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Consolidated list, where I capture all my observations, notes, thoughts, learnings, experiments etc...

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Indeed, it has been quite a week, so I thought I'd share it with the KDD 2026 audience! For my Google colleagues who might have sent me internal chat messages after I closed my laptop for a final time on Thursday afternoon, I apologize for my lack of response!

(Zoomed in)

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

We created a pitch deck to tell a handful of VC firms about us and what we were up to (a fun experience!). Here’s a few slides about our background and some of the things we’ve worked on from the pitch deck (it was fun putting together the list of people in our teams who have gone on to found a whole range of exciting companies). We are delighted to have selected @radicalvcfund
and @khoslaventures to lead our initial funding round, along with participation from @lightspeedvp, @kleinerperkins, Doerr Capital (@johndoerr), and Alphabet (@Google). We’ll be working with them to close our seed round over the next few weeks.

[Jeff Dean @JeffDean]

Tomorrow will be my last day at Google after 27 years, and watching it grow from 25 people to 190,000+ has been an amazing journey. Below is a note I shared with many people internally at Google today. An excerpt is:

It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you and to help build some of the most widely used and impactful products of all time. As a kid, I dreamed of helping build software that would be used by many people, and Google now has thirteen products used by more than a billion people (amazing!). Our work has had a tremendous impact in the world, and I have been lucky enough to collaborate and form friendships with many colleagues that I deeply admire, respect, and enjoy. It still brings me joy every time I see people out in the world using our products to find information, handle email, translate documents, watch videos, learn new things, navigate and understand the physical world, browse the web, use their phone, run large-scale computations on our infrastructure, ride in an autonomous vehicle, or perform complex tasks with the help of our AI systems. I hope you all share this sense of joy, because it is a shared accomplishment! Thank you to all of my colleagues at Google over many years!

Now I'm excited to go start @DiscoLoopAI with my longtime friends and colleagues @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML, and @quocleix.

(Updated post: slightly redacted to not have some personal info)

[$kan @skanda_ms_]

Jeff's departure is a watershed moment for Google.!

[$kan @skanda_ms_]

1/ How @JeffDean & Sanjay working on a single computer & change the landscape of the Internet!
A fascinating story of 2 programmers who transform the @Google from Doomsday!
The Friendship That Made Google Huge🤝
https://t.co/fMQ2Z664U1 @NewYorker
Must read for every programmer👨‍💻

[Yoonseok Yang @yoonseok_yang]

In 2022, as a Google intern, I sent a random calendar invite to Jeff Dean.

He accepted.

His calendar was accessible even to interns, so I figured I had nothing to lose.

The next day, I sent this photo to my team. Everyone was shocked.

It’s hard to imagine Google without Jeff. He’s been one of my biggest inspirations.

Thank you for everything, Jeff.

[$kan @skanda_ms_]

@alokbishoyi97 Hey, Can you add me!

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Indians want Chinese level of govt efficiency & European levels of freedom while being in an Indian democracy.

[soothsayer @iamasoothsayer]

2023: Corona ended
2026: Hantavirus

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

How to be a Principal Engineer/Senior Principal Engineer/Senior Architect/fancy-sounding-title Engineer, a thread:

1. You're evaluated on how much more the company succeeds because you're there, not the lines of code you wrote. If you can unblock someone, do that. If you need to kill a two year project that's not going anywhere, do that. Do what is right, not what makes you look good.

[Nandkishor @devops_nk]

Honestly, this is the most accurate diagram I've seen.

Waterfall: You plan for 18 months and deliver exactly what nobody needs anymore.

Agile: You deliver something usable at every step, but the CEO keeps asking, "Where's the car?"

AI: You get the car on day one. It has six wheels, the doors are on backwards, and it has a rocket launcher. You spend more time making it yours than actually "building"; it's shaping. owning. verifying. That's what the best AI developers do now. They don't build. They shape and own.

[Aravind @aravind]

Hu Shih, the Chinese Indologist and renowned international diplomat said in 1940s that, "for 2000 years India colonized China without sending a single soldier across."

Well, this is quoted a lot without context by Indians. The context he was saying it in is more important.

His belief was that Indian dharmic culture and Indianization of China has kept it backward in modern age. And China must free itself from it.

So based on his inputs and what Chairman Mao saw as backward Chinese culture, Mao went for total annihilation in the classic communist way. He called it the "Cultural revolution."

They burned down libraries, destroyed all traditional texts, killed thousands of teachers and some 35 million more later, and made the Chinese society follow modern communism as defined by the CCP.

For Deng Xiaoping to do his big developmental reforms and create a large working class in China where anyone will do any job in desperation, Mao's cultural revolution paved the way.

This led to rapid development of China on a western model. But is this the right way to go about it? Destroying your own culture and killing millions?

No.

India's culture and civilization is being revived right now as we speak to adapt to modern values. It is being transformed slowly but surely.

This kind of transformation will yeild long term highly beneficial results.

Unlike China, India was oppressed and colonized for a much longer time. But Indians, inspite of all adversities, never gave up their culture to adopt enmasse anything else.

Even Islam which forced itself on Indians worse than what Mao could have done, and for many times longer in length still is in minority after one thousand years, even in 1947 pre-partition.

I am so optimistic about the culture of India that in decades to come it will be the flagbearer for Indian advancement in a very chaotic world which China won't be able to handle. And breakdown unless they quickly adopt back certain Indian cultural values - which the CCP is trying to.

So a few decades of rapid development and showmanship means nothing for civilizational countries like India and Indians. Young people, like you see in this video, are only carried away by short term illusions.

In the long term, if we preserve our culture, its diversity, its plurality, and work in unision towards national development, we will come out as one of the top countries and cultures that have stood the test of time to be continually on top of the world directing its sustainable development.

As we have always been.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

In 2008, Malcolm Gladwell explained why some people succeed & some don't.

This talk reveals:
• Why ability is overrated
• Why effort alone isn’t enough
• How systems quietly decide outcomes

12 lessons from Gladwell that'll permanently change how you think about success:

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this..

[Louis Gleeson @aigleeson]

I finally understand how LLMs actually work and why most prompts suck.

After reading OpenAI’s internal docs + top research papers…

Here are 10 prompting techniques that completely changed my results:

[kapilansh @kapilansh_twt]

what's the most useless thing your company does that nobody questions?

I'll start:

→ 30 minute standup that could be a slack message
→ quarterly OKRs nobody looks at after Q1
→ annual reviews that change absolutely nothing
→ all hands meetings with zero real information
→ "culture fit" interviews for senior engineers
→ sprint planning for work that's already decided

[Niks @Pivot2Centre]

Why did Dhirubhai built a refinery with NCI of 21?

The heavier the crude, the tougher it is to refine it. So Jamnagar is the refinery of last resort. It buys the crude no one wants to refine - it buys way below market and sells the refined product at market.

Biggest margin

[$kan @skanda_ms_]

@paraschopra @paraschopra Thank you for the wonderful presentation. Would it be possible to share the recording?

[pH @pHequals7]

2026: how i learnt my masala dosa depends on the strait of hormuz

[Sagar @sagarcasm]

2026 is crazy.

-Nitish Kumar is not the CM of Bihar

-Dhoni and Gambhir are praising each other

-America started a war that is making Russia richer

-England is begging India to save cricket in their country

-People are caring more about monkeys and penguins than humans.

-RCB is defending IPL title

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Is this the real pyramid?