Paritosh Chhibber

entrepreneur | mentor | service + ix designer. disruptive. integrating design, psychology, business & education + impact. learning, unlearning, relearning…

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

Tuition classes are also the reason we were never able to fix our schools. We externalised their failure onto the children. We mined the life force of the next generation to pay corrupt administrators and subsidize bad policy.

And this is why I am an advocate of sane working hours for employees even in startups. Working insane hours props up broken systems until they have no option but to collapse in a disorderly manner.

This is what I meant when I said it’s a form of pollution.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is the final straw.

Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.

[Uttkarsh Singh @Uttupaaji]

This 26-year-old Indian boy never went to college but created a tech startup that later got acquired by WordPress founder 😱

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

The mother of all mass layoffs is coming

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

They've gone full mask-off: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned.

[Sean Kelly @seanpk]

Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter (6500 people) and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed.

He was right. Everyone was wrong.

It’s the management masterclass of the decade and every entrepreneur must understand why it worked 🧵:

[Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr]

TODAY IS THE DAY. Allow me to introduce you to my new book, "Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life" (w/ beautiful illustrations).

It's about democracy in our everyday internet-lives. And it's FREE to the internet from @ucpress: https://t.co/qGtPotlmHu

[Ami Palan @markmeyourze]

Just tried some amazing pint-sized frappes from a Matunga-based home kitchen that serves handy iced coffees with a side of corporate humor.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Just this week, Google opened Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash to public.

The 1 million token context is insanely useful in many use cases. Let's recap what's possible.

10 wild examples:

[Paritosh Chhibber @paritoshcx]

@iam_viz You could also consider exploring options like https://t.co/TBOZe8V9tR

Backpacking on a budget with free food n stay.

Just fund your ticket, visa, insurance and a bit more.

May not need to wait till 25.
Cheers

[Paritosh Chhibber @paritoshcx]

@iam_viz Last part seems a bit too harsh. Having goals = great. Punishing yourself with labels for not meeting them = maybe not so great.
Good luck!

[DHH @dhh]

Words to design systems by: "Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't delete enough." https://t.co/gqKYmUE5kx

[DHH @dhh]

Have I mentioned how much I appreciate the new open-source embracing Microsoft? This is an incredible gift of history. Inspiring.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely true!

“The evidence is overwhelming that the majority of people on the street are there because of untreated mental illness or addiction, which leads people to use all their money to support their drug habit and be high, rather than work.”

[Ojasvi🐈 @ojasvikhurana]

Talked to so many “well-educated” people around me and no one really cares about voting. The easiest excuse is that they don’t have the voter id in the city they now live in. LOL

It took me legit 5 minutes to apply for city change online and the updated id got delivered in 10 days.

It’s so fucking easy to act woke and criticise govt while you are not even doing your own part.

[DHH @dhh]

If employees are expected to spend the majority of their life at work — pulling those 60-80+ hour weeks — it's no wonder they in return demand work embraces their "whole self". But that's a terrible trade in both directions. What work and you really need is for everyone to show up with their "work self".

Your work self needn't be a facade, it can still be you — just not all of it. It's the part that shows up to be courteous to coworkers (even when you don't really feel like it), engaged in solving the tasks at hand (even when you'd rather do something else), and with no more of your outside-of-work self than you'd be comfortable sharing with a kind stranger on a long plane ride.

That doesn't mean work can't be a place where you form deeper, fuller bonds. I've met some wonderful friends at work that I've shared far more of my so-called "whole self" with during lunch, in side channels, and after work. But those relationships meant something extra exactly because they were special, and developed beyond work, even if they originated there.

Your whole self is a vulnerable show. Far more easily rattled, disturbed, or offended than the much slimmer slice that work is owed and due. Holding some of yourself back means having something in reserve. Not putting it all in play. A smaller surface area to rub others the wrong way and vice versa.

All this used to be obvious. Self evident. Encoded in our work-place uniforms, even. A tradition of restraint and reservation literally dressed in a suit or similar business attire. While I have no affinity for the business suit – hell, I don't even own one! – I think we lost something valuable when we collectively gave it up.

Same too with using the same devices at home and work. It's still the norm that workers in tech use a single phone or even computer to play double duty. All your work with you at all times. Microsoft celebrated this a decade ago, and most of us are living in that world now. Again, not at all certain this is for the better.

Work isn't owed all of you. Don't offer it. Bring your work self to work.

[Posted May 5, 2022]

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

25 Must-Read Nonfiction Book's Visual Summary:

[A Thread] 🧵

1) The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

[Paritosh Chhibber @paritoshcx]

Now that’s a thought.

[Paritosh Chhibber @paritoshcx]

CTA for the Internet@35 https://t.co/VDTfUzsoyw

[Santiago Ortiz @moebio]

Interactive visualization of chatgpt completion probabilities, I ask it to to complete the prompt "When " hundreds of times.