The Ghosts We Inherit: India's 'New Money' Story
My mother reuses tea leaves until the water runs clear. My friend's father keeps a wooden box in his closet, with carefully folded bills arranged by denomination. Another's maintains a small diary tracking every household expense down to the last rupee. These aren't quirks – they're battle scars from a generation that survived on less.
We are their children. We carry their financial trauma in our wallets, even as we tap them against sleek payment terminals at craft coffee shops.
No one questioned Whoop or Ultrahuman, but are dunking on Temple even before its full release.
Whoop did not have a clinical validation study for 5 years after the release. Ultrahuman still doesn't have one.
These are just trackers, not diagnostic devices, used by a bunch of niche enthusiasts to improve habits, not treat medical issues.
If they scale to become more widespread and plan to get closer to diagnosis (like Apple or Whoop adding ECG), then it makes sense to do intense peer-reviewed clinical studies.
Let folks experiment and innovate. Basic checks and balances have to be there, of course. But you cannot build such a high barrier to entry. Then we won't see any progress.
We love to pull each other down. A shitty culture ingrained in us. We need to do better. Encourage, in a balanced way. No blind worship but constructive feedback. Not call everything a scam at the drop of a hat, but patiently understand what is trying to be achieved give a mature, reasoned take on what you agree with, what you don't agree with, what you don't know but will wait and watch. This kind of dialogue is missing. Sad.
Canva needs to really reinvent its primitives to let agents run wild on the canvas.
Last I used their MCP, the AX was so frustrating that I had to handroll our own canvas.
Goodbye, Canva
I’ve been with you since 2014. It was a great run! You built something special
But we stopping using you about a year ago. We kept paying, but it was just time.
A great 12 years, or at least, a great first 11 of them.
It’s just, it’s a new agentic world
I have a theory - run capitalism far enough and it comes out the other side as communism.
Saying RAM belongs in data centers instead of wasting away in PCs looks like a Marxist argument with a cap table.
A central planner judges your RAM better than you do, your small joys today give way to a future someone else designed, and ownership ends up in fewer hands than any Politburo managed.