One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.
An Indian engineer in Bengaluru got tired of potholes destroying his car.
So he built an app with Codex that detects them, finds who is responsible, and files a complaint.
Here is how it works. He installed a dashcam with GPS and an accelerometer. The app records everything while he drives.
A vision model classifies every pothole by size. Small, medium, large.
But here is the clever part. Most Indian roads are under warranty.
The contractor who built them is legally responsible for fixing potholes for free.
His app searches through 2,900 government contracts, finds the exact tender number, identifies the officer responsible, attaches the photo and geolocation, and generates a ready-to-file complaint.
One drive to work. 12 potholes detected. 12 complaints ready.
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This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?"
$0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes.
Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.
if your parents are 60 and above, please pay solid attention;
one of the hardest things about growing up is realizing your parents are aging while you're still busy becoming. you keep thinking there will be another holiday, another phone call or another weekend when you're less busy.
meanwhile, they're getting older in the background of your life.
the stories you've heard 10 times, the questions you've answered before, the little things you find yourself impatient with today may become the exact things that will go extinct or you would give anything to experience again later.
we spend so much time preparing for the future that we forget some people we love are already moving toward a future where we won't have them.
so call them , visit them, sit beside them without needing a reason
one day, just one day, you'll understand that those ordinary moments were never ordinary. buena suerte 👍
Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.
In most professions, when you hit the 90th percentile in technical skill, the best use of your time is getting 90th percentile soft skills
the best barbers are therapists
the best photographers are comedians
the best engineers are iconoclastic cult leaders that inspire their team with a vision nobody else can see, and even fewer can beleive
stop maxing out your CAD skills, and start dreaming bigger!
Life pro tip. Not enough people talk about this. The secret to having a "fulfilling" life is doing new things. Radically doing new things. Consistently. Every day. New activities, people, goals, even something as simple as trying new foods. Life feels longer when you're a kid because every day is packed with almost infinite amount of new learning. As you get older, you've already acclimated to your environment, the new inputs stop, so your perception of time speeds up drastically. You fall into routine, which is a time accelerant. If you want to feel like you have a long infinite lifespan, like you did as a child, you MUST be having new experiences, which slows time down.
Hard truth nobody wants to say…
One after another, countries are taking action against Muslims. Not because they hate Islam, but because too many Muslims have failed to live peacefully within other societies. You move into a place, reject their culture, demand Sharia, call everything haram, and turn the same people who accepted you into enemies. Then you act shocked when they respond.
Japanese bullet train Shinkansen was delayed by 35 seconds! The conductor apologised to all passengers and refunded their tickets! Japan is truly an amazing nation of discipline and commitment for all of us to learn from.
Operation SINDOOR wasn’t just a strike—it was India’s hi-tech war debut. Homegrown missiles, attack drones, jammers, radars & satellites. Pakistan’s China-Turkey tech was jammed & shredded.
This was ‘Made in India’s biggest agnipariksha.
My take:
building a team for tiktok narrative shaping.
need all the support we can get.
editors.
researchers.
script writers.
creators.
NRIs who can monitor.
please amplify.
if you are one of these or just want to help, reach out.
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My dad once told me in the car:
“You’re either an investor or an expense tracker. One is wealthy and the other one is always poor.”
I still think about this.