P R Vinod

#nolefam

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

@DjokovicFan_ Ditto! I was praying for literally every point of the tie break.

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

55th Grand Slam semi-final. 15th at Wimbledon.

Novak Djokovic outlasts Felix Auger-Aliassime in the longest quarter-final of all-time at #Wimbledon

[Novak Djokovic @DjokerNole]

Survive to thrive. Wimbledon win 106 en route to slam QF 66. Let’s go 💪

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

@DjokovicFan_ The afternoon heat?

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

@DjokovicFan_ Let’s not forget that his R1 opponent was much tougher than Tsitsipas. Hope Novak is able to carry forward this momentum into R3 where he faces the big serving Rinderknech.

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

@Wimbledon I wish Lady Luck smiles on him this time and he goes on to reach the final where Sinner would be waiting for him and we get to finish off the match from last year where Grigor was 2-0 sets up against Jannik

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

He's so back.

Grigor Dimitrov puts on a stunning display to defeat No.15 seed Jakub Mensik 👏

#Wimbledon

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear: The ability to bounce back quickly is a key skill in life.

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

@bryan_johnson What is your opinion about red eye flights domestic flying coast to coast? Is it as bad as international flights?

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

@Polymarket Who cares about morale when your paycheck is so heavy that pretty much anyone can be crushed under its weight?

[Vivek @Vivek_Investor]

🔥 🔥

[Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp]

My family moved to the US when I was 8, but by the time I turned 20, my dad was still on an H1B (waiting to get processed for a green card).

Once I turned 21, I would age out as his dependent, despite the fact that I basically grew up in the US.

I thought I'd have to become a code monkey after college, and even that only if I was lucky enough to win the H1B lottery.

Otherwise, back to India.

I had become a huge fan of @paulg's essays in college. I was actually depressed that my desire to start a startup or do something entrepreneurial was basically hopeless.

Working on the promising podcast I was doing as a side project? A beyond impossible pipe dream.

Even after 9 years, my dad wasn't able to get a green card - and the lines were only getting longer over time. I figured I'd be an old man before I could quit some FANG job and build my own thing.

By some miracle, COVID travel restrictions cleared out the lines, and I got my green card literally months before I would have aged out.

If not for this unbelievable coincidence, I would not be hosting the podcast.

In the best case, I would be shifting pixels around in the 3rd sub-sub-menu of some big tech software.

I'm incredibly grateful I made it through.

But it's unconscionable that we put the kids of high skilled immigrants through all this anxiety, and in many cases make them repeat the nerve-racking indentured life trajectory that they had to watch their parents go through.

[James Blunt @JBlunt1018]

Reading Dwarkesh’s story makes my blood boil.

He came to America as a child. Grew up here. Went to school here. Spoke like every other American kid. Dreamed like every other American kid.

Yet at 21, the country he called home was prepared to tell him: “Thanks for playing. Back to India.”

Not because he broke the law. Not because his family cut corners. Not because they entered illegally. They did everything exactly the way the government asked them to.

For years.

The cruelty is that neither party seemed interested in fixing it.

The Biden administration could have provided relief for aging-out dependents while they waited in endless green card backlogs. At minimum, work authorization and protection from falling off a legal cliff after spending their entire childhood in America.

Instead, thousands of these kids were left in limbo.

The Trump administration hasn’t been much better. More paperwork. More biometrics. More bureaucracy. More delays. People literally running out of status while waiting for the government to process forms the government itself required.

Somewhere tonight there’s another kid just like Dwarkesh sitting in a bedroom wondering whether their future depends on a lottery ticket, a processing delay, or a bureaucratic technicality.

That’s insanity.

America spends billions trying to attract talent from around the world, then turns around and tells the children who grew up here legally that they might have to leave the only country they’ve ever known.

There are thousands of future founders, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs trapped in that pipeline right now.

We only know Dwarkesh’s name because he made it through. We have no idea how many others we lost along the way.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.”

— Hubert Reeves

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“After getting what you manifested, ask for discipline to keep it and wisdom to multiply it.”

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. https://t.co/Wc40JUHl0C

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Robert Greene: Learn by Doing.

“The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.”

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

@DjokovicFan_ Please don’t get our hopes up. The RG loss in round 3 is too hard to forget. I still don’t understand how he could lose the match after being 2 sets up. At this point the odds are heavily stacked against him. Only providence can give him another slam.

[P R Vinod @vinodrammohan]

What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity https://t.co/E6Cy1jTVU8

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

How to avoid tons of life problems:

go to bed on time.