Nishant

Building NquiRx - Streamlining the workflow for Pharma insights professionals.

[Kipling @sergeantkipling]

My most relatable comic yet

[catherine ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ-☆ @wilhelmscreamin]

banal life advice: my life got richer/more surprising/more interesting when i started cold messaging strangers more. perhaps you should consider reaching out more and being more earnest

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

I feel like people underestimate how annoying printing press guys must have been in 1480.

oh you still copy your books by hand? interesting

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

what kind of user research do we think went into figuring out what buttons go on microwaves. Mine has a button that just says "POTATO".

I need to see the chart that got me the potato button

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

soviet central planners would have killed for the amount of real-time economic information walmart has about toothpaste
walmart uses it to determine that you should see the same toothpaste ad 37 more times

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

the weirdest part of AI coding is watching a computer write 800 lines of code in 40 seconds and then spending 20 minutes explaining that when you said “don’t change anything else” you did in fact mean don’t change anything else

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

humanity spent 5,000 years trying to discover medicines and has finally reached the stage where the main scientific challenge for most diseases is getting a patient’s insurance company to agree that they should receive the medicine

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

@majamediaco ironically this is in fact a Theory

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

No. There is no "they."

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

ok nvm this sucked ngl

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

https://t.co/aCTG1hQLHj - open sourced my "CRM" - an excel with markdown notes attached, but set up in a way that it's really easy for agents to interact with

[songkeys 🐿️🦋@song.work @songkeys]

gpt 5.6 最让我受不了的就是：
我让它做一盘番茄炒蛋，它往里还加了东坡肉。
我说有必要加东坡肉吗？它说你说得对，然后把东坡肉去掉。
我说好，你提 PR 吧。再一看，它 PR 写着「番茄炒蛋（无东坡肉）」并且注释里会写一大堆为什么本道菜不需要加东坡肉。

[Nishant @nishaaawn]

@thsottiaux can we have the words "pyramid principle" burned into a system prompt somewhere so I can actually understand what decision codex needs from me without reading 2 pages of prose?

[Sam Rose @samwhoo]

This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.

https://t.co/07BtpKswBu

[Asiedessi @Asiedessi]

@notthreadguy Every week the trump admin commits a thousand water gates that are each 1000x as bad as watergate and they do it brazen openly because they know their voterbase will literally never be shaken awake despite what they could ever possibly do to fuck them over

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

I wrote before about how strange a zoning code based on Jane Jacobs’ work would be, and how unlike it would be to anything that exists in any city today.

One of the Jacobsian rules would absolutely be a *Maximum* Lot Size, essentially mandating skinny-tall uses like this.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

i think people have a right to build homes on land that they own. i thought this was america

[Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor @realBurhanAzeem]

Sometimes I get asked, “Burhan, you’re a housing guy, why are you talking about the T so much?” Well they are really two sides of the same issue.

Here's the chain.

People get priced out of the city by housing costs, so they move to the surrounding suburbs.

But the jobs are still in the metro area, so they still come back to the city to work.

And because we haven't expanded the T to meet them out there, getting to work means driving.

More cars, longer commutes, worse traffic for everyone. And rents still go up each year.

So when we treat housing, transit, and traffic as three separate problems, we lose every time. They move together, which means they have to be solved together: build more homes (everywhere) and build a T that reaches people (everywhere) that’s funded well enough to stop lurching from one budget fight to the next.

That's the whole reason I'm running for State Senate. Not to pick one of these fights, but to propose and build a unified solution.

Early voting starts Aug 22.

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

Funniest shit ever is how Mamdani balanced the budget by raiding public pension funds and increasing ambulance fees and progressives were like “Greatest statesman of all time. Thank God he’s not a neoliberal”

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

Crazy number of people on my timeline acting as if they’ve ever heard of the Jacobian conjecture before

[dog ⏪ @a_musingcat]

by the mid-2020s, the Americans found that they would have to summon literal demons from the ether through the discovery of the sacred geometries if they wished to continue their grand civilizational project of maintaining 3% real gdp growth over the next decade