Preet Sharma

curious about things and learning.

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Microsoft Teams

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

There's an old Chinese saying that I love:

“The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.”

[Bones @FrailSkeleton]

If a toddler offers u an unwrapped piece of candy from his sticky hand, that’s a sign of great respect in their culture

[Pooja @poojaofficial5]

Gutkha has been banned in Maharashtra since 2012

But for years, the gutkha mafia continued to operate freely.

Then FDA Commissioner Tukaram Mundhe took charge.

In just 3 weeks
200+ FIRs
300+ arrests
₹3 crore worth of gutkha seized
MCOCA invoked against supply chains

This is the same officer who has faced 25 transfers in 21 years of service.

Some officers work sitting in AC offices,

Others step out of the AC, work on the ground, and challenge powerful systems.

Tukaram Mundhe chose the second path.

There are some officers who work outside the office AC.

Do honest officers like him deserve greater support instead of repeated transfers ?

Share your opinion in the comments.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Become difficult to rush. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines. There's immense power in rejecting that trend. Slow down. Create space to think clearly.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Wars never really end.

[Sangeet @sangaldoo]

The club isn't the best place to find alcohol so the petrol pump is where i go

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

In today’s world, deep focus is a rare luxury asset. The market pays a massive premium for undivided attention in a hyper-distracted era.

[Norway Chess @NorwayChess]

🇮🇳 PRAGGNANANDHAA IS THE NORWAY CHESS CHAMPION 2026 👏👏👏

#NorwayChess
📷 Norway Chess / Tor Nilssen & Kjetil V. Tveito

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

I think often about this little paragraph from Bill Bryson’s ‘The Body’.

[Pradeep Kannan @Pradeepkannanj]

The more successful you become,the more people try to take advantage of you.

I recently lost ₹90,000 to an employee who disappeared.

It wasn't the first time.

I trust people too quickly.

That's my strength.

And sometimes, my weakness.

Note to self:

Never stop being kind.

Just stop being naive.

[Pradeep Kannan @Pradeepkannanj]

I'm launching a D2C Falooda Brand in India despite everyone telling me it's a bad idea.

I don't have an:
- an established cold chain.
- a ready-to-drink Falooda category.

And that's exactly why I'm doing it.

India has no aspirational dessert brand for Gen Z and Millennials.

And nobody has built a ready-to-drink Falooda at scale.

The product is 90% ready.

Now it's all about solving manufacturing, distribution, and economics.

If we get that right, we're not launching a product.

We're creating a category. 🚀

[Z Fellows @zfellows]

“Do hard work at the beginning of your career. Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off. It’s also easier to work hard when you have fewer other responsibilities, which is frequently but not always the case when you’re young.”

— Sam Altman

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Only thing offensive about this photo is the Cheetah copter. Uncles/incels/wannabes should be furious over how the Army has failed to replace Cheetahs for 20 yrs!
Last month, a Maj Gen had a narrow escape in a crash.
But no, they'll fulminate over young love in a new world.

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

Motivation is a neurological consequence of action. Your brain releases dopamine after you start a task, which creates the momentum to finish it. Waiting until you "feel like it" is a paradox. You have to move the body before the mind will follow.

[Lara Korte @lara_korte]

CENTCOM has released this photo of an F-16 refueling in an "undisclosed location."

[Ankit Kedia @Ankittskedia]

India is probably the only country where a pizza arrives in 30 minutes and a Diet Coke arrives in 5 minutes through Blinkit, Zepto, or Instamart, but if you need a fire brigade or an ambulance, it may not even arrive within 30 minutes. That's the quality of life we've built.

[Upamanyu Acharya @upamanyuacharya]

India will never produce an NVIDIA, and it has nothing to do with talent. R&D is the purest form of investment, and the central bank has spent decades making investment the dumbest thing you can do with a rupee.

I've been surfing the semiconductor wave for a while now, reading 10-Ks for fun. Spent last month in the Bay Area and the gap between India and the US is not a gap; it's a different universe. Conversations about agentic AI and the next decade of hardware, with my boomer relatives Waymo-ing around SF and self-driving home on Tesla FSD like it's normal. Nobody there thinks any of this is remarkable; they already live in the future.

NVIDIA spends nearly twice as much on R&D as every listed company in India combined. Silicon Motion, the world's leading maker of NAND flash controllers and around since 1995, ploughs 29.7% of revenue back into R&D. Micron runs 10.2%, NVIDIA 9.9%, on revenue bases that dwarf anything we have. India Inc? 0.85% of turnover, and half our listed companies report zero R&D at all.

The easy move is to lambast our promoters and the dhandomaxxing capitalist class, or the foreign MNCs running India as a glorified offshoring unit, or the babus who fund nothing useful. Satisfying. But Wrong. The reason no rational Indian founder pours money into frontier R&D is that there is genuinely no payoff at the end of it. Why?

1. R&D compounds, and compounding punishes laggards. At the edge of science a 1-2% gain is a moat; Intel spent 20+ years performing impossible physics every 24 months because Moore's Law was the business model, and that consistency makes them one of the goated companies of all time even after they got mogged recently. NVIDIA lives the same way today: invent at the limit or cease to exist. If you're 50% behind, no quantum of innovation closes that. You never touch the high end. You stay a mass-market producer of things that already exist. India is precisely there.

2. The supply side is the real thesis, and it's monetary. Two decades of high inflation, high money-printing, high nominal rates. That regime subsidises consumption and taxes patience. R&D is the longest-duration, highest-variance bet on the board; it is the first thing a 8% risk-free rate kills. Frontier R&D only ever gets funded two ways: a psychopathically risk-tolerant capitalist with cheap capital, or a state with Stalin-grade control. The USSR took agrarian peasants to the first man in space in 20 years; China built its own version. India has neither the state capacity, the political will, nor the balance sheet to do that. So nobody does it.

Talent was never the bottleneck. Capital structure was. If you want a SpaceX or a TSMC born here, you need an environment where a conglomerate can deploy $10B and sleep at night: a low-rate regime that makes long-duration investment rational, IP and patent courts that actually function, and policy that doesn't get rewritten every 2-3 years on a minister's whim. Stability is the input. Innovation is the output.

Bay Area versus Bombay, we are several universes apart, and you cannot print your way across that distance; you can only compound your way there, and we've spent years optimising for the opposite. The gap won't be bridged. With luck, it narrows.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I’m convinced that no matter how you choose to live, people will tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Wrong priorities. Wrong work. Wrong relationships. Wrong whatever. Your entire life will change the moment you learn to smile, nod, and ignore every single one of them.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

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