Sharad

here to learn + make friends • be kind, work hard ✌️ • interests: tech, finance, memes, mental health • pm @ fintech co

[Sharad @shar4d]

Wild 🤯

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.

The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.

Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.

[Sharad @shar4d]

Just bought a copy. Looking forward to reading it.

[Albinder Dhindsa @albinder]

I wrote Buildit so that anyone looking to build in India knows about the challenges and perhaps that will encourage more people to not be afraid and start up. India needs more builders.

[Sharad @shar4d]

@AcquiredFM Love it ✨

[Sharad @shar4d]

@jnnnthnn @mignano @lightspeedvp @semil @aashaysanghvi_ @haystackvc Would love to try it out. Seeing Sept 2026 as available date.

[Sharad @shar4d]

@willahmed @suchitasalwan 🔥🔥

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

as more ai-driven companies attempt to vertically integrate software and hardware, eng teams need better ways to build and optimize the software part of the equation. been cool to watch Revel develop this space from the start.
congrats @scottgmorton and @Revel_Software team 💥

[Sharad @shar4d]

+1

[blue @bluewmist]

romanticize your life, take pretty pictures, feel like the main character, light up a candle, read books, go for a walk, dance to your favorite music, buy yourself presents, do whatever you want, be happy - this is your life, don't let anyone take it from you

[Sharad @shar4d]

@CRED_club Been a regular CRED Store user, but return experience is pathetic. Wrong size, contacted support within return window. Ticket closed repeatedly, fake pickup attempts (no one showed up). Now refusing return. Not about cost, support quality has detriorated @CRED_support

[Sharad @shar4d]

@puneetiitm Congratulations ✨

[BRADDY @braddy_Codie05]

Nothing against Curly Tales (Kamiya Jani) but the Government (I&B and Tourism Ministry) is literally Paying 6,00,00,000 (6 Crores) to Kamiya Jani (Curly Tales) for eating in Vande Bharat and Having Chaat at Ghats in Varanasi and that too gets Aired on Doordarshan a Channel that no one Watches. On the other hand Government’s MoD’s ADA (Aeronautical Development Agency) is hiring Professionals for 5th Generation AMCA (Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft) and 4.5 gen +Tejas Mk2 and the Maximum package offered to the Appointment of Project Admin Officer (PAO) 5 Vacancies with 10 Years of Experience is 59,276 per month that makes 3,55,656 Per Year.

[Sharad @shar4d]

@MohapatraHemant @LightspeedIndia 🚀🚀

[Sharad @shar4d]

@ganeshsonawane 🔥🔥

[Sharad @shar4d]

@juliet_turner6 Congratulations ✨

[Sharad @shar4d]

@sathaxe ❤️

[Sharad @shar4d]

@isabelunraveled Congratulations ✨

[Nilesh Christopher @NilChristopher]

My latest for @latimes: I travelled to southern India to document the rise of the AI "arm farms" — where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores.

https://t.co/o6dgEtbuEN

[Sharad @shar4d]

@LifeOfShandi 🙌

[Ravi Handa @ravihanda]

It is so sad to read @AkshayaS90's father's posts on Linkedin.

Imagine losing your only child and then paying bribe for her death certificate.

Stuff like this makes you lose faith in humanity.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

This is the Ejipura flyover in Bengaluru, under construction since 2017, still incomplete after 8 years.

For perspective, the UAE built the Burj Khalifa in 5 years. The US reconstructed the World Trade Center in 7 years. China turned Shenzhen from a fishing village into an industrial city in 7 years.

And here we are, unable to finish even a flyover in nearly a decade. The irony is that after all that delay, whatever finally gets built barely lasts a few years.

[arnav @arnav_kumar]

Today is Chhatth Pooja
Celebrated mostly in the gangetic belt

Let me explain why Chhath Pooja is a big deal.
And why it is my favourite festival.
Here is why

👇

1.
Chhath is a festival of faith unlike any other.

There are no stringent rules.
There is no mahurat.
There is no pandit ji.
You don't have to go to a temple.
No specific mantras or pooja or havan.

This is a festival of individual faith.
A prayer that brings together the softest of things - the heart of a mother..
with the mightiest of elements - the Sun..

There is no conduit - no Panditji, no specific place of worship, no chanting of hard-to-know mantras, no stringent rules and process gatekept by anyone

Women (my dadi, my mom, my aunts) stand in any water body, in the cold, before the sun rises, praying to the sun.
They murmur silent prayers for everyone's well being.
There is no loud music or lud chants
Just a woman with irrational faith and a soft prayer for their kids and families and community.

2.
You can do chhath even if you have nothing to offer to the deity (Sun).
There is no defined offering, no sweets, dry fruits, no dakshina to offer to panditiji.

You just offer water to the sun if you have nothing else.
In hindi we call it ' Suraj ko argh dena'

If you have the means you offer whatever fruits are locally available.

There is scant difference in how the richest perform this festival, versus the poorest.

It is truly, a festival for EVERYONE
The only thing you need is faith and good vibes

3.
Chhath is unique in that it celebrates and worships both the rising sun and the setting sun.
The same prayers are offered to both

The whole world pays homage to the rising sun- symbolic of the powerful, mighty, on their way up.

Chhath reminds us to value the setting sun too ❤️

Paying homage who came before us, and past their prime, and whose shoulders we stand.

It is also a symbolic gesture to remind us of impermanence.
What rises up, sets down and rises again.
And both who are rising and setting deserve our homage and prayers and kindness

4.
It is truly a community festival.
Many people you see in this photo are not family, but from the local community.
For 4 days people flock to the homes where chhath Pooja happens.
People come to help.
Pooja is hard on the ones doing it ~ 4 days of fasting, last 2 days fasting without water.
If someone is not able to fast and pray, they try to participate by association.
By helping, and by doing the pooja -via the ones who are fasting and praying

My house in Ranchi is buzzing with people for 4 days - with folks from the community, friends-from near and far.
People come to seek blessings from the ones praying, to help, chit-chat and most importantly, to get prasaad

The faith is strong :)

I wish I had more time to dig deeper.
Maybe next year.

But I hope this helps you understand why 'Chhath' is a big deal for some of us.

And kyun,
"Diwali pe chutti mile na mile, chhatth pe milni chahiye" is a legit request for some.

Because there is an unsaid rule in our part of the world -
" You can be a moron, good-for-nothing son all year

But if you come home for chhath, and help decorate the ghaat (water body) and do the service and participate in the faith, all is forgotten and forgiven.

And you qualify for the best blessings from the kindest warmest, hearts brimming with faith.. like only a mom's heart can be ❤️❤️"

Jai Chhathi Maiyya
Happy Chhath pooja to all

🙏🙏🙏