Manish G

Unheard Stories | No Gyaan | No Theory | Only Practical | Only Relevant | Only what Matters in Business | About Industry in which I am working for over 20 years

[Manish G @mashgad]

*** #Disclaimers & #Clarifications ***

[Dabs🩸 @DabsMalone]

every company eventually becomes 11 people doing actual work and 64 people asking for updates

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them.

He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work.

Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.”

Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job.

Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.”

Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room.

Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”

Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them.

Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.”

Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate.

A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed.

Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.”

Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them.

Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.”

The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it.

Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.”

Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you.

He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it.

Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on.

Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title.

You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.

[Circle @circle]

AI agents are starting to move from chat interfaces into economic actors.

In this explainer, @bleso_a breaks down Circle Agent Stack and the primitives developers can use to build agents that can:
→ Hold wallets
→ Manage budgets
→ Discover paid services
→ Make USDC payments
→ Return receipts

From Agent Wallet to Nanopayments, this is the infrastructure behind agentic workflows.

[Satya Anveshi 🇮🇳 @iAK1707]

Grandfather seen taking grandson's photo with his keypad phone.

The Kid is very lucky in every possible way.🥰

[Varsha Singh @varshaparmar06]

Little heart has endless love for the nation ♥️

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

This is what your soul needs, not Dubai

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A 7.4 earthquake dropped an entire building on this Toyota, and the truck came out intact. Toyota already knew it would. Someone ran this exact experiment 23 years ago, on purpose, on television.

In 2003, Top Gear bought a 1988 Hilux with 190,000 miles, left it in the sea through a full tide, set it on fire, hit it with a wrecking ball, then hoisted it onto the roof of a 23-storey tower block and demolished the building with the truck on top. Mechanics were allowed hand tools and zero spare parts. They dug it out of the rubble and the engine started. It still sits in the Top Gear studio.

So when a real building came down in Colombia, the Toyota underneath was just repeating a result.

The reason is boring, which is exactly why it works. The Hilux still uses a body-on-frame ladder chassis, the construction most carmakers abandoned decades ago because unibody is lighter and rides better. A separate steel frame flexes instead of crumpling under load, and anyone with a welder can repair it. Toyota kept it because the core market is farmers in Kenya and mining crews in the Andes, places where a breakdown can be lethal. The engineering target was never the crash test. The target was to keep running after the worst day of your owner's life.

That's why Chadian forces in 1987 mounted machine guns on Hilux beds and beat back Libyan armored columns, in a conflict historians literally call the Toyota War. And why the UN runs its fleets on Hiluxes and Land Cruisers.

Toyota spends billions a year on advertising. Its most valuable asset is a reputation it never bought.

[Arturo Villa @arturovilla]

🔴 So Anthropic just wrote a statement just to confirm all concerns about watermarking.

- It’s permanent and not removable.
- It will be applied to all new models from now on, and existing after December.
- They will apply it also to translations.
- They will provide a binary AI detection tool and API, that will determine whether AI was used or not, and not the extent or prior work from the user.
- It’s a code of conduct with the EU that they voluntarily signed.
- They decided to apply it globally instead of just inside the EU.

If you are using Claude for your university or a zero-AI policy job, stop using it right now. Either go back to manual writing or change to another provider without watermarking (like Grok).

[Alexander Koch @alexkoch_ai]

You can now book two humanoids for our cleaning service in SF. One humanoid for 60 minutes is $30, two are $60.

You can book a cleaning at https://t.co/Brl42KyISx. If you don’t have an invite code yet, join the waitlist. Timelapse at 5× speed (~40 minutes in real time).

[Indian Infra Report @Indianinfoguide]

🚨A 201-million-year-old phytosaur fossil resembling a crocodile was discovered in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.

It marks India's First-Ever find of a Jurassic-era tree lizard crocodile.

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

3rd Place: ThinkVoice lets you speak without moving your mouth by combining Grok Voice with brain-sensing technology.

It understands the conversation, suggests what you might want to say next, and lets you select a response using subtle motor movements.

@Daniel_farinax @yangchasiu @elithpalomino

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

A video I captured I think everyone should see

[kunta kimchi @_TrillScott]

This is how you conduct yourselves! It shouldn’t take no 2/3 years between seasons thank yaaaaaa

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

BREAKING: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky reveals AI now writes 60% of Airbnb’s code.

[Rachel Mayer @0xrachelita]

no invoice, no approval, no human

[The Block @TheBlockCo]

THE BLOCK: Standard Chartered set a $200 price target on Chainlink's ethereum:0x514910771af9ca656af840dff83e8264ecf986ca for end-2030 in its first coverage of the token, a roughly 25x gain from about $8 today.

The bank argues the tokenization boom will require trusted onchain data, positioning Chainlink as critical infrastructure for TradFi and DeFi.

[@jason @Jason]

The Chinese just made a one billion agent simulation — and in 14 hours of running it, they’ve already sent 4m agents to re-education camps! 🥁

Seriously, we will soon be able to create an AI simulation of planet Earth in which the agents are conscious, believe they are human, and won't know they are in a simulation.

Take from that what you will!

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Normalize using Sundays for rest. Your life doesn’t need to be productive every day.

[Indian Women Admires ✮⋆˙ @IndianWAdmires]

The fierce presence of Maa Bama Kali, a powerful celebration of Shakti, devotion, and Bengal’s timeless Hindu heritage 🕉️.
A beautiful reminder of India’s diversity 🇮🇳.

[Kaushik Subramanian @TheHolyKau]

It is so difficult to recommend a 5-7 holiday in India to someone who lives in the west. Literally no place worth going to has regular direct flights from US/Europe except maybe Goa. No surprise that the golden triangle is what it is since it’s literally the only option. Also tells you why India has such poor tourism numbers.
Go to Coorg? Not possible
Go to Kerala? Not possible unless you stopover in ME
Go to Rajasthan? No direct flights, so have to do DEL
Go to the North East? No chance