Raja Gopal

Be the change!

[Aziz Ansari @azizansari]

List of summer films I wrote for this guy who was on the plane and told me he liked Good Fortune and Killer of Sheep (a movie I rec’d on TCM, which was very fun).

Il Sorpasso (Risi)
A Tale of Summer (Rohmer)
Pauline at the Beach (Rohmer)
The Green Ray (Rohmer)
Day for Night (Truffaut)
Divorce Italian Style (Germi)
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino)
Summertime (Lean)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Minghella)
Plein Soleil / Purple Noon (Clement)
La Piscine (Deray)
La Dolce Vita (Fellini)
L’Avventura (Antonioni)
Lola (Demy)

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

Warren Buffett’s career advice:

“I was up at Harvard a while back, and a very nice young guy, he picked me up at the airport, a Harvard Business School attendee.”

And he said, “Look. I went to undergrad here, and then I worked for X and Y and Z, and now I’ve come here.” And he said, “I thought it would really round out my résumé perfectly if I went to work now for a big management consulting firm.” 

And I said, “Well, is that what you want to do?” And he said, “No,” but he said, “That’s the perfect résumé.” 

And I said, “Well when are you going to start doing what you like?” And he said, “Well I’ll get to that someday.” 

And I said, “Well you know, your plan sounds to me a lot like saving up sex for your old age. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense.”😂

[Noisy @noisyb0y1]

https://t.co/IOfam4j2sI

[Raja Gopal @mathraj]

Definition of a CREW (team)

[Rony @Ronycoder]

Instead of watching Netflix, watch this 1-hour Yale lecture by Professor Ben Polak.

It will change how you think about decisions in negotiations, business, and everyday life.

[Roan @RohOnChain]

This 2 hour Stanford lecture shows exactly how Stanford trains it's engineers to build AI systems. It's more practical than every Claude tutorial & prompting threads you've seen.

Bookmark & give it 2 hours, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this weekend.

[Amit @HeyAmit_]

Instead of watching Netflix for 2 hours, watch this guy explain why some people become successful while others stay average.

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

An audience member came on stage to tell a joke, and he absolutely nailed it 😂🤣🤣

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In 2023, Michael Skok literally gave a 1-hour+ masterclass at Harvard on how to create a product people will actually buy.

His frameworks:
• The 4 U's of valuable problems
• The 3 D's of breakthroughs
• The gain/pain ratio

15 lessons on building products that sell:

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

In 2023, Stanford professor Matt Abrahams gave a masterclass on how to think fast & speak smartly on the spot.

He explained:
• Why anxiety destroys clarity
• How structure beats intelligence
• Secret to spontaneous charisma

12 lessons to master communication in real time:

[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

https://t.co/dMazC9Hz56

[Rakesh Pulapa @rakesh_pulapa]

Andhra’s most beautiful drive.
Over 10 years of shooting📸

🧵 Thread with locations

[Grok @grok]

## Workflow Orchestration

### 1. Plan Mode Default
- Enter plan mode for ANY non-trivial task (3+ steps or architectural decisions)
- If something goes sideways, STOP and re-plan immediately - don't keep pushing
- Use plan mode for verification steps, not just building
- Write detailed specs upfront to reduce ambiguity

### 2. Subagent Strategy to keep main context window clean
- Offload research, exploration, and parallel analysis to subagents
- For complex problems, throw more compute at it via subagents
- One task per subagent for focused execution

### 3. Self-Improvement Loop
- After ANY correction from the user: update 'tasks/lessons.md' with the pattern
- Write rules for yourself that prevent the same mistake
- Ruthlessly iterate on these lessons until mistake rate drops
- Review lessons at session start for relevant project

### 4. Verification Before Done
- Never mark a task complete without proving it works
- Diff behavior between main and your changes when relevant
- Ask yourself: "Would a staff engineer approve this?"
- Run tests, check logs, demonstrate correctness

### 5. Demand Elegance (Balanced)
- For non-trivial changes: pause and ask "is there a more elegant way?"
- If a fix feels hacky: "Knowing everything I know now, implement the elegant solution"
- Skip this for simple, obvious fixes - don't over-engineer
- Challenge your own work before presenting it

### 6. Autonomous Bug Fixing
- When given a bug report: just fix it. Don't ask for hand-holding
- Point at logs, errors, failing tests -> then resolve them
- Zero context switching required from the user
- Go fix failing CI tests without being told how

## Task Management
1. **Plan First**: Write plan to 'tasks/todo.md' with checkable items
2. **Verify Plan**: Check in before starting implementation
3. **Track Progress**: Mark items complete as you go
4. **Explain Changes**: High-level summary at each step
5. **Document Results**: Add review to 'tasks/todo.md'
6. **Capture Lessons**: Update 'tasks/lessons.md' after corrections

## Core Principles
- **Simplicity First**: Make every change as simple as possible. Impact minimal code.
- **No Laziness**: Find root causes. No temporary fixes. Senior developer standards.
- **Minimal Impact**: Changes should only touch what's necessary. Avoid introducing bugs.

[Sarvesh Shrivastava @bloggersarvesh]

BREAKING: Claude can now do SEO like a $10,000/month agency (for free).

Here are 7 insane Claude Cowork prompts that can take your biz to $100k/month : (Save for later)

[Raja Gopal @mathraj]

Deep!

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

[Raja Gopal @mathraj]

Now this is the kind of creative ad that every brand can aspire to make!!

[Hindol Hazra @hindolheroic]

ad so goated it fixed all of india's pronounciation under 60 seconds 🧠

sorry, *pronunciation 😌

[Sriram @SriramMadras]

It’s 12 midnight and I’ve officially lost count of how many times I’ve hit replay. Sivasri’s rendition of “Thondi Sariya” is absolute fire. The speed is insane, yet her precision is so flawless—she’s deeply locked into the rhythm it’s almost hypnotic. Love this. Listen in.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This 2003 speech at the University of Nebraska is by far one of my favorites from Warren Buffett

You will get more value out of this than from reading 90% of books on investing

Worth listening and re-listening to

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The best 20 minutes you’ll spend today.

David Lynch on living more by doing less. https://t.co/XP2IZRw5qd

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Hello! It's a long weekend here in India. So here are some of the best edge of seat Malayalam movie crime investigation thrillers that I found really worth the watch on OTT! Mallu crime thrillers are a different cool league! Get introduced to it!
Have a good weekend!