Rahul Desai

GM @ Sylva, founder @upslope_ (acq'd), @pioneerdotapp finalist

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

I feel like high schools / colleges should teach:
1) how to do advanced spreadsheet modelling
2) how to create gorgeous and well-structured slides

Extremely important career skills that most people never learn in a structured way.

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

I’ll say it every month. But competent use of Excel or Google Docs could have wiped out 30 % of white collar jobs , but that’s not how it works.

Heck, 40% of roles could be eliminated if people just knew how to run a meeting better and could prioritize

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@_robyn_smith Gmail with hotkeys and auto advance does the trick.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@_robyn_smith Live in the Midwest. In my neighborhood, kids generally walk to and from school by themselves

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@levelsio My wife can help with this, she has planned travel for HNW individuals. [email protected]

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@ankurnagpal Guide

[zoë @zoeloveshouses]

the people don’t wanna hear that the secret to my ~lifestyle~ is unironically living in ohio. i can afford 5 noguchi lamps because i live in ohio

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@graceclarke @DavidNebinski

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@eigenrobot I have the top of the line roborock vac/mop combo. After a year of use, can't imagine life without it.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

Accurate.

Wanting to do "Strategy" is counter-signal in early stage.

Should be purely the domain of the founder CEO.

[weisser @julianweisser]

Not a dunk — I hope he finds a great job — but people have a false impression about startup roles.

There are no product or strategy roles for people with limited startup exp.

If you tell a company that's what you're looking for they'll assume you won't get any real work done.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@_robyn_smith Interestingly, my wife fits all of these criteria. But none of them explicitly mattered to me except parents together.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@_robyn_smith Use ChatGPT advanced voice mode directly. Ask it to be your language tutor, speak slowly and clearly, and quiz / instruct you on whatever concepts or vocab you want.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@micsolana Buy a small business

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@AravSrinivas is there anyway to disallow returning the <think> block for Deep Research API? It's eating tons of tokens, and apparently preventing me from getting back the full block of structured JSON that I want.

Would appreciate any advice you have.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

People don't finish projects because managing deployment and security still sucks

Running something fun on localhost is easy

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I am hearing SO many stories about people realizing coding with AI tools (aka “vibe coding”) is a game changer after “reviving” an old side project or idea on the side and making so much progress

But… while I often hear the excitement on starting: not hearing “finished” often!

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

I think we're safe from AI for a while. Gemini Deep Research errored out, I asked it to try again, and it proposed a very thorough research plan on trying again.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

Wrongheaded take. The classes are irrelevant. The ROI accrues to some combo of selection & sheepskin effects.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Information is abundant, it's desire that's scarce.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@sama @kevinweil is there the possibility of scoping the memory? e.g. for this chat, only use memory from prior chats 1 & 2; for another chat, only use memory from prior chats 3, 5, & 9.

Right now, the memory is bringing in past ideas that are irrelevant, reducing output quality

[Sam Altman @sama]

we have greatly improved memory in chatgpt--it can now reference all your past conversations!

this is a surprisingly great feature imo, and it points at something we are excited about: ai systems that get to know you over your life, and become extremely useful and personalized.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@nic_carter This is why I drive a 20 year old car. It has basically no helpful features besides GPS and bare bones reverse camera.

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@george__mack More walls should be like this

[Rahul Desai @rahuld__]

@celinehalioua Science is unappealing to the masses. Religion on the other hand...