you look into it.

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@Nithin0dha @ZerodhaVarsity @Nithin0dha Would love to see startup bootcamps or workshops for young professionals just starting their careers. It’s so important for them to understand things like asset classes, ESOPs, corporate NPS, markets, and diversification early on.

[Neurostellar @Neuro_stellar]

Thrilled to welcome @swapniljain89 and @tarunsmehta, Co-founders of Ather Energy, as angel investors in Neurostellar.

We are excited to architect a future where mental fitness is honed with scientific precision.

#wearables #Startups #investments #deeptech #neurotech @iitmadras

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

From jaw-dropping visuals to emotional depth,

Interstellar is a masterpiece that blends science with human emotion like no other.

Our generation is blessed by Nolan masterpiece.

[Raj Bhagat P #Mapper4Life @rajbhagatt]

#Thread
#Marina beach is one of the most iconic destinations in Chennai and one of the most visited beaches in the world. However the beach as we see today didn't exist a century ago.

This thread explains the formation of #Chennai's Marina beach
1/n

[Karthik Venkataraman (KV) @k17n_]

@lturmovidal @dig_futures @KTHuniversity @mid_kth Congratulations Laia! Best wishes for your new beginning.

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

My notes from Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charlie Munger turned into maxims:

1. Find a simple idea and take it seriously. 

2. Good ideas are rare. When you find one bet heavily. 

3. Humans have been writing down their best ideas for 5,000 years. Read them.

4. Avoiding stupid mistakes is more important than being smart.

5. Don’t work with anyone you don’t admire.

6. Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy.

7. Avoiding a bad habit is easier than breaking a bad habit.

8. Work on your best idea. Don't diversify

9. Incentives rule everything around you. Look for them. 

10. Great businesses are built by going ridiculously far in maximizing or minimizing one or a few things. Think Costco. 

11. Learning is changing behavior. 

12. Do the unpleasant tasks first.

13. Charlie has read hundreds of biographies. Do the same. 

14. Stop multitasking. Concentrate.

15. Many hard problems are solved best when approached backwards.

16. Think of ideas as tools. When a better tool comes along use it.

17. Clip your business and personal expenses. Small leaks sink big ships.

18. Make friends with smart dead people. Adam Smith, Darwin, Cicero, Ben Franklin —whoever interests you. Read their writing. Steal their ideas. They don’t need them anymore.

19. Don't confuse intelligence with invincibility.

20. Bad things will happen to you. It’s inevitable. When they do get up and keep going and remember the next maxim.

21. Self pity has no utility.  

22. Find out what you are best at. Then pound away at it. Forever.

23. Only plays games where you have an edge.

24. Avoid mob rule. Avoid demagogues. Avoid dogma. Avoid bureaucracy.

25. Optimize for independence.

25. Use money to buy freedom.

26. Develop durability.

27. What do you have an *intense* interest in? Do that for money.

28. Self improvement has no end.

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

The future makers are super humans

This is made by a 17yo developer

Slack killer, discord for developers

https://t.co/0GSgnJQVpN