मंगेश कराळे | Mangesh Karale 🇮🇳

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

[Silly Point @FarziCricketer]

Deleting Instagram increases productivity by 60%, reduces brain fog by 80%, and anxiety by 75%. Also it improves focus by 43%, saves time by 37%, helps spending more time with your hobby by 24%, and takes 0% of effort in doing so.

[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.

[Karan @karannpatelll]

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