Kunal Suryavanshi

automation, investing, coffee.

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@GinnyHuppman @archeohistories About $1500 USD

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@JasonL_Capital LEAP

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@turbotax I haven't been able to move past the initial screen after login on the online version of turbotax this year. As soon as I click continue on the first page, I get this error message - "Oops, something went wrong. Please try again". Can't even chat to an agent. Help!

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@DrSJaishankar @IndianEmbassyUS @IndiainSeattle @passportsevamea My passport renewal application has been stuck in "under review at Indian embassy/consulate" for more than 4 weeks now. Please help! 🙏
ARN: 24-2004191896
File No: US0075341842324

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@IndiainSeattle @IndiainSeattle I need to grant General Power of Attorney to someone in India. Is this service available at the Indian Consulate in Seattle? 🙏

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A cheat code I wish I knew at 18:

The 4 Types of Luck

(an animated visualization)

In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.

In it, he proposed that there are 4 types of luck:

(1) Blind Luck
(2) Luck from Motion
(3) Luck from Awareness
(4) Luck from Uniqueness

Here’s what they are:

Type 1: Blind Luck

Completely out of your control:

• Where you are born
• Who you are born to
• Base circumstances of your life
• “Acts of God”

These are the truly random occurrences of the universe.

Type 2: Luck from Motion

You’re creating motion and collisions through hustle and energy that you are inserting into an ecosystem.

You increase your luck surface area through simple movement.

The increase in collisions opens you up to more lucky events.

Type 3: Luck from Awareness

Depth of understanding within a given arena allows you to become very good at positioning yourself for lucky breaks.

Naval says: “You become very good at spotting luck.”

You can “spot luck” from a mile away because of your knowledge and experience.

Type 4: Luck from Uniqueness

Your unique set of attributes attracts specific luck to you.

“[This type] favors those with distinctive, if not eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors.” - Dr. James Austin

Type 4 Luck actually seeks you out.

The Stages of Luck

I personally think of Types 1-3 as coming in stages as you grow up:

• Type 1 dictates your early years
• Type 2 as you hustle in your 20
• Type 3 as you gain experience in your 30s+

Type 4 is unique—it’s dislocated from age.

Always remember my Luck Razor:

When choosing between two paths, choose the path that has a larger LUCK SURFACE AREA.

Your actions put you in a position where luck is more likely to strike.

It’s hard to get lucky watching TV at home—it’s easy to get lucky when you’re engaging and learning.

[Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev]

STACK OVERFLOW JUST ANNOUNCED THEIR OWN AI!!!

OverflowAI is a tool, that will also have a VS Code plugin. The way this works, if you are on the site and ask a question, it will produce the answer for you while also citing the sources it used to produce the answer.

You can then ask more in the conversational area, even including code, and through Generative AI it can continue building off of the answer.

This is the right move on their part and I am confident a lot of people will be trying it out. Everything releases in August! Great job @StackOverflow. Really great announcement at the @WeAreDevs Conference!

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@Mumbai2PuneEway How is the road/traffic from Mumbai to Pune this morning after the recent landslide? Are there any closure or debris removal still going on?

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

A concept that changed my life.

The Time Billionaire:

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@MattWallace888 This is like saying "I fired all the janitors 5 minutes ago and the place still looks clean. I didn't need them after all." 🤣

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

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[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@77_Kiser 2 24-oz cups

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@Jason My grandfather thought the same when the television first came out

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@alexxubyte Done, All 3

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

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[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@Roku Modern Love Mumbai #StreamingDay

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

I have this old 2006 BusinessWeek framed as a reminder. The “risky bet” that Wall Street disliked was AWS, which generated revenue of more than $62 billion last year.

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@adeptaffiliate @DividendLogan For me that number is 10% or less.

[Kunal Suryavanshi @kunsurya]

@theFIFemale @DividendLogan Why school, why not within the household by parents ?

[Nick Chapsas @nickchapsas]

I hate debugging code threaded multi