Sujan

[Jason @mahixcavi7]

BAS bat owner Somi Kohli on MS Dhoni greatness :

- Before the 2019 WC, Mahi said he would play with my bat with BAS sticker. He denied crores of sponsorship for the bat. I requested him to please accept the sponsorship and not deny crores for me. I even requested Sakshi & his CA, but they said they couldn’t do anything as it was Mahi’s decision. In the end, he played with the BAS bat and turned down crores of sponsorship. He said, 'You helped me with the kit in my early days.' 🙌

[Irrational Analysis @insane_analyst]

Leopold you little shit.

[Manjula K @Manju_manchiDIL]

Finally we sold our Bangalore property. Being an NRI the process is tedious. I will give all the steps here so that it might be useful. Below are the main steps

1. Power of Attorney - this is first step if you don’t want to go to India for registration. Take 2 witnesses 1/7

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

On this day, we pay our heartfelt homage to the brave martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh. Their sacrifice stands as a powerful reminder of the indomitable spirit of our people. The courage and determination they displayed continue to inspire generations to uphold the values of liberty, justice and dignity.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Gold markets are rewriting history:

Assets under management (AUM) in the largest US gold-backed ETF, $GLD, are up to $181 billion, near the highest on record.

The AUM in $GLD has DOUBLED in less than a year.

Over the last 8 years, the value of the fund’s assets has surged +503%.

Furthermore, gold holdings in $GLD are up to 1,098 tonnes, the highest since April 2022 and the 2nd-highest since February 2021.

Gold holdings have increased +274 tonnes since March 2024.

By comparison, the all-time high set in December 2012 was 1,351 tonnes.

Demand for gold investments is still unprecedented.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Conor Neill on the 3 best ways to start a speech (most people get this wrong):

"I guarantee if you go to conferences, 19 out of 20 speakers will start in one of these ways: 'My name is Conor Neill. I'm from Tango, and this talk is about the latest trend in monitoring strategies.' But all of you are sitting with a piece of paper that already says who I am and what I'm going to talk about. By repeating what you already know, I'm giving a signal that it's time to get your BlackBerry out."

Conor explains the three best ways to start instead:

Third best: A question that matters to the audience.

"How do you phrase a problem that the audience faces in a question?"

Second best: A factoid that shocks.

"There are more people alive today than have ever died. Every two minutes, the energy reaching the earth from the sun is equivalent to the whole annual energy usage of humanity. Does that change how you think about energy?"

The best way: Start like you'd start a story to a child.

"How do we start a story to a child? 'Once upon a time.' And what happens when you say once upon a time? My daughter leans forward, gets ready to hear, engages. We were all trained as kids to know when a story's coming. We also know when a teacher is about to deliver a 40-minute boring lecture."

He explains the grown-up version:

"In business, you don't hear Jack Welch saying 'once upon a time.' Steve Jobs doesn't start his speeches with 'once upon a time.' So there's a grown-up way of saying it: 'In October, the last time I was in this room, there were 120 people here. I was having a conversation with one of the world's experts on public speaking and he said something to me that changed what I think about what's important in speaking.' Now I can pause for 30 seconds, and you want to know what he said."

Conor concludes:

"Stories are about people. They're not about objects. They're not about things. If you want to tell a good story about your company, don't talk about the software talk about the people who built the software. What they do. How they are. What's important to them. What they sacrifice."

[litquidity @litcapital]

“Gonna be home late tonight babe, I’m out monitoring the Iran situation with a couple of guys. We might even stay and monitor the Cuba situation if something comes up”

[Sujan @srd2511]

@khanumarfa STFU India is and always will be a Hindu nation rooted in Sanatan Dharma. Are we friendly to all religions? Yes. But the word ‘secular’ was added by Indira’s Congress to our constitution in 1976 Emergency. It wasn’t there originally. Don’t deny our Hindu core

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The actual research is wild. Every time you push down a feeling, your brain has to choose between suppressing that emotion and recording what’s happening around you. It picks the suppression. The memory doesn’t get saved.

A 2000 Stanford study confirmed this: people told to hide their emotions while watching a film remembered far fewer details than people who just reacted naturally. Suppressing emotions uses up mental energy, and that leaves less brain power for saving new memories.

Brain scans show why. A 2012 study found that suppression quiets the hippocampus (your brain’s memory-recording center) right when it should be saving information. The two brain regions that normally team up to lock in memories stop talking to each other.

Over time it gets worse. Suppression keeps cortisol (the stress hormone) elevated, and cortisol shrinks the hippocampus. Chronically stressed people can lose 10 to 15% of its volume. Just three weeks of high cortisol can shrink the tiny connection points between brain cells by about 20%. The good news: studies show this shrinkage can partially reverse once stress levels drop. Not necessarily permanent.

A Finnish study of 1,137 older adults tracked over roughly a decade found that habitual emotion suppressors had nearly 5x the risk of developing dementia, even after controlling for genetics, smoking, obesity, and education.

There’s a better way to handle emotions that doesn’t cost you your memory. It’s called cognitive reappraisal: instead of bottling the feeling, you reframe what’s causing it. (“This meeting isn’t a threat, it’s practice.”) A 2003 Stanford/UC Berkeley study found reappraisers had more positive emotion, better relationships, and higher wellbeing. Suppressors got the opposite on every measure. And reappraisal carries zero memory cost.

The difference comes down to timing. Suppression kicks in after the emotion has already fired, so your brain is fighting its own response while simultaneously trying to record the moment. Reappraisal changes how you interpret the situation before the emotion fully activates. Same event, same person, but your hippocampus stays free to do its actual job: recording your life.

[Aman @Amank1412]

Someone built an open source F1 replay timing tool that lets you watch races on delay without spoilers while still seeing live timing, telemetry, and pit-stop predictions.

It can even sync with your TV using a photo of the timing tower.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

A SINGLE 20g dose of creatine increases cognitive processing speed by 24.5% within 3.5 hours.

A placebo-controlled trial found that creatine rapidly enhanced brain bioenergetics and improved cognitive performance during sleep deprivation, with effects lasting up to nine hours.

[MATT GRAY @matt_gray_]

how to become a storytelling genius (the addiction framework):

[` @wristofkohli]

DJ played “na de dil pardesi nu” on Hardik Pandya’s entry 😭🔥
https://t.co/tM4rah8NWQ

[Bernhard Mueller @muellerberndt]

The Theory-of-Everything is finally here.

Exit the matrix today.

[Shambhav Sharma @shambhav15]

BTW the learned professor in the movie was an actual terrorist

[ᏗᏕ @unfiltered_AS]

"nation is bigger than any other aspect in country"

[` @chixxsays]

“Kashmir banega Hezbollah”

These were the words chanted by Kashmiris today. If you still think they’re innocent and had no role in Pahalgam, you’re the biggest fool.

[Yuzvendra Chahal @yuzi_chahal]

🙏🏻

[isHaHaHa @hajarkagalwa]

Indian Twitter going from war experts to cricket experts for the India vs West Indies match.