Siddhartha K

Author. Interventional Coach. Artist.

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@DrShauryaGarg The focus has now shifted from Temple, perhaps?

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@peculiarvivek It doesn't replace frying per se, and I don't really have an issue with oil consumption.

I do like it however as an unattended device for
* Frozen foods (kababs, onion rings...)
* Steaming (foil, parchment)
* Pre cooking
* Overall crisping/browning

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

Modern medicine prides itself on being data driven. What's the point of protesting before the data is captured?

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,

I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:

1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D.

2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.

3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.

4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table.

5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up.

6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.

7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use.

Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭

Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@sabeer We are wimps. 🤷

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@gharika @grok Are there lobbies against the environmental impact of AI?

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@gharika There's a whole bunch of people against the water consumption and carbon footprint of AI, IMO.

Why do you believe there isn't?

[carl feynman @carl_feynman]

The most famous person I've ever spoken to? I sat next to Richard Feynman on a plane once, and we chatted. In fact, more than once. And I had dinner with him several thousand times. And I spent a few months inside his wife's womb.

[Sandhya Ravishankar @sandhyaravishan]

Hello @NetflixIndia the next time you want to name a reporter character Sandhya, show her uncovering illegal sand mining, create a Tamil villain, and pick bits & pieces from MY real life story which was pitched to you TWICE in 2022 and 2023, AND not give me any credit at the least.... Think hard and well.

Thankfully it was a supremely crappy movie with ham performances and @ParineetiChopra was nothing like me. In fact she was nothing like any reporter & the newsroom portrayal was idiotic & amateurish. You've been clever enough to try & escape a lawsuit by altering the story enough.

You owe me a public apology at the very least but I'm certain you have no moral fibre in you to do so.

Shame on you all, especially the director-writer Dhruv Tripathi. Stealing other people's hard work and making money sneakily out of it.

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

Cooks among other domestic workers in our housing society aren't allowed to work at more than 5 houses each.🤨

I think the reason is quite ridiculous. 🤦

Want to guess what it is? I learnt this today. You probably already knew it long ago. 🙄

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@RamsGUNDAPA Okay, thank you for sharing sir.

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

Yet another rabblerouser.

I still call them Bombay, Poona, Madras, Bangalore, Calcutta, Kerala etc. alongside their new names every so often. I'm sure many others do too. It's how memory and behaviour work.

Repeat after me please, feelings are not facts.

[Purva Chitnis @ChitnisPurva]

I genuinely have a question to all those who still call the city as Bombay and not Mumbai.
It has been 30 years since the city is renamed as Mumbai. And still the non-native speakers insist on calling it Bombay. Some of the native speakers also go by the same name while speaking in Hindi or English. I see that in reels, filmy people conversations, college kids' conversations, and everywhere else too.

I don't really have an issue with whatever you wanna call the city but the insistence of calling it Bombay is like disrespecting the local identity and language and feelings of the original inhabitants. And though Mumbai is a cosmopolitan city, it has its own language, culture, food, identify. The local flavour needs to be RESPECTED.

And don't give me a political argument.... Some of you weren't even born when the politics around it happened. Apart from that, what is the reason?

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@RamsGUNDAPA Which one?

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@RamsGUNDAPA Yes, I've recently become quite interested in sound having just discovered my audiophile side.

Just finished assembling a room audio system. Now exploring In Ear Monitors and portable DACs and amps for them. Good fun. :)

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

@RamsGUNDAPA Yup, I understand and don't really care much either way.

Usage is unconscious, simply related to memory and repetition. 🤷

It's the name of a place, not a slogan for a cause, a people or an ideology.

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

15 minutes in 1 minute.

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

WIP. Fountain brush, 300 gsm handmade paper.

Apart from being very challenging and taking me quite a bit of time to improve my skills with it, the good thing about brushes is the stroke variability -- we can go all the way from hair thin to perhaps half a centimetre with a single brush. There's quite a bit of immersion too due to the concentration involved.

This has the additional benefit of rather unique and variable width strokes across the drawing, resulting in a very interesting look that fineliners simply cannot achieve. They seem rather boring to me after brushes.

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

Chances are, you never have and never will meet a real narcissist. It's just fashionable to say so.

More likely, you never learnt boundaries, self belief and accountability.

Suppose I said, you're both the same; the same internal situation manifested differently on the outside?

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

And this one thinks women should tolerate whatever's thrown at them. Of course it's one part of the problem, but nowhere close to the woman-only issue she's portrayed.

[Shashi U @ShashiUniyal95]

Zero tolerance among women is main cause of divorce in India..
My mother.. grandma.. tolerated and adjusted beyond my imagination 🥴

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

This entitled little moron expects people on holiday to pay a cleaning fee as well as do his work for him.

Hotels are better any day than these. You know what you're getting.

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Recently I’ve seen a lot of people complaining about being asked to clean an Airbnb when they’ve already paid a cleaning fee

As a host, I find this attitude quite worrying

My wife and I rent out the apartment in Germany. We charge a €145 cleaning fee, and we still expect guests to:

1. Strip the beds and start a wash, separating whites from colours

2. Wash, dry and put away all dishes

3. Sweep and mop the floors

4. Take out all rubbish, separating paper, cardboard, clear glass, coloured glass, plastics, metal, organic waste and residual waste

5. Take bottles with a deposit to the supermarket return machine.

6. Send photos showing the apartment is ready before the 8:30am checkout

These tasks must be completed before departure. If you have an early flight, allow time the evening before

The cleaning fee pays for professional cleaning. It does not pay for someone to pick up after you

Here in Europe, we teach children to leave a place as they found it

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect the same from adults on holiday

[Siddhartha K @sidkhullar]

Most of us crave carbs because we're conditioned and stressed.

Carbs = Sugar = Comfort.

Listening to the body is a great practice, but our interpretation of what we hear and how we subsequently act depends on our emotional state.

Ditch them for just a week and see the change.

[Roxana Soetebeer, MPHC NNP MHP PFC @REV_Insulin_Res]

Craving something proves we need it? How are you distinguishing physiological need from habit, reward, compulsive eating, or even addiction?

It's great that you succeed on a high-carb diet. None of that makes dietary carbohydrates essential. You're arguing against claims I haven't made while leaving my original statement intact.