Md Tahsin

La phir ik baar wahi baada o jaam ai saaqi...

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

I booked a Tatkal train ticket from Patna to Delhi and got WL 2. The ticket never got confirmed, so I couldn't travel. If no confirmed seat was allotted, why was any amount deducted from my refund? This policy makes no sense.
@RailMinIndia @IRCTCofficial

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

بہادر شاہ ظفر

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

ان حسر��وں سے کہہ دو کہیں اور جا بسیں
اتنی جگہ کہاں ہے دل داغدار میں

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعون

[Lt Gen Zameer Uddin Shah (Veteran) @zoomshah]

Grieved at the passing away of Maroof Raza, a close family friend. His father Brig Raza, whilst posted at Nasirabad, was a frequent visitor to our house in Ajmer and was my mentor. He got the NDA, UPSC form for me when I was in Class X. RIP, Maroof. We will miss you.

[Aslah Kayyalakkath @aslahtweets]

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[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

عشرت قطرہ ہے دریا میں ف��ا ہو جانا
درد کا حد سے گزرنا ہے دوا ہو جانا

غالب

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

Is it due to FOMO, or is it just that some fancy things need to be done?

[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.

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

Everyone works hard. Without luck and special blessings, he could not have become the SRK he is. 💚

[Shah Rukh Khan @iamsrk]

Bade Bade Deshon Mein, Aisi Chhoti Chhoti Baatein Hoti Rehti Hain, Senorita!

Thrilled to unveil the bronze statue of Raj & Simran at London’s Leicester Square today, celebrating 30 years of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ)!

Incredibly delighted that DDLJ is the first Indian film to be honoured with a statue in the Scenes in the Square trail.

A big thank you to everyone in the UK for making this possible.

Come meet Raj & Simran if and when you are in London… we would love to see you make more memories with DDLJ…

@itsKajolD #AdityaChopra #AkshayeWidhani @yrf #HeartOfLondonBusinessAlliance #30YearsOfDDLJ #DDLJInLondon

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

Elon is talking about UHI, we haven’t even reached UBI yet. Too far behind?

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

قید حیات و بند غم اصل میں دونوں ایک ہیں
موت سے پہلے آدمی غم سے نجات پاے کیوں

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

The decline of U.S. dominance and the rise of China in the rare earth elements sector.
Well explained by @Raghav_Bahl, With the history and key turning points.

https://t.co/gJYhc0Lnl1

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

Someone has said that the 'Trickle Down Theory' in economics is a brilliant theory by crony capitalists to fool the masses.

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

To what extent rising remittance outflows be viewed as an economic burden on host economies, despite the contribution of migrant labour to output and productivity?

They see it something like 'drain of wealth?'

#EconOptional
@vibhasjha1 @sanat_ecoholics

[Gerard Rennick @RennickGBR]

“Australia’s migration boom helped drive a record $38.2 billion in money sent in overseas remittances last year, including $7.3 billion to India and $5.35 billion to China, according to new analysis.

The two countries received nearly one third of all payments by migrants to their home countries in 2024, while Israelis in Australia sent the most per capita, the report by comparison site Money Transfer Australia found.

“With net overseas migration expected to reach more than 1.3 million people between the 2023 and 2025 financial years … we believe remittance outflows from Australia will be even higher in 2025,” Mr Gous said.”

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The Australian government needs to crack down on offshore profit shifting.

There are three ways this is occurring:

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[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

@tnzl_ Congratulations @tnzl_ bhai!
and best wishes for your work

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

I was really excited to read it, only to find out it was just an ad.

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

When prices rise, money's value melts away. See how inflation could shrink the value of $100 by the end of 2025 in the hardest-hit countries 📉

This graphic, created in partnership with @Plasma, highlights countries with the highest inflation rates and what $100 could be worth by the end of 2025. 

https://t.co/HxkwEypHCO #pla02

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

US sovereign debt is > $38T. If the Federal Reserve prints more $ to repay it, it'll not only ⬆️ inflation in the US domestic market but also ⬇️ the value of the $ in the international market.
Ultimately, it will hurt those who hold dollars.
Oversimplified?

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

Happy Diwali 🪔

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

If it isn’t aligned, it won’t be recognized.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The Nobel Prize in Economics is characterised by extreme institutional concentration: almost every prizewinner has passed through an economics department at an elite US university.

Sure, these universities attract top talent globally.

But this institutional concentration of prizewinners is part and parcel of a broader set of problems in the field of economics: elite dominance, intellectual gatekeeping, the dominance of Western perspectives, and disciplinary homogeneity.

These dynamics have been well documented. Here are three papers and one book that examine them:

Fourcade, Ollion, and Algan (2015), “The Superiority of Economists”: Economics is a uniquely hierarchical and self-reinforcing field, where elite training pipelines dominate publication and influence.

Baccini and Re (2023), “Who Are the Gatekeepers of Economics?”: A small group of elite institutions and scholars controls the editorial machinery, reinforcing disciplinary homogeneity.

Freeman, Xie, Zhang, and Zhou (2024), “High and Rising Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists”: Economics has the highest and growing institutional concentration among elite academics across all disciplines.

Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven (2025), “Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction”: Mainstream economics is rooted in Eurocentric, colonial assumptions.

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

کون اچھا ہے اس زمانے میں
کیوں کسی کو برا کہے کوئی

ناصر کاظمی

[Md Tahsin @MdTahsinSaba]

لوگ ٹوٹ جاتے ہیں ایک گھر بنانے میں
تم ترس نہیں کھاتے بستیاں جلانے میں

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