Visakh Nair

Data analytics lead in gaming | Stockholm 🇸🇪 | Author of UPI: The Inside Story | Writing about AI, FinTech & tech on Medium | Horror fiction on the side

[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

Why can a vegetable vendor in Indore accept digital payments instantly and for free, while small businesses in New York still pay 3% to Visa?

The answer is in my book.

https://t.co/Xt3ZBg0gEK

[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

Everyone's writing about Vijay's win as a celebrity-politics moment.

It isn't.

It's a fifteen-year distribution moat finally getting a name. The fan clubs were the moat. The party was just the launch event.

https://t.co/hKd1evyqmD

#TamilNadu #Vijay

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Read the full post on Medium https://t.co/qZRbEsTPkE

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1/ I thought Vijay's politics was a vanity project.
Tamil Nadu just proved me wrong.
A thread on the most significant single-state political shift in India in twenty years, and what I missed.

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6/ The win wasn't clean. The Karur stampede in September 2025 killed 41 at a Vijay rally. The same machine that delivered 108 seats also delivered Karur. Voters didn't appear to factor it in.
Whether he can govern is a separate question.
I was wrong to dismiss him. Trying not to be wrong in the other direction now.

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[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

I grew up in India watching cash rule everything. Then, almost overnight, a billion people started paying with a tap. I wanted to understand how that happened. So I wrote a book about it. 📖

UPI: How India Built the World's Most Successful Digital Payments System — out now!
👉 https://t.co/7EIxUKY10L
#UPI #FinTech #DigitalPayments #India #IndiaFinTech #DigitalIndia #NewBook #NonFiction #BookTwitter #PayTech

[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

I deleted 1,000 Chrome bookmarks one by one. No folders. No backup. Just gone.

What happened next changed how I think about productivity forever.

https://t.co/XNrJuWOSJu

#productivity #secondbrain #digitaldeclutter #pkm #buildinpublic

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One Ring to Rule Them All: Oura vs. Ultrahuman https://t.co/UasqV4H2NB #wearabletech #oura #ultrahuman

[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

@DanDotLewis I think you might find this interesting for a Now I Know edition: Rain gambling from colonial era India https://t.co/XQxvX4HeMq

[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

I just published You Don’t Want to Code Anymore? I Get It. https://t.co/VNz395Q0Oi #careerhelp #burnout

[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

Why I Ditched Every Productivity App for Apple Notes: The ritual, not the app, is what keeps me moving forward https://t.co/Xej5O4fTnM #ProductivityTools #TimeManagement #digitalminimalism

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From Spare Rooms to Super-App: Airbnb’s Long Game in India https://t.co/ubgubbHI5z #AirbnbIndia #StartupIndia #TravelTech #BrianChesky #AirbnbFuture #IndiaTravel #TechInIndia #HospitalityTech #AirbnbStory #DigitalIndia #TravelInnovation #PlatformEconomy #SuperApp #GenZTravel

[Visakh Nair @visakhcr]

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No utility. Just pure meme energy.
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Mission Finn-possible: Tom Cruise hunts for a Swan in Finland https://t.co/q05dmyJ2Wl
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