Karan.

Hey there, I am using Twitter!
I also use Instagram to document my experiences around travel, architecture, design and slice-of-life encounters.

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

Be kind, be ready, be open.

#LifeLessons

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Belgium's new away kit is inspired by popular Belgian comic series Tintin 🇧🇪

[Borriss @_Borriss_]

Less that 17 hours since Midjourney released into the wild their new 2x and 4x upscalers...

People are testing and comparing them...

And shaking their heads (for different reasons).

10 noteworthy posts:

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

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[Bojan Tunguz @tunguz]

Breaking Bad but in Japan. Cerated by @demonflyingfox, one of my favorite GenAI creators.

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

The best drug of the 21st century:

Making money doing something you love.

This is my "Self-Interview" framework for finding what you're meant to do:

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

I'm a bigger fan now.
So a clean sheet under his name, eh?

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Olivier Giroud became AC Milan's keeper after Mike Maignan was sent off with a red card.

He then made a MASSIVE save to see out AC Milan's 1-0 win and send them to the top of the Serie A table 😱

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

This is why I'm on the internet. 😂

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

When you need to distract the nervous doggy during a blood draw.. 😂

Sound on

[Mehran Jalali @mehran__jalali]

Last Saturday, 65 of us made a five-star steak dinner for 100+ guests at New York's highest-rated steakhouse: Mehran's Steak House

The full story:

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you cannot be corrected without being offended, then you’ll never truly grow in life.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

What's the main difference between Classical and Gothic architecture?

Just look at the "capitals" — the decorative part at the top of a column. They tell you everything you need to know.

Classical capitals are all identical, but in Gothic architecture they are always different.

In Classical (and Neoclassical) architecture there are "Five Orders". The best way to explain these is as five different design models which include rules for the column, the capital, and the entablature above it.

Etruscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite are the Five Orders, in ascending degree of complexity. Each have their own specific ornamentation and, in addition, highly precise measurements and proportions for each of their elements.

These models developed over time in the ancient world and were eventually codified by the likes of Vitruvius — you can still read his mathematical specifications. During the Renaissance, when Classical architecture was revived, the Five Orders were studied carefully and codified once again, creating a set of models which have been scrupulously imitated ever since.

The Classical capitals in the image below are Ionic; each is from a different building. Notice that their volutes (the swirls) and the egg-and-dart ornament between, are all essentially identical.

And so, whenever you build in the Classical (or Neoclassical) style and you use one of these Five Orders, the craftsmen and sculptors must submit to a design specified hundreds of years ago, and merely carry it out like a machine as precisely as they can.

But here's the thing: in Gothic architecture there were no such rules whatsoever.

Medieval stonemasons and craftsmen were free to design their capitals however they wanted. Maybe their work wasn't perfect, but they always had the creative freedom to pursue their own ideas and inspirations. There was never a strict blueprint imposed from above that they had to follow — they were treated like humans rather than machines.

Hence the capitals of Gothic architecture are always different, even within the same building. You'll find foliage and flowers of every kind, fantastical beasts, smiling or serious faces, ribald jokes and sacred scenes, and simple decorative fancies, all mixed in together. This resulted in a style of architecture that was inevitably varied, surprising, and full of life.

So the difference between Classical and Gothic architecture isn't just about their outward forms — of rounded or pointed arches, of pilasters and tracery, pediments and archivolts. The difference is one of fundamental mindset, of design philosophy, of socio-economic relationships, of the creative liberty and working autonomy of builders and artisans.

So, which do you prefer? Should artists and craftsmen be forced to imitate the pure and sophisticated work of a superior designer, or should they be trusted with the creative freedom to make their own designs, however strangely or imperfectly?

[Aravind Srinivas @AravSrinivas]

This actually happened to Evernote. They took the advice of “keep talking to your customers and ship whatever they want” as the only guiding principle for product development. And what ended up happening was paying users liked it, but the product become unintuitive and feature overload for the new user. To the extent that they had to rebuild a version for the new user.

Users don’t always know if they really want something. It’s your job to take the extra step to think on their behalf: whether they really need this. Or can what they ask be done through something much simpler. Or can you solve multiple problems of different users with one new redesign rather than a bunch of changes. The right principle is: “Keep talking and listening to your users, spend the additional time thinking on their behalf what they actually want, and ship that”.

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

@PirateGunJack @TrollFootball Snake - Lil Kead. It's written 😁😉

[Sam Altman @sama]

“give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky” is even better advice than it appears on the surface.

luck isn’t an independent variable but increases super-linearly with more surface area—you meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

If you want to master something, teach it. The more you teach, the better you learn. Teaching is a powerful tool to learning.

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

Can't say I've thought this through to agree (unhappiness is a large topic) but interesting observations.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

Patterns I've noticed in unhappy people:

- They care about fitting in
- They lack vision for the future
- They expect too much from others
- They neglect lifelong self-education
- They unknowingly prioritize negative thoughts

They don't realize that happiness is an inside job.

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

Good Luck Praggnanandhaa 🇮🇳

This boy is only 18 and such a champion!

[International Chess Federation @FIDE_chess]

Magnus Carlsen takes a quiet draw with white against Praggnanandhaa and sends the final to tiebreaks. The winner of the #FIDEWorldCup will be decided tomorrow!

📷 Maria Emelianova

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

Congratulations Indian Space Research Organization. A proud moment for all Indians and space/science enthusiasts world over!
Our scientists are heroes who don't wear capes. 🦸‍♂️

#ISRO
#Chandrayaan3

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Social selling factory in Indonesia 🤯

This is UGC industrial mass production. This is a freaking factory.

Selling things online is changing so fast. Everything is changing so fast.

This is unreal

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

There's so much of science to this.
Wow! #streaming
https://t.co/ZaaH8rjnCO?

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

Interesting. I know this isn't just AI but a proper DNA reconstruction activity but I was reading about AI based recreation of faces earlier. Would be so cool to know what a few generations before we were born looked like.

https://t.co/abpHlbQW1Y

[Karan. @karanrbhatia]

It's easy for most of us Indians, to first remember #Broad as the young bowler who conceded 6 sixes in an over to Yuvraj in a World Cup. But he picked himself up after that and has had a glorious career. That's his legacy.
True Champion! #Inspiring

https://t.co/IEFCGjryEj