VISHAL

[VISHAL @vishalpore]

@DPrasanthNair It showed me 28kgs once … I lost sleep over that ..

[VISHAL @vishalpore]

@DefenceBrat Not surprised. Chitale Bandhu is notorious about carry bags (I don’t mean plastic bags). They don’t understand customer service. The vibe is still of the 90s…

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

It looks like Disney sold us the same animation for years.

[speaknsee @speaknsee]

The "Meaning of the Desk Slap" Jaishankar throws down after his statement,

" A terrorist is asking me that question"?

India/Jaishankar knows what's happening.

On-and-off buttons. 🇺🇸💪🇮🇳🧐 Smack on this!

@DrSJaishankar @realDonaldTrump @narendramodi @SecRubio

[Artem Zakharchenko @kettanaito]

Every single one public speaker alive is anxious and freaking out before they go onto stage. Every single one. You learn to hide and play into it with experience, but the nerves never go away.

[Pritam Chauhan @Im_pritam18]

Dr. Pratosh at IISc Bengaluru tells his students that rapid advances in AI are commoditizing intellectual labour.

He raises an unsettling question: if companies stop recruiting on campus in the next 5–10 years—even at India’s top universities—what will the purpose of a university education be ?

A must watch video for everyone in tech

[EtheREAL Gyal⚡️ @milahdoll]

I could watch this over and over

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

If you are a reader rather than a listener, here's the companion blog post I wrote for this podcast episode!

https://t.co/kSMmXrbsAr

[Josh Long @starbuxman]

Amazing

[Autodesk Platform Services (formerly Forge) @AutodeskAPS]

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[kripal amanna @kripalamanna]

URGENT: Please help us locate my brother-in-law, V.S. Balasubramanyam (Bali), a US citizen of Indian origin.
Bali was travelling with the Isha Foundation S3 Kailash/Mansarovar group.
His last known phone location, confirmed to his family by Andhra Bhavan, New Delhi, was the Chinese Immigration Centre at Gyirong, Tibet, on the morning of August 26, when the devastating flash flood struck.
His family has had no contact with him since, and his current status is unknown.
If anyone has information about Bali or the S3 group at the Gyirong immigration centre, please DM me.
Please RT 🙏 and share this widely. @MEAIndia @USAndIndia
@Sadhguru @IshaFoundation

[Caught At Silly Point @atsillypoint]

Cameron Green was born with a kidney condition that doctors said might not let him live past 12. He runs on 60% kidney function, a restricted diet, and a spine held together with screws and titanium wire. Today he stood alone between Bangladesh and history. Whatever the scorecard finally says, I back this man.

Understand what his body asks of him before you judge his numbers. Green's chronic kidney disease was detected at his mother's 19-week scan, and his parents were told their son might not see his teens. The kidneys filter at around 60%, stage two of a five-stage disease where stage five means dialysis or transplant, and the damage is irreversible, so every day is management: salt kept low, protein kept low, which he admits is a strange way to fuel a 6'6" professional athlete, hydration watched, cramps a recurring tax. He revealed all of this publicly in December 2023, not for sympathy but to drag attention to a disease millions manage silently, and Cricket Australia later honoured his work with Kidney Health Australia. The boy who might not have made 12 chose to become the face of the condition instead.

Then there's the spine. When Green missed the 2024-25 summer against India, the shorthand was "another stress fracture." The truth was his fifth, and the response was the most drastic option in fast bowling: flying to Christchurch in October 2024 for surgeon Grahame Inglis to fix screws and titanium wire into his lower back, the same operation Bumrah once needed, undertaken specifically so that Green the all-rounder would survive rather than just Green the batter. Two weeks off his legs, months of rebuilding, a county stint at Gloucestershire to relearn his game, and nearly a year before he was cleared to bowl. Most players fight for form. Green fights for the right to have a body that lets form exist.

And when the body allows, the gifts are not in dispute. A match-winning 174 not out in New Zealand. Genuine pace and late outswing when the back permits. One of the safest pairs of hands in world cricket. Today in Darwin, with Australia collapsing around him and Bangladesh smelling their first-ever Test win on Australian soil, it was Green, 100 through four hours, nursing the tail, playing the loneliest innings of the series. The failures are real, and I won't pretend otherwise; the first-innings 13 was part of a genuine lean run. But the ledger you judge him on must include what he pays just to stand at the crease.

Shane Watson rebuilt himself past a body that kept betraying him and became an era. I think Cameron Green has that road in him, and days like today are why. Some cricketers are backed because of their numbers. This one, I back because of everything the numbers will never show.

[Sandesh Patel @ItsSuperBrown]

I think I downloaded the wrong A Few Good Men.

[VISHAL @vishalpore]

@hthieblot https://t.co/8tmvmsCq82

[harshit @harshitmul]

https://t.co/MjWeb0fFPY

[VISHAL @vishalpore]

@OversLife Adam parore

[VISHAL @vishalpore]

@BabajiSutar3 Dion Nash

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Satya’s post is worth reading closely because it gets at the real AI question for companies.

Who captures the learning?

His argument is that companies are becoming a new kind of learning system.

People bring judgment, taste, relationships, context and ambition. AI brings scale, memory, reasoning and execution. The value comes from building a loop where the company gets smarter every time work happens.

The important asset is the learning system around the model.

That system is built from the record of how work actually gets done. Workflow traces show the path people take. Corrections reveal judgment. Accepted outputs show what good looks like. Rejected approaches sharpen the standard.

Private evaluations, domain-specific context and institutional memory give that learning structure.

Over time, the company starts to retain more of what used to disappear inside meetings, edits, comments, decisions and individual experience.

That is the learning loop Satya is pointing at.

The judgment that once lived in a few people’s heads can become part of how the company operates.

[Sundeep Misra @MisraSundeep]

To truly understand Jaspal Rana, you have to look past the medals and understand the space he occupied, the very culture he helped shape. Shaping culture is how you change a nation’s sport. Look at the impact of a Bill Russell, Johan Cruyff or a Kenny Dalglish.

I’ve never met the man. To me, he was always this mysterious, incredibly strong character, so deeply defined by his sport that you wished he could be loaned out to other disciplines. In today’s world, you almost wish we could create AI models of him, clones dropped into different sports systems to disrupt age-old, self-serving processes and to crush the comfortable myths about coaching we so dearly hold onto.

He was a remarkably handsome man whose sharp demeanour on and off the range defined not just himself, but the sport of shooting in India. He gave it an attitude.

In sport, you hear a lot of stories, but Milan in 1994 reads like a movie script. On the eve of the Junior World Championships, Rana was hospitalized with a painful boil on his knee that would have required surgery. Refusing to miss the event, he practically escaped the hospital with his coach. Overnight, the boil burst. By morning, the leg was badly swollen. He literally cut his jeans into shorts to compete. Refused painkillers fearing a doping violation. Sleep-deprived and in terrible pain, he just hoped to finish. Instead, he shot a 569, won World Championship gold, and set a Junior World Record. A legend was born.

We talk about legacy loosely these days, but Rana earned his. Transitioning to the coach’s chair, he brought that same intensity. He possessed a rare ability to not just spot talent, but to recreate it, winning gold. It wasn’t just training athletes; it was reshaping their destinies.

Indian sport has too many knee-benders, characters who blend into the background to keep their motors purring comfortably. A force like Rana stood out because he proved that champions only emerge when a system is thoroughly disrupted. In a world of diplomatic coaches, happy to pile on international miles without a coherent strategy, Rana was the catalyst. He shook the system, made people uncomfortable, but left it stronger and victorious. Time, however, always falls short for such men.
📸 Courtesy: Pankaj Sharma
#jaspalrana #shooting #rana
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