Rijuta Gupta

Author of The Waste Deity;
Gold Medallist in Environmental Engineering;
Working on Solid Waste Management

[Rijuta Gupta @rijuta2009]

@Uber_India on top of that cng refill wait. This isn't the first time it is happening. You people are so prompt in charging customers for waiting time but have no policy for making a customer wait even on priority ride

[Rijuta Gupta @rijuta2009]

@Uber_India What's the point of booking priority when waiting time is as prolonged as other ride

[eatnik @eatnik]

You know how we replaced a lot of physical labour with machinery so we invented "exercise"?

We're about to replace mental labour with AI, what forms of "mental exercise" do you think we're all going to take up?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

More and more U.S. college students are unable to read books.

A new article in The Atlantic has delved deep into the topic:

"Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998.

He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading.

College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different.

Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester.

His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments.

Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two.

But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book.

She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.

“My jaw dropped,” Dames told me.

The anecdote helped explain the change he was seeing in his students: It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to"

[𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗶 @perrigame]

Instead of nightclubs I want a 24hr library with hot chocolate stations, a dessert bar, coffee machine, big comfy chairs and beanbags, blankets, dogs welcome, just people who want to spend the evening reading alone, together, peaceful, a cosy fire, plants, an indoor waterfall.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Master the Art of Learning:

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨ELON MUSK: "I think the value of a college education is somewhat overweighted. Too many people spend four years, accumulate a ton of debt and often don't have useful skills that they can apply afterwards.

I have a lot of respect for people who work with their hands and we need electricians and plumbers and carpenters and that's a lot more important than having incremental political science majors.

I think we should not have this idea that in order to be successful you need a four year college degree."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge.” — @naval

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

Dostoevsky didn’t have to go this hard, but he did.

from The Brothers Karamazov

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

The recipe of building the life you want is quite simple: a clear goal, a strong sense of urgency, a distraction-free environment that allows you to stay focused, and a loyal circle of supportive family and friends.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

The richest land in the world isn’t the oil fields or diamond mines, it’s the cemetery—where countless ideas, dreams, and talents are buried, never shared with the world.
Moral : Don’t take your best with you to the grave. Share your knowledge, act on your ideas, and spread love.
DIE EMPTY —give everything before you go!

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

Steve Jobs once said:

"The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller."

But most people don’t know how to tell a good story.

13 storytelling techniques to make you unstoppable in business and life:

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

The greatest thinker of the 21st century:

Naval Ravikant.

He was an early investor in Uber, Twitter, and Notion.

And he famously said, “You’re not going to get rich renting out your time.”

Here are 10 of his teachings on wealth that changed my life:

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Remember how UN predicted in 2000 that half of all African teenagers would die of AIDS? It is now a quarter of a century later, and one wonders what happened..... or did everyone lose interest as soon as cheap Indian generics became available?

[Rijuta Gupta @rijuta2009]

@bhavikbamania @divi_tatatal Delhi is an emotion and everyone can't have it

[Rijuta Gupta @rijuta2009]

@bhavikbamania @divi_tatatal I do and I love it.

[Nitish Rajput @nitishrajput]

Don't get sucked into the marketing hype.
Just:
-Buy a phone
-Use it till it dies
-Then buy another.

[Hosun Chung @hosun_chung]

This lady exposed the dark truth about recycling.

She dropped an AirTag in her recycling bin to find out where it really went.

Her experiment uncovered a sinister 250-ton secret...

Here's the full story: 🧵

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

Cabinet approves the National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) for Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics and Extended Reality.

6 Key things to know about NCoE🧵👇🏻

[Aditya Kondawar @aditya_kondawar]

A company called Antony Waste (AW) handles 90% of Municipal Solid Waste in Mumbai!

It is Asia’s largest single-location waste processing plant situated in Mumbai’s Kanjurmarg

Some facts about the company and the industry –