मंगेश कराळे | Mangesh Karale 🇮🇳

Building secure systems👨‍💻 | Exploring new places ✈️ | Gym-cricket-life balance kinda guy.💪🏏

[aether @bluewdrift]

in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you’re innocent in the story you’ve created.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

tupac recorded 501 songs, but only 2 became top ten hits.

van gogh painted 2,100 paintings and only sold 1 while he was alive and it was 6 months before he died.

sabrina carpenter released 67 songs and five albums over the course of 10 years before she had her big hit "espresso."

glen powell spent 19 years trying to become an actor before "top gun: maverick" made him a star. 19 solid years.

and connor story spent 8 years waiting tables and he was ready to quit acting for good. and the day he almost got fired, he got an email and he found out that he got the lead actor role in "heated rivalry," the biggest acquired hbo show in history.

and you are giving up because you tried twice? or maybe 10 times?

look, a winner is just a loser that tried one more time and that's just it

winners lose more than losers even try.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I’m convinced that intelligence is overrated.

Intelligent people are more likely to overthink, overplan, and overanalyze. They hide behind motion that doesn't create progress. They fear the judgment of others if they're proven wrong.

The truth is that intelligence is abundant. Especially now. AI is making it a commodity. Courage is not. And it can’t be replaced. The people you admire are the ones who had the courage to act. They aren’t more talented than you. They aren’t smarter than you. They just took action when you didn’t.

I often wonder how many extraordinary people wasted their entire lives waiting for permission that never came. Permission isn't granted. Permission is taken. You get to tap yourself in whenever you want. You can just do things.

Courage beats intelligence. Remember that.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

If you even slightly entertain the thought of failure, you give your mind a chance to start noticing reasons to fail. But if the only option on your mind is to win, then the world seems to conspire in your favor, because your mind will notice opportunities it wouldn't have before. Become delusionally optimistic, not because it's realistic, but because it's effective. It drastically increases your chances of success.

[aether @bluewdrift]

Ten lazy years can disappear the moment you lock in. Six months of discipline can erase a decade of drifting. Momentum is magic. It turns yesterday's failures into tomorrow's fuel.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Earth never gets new water. The drops you drink today once quenched the thirst of a T-Rex, evaporated over ancient Egypt, and ran through the veins of a samurai. Water is eternal memory.

[Law Of Attraction @The_Secret_Law]

Never allow negative energy to take control of the positive energy within you. It may seem difficult at first, but by giving your full attention to the good, you will slowly begin to banish the bad.

[Prompter @PromptLLM]

Crazy take from Claude

[मंगेश कराळे | Mangesh Karale 🇮🇳 @sysadmin9]

@kratexmusic 🚩

[BOSS @thebeautyofsaas]

what it takes to increase your luck (luckmaxxing)

exposure (groups, activities, environments) + risk taking + energy + right place + right time + removing any negative associations with yourself (no more unlucky jokes)+ recognizing how fortunate you are to live your life = luck

[iAm-paquetta @guesswhoiiamm]

The universe guarantees you'll improve if you keep trying. The universe doesn’t reward talent, luck, or intelligence first , it rewards relentless consistency

[Sahana @sahana_srik]

We are a dying breed - the last generation of born and brought up Bangaloreans to refuse to buy an AC for the summer

[blue @bluewmist]

every time you replace “this is hard” with “what’s the first step?” you shift brain activity from your amygdala (fear) to your prefrontal cortex (problem-solving).
that’s neuroplasticity in real time.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

Genuinely terrifying when you map this onto the Indian context. Mythos is Anthropic's unreleased frontier model, so dangerously good at finding security holes in software that Anthropic itself is refusing to release it publicly out of fear of what hackers could do with it.

Now picture the average sarkari portal: PSU sites frozen in their mid-2000s table-layout glory, IRCTC-tier glitches visible to anyone with basic dev tools, state government domains where the SSL certificates expired during Manmohan's second term. Six months from now some nerdy black hat teenager in Sialkot or Dhaka with an open-source Mythos-class model can sit back and let it chew through the entire attack surface of Indian e-governance and banking infra over a weekend.

Meanwhile our defensive setup is some contractual IT vendor in Okhla who got the tender because his cousin knew someone in the ministry.

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

Empathy is what separates great engineers from code monkeys.

Being non-empathetic is actually costing you opportunities and career growth. Let me elaborate...

Remember, your job is to solve a problem, not just write code. You are not a code monkey who just hammers the keyboard. You are on a journey to build something that millions use, and for that, you have to

- build a great product
- operate effectively at your workplace

By thinking deeply about user experience and product flow, you can design your system better, plan future features, and keep your code extensible. Moreover,

- you ask the right questions during discussions
- you think of edge cases that others might miss
- your code stays flexible in the right places
- you can push back on bad designs with better justifications

When you understand how people actually use software, you build flexible systems instead of rigid solutions that break with the first change request.

Too many engineers skip this because it feels like "extra work" - but it's the work that makes all the difference.

Beyond product thinking, if you are empathetic, you communicate better with peers, product managers, designers, and stakeholders. By being a great operator, you improve your reputation and build trust, leading to more impactful work.

The most impactful projects aren't given to the smartest engineer, but to the one who shows they care enough to deliver real value, every time.

[Micheal D @micheal_ws18]

To be a successful gym-goer, you have to move fast when you get out of bed right before your brain starts negotiating.

[Oxygen 💨 @WhateverVishal]

Result of Plate free from guilty,cruelty and tears

[Karan @karannpatelll]

South Africa won WTC because there is no semi final in WTC.

[Maharaṭṭā @MarathaEpoch]

📌 Chhatrapati Shivaji’s terror in Oman (Middle East).

🌊 The story of the unmatched feat of the Marāṭhā navy under Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaja.
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According to the new records, in 1665, four of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s ships entered the port of Muscat. Upon their arrival, the local Arab Imam (the ruler there was called the Imam) seized all four ships, confiscated the cargo, and imprisoned the crew. Not stopping there, he prepared a fleet of four large ships and nearly 14 small vessels to attack the western coast of India. The Imam’s name was Saif bin Sultan. History does not yet know why he took such a sudden step. But what followed was nothing short of unprecedented. When he learned that Chhatrapati Shivaji’s navy consisted of more than a hundred ships, he cancelled his plan and hid in the port of Muscat with his belongings!

The original Dutch text reads:
Den Iman van mascatta heeft vier scheepjes van Den Sevagie, in sijn Haven g'arresteert de schippers gevangen, ende goederen vrbeurt verclaert, deselve hadde een scheepsmacht van 4: schepen, en 12 â 14 fregatten gereet gemaeckt, om op de Indische Cust, den Sevagie, 't Hooft te bieden, maer verstaen hebbende desselfs macht over de hondert fregatten, buijten eenige schepensterck te wesen, is met zyn verder Equipagie te rugh getreden En heeft syn vaertuijgen binnen gehouden.

Translation:
The Imam of Muscat seized four of Shivaji’s ships in his harbor, imprisoned the people on board, and declared the goods confiscated. He prepared a fleet of 4 large ships and 12 to 14 frigates (small ships) to confront Shivaji on the Indian coast. However, upon understanding that the Shivaji’s naval strength exceeded a 100 frigates and ships, he retreated with his equipment and kept his vessels inside the port.

It is difficult to put into words the feeling of reading this for the first time. Among the Indian rulers of that era, with the exception of the Siddis, few maintained a full-time combat navy. But the Siddis' reach was limited. Major powers like the Adilshahi and the Mughals did not have their own dedicated combat navies, which allowed European powers to dominate the seas. To protect the western coast from the Siddis and Europeans, Maharaj did not just build a fleet; he established an "Armar." The uniqueness begins with the word itself. Armar is not derived from Sanskrit or Persian; it comes from the Spanish-Portuguese word "Armada," meaning a fleet of warships—not just any collection of vessels. This navy was established in 1657. By 1665—less than a decade later—Chhatrapati Shivaji had conducted the Basrur expedition, sent merchant ships to foreign lands, and the sheer terror of his navy had struck the Arabs of Muscat.

These Arabs were no ordinary sailors. For nearly a hundred years, the Portuguese had dominated the Omani coast; the Arabs broke that dominance in 1650. In the following years, especially after 1670, they launched fierce attacks on Portuguese territories in India. There were very few states in Asia that could be called true maritime powers—these Arabs were one of them. While they attacked India without fearing a powerful enemy like the Portuguese, they never harassed the Marathas. Later, in 1679, records show the Marathas even assisted the Arabs against the Portuguese. This was driven by the strategy of "the enemy's enemy is a friend," as well as the realization the Arabs had in 1665 regarding Maratha strength. Contact with Muscat remained intact; many ships traveled from the Konkan coast to Muscat every year, and mentions of "Muscati Tarandes" (Muscat ships) are found in several Marathi letters.

It is essential to draw attention once again to how significant this event is. Shivaji Maharaj’s political career began in the Pune region—despite having no initial knowledge of coastal geography, he built a formidable navy. Its influence was so great that even the fierce Arabs of Muscat feared it.

Everyone is a "lion" in their own territory, but the awe of Swarajya reached thousands of kilometers away, within a decade of its inception! This adds another magnificent chapter to the glorious events of Shivcharitra. As Saint Ramdas once said, "One should remember the valor of Shivaji"—this is a living testament to that.
While there is a common sentiment in Maharashtra that Maratha history is ignored at the central level, fortunately, this is being recognized. In the new NCERT curriculum, the Class 8 Social Science Part 1 textbook devotes 22 pages to the chapter on the Marathas, and this specific incident is prominently mentioned.

Full credit to Sir Nikhil Bellarykar for discovering this Dutch letter and providing us with such an important historical record.