Varun Gupta

Harvard MBA

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

What Sadguru told years back is so relevant to the present situation...!!!
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[Deepak Prabhu @ragiiing_bull]

These are men of honour & it is always a pleasure listening 🎶 to them.🫡🫡🫡
He has correctly diagnosed the prevailing situation in India.

[Varun Gupta @varungupta13]

Sort of the same problem that brands had with SEO if they weren't part of the initial land-grab, but perhaps even more exacerbated in the age of LLMs. What could be the perfect "discovery" model? Something that measures inherent product quality? Is that right? Is that sufficient?

[deana @medeana]

https://t.co/uCQeX1kkTV

[Varun Gupta @varungupta13]

@sabeer So many allegations. And the only proof offered is that Adani grew. Come on guys, saying it in a serious baritone is not evidence. Go do some real research.

[Varun Gupta @varungupta13]

@ShashiTharoor @INCIndia @RahulGandhi @ShashiTharoor If you could do a coup within the INC, the INC may finally start winning elections and give the country a credible alternative. Gandhis have done vote chori (or perhaps, it's bribery) for decades to call themselves the elected leaders of INC. I'll vote for you ☺️

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

Human nature is bad, and the best we can do is create institutions that don't make it so easy to be worse.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

"VOCABULARY OF ANARCHY".
For the first time on national TV Harish Salve questions the motives and takes on the Yogendra Yadav ecosystem. Salve says "WHEN THE CONSTITUTION IS THE REMEDY, WHY TAKE THE DISPUTE TO THE STREETS?"

Harish Salve: The CEC must act within the bounds of law. Legal errors can be challenged and determined by courts on objective facts.

“You either believe in the Constitution or you don’t.”

Saying the streets should decide because “the Constitution has failed us” is not constitutionalism.

It is the vocabulary of anarchy and failed politics.

[James Holland @James7Holland]

It is depressingly apparent that to find reasonable commentators on global affairs today, you need to look outside of Europe.

Below, former Singaporean Ambassador to the UN, Kishore Mahbubani, dispels the propagandistic narrative that @MishalHusain can't help but defend.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨Singapore's View on an Increasingly Multipolar World

Russia, Ukraine, Kishore, how do you see that conflict ending?

Cuba has a sovereign right to choose a Chinese base.

What, what do you say to that?

You know, when you, when you have great powers,
great powers have interests, and is in...
If you wanna ensure a more peaceful world, understand the red lines of all the great powers.
The United States has got clear red lines.
Russia has got clear red lines.
China has got clear red lines.
India has got clear red lines.
And once you understand where the red lines are, and you don't go near the red lines, then you, then you...

That's how you preserve the peace. But if you keep saying, "No, my interests matter and yours don't," that's how you end up with wars.

[Varun Gupta @varungupta13]

I hear this often: on X, from the community, sometimes we feel it as a team.

But, were people only writing bug-free, well-architected code before? The mistakes a person made earlier may now not be made by a machine. It may make other mistakes. The only illusion is control.

[voxium @v0xium]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

[Varun Gupta @varungupta13]

Left liberals globally assume that the move towards the right is an aberration that will auto-correct. What I haven't seen them do is introspect on what they got wrong and *why* that move to the right is happening globally. They seem to continue the drift far from the center.

[Varun Gupta @varungupta13]

@ShashiTharoor @Kparam Seems a little short on substance. Questions worth asking perhaps, but a good debate is also about providing an alternate viewpoint that shows deep thought and forces you to think even harder. You certainly present better views than this article does.

[Varun Gupta @varungupta13]

@elonmusk is there an actual solution given the pressures of engagement and earnings? I often seek an alternate point of view but social media insists on sharing more of the same. To a fair extent, it's still true on @X but certainly applies to Insta/ FB

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

If you think Instagram has been blanking out the Jharkhand student protests, you’re right.

And tonight, with data, I show there’s good reason to believe the algorithm is choosing which protests to boost.

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

There was a time when a holiday overseas began the moment you touched down at your destination airport.

The sheer expanse. The travelators. The duty-free stores bursting with an abundance of alcohol, perfumes, dark glasses, watches, scarves and handbags.

We, the perennially starved of plenty, were awestruck.

The holiday mood began right there.

But today, Heathrow, Frankfurt, Charles de Gaulle - they all look jaded compared with our airports. In need of a serious up-grade.

And though I am now satiated by the abundance that duty-free stores offer, the sheer pleasure of seeing it all at our airports remains undiminished.

Perhaps that joy can only be understood by those who once experienced so little.

From Indira Gandhi International to Dubai International, the journey was seamless. A smooth, effortless flow that would have seemed almost unimaginable to us once.

And now, yes, let’s clean up our cities.

It is so doable. It is such low-hanging fruit.

Cleaner streets, better-maintained public spaces, less litter, greater civic discipline. These are not grand, impossible ambitions. They are within our reach.

And the payoff will be far greater than just making us more attractive to visitors.

It will make us feel good about where we live.

And perhaps that is the most important payoff of all.

[desi mojito @desimojito]

Hey Prabhu Hey Hari Ram Krishna Jagannatham Prema Nandi, ye kya dekh rahe hai hum 😭😭😭😭

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Sharmila Dhankar.
Polio at age 2.
Mother blind, father farmer.
Married at 18.
Beaten for dowry.
Beaten for giving birth to 2 daughters.
At 26, beaten near fatally, thrown out.
At 34, began shotput training.
At 40, 1st 🇮🇳 para-athlete 🥇 at CWG.

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

A few questions for Ms. @priyankagandhi, @INCIndia & @RahulGandhi:

1. As an IITian, I ask - what scientific or academic expertise qualifies you, Ms. @priyankagandhi, to mock the research of the Director of @iitmadras, one of India's foremost scientific institutions?

2. As a research scholar, I find Prof. V. Kamakoti's credentials speak for themselves. What are yours to pass judgment on his scholarship (other than being born into a political dynasty)?

3. Have you actually read Prof. Kamakoti's work before caricaturing him? If so, which part of his research do you disagree with, and on what evidence?

4. Since when did the cultural or religious origin of a scientific hypothesis become grounds for ridicule? Aspirin traces its origins to willow bark, artemisinin emerged from traditional Chinese medicine, and many modern drugs began as traditional remedies. Science tests hypotheses... it doesn't mock them because of where they originate.

5. Is ridiculing distinguished scholars @INCIndia's idea of promoting Viksit Bharat as envisioned by PM @narendramodi?

6. Why does @INCIndia so often reserve its derision for ideas associated with Hindu traditions? Would the same standard of mockery be applied to beliefs rooted in any other faith?

India's scientists and scholars deserve better than ridicule. They deserve evidence-based debate.

[Love Music @khnh80044]

Best video i have seen in a long while.🥺❤️

[Abhinav A. Bindra OLY @Abhinav_Bindra]

Not every inspiring sporting story ends with a trophy. Over the last few days, Lakshya Sen has shown India what courage, resilience and belief truly look like. His run to another All England final, through extraordinary wins and immense physical pain, has been about far more than a result. He has reminded young India that greatness lies not only in winning, but in the honesty of effort, the dignity of the fight and the strength to keep believing. I am Proud of you, @lakshya_sen . Very, very proud.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The story of Araku Coffee, our very own Indian brand which has gone global, has entered a new and exciting chapter.

For over 25 years, the Naandi Foundation @naandi_india has worked to transform the lives of subsistence farmers in the Araku Valley of Andhra Pradesh, India. By providing regenerative farming inputs and sharing best practices for growing high-quality coffee, they have helped build a sustainable and resilient farming community.

From the very beginning, our ambitious goal was not only to improve farmers’ livelihoods, but also to ensure that their dedication and exceptional coffee were recognised on the global stage.

Naandi globally pioneered the application of the terroir approach, traditionally used in grape cultivation and winemaking, to coffee growing in Araku. Terroir, meaning a “sense of place”expresses the unique character of a region by aligning varieties and farming practices with local soil, microclimates, and landscape.

Recently, Araku Coffee launched the NANOLOT Series, the rarest and purest expression of specialty coffee. Grown on single plots by individual farmers and harvested in exceptionally small quantities, each nanolot is carefully processed and roasted in micro-batches to reveal the purest expression of its terroir.

Priced at ₹10,000 per kg (USD 100 per kg), the NANOLOT Series represents one of the highest price points ever achieved by an Indian Arabica coffee. The first release a fortnight ago sold out online within 24 hours, and the second, last week, in just two hours.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for all the tireless efforts of the enterprising head of Naandi, @manoj_naandi and for the talent & dedication of the entire team.

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