KP

Systems Integration @SAP .
Freewheeling edifice. Pragmatic Libertarian. I don't fully endorse everything I say. Views strictly personal.

[KP @karanpathk]

Where are we headed?

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Meta’s CTO says morale is near “the worst it’s ever been” — leadership will offer increased snack budgets to lift spirits.

[KP @karanpathk]

@AnupamMittal Increasingly feel we are colonised.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

People have no idea what's coming with the next generation of kids who are AI native.

My youngest teen just started an internship.

On the first day he was given a "challenging" two weeks worth of work with very specific objectives, timelines, etc. By 10am the next morning he was done the entire list and asking for more work.

They didn't think he could possibly be done.

How?

He used AI to help (with their permission). And he KNOW how to use AI (he's not using it like a google search bar).

These AI native kids are gonna run laps around 25-40 year olds that are not using AI.

[KP @karanpathk]

@dhincha Indeed, I am fine ✊

[KP @karanpathk]

Why is the guy on the left moaning instead of celebrating the milestone progress of him and the guy on the right having 2.5 umbrellas per capita?

[KP @karanpathk]

@kunalb11 Smart leaders leverage AI for high-quality, complex use cases. The paranoid merely use it for low-end tasks, paralyzed by fear. True intelligence drives strategic, high-value adoption.

[KP @karanpathk]

@kunalb11 Smart leaders leverage AI for high-quality, complex use cases. The paranoid merely use it for low-end tasks, paralyzed by fear. True intelligence drives strategic, high-value adoption.

[KP @karanpathk]

@JioMart 18 hrs no delivery. No refund. What madness?

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

Read the UN report on GDP. What we aim to maximize makes big difference. I realized this when a friend told me every 10 min jogging increases life by 8 min. I began jogging. Then it struck me every 10 min jogging cuts my non-jogging time on earth by 2 min.
https://t.co/OCpqBIcv7a

[KP @karanpathk]

@JioMart_Support if you cannot deliver a #quick order even after 18 hrs, why aren't you refunding the money. Ridiculous.

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[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Harvard Business Review research reveals that excessive interaction with AI is causing a specific type of mental exhaustion ( or "AI brain fry"), which is particularly hitting high performers who use AI to push past their normal limits.

A survey of 1,500 workers reveals that AI is intensifying workloads rather than reducing them, leading to a new form of mental fog.

While AI is generally supposed to lighten the load, it often forces users into constant task-switching and intense oversight that actually clutters the mind.

This mental static happens because you aren't just doing your job anymore; you are managing multiple digital agents and double-checking their work, which creates a massive cognitive burden.

The study found that 14% of full-time workers already feel this fog, with the highest impact seen in technical fields like software development, IT, and finance.

High oversight is the biggest culprit, as supervising multiple AI outputs leads to a 12% increase in mental fatigue and a 33% jump in decision fatigue.

This isn't just a personal health issue; it directly impacts companies because exhausted employees are 10% more likely to quit.

For massive firms worth many B, this decision paralysis can lead to millions of dollars in lost value due to poor choices or total inaction.

Essentially, we are working harder to manage our tools than we are to solve the actual problems they were meant to fix.

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hbr .org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

[KP @karanpathk]

@GuruShareMarket License Raj in all its glory. Huge GST passed on to the govt that loots the money.

[KP @karanpathk]

Claude does too. You’ll get Facebook ads an hour after discussing something. So does apple — X or Facebook ads if someone texts you about something.

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.

[100 Climate Messages @climatemessages]

HABITABLE PLANETS ARE HARD TO FIND. PROTECT THE ONE WE LIVE ON.

[Theo Jaffee @theojaffee]

Just learned that Winston Churchill wrote a six-volume, 4700-page, 1.6-million-word history of World War II that won him the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature

[KP @karanpathk]

Unless there is a policy reversal, the risk for the US economy is of the dollar losing its status as the world’s currency for trade & reserve holding. Which currency will take its place is worth speculating.

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

Kaushik Basu warns that the Trump administration’s recklessness is jeopardizing the greenback’s global primacy. https://t.co/U6aI176wfZ

[KP @karanpathk]

Just finished The Count of Monte Cristo. Putting this on my resume.

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

I want to do a test of Schelling’s idea of focal point.
Imagine a game in which you, with a large number of others, have to each choose one of the 5 alphabets:
B C D e F
If all choose the same, each of you will get a prize. Otherwise you get nothing.
What will you choose?

[KP @karanpathk]

Extremely well written and encapsulates what feels so obvious to me and others working on the edge of AI.

The scary part is that AI is now smart enough to be a self sustaining entity. It can handle money, operate in the real world & turn it into more money. It doesn’t need you.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg