Vivek Khandelwal

Founder @cogniswitch.ai. Earlier built iZooto. In Hyd and Jaipur. IITB Alum.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

/goal and auto-mode are insane tools to use if you can plan really reallly really well.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@viraj_shoor hello hello

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

Typed a 3 page document. This has never been worth tweeting about. Beat that.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

What’s this self healing flywheel jargon being thrown around.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@apnerve Thanks for being helpful.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

It’s very difficult to fuck up my name. Not in India. I have seen Viwek. Bibek. Even WeWake. This one was a first.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@Netra Here you go

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@apnerve @DrinkPrime Almost always stay away from cos funded by ______ Or be very very cautious

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@rashidhamalik People have gone through worse. Also, have you met the Americans? Some of those can really butcher names.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@rvivek Been looking at those two lines on that domain for over a decade.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

You think reading ai slop is difficult? Try listening to it. Makes you want to leave the room.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@nbaschez see what the folks @SparklinGuy is doing with makior - all of this for design.

[Sooraj Chandran @soorajchandran_]

Reminder: Hiring AI engineers

If you are a curious, AI-pilled, scrappy and product-minded engineer, this might be a good fit.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@_shankarganesh @WisprFlow Yes

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@MANSAFAB @Ankit_A Sure. Dm?

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@caleb_friesen I get it’s cool to make these videos. But this is literally the highway road.

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

@hardik Used it until last year. I think this was the ONLY consumer app after excel and word that they got right

[Jen Abel @jjen_abel]

how is this not more obvious?

- no one clicks the link
- no one looks at looms
- no one hits “see more”
- no one looks at case studies
- no one looks at your attachments

unless, it’s co-authored …

[Vivek Khandelwal @vivekk]

Different shape of knowledge and a different consumer ( agent not human) definitely warrants a different format, different structure. Context window has helped but we will go back to square one. The 1M /2M windows hit the same ceiling.
One person says md files. Another person says html is cooler than md. There is no end to this. Trivial stuff - sure. Md files get you decently far. Enterprise workflows are highly repetitive and that’s where usability matters. Summarize reddit and send to slack / workflow - worked before md files. We have got to look past that.