Ronit Salvi

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

efficiency, productivity, speed

we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for

ship faster
merge more
manage more agents
compress every loop
remove every pause
turn every hour into output

but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply?

not react
not optimize
not summarize
not clear the queue

think

to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear
to find the purpose underneath the motion
to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all

ai could be a new canvas

a way to make strange things
personal things
impossible things
tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals
things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination

but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories

more content
more funnels
more tickets
more fake work pretending to be value

you can merge 2000 prs
you can manage 500 agents
you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept

but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day?

what is the point if you stop talking to other humans?
stop learning about the past?
stop playing?
stop wandering?
stop being surprised?

what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you?

speed is not meaning
scale is not wisdom
automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster

and where are we running?

toward what?

a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want?

the danger is not that ai makes us lazy

the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy

that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention
infinite execution before we have developed taste
infinite motion before we have learned how to be still

maybe the real frontier is not more speed

maybe it is discernment

knowing what not to make
knowing when to stop
knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves

tools should give us more life
not turn life into a tool

if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more

it should help us become more human
more imaginative
more free

otherwise, it’s the same old factory
just without humans

[mrinank @MrinankSharma]

Today is my last day at Anthropic. I resigned.

Here is the letter I shared with my colleagues, explaining my decision.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The most common mistake young founders make is forcing everyone to work 24/7 or 996.

Here's 5 reasons why:
– Very talented people, paradoxically, will work hard mimetically when they see people around them doing it, without the burden of compulsion. They want a carrot, not a stick.

– It alienates practically everyone >35 or with kids. Experienced people who can save you months of time in the future making good decisions in the present, not just blind velocity. The best engineers can get more done in 40hrs/wk than most in 80.

– The cost of losing someone good and familiar with your stack to burnout is far greater than the +20% hours. Two quarters of missed revenue, and it will hit your retention numbers.

– I get it. It takes hard work to will a startup into existence. Founders should put in the effort (you, after all, have 25-100x the equity of your employees) and set the bar for what's expected. Reward those who meet the bar, remove those who don't.

– Freeing up the compulsion to work all the time allows the best people to have fantastic ideas. Ideas need time to breathe and blossom.

There are always exceptions, but generally you don't build generational companies with a slave-driver mentality. Culture is important. You want your employees to love their job and tell their friends that. Early engineers at companies like Google, OpenAI and Anthropic worked because they wanted to, not because they were forced to.

Build a culture where people want to work hard. Don't force them to.

[Ronit Salvi @ronit_salvi]

@jatinkenijk @OGesports A plan of procedure for a project. 😃

[Ronit Salvi @ronit_salvi]

@India_Stack Does FreeSave have a website? Please send me their URL

[Black Panther @theblackpanther]

You will always be our King.

[Chess.com - India @chesscom_in]

BREAKING!

India 🇮🇳 and Russia 🇷🇺 are joint winners of the @FIDE_chess #ChessOlympiad

[International Chess Federation @FIDE_chess]

In the second round of #ChessOlympiad final match India vs Russia, two Indian players Nihal Sarin and Divya Deshmukh lost connection to their games and forfeited on time. India filed an official appeal, the issue is now being investigated.

[Conan O'Brien @ConanOBrien]

Face masks should have a reflective surface, so people who aren’t wearing them can see what assholes they are.

[Ronit Salvi @ronit_salvi]

Something positive other than covid19's status

[shrey @shreyT96]

#JusticeForStudents Learn From The Mistake Of Other Countries, The Rest Is Upto You.

[Ronit Salvi @ronit_salvi]

Is 'Unlock 1.0' the end of our break or nature's break?

[Ronit Salvi @ronit_salvi]

Students pursuing higher education will have their online classes starting from July-August. There are many more areas where the government needs to pay attention which can actually save lives.

[Ronit Salvi @ronit_salvi]

During this transition, cancellation of examinations will not have any dire consequences. Rather, students will have their offer letters rescinded if you conduct exams in July or later as their joining dates would clash with the examination timetable.