@readswithravi@naval’s advice offers some of the most unmissable gems for entrepreneurs — timely access to it can reinforce the unsaid learnings in one’s entrepreneurial or personal life.
@kiranshaw Finally! I’ll buy one for Gurgaon and anonymously gift a driverless Waymo Jaguar (with the tech) to the city. Share daily report results with the tech ecosystem. Managing partners/CEOs post updates daily re: fixes, PMO in copy. Thoughts @kiranshaw
An Indian engineer in Bengaluru got tired of potholes destroying his car.
So he built an app with Codex that detects them, finds who is responsible, and files a complaint.
Here is how it works. He installed a dashcam with GPS and an accelerometer. The app records everything while he drives.
A vision model classifies every pothole by size. Small, medium, large.
But here is the clever part. Most Indian roads are under warranty.
The contractor who built them is legally responsible for fixing potholes for free.
His app searches through 2,900 government contracts, finds the exact tender number, identifies the officer responsible, attaches the photo and geolocation, and generates a ready-to-file complaint.
One drive to work. 12 potholes detected. 12 complaints ready.
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vc: @gkcs_
For the first time ever, clean energy capacity in India has taken the top spot. That’s a 12x expansion over 25 years.
Everyone’s talking about the environmental side of this shift, & that is big, of course, but I think the real story here is grid sovereignty.
Scaling renewables at this pace moves energy away from being a volatile, imported commodity & turns it into a domestic advantage.
When 1.4 billion people pivot their base energy capacity toward clean power, it completely redefines energy security.
Huge milestone for India’s power landscape, & an even bigger blueprint for the rest of the world.
@vijayshekhar Hello Vijay, the piece is inaccessible to me at the moment as I don’t usually read FT. However, I do remember an instance of buying and truly relishing unbranded groceries at farms in the US and Canada.
Likely due to buying them fresh at the farm shacks.
What would the ideal techno-optimist country look like?
It'd build 100k units per year in one city alone. It'd deliver a low cost of living for its people. It'd be tolerant and meritocratic, recruiting talent from around the world, while also training its own citizens to win international STEM competitions.
In short: it'd be much like Singapore, but with ample space to expand. That country is Kazakhstan. And you'll be hearing much more about it.
Come see for yourself. And join https://t.co/dqd6tscjns.
'When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world, and it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you.' https://t.co/5fxXIIWgV0
A battalion in the United States Army is reportedly offering soldiers four days off to let them play Grand Theft Auto 6 when it releases this November if they reenlist. https://t.co/uB7GD30G3n
You all know what you need to do. It’s time to actually do. The talk time is over. Go do. Show up. Put in the time and work and effort and don’t fear the failure, fear the regret of talking and never doing anything about it.
It’s action time for the rest of 2026
@RajanAnandan@GulatiSinghJ ji, any thoughts on mobile entertainment in Punjab? Specifically around video engagement trends for AI-generated content, and other forms of immersive entertainment on mobile.