Nitin

I am just smart enough to know that I am dumb.

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

@airtelindia @Airtel

Broadband connection (complaint no. 11031689445) for connection 056225500885_wifi is down since 2 days with no resolution or redressal even after multiple followups.

Please help!!!

@sonalgoyal

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

A wealth of information leads to poverty of attention. -Herbert Simon

Factually there is always a lot of material around. Just that there isn’t willingness….

[Suhail @Suhail]

It is astounding how much and how fast you can learn anything with LLMs. On one hand, you could devalue intelligence / sulk or you can just be some guy in a small room learning the absolute frontier of your field at any given hour. Self-teaching has never been so diffuse.

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

This is an example of second order thinking.

Ozempic -> slimmer bodies -> more lingerie.

[signüll @signulll]

there is a singular reason why lingerie is back & if you had figured out the connection here by mapping tech to culture, then you would’ve made a lot of money.

anyone want to guess why victoria secret & the broader lingerie market is back??

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Why things will eventually fall apart:

1. Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was, in which Google taking over 95%

2. But everybody is building essentially the same technical solution with essentially the same data, so there is no moat.

3. If there is no moat, nobody is going to take 90% of the market.

4. With no clear winners, nobody can charge monopoly prices; instead, you get price wars and commodity pricing.

5. Which means everybody will wind up overpaying compared to the modest profits they will be able to make in an intensely competitive regime.

Am I missing something?

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

Nearly the same in India. Many media outlets have still not transitioned from China is imploding….

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

A lot of the problems in West-China relations are due to the Western media. For 20 years it told the public China was collapsing, an economic basket case, unable to innovate, living on exploiting workers. One morning it announced China could innovate after all and was going to …

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

One of the underpinnings of success is cultural evolution.

We can glorify our past but unless we look at how we value honesty, cleanliness, commitment to word and values we will never succeed.

Money cannot buy culture but good culture has higher chance of success.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Once again sharing few things I wrote about Japan last year:

Very friendly people. Extremely clean country. Their public toilets are so clean, hygienic and tidy. Not all of us can maintain such standards even at our own homes. Zero trash.

A very high trust society. Their love for Indians are evident. Nice places to see. 80 years before they were totally destroyed. How amazingly they have rebuilt the entire nation.

In general, no one cheats you. Neither a street side vendor nor a cab driver. People greet you and thank you profusely.

Shintoism and Buddhism accounts for more than 95% of the country's population. Shintoism is extremely similar to Hinduism. Most Japanese practice blend of both Shintoism and Buddhism.

It is not exaggeration if the bullet train is at 10.03 am means, it is precisely 10.03 am. Nothing is late. Everything is on time. They have not only become an economic power but role model for cleanliness, trust, discipline and safety. One of the lowest crime rates in the world. Even women travelers visiting Japan can explore the cities in midnight.

Did not see a single traffic police or cop during the our stay in Japan. May sound exaggeration but the truth is no one violate any traffic rules. Being a high trust society, the role of the cops are less.

Bullet train stations, shrines and many public places are hugely crowded. Thousands and thousands of people assemble in very small area. You've to see the crowd at places like Shibuya crossing in Tokyo to believe it. You'll see no cop anywhere for crowd control. People automatically follow queue everywhere.

What you've heard is not exaggeration. If your cab time is 10 am and you are 2 minutes late, you would have missed the cab and have to look for next. There are instances where bullet train drivers have apologised for being half a minute late. The nation values punctuality a lot and it is non negotiable.

Many people live well beyond 100. The average life expectancy for women is 88 and for men is 84. Generally people look and act fit. They walk a lot.

Really surprising how discipline, cleanliness and trust comes so naturally to them.

Japanese have the highest IQ in the world too.

Few people from our group went separately in the middle of the night to Shibuya crossing to witness night life there. They lost their way. An elderly Japanese gentleman walked with them close to one kilometer to railway station, waited for them to board train going to right direction, mentioned how many stations after which they should get down and then only left. How many of us would do this to strangers at middle of the night?

A small boy, may be 3 or 4 years old, dropped a piece of ice cream wrapper on the ground in the bullet train station. The Japanese man following him immediately picked the trash, seeing no trash can near by, put it in his pocket to dispose of later.

As I said before, your ignorance is never exploited, not even by a street vendor or a cab driver. Your lack of awareness about pricing in the local economy, never make Japanese merchants exploit you. They don't even charge a yen more than what is actually due to them.

No pick pockets, stealing or any safety issues. Almost zero crime.

I'm unable to understand how they have made such a large nation practice ethics, cleanliness, discipline, trust, safety and courteous behaviour. Though it may be automatic for them, how much they wish and bow. More than economic prosperity, this national DNA appears miraculous.

What is very striking is the poorest of Japanese people have better quality of life than richest of Indians.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Vedant Srivastava - 17 yrs old
Took to social media and exposed discrepancies in CBSE's OSM marking system.

Nisarga Adhikary- 19 yrs old
Hacked CBSE website and informed them (and us) that it is vulnerable and can be hacked.

Sarthak Sidhant- 17 yrs old
Exposed how CBSE bent rules to award the OSM tender to COEMPT.

These 3 kids need to be lauded. They have given us a glimmer of hope. They have shown us, not all is lost.

We still have a future to salvage.

[The Ancient Sage @TheAncientSage]

One of the biggest and enduring scams of human history is the idea that there are holy people above the common humanity who have special access and proximity to God or truth that ordinary humans cannot have.

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

@rorysutherland A small community of a few people may be a very comfortable situation.

If someone is looking for scale and opportunity maybe a larger city is a better option even if we compromise quality of living. Not sure West measures that.

[Pervaiz Alam @pervaizalam]

India’s poorest pay higher effective tax rates than the rich, finds major new study by Prof Mukulika Banerjee of the LSE.

Speaking on cine ink podcast London Vārta: New World Order, Prof Banerjee notes:

Lower-income Indians are shouldering a disproportionately heavy tax burden compared with the wealthiest sections of society, according to new research that challenges widely held assumptions about the country’s tax system.

Dr Mukulika Banerjee, a leading political anthropologist, has revealed that while everyone pays the same Goods and Services Tax (GST) on everyday items, the impact falls far more heavily on the poor when measured as a proportion of their income.

“Everyone pays GST – indirect tax – and the poor in India end up paying a higher proportion of their income in tax than the rich,” Dr Banerjee explained. “If you buy a packet of biscuits and a rickshaw puller also buys a packet of biscuits, the GST charged on that packet is exactly the same for both of you. But the rickshaw puller earns far less than you, so in proportion to his income, he is paying a much higher rate of tax. When you aggregate this across the country, the bottom fifty per cent of the Indian population is paying a higher proportion of their income in tax.”

Her findings, part of a British Academy-Leverhulme Senior Fellowship, raise serious questions about taxation, inequality, and the health of India’s democracy. Fieldwork data paints a stark picture of the country’s extreme wealth gap: a daily-wage construction worker, fruit vendor, or pavement tailor earning around ₹30,000 per month qualifies for the top 10 per cent of earners, while half of all Indians survive on just ₹6,000 a month. Meanwhile, the top 1 per cent captures a strikingly large share of national income.
#londonvārta #profmukulikabanerjee #cineinkpodcast #hindipodcast

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

@rustapharian Most of this is EPFO money. Which goes in a select few funds.

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

Did the customer ever ask for this? https://t.co/26g4MsJTZJ

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

@Iamsamirarora Thank you. Most people cannot think of second order effects. The question you ask is a second order question - what they could have done instead?

The banger is the third order question which is now that you know what will u do? 😜👌

[Zingg @zinggoss]

Traditional MDM extracts data into separate hubs, creating silos that regulations penalize and AI can't traverse. Traditional MDM extracts data into separate hubs, creating silos.
Check Out How Zingg Solves This: https://t.co/RT3Ob3BWyf

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

@sab_maya_hai__ Met doc over his twitter coffee meet in 2023. 👍💪on GPIL since then.

Thank you 🙏🙏

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

This is a very interesting development.

And considering the shit quality of the short dramas on YouTube or elsewhere this category I will not mourn their demise if replaced with better stuff AI generated

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Short dramas have quietly become a massive entertainment format.

Think next-gen soap operas: serialized, mobile-first, and monetized like games.

In China, they already generate more revenue than the domestic box office.

And now AI is going to blow this format wide open 👇

[Nitin @nitingoyal]

The whole country is dug up for these projects one way or the other. We face huge inconveniences due to perennial jams, noise + dust pollution.

Anywhere you go - you find multiple projects underway - roads, flyovers, highways, bridges...

Majority of these never complete on time & incurr scope + cost over-runs. By the time they complete they are already obsolete/useless.

Optics of work under progress << Real work and utility.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

India today is perennially under construction

Now I am not talking about the big national level projects like big highways and bullet train etc. Those are strategic projects which are necessary and in most cases you don't even see them being built.

I am talking about those city level projects like metros, flyovers, drains, road concretization etc.

Whichever major city you go to in India today, something somewhere is being dug and being built.

And this digging and building is a perennial activity. Not only is new stuff being built, but you also see times where something was built before, is being demolished and something is being built on top of it.

Why is this building frenzy happening?

Because I think after all these years the voters and politicians have entered into a silent agreement with one another.

As long as you visibly show that you are working for us, we will ignore all your foibles. We will not question you and we will continue voting for you.

And there is no better way to show that we are working for you than building stuff.

You can invest in empowerment, education, industrialization and other soft stuff but the results for those will be seen after 5 years.

But majority of our voters aren't that patient. They want to see results now.

And the only way to show those results now, is to either show that you are building stuff by posting it on Instagram or give stuff away for Free.

[油爆琵琶拌着面🇨🇳 @zmx8067]

🇨🇳🇺🇸美國財長貝森特進入會場未佩戴參會標誌，直接被中方警衛攔下，直到隨行人員拿來證件才放他進去。

這就對了，不管你是誰，都得按照規矩辦事。🤔

[Jason Choi @mrjasonchoi]

I know more than a handful of people who graduated college but now can’t finish a single book

They say they don’t have time but it’s very obvious their dopamine receptors are absolutely nuked