Manoj Mone

Techie, Bookworm, Poet, Coffeeholic (read in the reverse order :))

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

AMD CEO Lisa Su reminds us that if you want an easier life, you must have the courage to work on harder problems.

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

Late bloomer and how! Almost 550 matches before he won his first slam! #respect #extraaaserve

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

THE WAIT IS OVER 🏆

#RolandGarros

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

What a statement! “Be impatient with actions but patient with results.”

[Stijn Noorman @stijnnoorman]

You control your input.

You don't control your outcomes.

So focus only on what you can control.

Be impatient with actions but patient with results.

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

Absolutely agree!

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

"Inability to arrive on time correlates with inability to follow other rules"

Just saw this on Twitter. What do you think, true or false?

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

@Aria124634 Raptor

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

@clubmahindra Terrible experience at the Virajpet, Coorg. The intercom is down 3 hrs the front office desk did not even pick up the mobile number they had shared prior the checking. Had to walk down in rains to talk to them. Completely callous attitude. Here are the callous heros

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

@clubmahindra Terrible experience at the Virajpet, Coorg. The intercom is down 3 hrs the front office desk did not even pick up the mobile number they had shared prior the checking. Had to walk down in rains to talk to them. Completely callous attitude. Here are the callous heros

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

@clubmahindra Terrible experience at the Virajpet, Coorg @clubmahindra. The intercom is down and the front office desk did not even pick up the mobile number they had shared prior the checking. Had to walk down in rains to talk to them. Completely callous attitude. Here are the callous heros

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A British biologist looked at 200,000 years of human history and found that the entire reason humans broke out of poverty was not intelligence, not language, not even agriculture, but one mechanism so simple a 6-year-old could explain it.

His name is Matt Ridley.

He is a zoologist by training, an evolutionary biologist by career, and in 2010 he wrote a book called The Rational Optimist that quietly argued the most important fact about human progress had been hiding in plain sight for the entire history of economics.

Naval Ravikant has been telling people to read everything Ridley has ever written for the last 15 years. The reason is the argument inside this one book.

For 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans walked around with the same brain you have right now. Same skull size. Same neural architecture. Same raw capacity for language, planning, and abstract thought.

For roughly 190,000 of those years, almost nothing happened. Generation after generation lived and died inside the same Stone Age toolkit their great-great-grandparents had used. Then somewhere around 50,000 years ago, the line on the chart of human progress started to tick upward. Then it bent. Then it exploded.

The question Ridley spent years on was the only question that mattered. What changed.

It was not the brain. The brain had been the same for 190,000 years. It was not language, which had existed long before the takeoff. It was not even agriculture, which arrived only 10,000 years ago and was actually preceded by the upward bend, not the cause of it.

What changed was that humans started trading with strangers.

This sounds too small to be the answer. Ridley argues that it is the answer to almost everything. The moment one human exchanged a useful object with another human from a different group, something happened that no other species on earth had ever done.

Two ideas that had developed in isolation came into contact. The flint knapper learned what the spear maker had figured out. The fisherman from the coast learned what the hunter from the forest had figured out. The two pieces of knowledge fused into something neither side could have produced alone.

Ridley calls this ideas having sex. The phrase sounds frivolous and it is meant to. The point is that ideas, like genes, get better when they combine with other ideas from different lineages.

An idea sitting inside one head, no matter how brilliant the head, eventually hits a ceiling. The same idea exposed to ten thousand other ideas does something genes do under sexual reproduction. It mixes. It recombines. It produces offspring nobody planned.

The cleanest proof of this argument is the most uncomfortable case study in the book. Tasmania.

Around 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia. A population of roughly 4,000 humans was now isolated on an island, with no possibility of contact with the rest of humanity. They had the same brains. The same language. The same starting toolkit as their cousins 150 kilometers north. The natural experiment was now running.

What happened next is something no economist or geneticist had ever predicted.

The mainland Australians kept inventing. Boomerangs. Spear-throwers. Fishing nets. Bone needles for sewing fitted clothes. Watercraft with paddles. Their technology compounded slowly across the centuries.

The Tasmanians went the other way. They did not just fail to invent the new tools their cousins were developing. They started losing the tools they already had. Fishing was abandoned within a few thousand years. Bone tools disappeared. Fitted clothing disappeared. They forgot how to make fire from scratch and started carrying lit firebrands from camp to camp instead, relighting their fires from a neighbor's whenever their own went out.

By the time European explorers arrived in the 17th century, the Tasmanians had the simplest toolkit of any human society ever recorded. Their material culture had gone backward for 8,000 years.

The archaeologist Rhys Jones called it a slow strangulation of the mind.

Joseph Henrich at Harvard later proved with formal mathematical models that there was nothing wrong with Tasmanian brains. There was something wrong with their network. A toolkit requires a critical mass of people exchanging skills to maintain itself.

The act of teaching a skill is imperfect. Every generation loses a small percentage of what the last generation knew. If your population is large enough and trading widely enough, those losses get caught and corrected by someone else who still remembers.

If your population shrinks below a certain threshold and stops mixing with outsiders, the small losses compound until entire technologies disappear.

This is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026.

Intelligence is not a property of the individual brain. Intelligence is a property of the network the brain is connected to. A genius in isolation will produce less than a mediocre thinker inside a dense exchange of other mediocre thinkers.

The thing your ancestors needed in order to break out of 190,000 years of stagnation was not better brains. It was better connections between brains they already had.

The implication for any individual is direct and uncomfortable. If you are smart and isolated, you will be outproduced by people half as smart who are connected.

The most successful people in any field are almost never the smartest people in it. They are the ones positioned at the intersection of the most idea flows. They are reading more authors than their competitors. They are talking to more people from more disciplines. They are in the rooms where ideas from different lineages bump into each other.

Ridley ends the book on the line that sounds optimistic but is actually a warning its this "The future will be invented by people who connect ideas, not by people who guard them."

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

May the 4th be with you!
AI is the force now…

To all fellow Star Wars fans and tech enthusiasts: Let’s harness this power with wisdom and responsibility.
May the Force — and the future of AI — be with you! ✨
#MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #AI #Innovation

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

@maria_wats8492 Claude

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

Unforgettable Semis!!! Can’t wait for the final! #AustralianOpen2026

[#AusOpen @AustralianOpen]

WHAT DID WE WITNESS?! 🤯

We were treated to two truly epic men's singles semifinals 😲

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

@TommiPedruzzi Start

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

This thread is gold:
$1.4M/yr Copilot, 4k seats → 47 opens.
40k hrs “saved” → MS case study + CEO LinkedIn flex.
Next: 5k more seats, fake training, green dashboard, promotion.
We don’t adopt AI. We credential it. 
https://t.co/7dma2tpw3I
#EnterpriseAI

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

New blog post! Revisiting a few of my past projects, decided to write about how 2015-era SOA/BPM may be replaced by 2025-ready engine calibration workflows that are cloud-native, AI-powered, and actually fast.

Read it here - https://t.co/DcXcQWsA4z

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

Just published a new blog post on that’s been on my mind for a few weeks. I aim to explain how design thinking may be used for deploying effective DevOps for AI workloads on hybrid cloud.

https://t.co/1PIDNo2lqe

#DesignThinking #DevOps #AI #HybridCloud

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

Architecting AI Applications with Cloud Infrastructure: A Solution Architect’s Perspective https://t.co/3ok0rxeFMA

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

The Optimist by Keach Hagey — A Candid Portrait of Ambition, AI, and beginning of the Altman Era https://t.co/RmWhjyUx5X #BooksWorthReading #books2read #OpenAl

[Manoj Mone @manojmone]

My blog post on my re-read experience of Disrupted by Dan Lyons: A Satirical Reality Check on Startup Culture – Still Relevant, Still Hilarious https://t.co/JGEfzBIxkQ

#Books2Read #WeekendReads #StartupCulture #WorkplaceSatire #TechLife #Disrupted #ReadingRecommendation

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.
Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.
Read, reflect, love, seek truth, & ignore society.
Make these habits. Say no to everything else.
Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.
Relax. Victory is assured.
@naval