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[Nuance @nuancegh]

Most people think traveling the world is expensive.

But in some countries, $100 can cover several days of incredible experiences.

8 countries where your money goes MUCH further than you'd expect.

Save this for your next trip. 🧵

[Jameson Quadros @lycanjmu]

@IndiaNewGen More like Mammagiri

[Subramanian Swamy @Swamy39]

This needs a thorough analysis, and then question Narendra Modi.

[Puneet Singh @xhawkCEO]

Discover the four levels of AI maturity and how to move from AI assistants to autonomous, system-wide execution.

[Jameson Quadros @lycanjmu]

Vision of Viksit Bharat begins when the rich people start using public transport and the poor people do not aspire to buy a car.

[Jim Rohn Official @OfficialJimRohn]

“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.” — Jim Rohn

Learning is the beginning of wealth.

https://t.co/zXJ2egGIT7

#JimRohn #SelfEducation

[Suhail @Suhail]

It is time to prepare for a world where there are tasks so complex and difficult to solve, humans will no longer know how they are solved.

[Jameson Quadros @lycanjmu]

@aaraynsh This happens every year

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

It is not complicated. Artificial intelligence must be used to benefit all of humanity, not make a handful of multi-billionaires even richer.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Delhi police on orders from Modi/Shah have shut down Central Delhi to prevent Jantar Mantar protest. Shut down 11 metros, imposed prohibitory orders, shut down the internet! The police have laid siege on Jantar Mantar& are detaining people there. MP Manoj Jha has also been detained. All this on Gandhi Jayanti! Modi/Shah don’t understand that this will only inflame people & more people will come out on the streets. How many people can they prevent from protesting & detain. They will be overwhelmed!

[Jameson Quadros @lycanjmu]

A minister high on ethanol!
https://t.co/Ph4kxJQJSB

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

“China moved young people from fields to factories. India cannot do the same because it is a corrupt and chaotic democracy. Most of the money would be stolen.”

~ “Prof Jiang” (Jiang Xueqin), educator and commentator

[Jameson Quadros @lycanjmu]

Aspiring investors idolize Warren Buffett, but their spending says otherwise. They want to look rich; he chose to get wealthy.

Spending $50k on a luxury car at 25 sacrifices ~$2.2M at 65 (at 10% returns).

Looking rich is expensive. Building wealth is quiet.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Nitin Gupta, IIT-JEE 2000 AIR 1, returned to IIT Kanpur in 2014 after training in the US and shifted from computer science to neuroscience.

Now, he is studying the brains of mosquitoes.

Expecting many more IITians to return to India and succeed.

[qurool @quroolarc]

Peter Thiel built PayPal alongside Elon Musk

Then he walked into Stanford and used Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and even Einstein to explain one of the most controversial ideas in business:

“Competition is for losers”

And the deeper you go into the lecture, the more uncomfortable the argument becomes

Thiel starts with a distinction almost nobody makes: creating enormous value and capturing enormous value are two completely different things

Airlines transformed civilization and generate enormous revenue, yet historically struggled to keep much of the value they created. Google, by comparison, operated in a much smaller market but captured an extraordinary share of the economics

That leads to Thiel’s central claim:

There are basically two kinds of businesses, monopolies and businesses competing their profits away

The strange part is that both sides lie about it

A monopoly wants regulators to believe it operates in a huge competitive market. A terrible competitive business wants investors to believe it occupies some tiny unique niche

Thiel uses Google as the example. Define it as “search” and its dominance looks enormous. Define it as advertising, technology, cloud, phones, cars and software, and suddenly it looks like one player among hundreds

How you define the market can completely change the story

So how do you actually build something dominant?

Thiel says you usually start absurdly small

Amazon began with books. eBay gained traction in tiny enthusiast markets. PayPal focused on roughly 20,000 power sellers on eBay. Facebook started with around 10,000 Harvard students and reached roughly 60% penetration there in about 10 days

The mistake is starting with: “This is a trillion-dollar market”

To Thiel, that often means you’re entering an ocean filled with competitors

Own a tiny market first. Then expand outward

But dominating today isn’t enough

The truly valuable company has to remain dominant tomorrow

That’s where Thiel brings in Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Bill Gates. The next Zuckerberg won’t build another Facebook. The next Larry Page won’t build another search engine. The next Bill Gates won’t build another operating system

Copying what made them successful misses the entire lesson

They became valuable because they built something sufficiently different that competition became much less relevant

Thiel looks for several things: proprietary technology that can be dramatically better than alternatives, network effects, economies of scale and brand

And then comes another contrarian idea:

Forget the first-mover advantage

Think about the last-mover advantage

Microsoft became enormously valuable because it dominated operating systems for decades. Google because search endured. Facebook’s value depended on whether it could remain the dominant social network

Thiel says most of a technology company’s value often lies many years into the future, which means investors obsess too much over current growth and not enough over one question:

Will this company still matter 10 or 20 years from now?

Then the lecture gets even more interesting

Thiel argues that some of humanity’s greatest innovations created unbelievable value while their creators captured almost none of it

Einstein transformed physics

The Wright brothers helped create aviation

Railroads transformed economies

Yet revolutionary innovation does not automatically create extraordinary fortunes

Meanwhile, software founders can sometimes capture billions because the economics of their industries, scale, marginal costs, network effects, allow them to retain a much larger percentage of what they create

He then points to Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX

Thiel’s explanation isn’t simply that Musk invented one magical technology. He highlights the ability to integrate many pieces of the business together, manufacturing, distribution, suppliers, engineering, in ways competitors struggled to replicate

Creating value mattered

Structuring the business so you could actually keep that value mattered too

But the last few minutes may be the most important part of the entire lecture

Thiel stops talking about companies

He starts talking about you

Humans copy each other

If everyone wants the same prestigious university, the same Wall Street job, the same startup idea or the same career, we interpret the competition itself as proof that the prize must be valuable

Thiel argues the opposite can be true

The fact that thousands of intelligent people desperately want something may be evidence that you should look somewhere else

He knows the trap personally. He followed the prestigious path through Stanford and Stanford Law into a top New York law firm, a place where, as he describes it, people desperately wanted to get in from the outside and desperately wanted to leave once they were inside

He left after seven months and three days

Someone at the firm told him it was reassuring to see him leave because he hadn’t realized “it was possible to escape from Alcatraz”

The door had been open the entire time. That is ultimately what “competition is for losers” means
Competition can make you better at beating the person standing next to you

But it can also make you so obsessed with winning someone else’s game that you stop asking whether the game is worth playing

Peter Thiel ends the lecture with one line that summarizes the entire philosophy:

Don’t rush through the tiny door everyone else is fighting to enter

Look around the corner

There may be a vast gate nobody is taking

Watch the full lecture below ↓

[Jameson Quadros @lycanjmu]

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[Vexel @Vexel0x]

The markets in 2026:

[Affordability Crisis @trackingcosts]

Oil is about to head to $200 or better. The biggest refinery in Moscow is gone, destroyed. You know what other impact this will have? It will destroy sulfur. Sulfur is needed to make phosphates. Phosphates are used to grow food. A good shortage is coming.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 India has added more than 100 greenfield GCCs in the first eight months of 2026.

Hyderabad - 40
Bengaluru - 33
Pune - 18
Chennai - 8
Mumbai - 7

(The Hindu)