the_prashwar.mishra

Chasing curosities

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

The gun is the most misunderstood object in Western civilization. Not a weapon. A technology. The technology that made the idea of equality physically real.

1. The longbow democratized warfare – a peasant could kill a knight with a stick and a string, and Agincourt proved it. The gun completed the process. The armored warrior class whose claim to social dominance rested on physical superiority became obsolete. The aristocratic monopoly on violence ended not with a philosophy but with a mechanism. The gun is the physical enforcement of the idea that all men are created equal. Which is why the American founders put it in the second amendment – not as an afterthought, but as the guarantee of everything else.

2. The Roman citizen had the right to bear arms. The Greek citizen had it. The English yeoman had it. The Swiss canton built its entire civilization on it. The disarming of the population has always been, in every civilization, in every century, the first act of the government that intends to stop being answerable to that population. Show me a disarmed population and I will show you a population that lost something else shortly after.

3. The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is not about sport. It is about the relationship between the armed citizen and the state – the explicit constitutional acknowledgment that the citizen’s right to defend himself, his family, and his civilization against any threat, including the government itself, is not granted by the state and cannot be revoked by it. Power flows upward from the armed citizen, not downward from the armed state.

4. The gun defends the family. The woman alone with her children. The farmer on the edge of civilization. The shopkeeper in the neighborhood the police no longer patrol. The gun is the equalizer – the technology that makes the physical difference between a large man and a small woman irrelevant. Every argument for disarmament is, at its core, an argument that the state will protect you better than you can protect yourself. The evidence for this proposition is not encouraging.

5. In Europe, the disarmament is now nearly complete – and it happened precisely as the state’s ability and willingness to protect its citizens began to decline. The timing is not coincidental. A population that cannot defend itself must trust the state to defend it – which is a population that cannot effectively question whether the state is doing so. The dependency is the design.

6. The gun is a civilizational technology in the deepest sense: it requires responsibility, judgment, and the willingness to accept the consequences of your decisions. You cannot outsource it. You cannot have a committee fire it. It is the most anti-bureaucratic object ever invented – a direct, personal, consequential instrument that puts the full weight of the decision on the individual holding it. Which is precisely why the administrative state finds it intolerable. Not because it is dangerous. Because it is sovereign.

7. The family that can defend itself does not depend on the state for its most fundamental security. The civilization that can defend itself has not yet outsourced its survival to an institution that will negotiate the terms of that survival on its own behalf. The gun determines who controls violence – and therefore who controls everything that violence can threaten. Which is everything. The Sobieski who rode down the hill had a sword and sixty thousand horsemen. The equivalent today is the armed citizen who understands what he is defending and why. Every civilization that forgot this discovered it the hard way. The ones that remembered it are still here.

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

Imagine breaking the impossible 2 hour mark and still being a runner up 😭😭
Even the 3rd place broke the WR.
Great race, one for the history books!

[Chris Chavez @ChrisChavez]

OMG.

🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon!

Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT.

Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28

All under the previous WR.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

If you used to work at Zomato, whether you chose to move on, or I was the one who asked you to leave, this is for you.

I know that for many of you, Zomato didn't have the environment, or the leadership you needed at the time. But I know for sure, that you loved being at Zomato, and it is quite possible that you never felt like home anywhere else since you left.

We have over four hundred people at Eternal today in their second or third stints. Many of them are doing their best work now. Maybe because they've grown, but also because the company has grown. We are more organised, a little less chaotic, and hopefully, I've learned a few things along the way too.

If you haven't reached out because you think the door is closed, or because you think I'm holding onto the past, I'm not. I want you back.

There is so much to build at Eternal. We are today, a family of companies. Zomato, Blinkit Quick-Commerce, Blinkit Ambulances, District, Hyperpure, Nugget, and Feeding India. We need people who already know what good looks like here, and who care enough to fight for it. There is no better person for that than someone who has been here, left, grown, and wants to come back.

You might say that Eternal is not going to be the same, because I am not the CEO anymore. But ask yourself a question. Did titles ever matter at Eternal? I am still very much here, and I'd love for you to be a part of this next phase of Eternal.

If you feel like you have unfinished business here, please don't overthink it. Write to me at [email protected]. The Gurgaon pollution is still a bug, but being at Eternal is the feature. Let's talk and find a role that fits your life as it is today.

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

Verstappen: "We at least tried" - bruh you wiped the floor with the entire grid! 🦁😭
Petition to extend the race for another lap♥️

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

India looked dead and buried yesterday. What a comeback, narrowest ever win, take a bow Siraj! What a series this has been. #believe #ENGvsIND

[Autosport @autosport]

Here's how Christian Horner stacked up against Ferrari's team bosses in his 20 years in F1 👀

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

#carlosalcaraz is one special special player!
#RollandGarros

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Carlos Alcaraz WON this match

[Aman @amanvarshney01]

pov you just bought a $300 starter kit 🤡

"batteries included"

[kitze 🛠️ tinkerer.club @thekitze]

sonnet 4 confirmed 100% human

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

checkWhetherYourPrivateKeyIsUsed https://t.co/sMF2GYf44E

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The future is unevenly distributed.

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

With Sinner is one group, and Djokovic, Alcaraz, Zverev in another - the distribution feels like a joke. He was bound to come to the finals.
However the way Zverev gave up so easily, gotta admire Sinner's potential.
#AusOpen

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Whenever there is a tragic work-stress related death, I see so many people with poor work-ethic hijack the conversation, trying to demonise ambition & hard work. Instead of focusing on the human issue of bad managers.

“It’s not worth working that hard”
“Learn to stay happy in whatever you got”

It’s not a zero sum game. There are absolutely shitty and toxic bosses, I have had too, but that never made me give up on my career. You shouldn’t too.

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

One nation, Underwood.

[Frank Underwood @FrankUnderwood]

My turn. #FU2024

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

The negotiation seems fun. Great way to maintain customer engagement as well.

[George McGowan @GjMcGowan]

Apparently this is the technology https://t.co/kDY1X7Nuqt

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

While last year was a classic, this time it was a proper thrashing from Alcaraz, this is changing of guard. The future is now.
#Wimbledon

[the_prashwar.mishra @mishra_prashwar]

@JoeBiden This aged so well!