Soumen

v2.0

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them.

He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work.

Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.”

Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job.

Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.”

Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room.

Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”

Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them.

Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.”

Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate.

A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed.

Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.”

Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them.

Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.”

The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it.

Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.”

Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you.

He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it.

Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on.

Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title.

You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.

[Normal Guy @Normal_2610]

Voltas is Indias biggest AC brand with about 18.5% market share, selling over 2m units per year

They need compressors to make every single AC, India imports most of these from China. Government just capped those imports at 30% of last years volumes for FY27. So Voltas needs domestic compressor supply fast.

They partnered with Atomberg, Indian deep-tech startup that built rotary compressor tech from ground up using BLDC motor design. This is 50-50 JV where Voltas is anchor buyer and Atomberg brings engineering.

Both sides need each other equally

Voltas tried this exact same move with Chinese company Shanghai Highly back in 2022. Government blocked it under Press Note 3, which requires approval for investments from countries sharing land borders with India.

JV was terminated in April 2023, For 3 years after that, Indias top AC company had no local compressor partner. Now they found Atomberg, founded by IIT Bombay alumni, fully Indian, no foreign ownership complications.

Pattern is clear - India wants domestic manufacturing but will not let China own that supply chain

Only 10% of Indian homes have AC today. China sits at 80%. India sold about 15m AC units in FY25 and is on track for 28m by 2030. Every unit needs compressors, motors, controllers, heat exchangers.

Right now most of these parts come from China, Government is shutting that door step by step with import caps, QCO orders, and PLI incentives.

Companies like Voltas, Blue Star, Daikin are all racing to build backward into components. Atomberg JV is just 1 piece of much bigger reshuffling across Indian cooling supply chains.

Forex can be save multiple way in the next 5 year that will show up in the GOI Balance sheet :)

https://t.co/e5LPYjzxDr

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The internet is roasting Netflix's $24 million Indian air war show for its CGI physics. The real 1999 operation it depicts was the highest air war ever fought, and physics was the entire problem.

Pakistani troops had dug into ridgelines at 16,000 to 18,000 feet. Air that thin makes bomb trajectories drift unpredictably in mountain winds, and no air force had ever bombed targets at that altitude.

The first 48 hours went badly. Jets dropping unguided bombs had to fly into shoulder-fired missile range, and India lost aircraft almost immediately.

Then came the fix. India had bought Paveway laser-guided bombs from the US in 1997, but sanctions after its 1998 nuclear tests froze the integration halfway. When the war started, engineers wired the kits onto 1,000-pound dumb bombs and mated them to Mirage 2000s running 1985-vintage software. With Israeli help, they finished in 12 days.

Those two Mirage squadrons flew 514 sorties above the missile envelope and lost zero aircraft.

One constraint made it harder than any air war before it. Pilots were ordered never to cross the Line of Control, because both countries had tested nukes the year before. Attacking a ridge from one side only means the defenders always know your run-in heading. Every crew flew into that knowledge daily.

A show can fake a plane drifting sideways. The real squadrons jury-rigged precision bombing in 12 days, fought at an altitude where flight itself barely works, and went undefeated.

[Sumit Mehrotra @SumitResearch]

Here Comes The Big Daddy

#Reliance

[Kalshi Film @Kalshi_Film]

Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has been approved by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.

(via @DEADLINE)

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Last night Apple briefly removed Telegram from the AppStore because a user had planted illegal porn in a public chat.

Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help protect online communities from similar attacks.

Because Telegram quickly removes illegal content from public groups using all kinds of moderation tools, the attacker had to resort to a technical trick. He inserted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in an active group chat. As a result the content was effectively hidden from the group’s members, preventing them from seeing/reporting it.

The attacker was a takedown extortionist: someone who demands ransom from group owners in exchange for not targeting their communities. These extortionists use automated accounts to plant illegal content in public groups and then report it directly to Apple, attempting to trigger the removal of legitimate communities whose owners refused to pay them.

From a practical standpoint, illegal pornographic content in Telegram’s public groups is not a systemic problem. Our moderation is effective. The fact that attackers must resort to backdated, effectively invisible content and other technical tricks proves this.

⚠️ However, there are two important lessons here for app developers and online communities:

— Extortionists have found a way to manipulate Apple into overreacting. Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be.

— The tactics used by takedown extortionists are evolving, putting communities across social platforms at risk. Telegram has extensive experience identifying the tricks used by coordinated reporting gangs and protecting legitimate communities (even when doing so risks our own app being temporarily removed from the App Store). Other platforms may not be equally prepared.

Stay vigilant! ☝️

[CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18Live]

#CNBCTV18Exclusive | #SIAM flags severe #E20fuel contamination concerns in letter to Govt: sources to @shivanibazaz

Key points raised by SIAM: 🔹 Chloride Spike: Fuel samples showed chloride contamination up to 500 mg/kg, causing corrosion & component wear.

🔹 Moisture Excess: Moisture levels exceeded 10,000 mg/kg (vs. 3,000 mg/kg limit), risking phase separation.

🔹 Component Failure: Sharp rise in replacement of fuel injectors & fuel pumps.

🔹 Root Cause: Ageing underground storage tanks & pipelines

💬 SIAM demands mandatory chloride limits in E20 & stricter OMC monitoring at retail outlets

#E20 #AutoIndustry #SIAM #FuelQuality #CNBCTV18

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

A lot of you nailed the exact pathophysiology in the replies.
Rabies doesn't win by overwhelming your immune system with sheer numbers; it wins through absolute stealth.

• When you get bitten, the virus doesn't immediately enter your bloodstream where your white blood cells are patrolling. It replicates locally in the muscle tissue, completely out of sight.

• Instead of using the blood, the virus latches onto peripheral nerves and uses retrograde axonal transport to travel up to the brain. Because it stays inside the nervous system (an immunologically privileged site), circulating antibodies have no idea you are infected. It actively suppresses local interferon signals to stay hidden.

• By the time the virus hits the brain and causes symptoms (fever, hydrophobia, encephalitis), the structural neurological damage is already catastrophic. The blood-brain barrier keeps your immune system locked out until it is far too late to reverse the destruction.

• This is exactly why we aggressively wash the wound with soap for 15 minutes and push for immediate Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (Vaccine + RIG). It is a literal race to neutralize the virus in the muscle before it boards the train to your brain

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

Homer’s Odyssey is filled with terrifying monsters; Cyclops, Scylla, Charybdis, the Sirens.

But the one who steals the most time from Odysseus is Calypso.

She doesn’t threaten him with death. She offers comfort, safety, love and keeps him from Ithaca for seven years.

Maybe that’s Homer’s deepest lesson: the greatest obstacles in life don’t always look like monsters. Sometimes, they look like comfort.

Hardships test our courage. Comfort tests our purpose.

Maybe real monsters in life don’t look like monsters !!

[Mahesh Palawat @Mpalawat]

#Umergam in Valsad district of Gujarat recorded extremely heavy rain of 1046 mm in the last 24 hours. Third highest in history ever recorded in India followed by #Sohara 1503 on June 16 in 1995 and Aminidevi 1168.5 mm on May 6 in 2004. @SkymetWeather @JATINSKYMET #Gujaratgloods.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Jind, Haryana: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off India's first hydrogen-powered train between Jind and Sonipat tomorrow

The train has been developed using indigenous technology. The train is powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology, which converts hydrogen into electricity to propel the train. The process produces only water vapour as a by-product, resulting in zero carbon emissions during operation.

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

Speechless.

#Wimbledon

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

EPFO radically simplifies withdrawal rules: Full withdrawal in case of VRS, disability or emigration; full withdrawal at 55 years; 75% for unemployment. Settlement to be done in 3 days (with 12% penal interest on delays by officials & recovered from EPFO commissioner's salary).

https://t.co/umClANjzyP

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

British Humor. Pay for your Execution 🤣

[Sidharth Luthra @Luthra_Sidharth]

Traveling to the US, at every place there are constant signs of respect and reverence for their armed forces and veterans. And benefits like special lines, reduced rates. And we in India, should seriously consider replicating these signs of respect for our veterans and forces. @PMOIndia

[The Tennis Letter @TheTennisLetter]

Stan Wawrinka spoke with tears in his eyes after losing his final Wimbledon match to Berrettini

“This is your final Wimbledon appearance. After that performance are you sure you want to retire?”

Stan: “I don’t want to retire but I know it’s time for me to stop. 🥹One of the reasons I kept playing for so long was to enjoy these moments like tonight. So much emotion. I’m so grateful to have this opportunity. To have received a wildcard.. to have the chance to play one last time in Wimbledon. It’s such a special tournament. As a kid you always dream about maybe being here one day. I had a chance to play it so many times. With that kind of support, it means so much to me. Thank you so much for all those years.”

Stan: “It was not my first time here. I pushed it to my own limit tonight. It was a great fight. Matteo is a good friend. He’s a great guy. He deserved to win, so congrats. It’s never easy to say goodbye to something you love so much. I’ve always been passionate about the game. I’m grateful. I’d like to thank everybody because I had a chance, this opportunity to play here. I couldn’t dream of a better goodbye. Thank you so much for the support.” 🥹🥹🥹

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

These two games are an eye-opener. Even the best in the world can't adjust quickly enough from the 250 kind of wickets proudly offered to them. That is why they need 160-170 games from time to time. Those are good because they challenge batsmen.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

After rocking India in the first match, an Rajasthan born engineer working in Dublin dismisses Abhishek Sharma and Sanju Samson for golden ducks in his first over, and then gets captain Shreyas Iyer as well.
Jai Moondra from Tonk, the land of Khaleel Ahmed and actor Irrfan Khan.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

I watched Pyramid Scheme on Prime last weekend. It brought back a lot of memories of what it feels like to be stuck in one when the scheme goes bust.

When I started my career at ~18, I was trying to find ways to fund my trading account. For about two years, I got drawn into a multilevel marketing company that turned out to be a pyramid scheme. I don't think I was deceived by the person who introduced me, but by the company itself. Partly because I ended up introducing a lot of people to it too.
The scene in the series showing the moment the fraud unravelled was surreal to watch. The director has captured the desperation of that moment remarkably well.

I thought this was something that only happened in the early 2000s. I didn't realise that even today, 2 new pyramid schemes launch every day in India. Over 5.5 crore Indians have lost their savings to more than 5,300 such schemes, estimated losses of Rs 10 lakh crore as of 2015, likely far higher now.

One truth my experience has taught me: there is no quick way to make a lot of money, be it trading or any other business. Anything promising returns higher than a bank FD comes with risk. The higher the claim, the greater the risk.

This dynamic has also played a big part in the recent growth of retail markets, people spreading the word that it's easy to make money in stocks. It isn't, and the reckoning tends to come quietly, one account at a time.

And if someone tells you that you can make easy money just by introducing others, run. Almost every single one of those is a fraud.

[Harsha Bhogle @bhogleharsha]

7633 days vs 4937 days is the key. England play tests a lot more frequently and that means Root has played a lot more while still young. He is in excellent form and should go past 16k runs fairly easily