Vineet Shukla

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[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

@saikikuso2412 My bad. Just changed settings

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

big life update!

building products since college and loving it ever since. the itch to build something of my own was always louder.

now building at the intersection of ai x personal finance.

hiring founding team. dm me.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

@bagchi_sagnik Where’s RCB ? You guys left him.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

Beat Parkinson’s Law. Ship faster. We’re hiring. 🚀

[Vatsalya @vatsalyatandon]

Corpus is hiring exceptional designers. Freelance or full-time. Immediate start.

If you sweat the details and love shipping fast, let's talk. Top-of-market pay + meaningful ESOPs.

Age is no bar.

DM/Details: https://t.co/KKLFPna29H

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

If you often feel cringe at your past-self, means you are at a high velocity growth path. Whenever there's big gap since I last felt cringe with myself, I know it's time for reflection if I am doing it right or not.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

Contrarian view: Slack is such an extremely good product, that it is counter-productive.
If it sucked a little, I would do more deep work, than replying and playing with it all the time.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

VCs should hire more from UPSC aspirants cohort. They are very good at macro. And also empathise more with founder's journey.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

Had to give myself quite a cold start to start reading The Cold Start Problem. Became an easier read later on. Thank you @andrewchen for writing this. Thinking of my product ideas in new light now due to this.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

Have you ever tried to visualise what your sub-conscience looks like?
Mine looks like piano keys. There’s no melody added to it, but just infinitely long and never ending series of piano keys. Alternate black n white keys it is.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

3 notes of my ideal perfume -
Top note: Petrol
Middle note: Asphalt
Base note: Gunpowder

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

Underdog achiever story sells so much in India. Be it KBC viewership or hero worship of exam toppers.
I wonder what products I can make leveraging this insight.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

You’re riding at 110kmph in India thinking you’re the main character and out of no where someone passes you like a flash at what feels like 250+ and immediately your ego is dissolved.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

I mostly find them in fantasy fiction, and sci-fi books

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

There are things whose answers sometimes you don’t find in reason but in instincts and in recklessness and in love and in courage and in an auto ride and in a dive and in a glass of wine 🍷

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

Thanks @phokarlsson for this framework. Things you want to happen, and things you want to happen from yourself. I read it in your essay on agency.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

There are things that I want to happen and then there are things I want to happen from me. For eg - I want my city to be clean, walkable, lots of trees - but I might not actively work for it.
But I want to build something for the older population myself.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

By customer I meant it as a user

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

I might be a decent PM but I’m a very stupid customer. I lately realised the latter part. First could be presumptuous.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

I keep revisiting this passage from Paul Graham’s essay on Superlinear Returns.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

eg- Henrik Karlsson writes beautifully, and I’m reading his essay “On Agency”, but few things feel subtly wrong in the essay. Like one place, he mentions “lack of imagination”, but what it really should be is “presumption”. These things matter a lot for serious readers.

[Vineet Shukla @kvotheism]

Wish I was able to make my own notes (or scribble) over Substack posts.