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Apurva Hendi

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Combinations I like — govt & startups, culture & econ, philosophy & space, asceticism & wealth. Product @UltrahumanHQ . Writing .

UAE 🇦🇪 • Bengaluru 🇮🇳

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Apurva Hendi

3 months

Three and half years in a high functioning startup can feel like a lifetime—blurring the memory of what came before. My time at Ultrahuman has been transformative—it's when I did what I believe is my life’s best work, with countless new experiences and firsts.

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@Rainmaker1973 Forget getting hurt, I feel violated after seeing this vid

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The way to forget the insults is to not take in the compliments in the first place. — @naval

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It’s kinda eerie how many times @naval crystallises my melting thoughts.

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Watching a keynote sesh from 2011 when @naval said “....there’s a company called Uber” Software Eats The World ✌🏼🤖

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So cute. Classic @naval .

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Guess who likes BLR rains more than me 🌈

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It’s astonishing how ignorant a person of your cachet can be. You are, by far the biggest clown I know. @RahulGandhi

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I will keep repeating this. The #coronavirus is a huge problem. Ignoring the problem is a non solution. The Indian economy will be destroyed if strong action is not taken. The government is in a stupor.

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I recently took to learning more about #Basavanna and his philosophy. Troubled by the religious polarity in my country, I turned to his Vachanas to seek substance and direction. The experience has been truly liberating!

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Society is designed for mediocrity.

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When I leave 🏡 vs when I come back 🏡 From the stationery store. After 10 minutes.

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Deepavali light testing

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Professor of Peace and Conflict Research espouses wanton vandalism

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“Your brain is most intelligent when you don’t instruct it on what to do—something people who take showers discover on occasion.” —NNT

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Kannada is so eloquent and persuasive. How can I say ಒಲವು (Olavu) in English that carries the breadth and depth of ಒಲವು.

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Today I complete my 60mins x 60days of meditation. I’d been meditating for about 20 mins everyday for the last 6-8 months but this practice remains highly differentiated. The journey is powerful and inexplicable — just something you have to do yourself to understand fully.

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Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing:

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Terrific conversation bw @naval & @ToKTeacher about defining Science, Popperian Falsification, David Deutsch’s ‘Beginning of Infinity’, Pessimism, Democracy, Error Correction & more. Bret was one of the people I wanted to see with Naval on CH. Others being Kapil G and NNT.

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Memes are nearly as powerful cultural universals as music.

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I think I found my theme for this year — Lead, follow or get out of the way.

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Balance is quixotic; Moderates don’t make history.

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“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you’re not allowed to criticise.”

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#COVID2019india #COVID

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A scheduled life is not worth living.

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Last year this time, I missed the midnight countdown b/c I was so involved in writing my bschool essays hoping to get recruited into US startups in 2024 for the same role I’m almost a year into now. Not to mention the 1.5-2cr saved JLT.

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Thinking of posting my favourite pieces from #TheUpanishads as I read it. This could be a long thread. You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. 1/n

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"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world." — Miyamoto Musashi

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Unconscionable. Find less horrible ways to cover up your incompetence before it's voting day.

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If we form govt in Punjab in 2022, then we will give every woman of the state, who is above 18 years of age, Rs 1000 per month. If a family has 3 female members then each will get Rs 1000. This'll be the world's biggest women empowerment program: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in Moga

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haven’t been able to focus on much else since they arrived

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Caffeine is a fascinating molecule and one of nature’s best gifts to humanity. It’s the most widely popular (permissible) drug consumed by billions, daily. If you’re an active user, it’s worth figuring out how to make caffeine work for you. For the love of caffeine, we built a

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The cheapest VR is a good book.

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Dad and I were chatting the other night about an ethical dilemma I was struggling with. He said something so counterintuitive yet profound; he said ‘if you want to suffer, focus on yourself.’

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Reassuring to learn that there’s now an open dialogue about regulation rather than ban of cryptocurrencies in India. @Tejasvi_Surya I urge you to take a stand and represent me and the 7+ millions like me who believe that India needs to adopt progressive crypto policies.

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RAJYA SABHA STRARRED QUESTION NO. *79 TRADING IN #CRYPTOCURRENCY Answered by MoS @ianuragthakur | @FinMinIndia |

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Sell without selling they say..

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I was amazed to see 200+ women in tech/product in BLR show up yesterday. Fun evening w @joulee and @TheProductfolks ✨

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I'll be at the Tete-a-Tete with @joulee (hosted by @TheProductfolks ) this Friday! ☺️ If you are a woman in tech and interested, register here: .

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Scribblings from The Mahabharat Dharma is like the Sun, ever shining and bright and brings the day and love is like the moon, comforting but also brings darkness.

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We can’t do this lockdown anymore, Yeddy

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"Don’t spend what you haven’t earned. Avoid financial debt. Don’t spend money you haven’t earned. Avoid social debt. Don’t spend goodwill you haven’t earned. Avoid calendar debt. Don’t spend (free) time you haven’t earned." – @JamesClear

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@Soumyadipta This weakens the premise that Rhea being badgered by the media was a staged attempt to create sympathy no?

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Something miraculous happens when you become an observer of your own self—you're able to dispassionately surveil your decisions and outcomes; mentor yourself. Meditation gives you the time and space for that. It's personal housekeeping.

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👋🏼 🤖

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A sizeable population of India is still weary & pessimistic about tech—this sort of cultural backwardness can cost us decades worth of innovation & sovereignty if ignored. So glad to see the likes of @RMantri @APanagariya talk to & play tech evangelists for young Indians.

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"The two skills of modern business: Storytelling and spreadsheets. Know the numbers. Craft the narrative." – @JamesClear

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Once, it’s forgiven; twice, it’s a reputation.

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This is how my 86 y/o gmom keeps track of her walks. The stones in the picture mean she’s completed 4 rounds of walking and has 6 more to go.. 😊

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@paarugsethi the rich guy in BLR you’re describing is probably from Delhi

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3 years

Keeping in touch with friends through memes is smart, not lazy. Humans have an insatiable need to belong with other humans. Meme-makers understand this psyche very well. The more idiosyncratic the meme, the higher the likelihood of belongingness.

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A meta thread of threads :-)

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I spent the last 24hrs rather interestingly. 24hr long dry (no water*, no food) & speech fast. Out of which, I spent ~10 hours still, in meditation. Purely for the joy of testing & pushing my body’s limits. Also so I could appreciate this pizza I’m about to eat very much 🍕

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What have we done to deserve such good weather in BLR 🥺

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Good place to think.

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‘Did you eat?’ texts are just pure.

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When you’re learning words for GRE Verbal..

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I highly recommend @iam_preethi 's crypto course to those who want to transcend the crypto-babble and strap onto something with roots. She dissects the Bitcoin whitepaper, how peers in the network communicate, how miners are incentivised, bitcoin privacy, the UTXO model etc

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Now for some media —

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Talk is cheap. Trust those who show up.

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It’s so poetically fulfilling to lose sleep over the very thing that gifts you good sleep (of many things) :-) Building something incredible with the team here @UltrahumanHQ 🚀

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A good example of my decision making ability.

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A good way to judge one’s depth of character could be to understand what quality of compliments they truly enjoy getting.

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Love is not overrated; the idea of love is. On the contrary, love is hard to come by.

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Van Gogh on unrealised talent—Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney.

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✅ Created an account ✅ Completed KYC ✅ Traded All under 5 mins on @WazirXIndia 🚀🤯

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Desirable products are to the Information Age what competitive pricing was to the Industrial Age.

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This is probably the most obnoxious thing I'll say in public but if I could take a pill or drink something which tends to my daily nutrient & calorie requirements, I would happily do it. Masticating is a daily waste of time. I would, however, eat leisurely on vacation.

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@paraschopra No room for audacity, wonder and magic.

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The same cyclone that wreaks havoc to some brings good weather to the others. This is the order of nature.

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When you agree with everything they say, you can be sure you’re living with a borrowed belief system.

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You get the things you really want not by getting them but by not wanting them anymore. It's a bittersweet realisation. I recall an excellent quote by Jed Mckenna — you don’t wake up by perfecting your dream character, you wake up by breaking free of it.

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The reason to win the game is so that you can be free of it.

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Oh, all the perfunctory love and respect for women today :-)

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87 today 👵🏼

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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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It’s both terrifying and amazing at once to realise that, as the only child, I get to be the only one in the world to carry fwd the legacy of a wonderful human being that is my father.

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Praise and criticism are both unnatural things. World’s praise creates pride, and its criticism creates animus. — @KapilGuptaMD

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If you plan to marry at all, marry early. It’s not as much about ‘personal choice’ as it about good decision making. And not being a total sociopath.

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A kid in a candy store 🍭

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Why India Should Buy Bitcoin ⁦ @balajis ⁩

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'To try and pass on knowledge to someone without them seeking it is a recipe for disaster'

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3 years

Pain is the most profound emotion to exist. Observing Partition Horrors Remembrance Day will change things for India importantly. Touching our wounds and remembering our pain will prevent us from damaging ourselves further. Also, Happy Indian Independence Day! 🇮🇳

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I never got to see my grandfather. But I was always told that we’re similar in a lot of ways and I found it preposterous to compare to me a man so great. I still do. Yesterday, my mom found one of his books while cleaning. The same one that I’d added to my reading list on Kindle.

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The @UltrahumanHQ Ring sizing kit has arrived and it’s magnificent. 🔥

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Nobody believes that I can recall the time when this picture was being taken.

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Happy Deepavali 🪔

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Sharing as I read: My favorite pieces from #Meditations by Marcus Aurelius In man’s life his time is a mere instant, his existence a flux, his perception fogged, his whole bodily composition rotting, his mind a whirligig, his fortunes unpredictable, his fame unclear. 1/n

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The desire to be detached is as suicidal, if not more, as being attached. The truth lies in neither.

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It’s fascinating—the friends I try to keep in touch w showed up at our close friend’s wedding many hrs late. & the friends I fail to keep in touch w—visited me at the hospital, picked me up from the airport, ate breakfast w me. Both excellent btw—just diff people w diff values.

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“Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.” —Ronald Reagan

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Given that the pandemic has rendered traditional exam-taking unfeasible, the open-book exam culture can be providential. The genius of Indians is corrupted by rote learning; we need more of us to think critically, be resourceful and think on the feet.

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Minutes from a recent podcast of the @bharatvaarta w the magnanimous, @svembu . He talks about 'transnational localism', true sense of self-reliance, edu/ upskilling, forsaken ITI's, ramping up production know-how, policymaking and more in the Indian context. #BuildForIndia 1

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We should bring back hanging with each other at our homes. It occurred to me today when I paid an arbitrary visit to a friend's friend's home. From knowing nothing at all about her to learning little things about her territory was wonderful!

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Software literacy is an emerging dominant race which will be a superset of all other races. Acknowledged or not, we’re in a global software apartheid. The world will be divided into software literates and software illiterates; the latter being the marginalised group.

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So many friends, so few friendships.

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"Go to a country where everybody hates you and try to talk to everybody all day, it's a good time" — @Austen on @StoaHQ

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This was an idea I proposed to my prof for my final year engg project and I was told it doesn’t sit well with ‘industrial engineering’. Plus the college won’t fund it. 👀

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Drones are used to spread seeds at scale and grow trees in remote areas

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me after I heard Huberman's benefits of morning sunlight exposure (the same didactic advice I got from gmom that was brushed off)

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It helps to think of relatives as incubators that prepare us for the real, uncaring and opinionated world.

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Sister (who just woke up): Yo, you want chai? Me: Yes S: What you drinking? M: Chai

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Here's to a man who showed how an average, middle-class engineering student can dream big, question the status-quo and be whoever the hell they wanted to be. It'll never be the same without you, @itsSSR .

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I write to remember as much as to forget.

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Umar Bhar Ghalib Yahi Bhool Karta Raha Dhool Chehare Pe Thi Aur Aaeena Saaf Karata Raha

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