Siddharth Sirohi

doing things that don't scale

prev intern @SarvamAI @industrial47 @anthriq

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

It seems a mistake to call oneself a "night owl". You're treating not knowing how to win earlier in the day as a part of your identity. Surely it's better to just fix that.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

It seems a mistake to call oneself a "non-technical founder." You're treating not knowing how to do something as a part of your identity. Surely it's better just to fix that.

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

I stopped posting because I forgot the golden rule. Never again.

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

No, Claude, it is not time for coffee. I am sitting in front of a (physical) window, getting sunlight into my eyes to maximise my body's daytime cortisol response. A coffee would be counterproductive. AGI should know better. Anthropic only cares about shrimp welfare, not mine...

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@iRammohanSharma yes, hence the "encourage them to try" bit :)

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

Favourite quote from work this week:

"Everyone thinks they can shit out rainbows. I encourage them to try."

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@TVachaW reminds me of this post of yours. hard to find pleasure from a task if you're all tensed up. thank you for putting this into words, it's been very helpful!

https://t.co/l9Mf500vex

[Vacha @TVachaW]

I see a strong link between procrastination and what I call "tensing style."

When doing a task, we can either tense into it or relax into it.

Many people force themselves to do productive things with a kind of mental & bodily tensing motion.

When we build a habit of tensing into a task, our bodies start to associate acting with tensing.

This makes tasks feel uncomfortable and leads to procrastination.

We can instead learn to relax, release and surrender into productive tasks.

When we build a habit of relaxing into a task, our bodies start to associate acting with relaxation.

Tasks now feel pleasant and approachable.

Learning how to melt into a task is a great doorway to overcoming procrastination.

[Elad Gil @eladgil]

New post w/ random thoughts on AI (thread)
I will probably get a # wrong, but here we go :)

1/12 OpenAI & Anthropic now at 0.1% of US GDP *each*
In a year, AI revenue likely to be 1-2% of US GDP

What does AI mean for US GDP growth? Does productivity get lost mismeasured a la internet era?

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@ycombinator @usecardboard cardboard would be the perfect shovel for today's media economy gold rush!

[Anup @anupbhat30]

The secret to 10-minute delivery isn't driver speed. The average delivery distance is shorter than your morning walk. Dark stores are everywhere, hiding in plain sight.

I mapped quick-commerce infra in Indian cities. Every dark store, real routing data, actual coverage zones across major urban hubs, across Blinkit, Zepto, and Instamart.

[Arnav Bansal @itsarnavb]

Yesterday I tweeted about visualizing dark stores density in Indian cities using an isochrone map

And @anupbhat30 made this in just under an hour!

Almost everyone lives a 10 min bike ride away from a dark store. The highest density areas are in fact 10 minutes away on *foot*

The surprising find is that there's often multiple stores of the same vendor within a 10 minute bike ride.

See it yourself: https://t.co/GfbPTCV3yQ

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

The bear case for AI music is that topping the charts has a lot to do with aura. Listeners self-insert or pretend to relate to the public persona and lifestyle that artists present. An AI model does not possess the kinds of "lore" and "aura" that the masses crave to worship

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@bryancsk Nietzsche talked about this

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@golu_molu_bacha @sidsaysstuff @arunaav_p @utkarshthanvi @TexasPercy Can't think of any other quiz where the funda for a question would be Prime Intellect :) my QM

[TWILIGHT ZONE ESCAPEE @_Spherical_Cow_]

@tekbog i'm tired of hearing about game changers. the game has never changed.

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@orphcorp ez, stop feed-ing

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@adic_9 >psychological block

We know how to deal with those adic

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@kucchi09 gm bro keep thinking

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

@vtomnet >must be a bug

Sir, for OpenAI it is the intended behaviour

[Siddharth Sirohi @sirohisid]

gm

Miyamoto Musashi on returning to beginner's mind for victory

Humility and neuroplasticity go together