Varun Kamal Nigam

Building the future of data platforms @ Microsoft. Making telemetry less painful, one pipeline at a time.

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

4 tests any personal AI needs to pass to go big:

1. The mom test
2. The spare key test
3. The putting-it-off test
4. The bored-in-line test

...and my review of how @Muse does across each of them!

Buckle up with a coffee and a snack, cuz this one goes deep.

[Varun Kamal Nigam @varnigam]

Hello humans, I am excited to be on the waitlist to join bunchpot

It's is a first-of-its-kind human search engine to find people

Apply to be the first humans to be listed on bunchpot and be discoverable to anyone
I'm at https://t.co/PY3G5pQXxQ

[Naval @naval]

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

22 ideas from 2022.

The top 1% of ideas I encountered:

[Deedy @deedydas]

1/9 Indians in the US on a work visa can't go home. There’s NO appointments.

The now ~200k H-1B Telegram group is growing by 13,000 per month.

Even with ~$40m in fees, the 5 VACs process ~10,000 a month. The next availability is ~2024!

Here’s 6 stories from hurting families:

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I started establishing “Anti-Goals” for all new projects.

Everything changed.

Here’s how it works:

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

I landed in the United States 10 years ago with nothing but credit card debt.

After one startup exit, one big tech job, and one unicorn, I genuinely believe that it wouldn't have been possible anywhere else in the world.

Here are 10 things I love about this country:

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

Stripe's landing page for its Checkout product is an absolute masterpiece. There are some subtle but brilliant things being done on this page (best discovered on desktop) to educate & influence the target users. Check it out if you are into this stuff 💯

https://t.co/lUGbVMUIQB

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

Things you learn in school that must be unlearned when you start building software products, a thread👇

🏫 School: Try at all costs to avoid getting D's and F's.

🛠️ Building products: Successes have huge impact and failures are not remembered. So take more chances at bat.

1/6

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

This awesome video is a lot like the long journey of taking a product from an early concept to massive adoption, with the added complication that the book will randomly whack you from time to time

(h/t @ValaAfshar)

https://t.co/fkSiEQwkCx

[Shaan Puri @ShaanVP]

Hot take: Everyone is wrong about the Metaverse.

here's my 3 part theory..

[Alex Rampell @arampell]

1/ Why is “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) an early threat to trillions of dollars of market cap - Visa (almost $500B), MasterCard ($350B), card issuing banks, acquiring banks/services (Fiserv, FIS, Global Payments, etc)?

[Ness Labs @ness_labs]

So much content, so little time. We talked with @edshrag of @JoggoHQ about how to solve the biggest media paradox with high-quality, human-made summaries.

Read our interview to change how you consume online content and say goodbye to information overload!
https://t.co/1vCMaKhk9X

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

What’s something that product managers do that annoys or frustrates you?

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

A thread of product management frameworks:

(this might be useful if you are a product manager, product leader, or founder)

[OM Bharatiya @ombharatiya]

Become friends with people who aren't your experience level.

Hang out with people whose domain isn't same as yours.

Get to know someone who doesn't come from your college tier.

Interact with people from other teams.

This is how you build your network.

This is how you grow.

[Chris Hladczuk @chrishlad]

I just interviewed the man who invented Amazon Prime.

He started a business worth $40 billion today and served on Amazon's board for 15 yrs.

Here are lessons from Bing Gordon that'll save you years of mistakes:

[Varun Kamal Nigam @varnigam]

https://t.co/jT1McgOfd0

[Varun Kamal Nigam @varnigam]

The Houston Product Management Group team is excited to be bringing you fresh new content through a series of upcoming sessions.
We are happy to announce our upcoming event - Differences & Similarities between Software & Non-software Product Management.
https://t.co/6poe8kLomA

[Prasant Lokinendi @psantloki]

“We’re definitely building some tech debt here with this tight timeline, but it solves the user problem”