vignesh

girldad, a man in the arena, wannabe CTO

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

Life mantra

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

The courage to start.
The discipline to focus.
The confidence to figure it out.
The patience to know progress is not always visible.
The persistence to keep going, even on the bad days.

That's the formula.

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

After this, let’s take up Finance Minister

[Cockroach Janta Party @CJP_for_India]

The Cockroach Janta Party Demands Update:

1. Dharmedra Pradhan must resign ✅
2. 1 crore to the families of all students who died by suicide - PENDING
3. No action against any of the student protesters - PENDING

: CJP Chief

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

DEMOCRACY WINS! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

Thank you 🙏

[Akshay Kothari @akothari]

Unhappiness often comes from the gap between what you have and what you want.

You can close it by wanting less (hard in a world built to make you want more), or by getting what you want (but the goalposts always move).

Turns out, there's a third way: want what you already have.

One practice for this is negative visualization. Pick one thing you treasure. Imagine losing it, just for a moment.

Then come back to the present. You may see what you have with fresh eyes, and feel grateful it’s already here.

(from a lecture on Stoicism)

[rosie @therosieum]

https://t.co/F2G1usjT2E

[Peter McCrory @PeterMcCrory]

https://t.co/udfcEF04vx

[Arpit Bhayani @arpit_bhayani]

Fun fact: You never get rid of a bottleneck. It just moves from one part of your infrastructure to another.

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

@tedinof I am Groot

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

#Congress will have to answer 120 crore people of India about its inhuman act of brutality on innocent protestors http://bit.ly/knpjSJ

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

One of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen from a supposed sportsman. Messi’s fake halo shattered in this World Cup; he was the sneaky cheating leader of a vile bunch of violent thugs.

[PMO India @PMOIndia]

I want this Government to be criticised. Criticism makes democracy strong: PM @narendramodi

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

My biggest takeaways from @Netflix's Chief Product and Technology Officer Elizabeth Stone:

1. Elizabeth believes that “systems thinking” is becoming the most important skill in the AI era. In engineering and product, this means people who can see across business domains and build the common capabilities that let many teams move quickly. In design, it means experience designers who create templates and design systems so that non-designers can ship work that stays coherent and on-brand. The underlying driver is velocity: when more people are doing more types of work at higher speed, you need to be good at building common scaffolding.

2. Systems thinking is learnable: zoom out one level from your specific problem. Given a task, step back one click—what bigger problem does this serve the business, will it scale across the product surface areas, should it become a platform capability? The companion habit: do your job in a way that helps your manager do theirs. This will force you to think about how all the pieces fit together.

3. Expect a storming phase before a forming phase. The role confusion people feel right now (“What is my job anymore?”) is the predictable middle of any transformative technology. Elizabeth’s advice: focus on high-quality source-of-truth data, guardrails on what ships, and constant internal reinforcement that humans own what they create.

4. The top AI labs converged on Netflix’s culture. High agency, high talent density, top-of-market pay, bottom-up thinking, fast experiments—the traits Lenny hears constantly from AI labs were in Netflix’s early culture deck. Elizabeth’s explanation: excellence comes from hiring exceptional people, trusting them to do great work, and holding them accountable.

5. Netflix’s culture is centered around building “excellence as an operating system.” High talent density, radical transparency, context not control, and the keeper’s test. These work together to create an environment of trust and accountability, without bureaucracy. But it’s also uncomfortable. It requires tolerating people making decisions you’d make differently, resisting the reflex to add process when things go wrong, and letting people carry the weight of their own choices. Elizabeth describes the hardest part as “being comfortable in that discomfort.”

6. The keeper’s test is as much about recognizing great people as it is about removing the wrong ones. The test—“If this person told me they were leaving, would I fight to keep them?”—is often cited in its difficult form: the moment you realize someone isn’t the right fit. But Elizabeth uses it predominantly as an entry point for honest performance conversations that are deeply positive. Most of the time the answer is “I would fight so hard to keep you,” which creates the opening to articulate strengths, discuss impact, and name what’s working. Good feedback hygiene needs a forcing function; the keeper’s test provides one.

7. Specialization is trending down—adaptable generalists are trending up. We’re shifting away from narrow stack-layer specialists (pure frontend, pure backend) toward people who can navigate fluidly across layers. The same logic applies to business domain knowledge: the mindset of “I’m a payments expert, full stop” is less valuable than “I know payments well enough and I’m willing to imagine what the future version of this looks like.” The meta-skill is learning to learn, not locking into a single lane.

8. Netflix’s approach to AI fluency is a universal principle, not a level-specific expectation. Rather than rewriting career ladders to specify what AI competence looks like at each level, Netflix added a single aspiration across all roles and levels: AI fluency. What fluency means varies by function and seniority, but the non-negotiable minimum is the same everywhere—an open-minded, experimental mindset, genuine curiosity, and comfort with ambiguity.

[Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios]

Doomsday arrives December 18th.

Experience Avengers: Doomsday on bigger, brighter, & more immersive screens. Tickets are now on sale exclusively for Infinity Vision certified theaters: https://t.co/2HHPv9pj8t

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

@manujosephsan I think it was part strategy and part helplessness.. first half or even first 80 mins they would have wanted to tire out Spanish team with 0-0 and then have a spurt for 10 odd mins to find the winner..

Alas it didn’t happen as intended

[Premier League @premierleague]

Rodri has completed football.

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

What an embarrassing and desperate act from Messi

[Out of Context Westcol 💀 @k_psmj]

Estoy llorando como Messi Acusa a Cucurella por taparse la boca 😭😭😭

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

@narayananh Paravaillai Sir.. pannittu pottam

Colourful ah nalla irukku

[vignesh @vigneshriyer22]

Vamos 🇪🇸 @FIFAWorldCup

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Gustavo Fring was right, if you have a problem that means it can be solved. If it cannot be solved then it is not a problem. It is a reality to be accepted.