sparshduggal

curious | agentic ideas | backend eng
building wayni :

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Starting to build Nexus in public.

Job hunting has too many disconnected pieces:

applications, emails, interviews, resumes, feedback, prep notes, follow-ups.

I’m trying to build one workspace where they all work together.

#buildinpublic #AI #Agentic

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

I agree with each and every word of this.

[Vikram Pai @vikpai]

India has no shortage of luxury.

There are ₹10 crore apartments, supercars, private clubs and extraordinary wealth. The problem is not that India cannot create wealth.

It is that too few people have a realistic path to creating it.

Consider a brilliant engineer earning ₹4–5 lakh a month, an exceptional salary in India. The apartment he aspires to own may cost ₹7 crore. He can participate in the economy that creates wealth while remaining mathematically distant from owning much of it.

A salary can make you comfortable. Serious wealth usually requires ownership.

And ownership requires risk.

But risk appetite is itself partly a luxury. It is easier to spend three years building a company when failure means returning to a comfortable home than when it threatens your family’s financial security.

Then there is network.

Stanford, MIT, UCLA, and Berkeley do more than educate. They surround ambitious people with future founders, investors, professors and alumni. Institutions like Y Combinator compress decades of entrepreneurial knowledge into networks young founders can access.

India has extraordinary talent, but much less of this machinery.

Often our brightest students must first leave India, enter these networks abroad, learn how companies are built, accumulate capital and connections, and then return.

It is not much of a meritocracy if you first need access to the meritocracy.

Software is perhaps the exception. A brilliant programmer does not need inherited land, factories or distribution. He needs a laptop.

But then comes another irony: if the Indian market cannot support his ambition, he builds for America, forcing a first-time founder to understand customers 10,000 kilometres away.

India therefore does not need fewer rich people. It needs far more.

More angel capital. More YC-like institutions. More founders helping universities. More alumni funding students. More permission to fail. More Indian companies succeeding spectacularly and recycling their wealth, talent and knowledge into the next generation.

The goal should not be to make the penthouse cheaper.

It should be to build millions more staircases to reach it.

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Either you are cracking the algorithm or you are outright dumb! No in between!

[Saffron Chargers @SaffronChargers]

Actress Kareena Kapoor appeared on Kapil Sharma’s show with her husband, Saif Ali Khan. During the show, she said that people in Saif Ali Khan’s family always ask for bottle gourd (lauki) to be cooked. While saying this, she made a disgusted face. She then said, We are people who eat paya, referring to non-vegetarian food, and started laughing, implying that she cannot eat bottle gourd (lauki).

Kareena Kapoor is such a big actress, yet she is making fun of veg food on national television and showing such disdain for vegetarian food, even in a Hindu-majority country where a large number of people enjoy vegetarian food and it is widely preferred in India.

Kareena Kapoor should respect all kinds of food choices. I did not expect this from her.

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Accidentally shifted to the worst of the three!

[Abijit Ganguly @AbijitG]

Shifted out of Mumbai last week. Gradually realised the city will be in a perpetual state of construction since that's how contractors and in turn ministers will make money. So there'll always be that next project, next renovation to make your life tough. And if nothing else, they'll break an existing one completed just few years ago to make something bigger. Living in Mumbai constantly felt like life in hard mode. And with a baby in picture, wanted to have a little bit of greenery and space around. And eventually schools with space.
Used to love the city when I came 9 years back from Delhi. But something shifted some years back, specially post lockdown. Incidentally I think Mumbai was good to live as long as 'Dilli se aaya hai kya?' used to be an insult. Now let's see..

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Purav Jha ka career dusro ke content ki parody ne bana diya. But he is a really good actor so that’s that.

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Articulation of your thoughts properly is really necessary!

[Anu @Escapeplace__]

As a North Indian, the worse thing you can do for yourself is be in Bangalore from Oct-December because this city has so less festival vibes. First festivals after marriage and I have crying looking at the reels 😭

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Respect does not mean overlooking the infrastructure and other challenges here. I think when you love a place and have the utmost respect the first thing you do is point out the issues for a greater good of the place.
I love Bangalore(Karnataka in general) and its people and its culture with all my heart but I am critical of everything that is wrong here.
People draw comparisons so that administrations can take inspiration from them and improve.
We gotta move away from ‘go back, come here’ attitude. It only adds division rather than stating the obvious issues.

[Aneetta @aneetta_joby_]

People thinking I’m from Karnataka is the funniest thing ever. Karnataka gave me a career, the money & everything I have right now, so of course I’ll talk about it with the utmost respect.

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

@Denche2005 Insane!

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

@pranaydub Road pe dhyaan!

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Cheap thrills :)

[chaosismyothername @theotherboiii]

update👇🏻

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

@GWR I am in!

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

@Ankiii_i O-O

[signüll @signulll]

you really only need three things in life:

an accurate understanding of the world as it actually operates, the agency to change it & your position within it, & the wisdom to know what’s really worth changing.

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

🏃‍♂️‍➡️

[jack friks @jackfriks]

you will be much better off not worrying at all if software is dead or not and instead just continue making cool and useful things and exploring your curiosity to wherever it takes you

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

@itskasturiii @sheetaverma how long before this switching goes away!?

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

@asthashukla95 They must have charged you a lot i assume :p

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Crybaby!

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

This ref is very pro City imo

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Man city 💙

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

@pushpendrakum Starlink hate aside, no ones leaving this app!

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Really good choice!

[Pranav Mailarpawar @pranvtwt]

And here we go

[sparshduggal @Sparsh_duggal]

Dream world!

[Sudharsan GS @gssudharsan]

9 years in Bengaluru and never experienced any of this, which part of city these people are living in?