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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

6 months

@SFBART April Fools isn't till tomorrow!

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@knshkvshsht

9 months

Super excited to announce Construct - a new way for people to build and share software using only their words. We're opening up our closed beta to the public today. Please sign up at for early access :)

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@pmarca We won't sign the letters. We won't eat the bugs. We won't live in the pods. We will have a free and open AI controlled by nobody.

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@annaarthoe the friend thing isnt all that new - theres a 100 apps like it and maybe 10 other wearables doing it. mkbhd is right to expect more.

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2 years

Beyond excited to share that @reggylong and I are joining @southpkcommons FF4! I’m humbled by how bold, intelligent and visionary the SPC community is 🚀 Cybersecurity will be one of the hardest and most valuable areas to work in and we can’t wait to tackle it head on!

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6 months

Congrats! In retrospect, you will realize this is a feature not a bug

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6 months

I got rejected by @stanford today (I'm still gonna change the world though)

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2 months

@historyinmemes looking good @elonmusk

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8 months

Meet Construct Drag and Drop 🛠️ Simply drag an element and write a sentence. That’s it. App made 🤯

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2 years

@debarghya_das also a morally bankrupt company lol

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7 months

@debarghya_das bro how come you didnt go?

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Kanishk

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2 years

Here’s a hot take: Indians outside India: High agency, get shit done, take over the world. Indians at Home: progress held back by the political system, generally DGAF at work (personal anecdotal experience) What structurally changes? are high agency ppl too comf at home?

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2 years

@debarghya_das The rhetoric that India will be like America in 10 years is something I’ve heard my whole life. It’s always 10 years away.

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5 months

@packyM @basedsystems Organic Hagedorn

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@knshkvshsht

5 months

@0interestrates When was the last time that Steve Jobs, James Dyson et al. shipped something barely serviceable? If the rabbit guy had time to larp around as steve jobs, he should have shipped a product of the same level.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

1 year

Can't recommend SPC enough. Best decision of my life.

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

1 year

Applications for the next @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship are setting the fastest pace ever. You can feel the acceleration. Founders are excited to build. If you're thinking about it, apply sooner rather than later!

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8 months

@pmarca this was 1986.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

3 months

first time founders: work second time founders: incessantly post nonsense on twitter

Dan Siroker

@dsiroker

3 months

First-time founders: push back date night to work on their startup Second-time founders: prioritize ruthlessly so they don’t miss date night I made up for a lack of focus as a first-time founder with sheer hours. I worked every waking hour, basically. Now... (🧵)

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Kanishk

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2 years

Which Venmo PM feels the compulsive need to redesign the app every week?

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4 months

@iamgingertrash why does he live rent free in your head

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2 years

@debarghya_das Dont you know that this is India’s year, decade, century? We’re going to abolish the west with our talent and tailwinds. Pune is the new hub of all technology, and the center of intellectual gravity. We’re going to outsource our engineering to California and Miami. Apna time hai

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@knshkvshsht

4 months

@MaxBrodeurUrbas why dont they just use ramp?

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

7 months

🚨Construct Weekend Drop 🚨 Hacked out a simple database viewer to help people understand the data their apps are storing :) Check it out:

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

1 year

Todays the day silicon valley moves from AI to VR

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@knshkvshsht

4 months

DJI Ban about to pass thanks to Drone Karen ( @EliseStefanik ) who tacked it onto a major defense bill.

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

@itsvarora @bryce something something web3 permissionless software something

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@knshkvshsht

11 months

@saranormous In framing this as a safety win, he has alienated the center, leading to more on the side of e/acc as compared to decel. Psyduck hurt himself in confusion.

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2 months

@MjahadSalim @annaarthoe yeah its like they dont even have a positive vision for their own product

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

7 months

In silicon valley, we emphasize enterprise innovation and complexity, but simplicity is the true winner in the market: Canva is 10x bigger than Figma is 10x bigger than Airtable Apple Notes is 100x bigger than Notion

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2 years

the lamest thing you can do when your friend tells you their startup idea is to send them competitors

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2 years

@debarghya_das if you were in bangalore you would be safe - deshdrohi gets what he deserves imo.

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

@UpSkillYourLife almost all these books are terrible or wrong lol have you read any of them?

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

Attending Columbia and migrating to the US were probably the two best opportunities/decisions of my life. Atleast once per day, Columbia is helpful to me and the ability to live in the greatest country in the world with the freedom to be who you want is amazing.

Deedy

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2 years

1/13 A video by @VarunMayya and @AevyTv criticizes studying abroad with "data-driven" LIES. I've helped 1000s of Indian school students for free for 10+ years go to college in the US. They've paid off loans and made $Xm+ over this time. Let's unpack 9 misleads and myths spread:

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2 years

@aviralbhat This is so disingenuous because Ethereum is the only “company” of its kind. The “market cap” of Ethereum is not tied to any revenue stream, or cash flows. Its the monetary supply of a publicly governed currency.

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@knshkvshsht

9 months

Big things coming ;)

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@knshkvshsht

7 months

Founders, sales is F***NG hard. Especially if you have no experience. Thats why we're launching a new blog series called "0 to $1M ARR". We'll share tons of free tools, advice from amazing founders and more. Follow along here:

$0 -> $1M ARR For Technical Founders

A series and collections of tools on how to build a successful sales process

useconstruct.substack.com

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

@debarghya_das Tbf, winning in Android, Ads (OoH), Entertainment (youtube), science (deepmind), investing/venture (GV, Capital G), self driving, email and calendar, home automation (Nest)

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@knshkvshsht

3 months

Hot take: The AI killer app is not here yet and we are mostly living in a VC-funded boom of impressive demos or very marginal improvements.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

9 months

Thank you to @bensbitesdaily for the shoutout today! <3

Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

9 months

Super excited to announce Construct - a new way for people to build and share software using only their words. We're opening up our closed beta to the public today. Please sign up at for early access :)

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1 year

Silicon Valley is awesome - in a sticky situation and every single founder I've messaged has sent me a time to connect this week.

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@knshkvshsht

7 months

@sincethestudy small startup in Seattle called aws

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

@debarghya_das typical anti nationalist tweet

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

@mikekarnj This is the @southpkcommons Founder Fellowship! 400k @ 7% to find the idea thats going to be really big, or as they say “going -1 to 0”. Excellent support system, talks with great founders and a lot of idea maze travelling! I’m in the current batch, happy to answer q’s.

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@knshkvshsht

11 months

@parkerconrad what do you expect from people that want to see the world move backwards?

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

Check out @helnzhou @arnaudai @ShaunSims7 @tylermyracle @victorhunt_ @dhruv_guliani to see what others in our cohort are up to! & special shout out to @finn_meeks @adityaag @rsanghvi @bchandras3karan for making SPC awesome 🚀

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

@sjwhitmore As a large language model trained by Domino’s pizza I don’t understand what “enough cheese so it tastes good but not so much that I die” means…

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

Get in touch if you want to hear more about what we’re working on, give us some advice or just say hi!

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

11 months

"Spotify (Galileo's Version)" looks much better than Spotify. This is whats exciting about AI - taking our A to A+.

Ben Kolde

@benkolde

11 months

She broke Spotify, so I used @Galileo_AI to create an app for 1989 (Taylor's Version)

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

3 months

@RubenHssd what does the html that it wrote look like? whats the point of this thread if you dont show that?

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

big

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

2 years

Congrats to the team @SwadeshHQ on the round! Swadesh (YC S19) is building the world's first neobank for Indian expats. They just launched zero-balance U.S. bank accounts that can be opened from India with just an Indian passport & U.S. Visa in 3 minutes:

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Kanishk

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2 years

Why wouldn't you work at a startup right now? If you're going to put in 60 hours a week+ for stock and lower pay, you might as well own the product and ship meaningful shit.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

1 year

United airlines should just change their name to “We apologize for the delay airlines”

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

8 months

Since we ditched Slack, our 5-person company is faster + working on more important tasks.

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6 months

@deedydas I think we'll hit ~50% on SWE Bench in 6 months.

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@knshkvshsht

7 months

@petergyang Hey @petergyang - I built this in 5 minutes using @OnConstruct :D Get your own copy and make any changes here:

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

if the rain stopped you from going to the office today, ngmi.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

One of the best decisions we made! Reach out if you have any questions! :D

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

1/ We've all felt the pace of technological change pick up recently. That shift signals opportunity. It's the best time to build in a generation, and we're thrilled to open applications for the next $400k Founder Fellowship to help you do it. 🧵on how:

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

8 months

Everyone believes that the next leapfrog in AI is bigger and smarter models but the real trend is holding intelligence where it is and making the models smaller

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

4 months

Looking back, all my bad decisions havent been a result of a knowledge gap, but of too much expertise getting in the way of a good idea.

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@knshkvshsht

6 months

👀 👀 congrats @adityaag @rsanghvi and @southpkcommons ❤️

Aditya Agarwal

@adityaag

6 months

Told you we wanted to see applications from Indian founders @southpkcommons . @rsanghvi and I are incredibly excited to work with @binnybansal to bring the -1 to 0 approach to India. More soon.

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Kanishk

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7 months

@pronounced_kyle while its certainly close to human knowledge, its certainly very far from human intelligence today.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

In retrospect, this was the top (July 18th).

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4 months

@asallen I find myself wondering whether they spend more time on the features or the press releases

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2 months

@HamelHusain the demo is great and the product doesnt work

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

"Greek Emperor" filter on my friend's AI app. Next year Halloween is settled.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

11 months

"There's nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come" It's so awesome to see two really amazing and passionate people bring their vision to life - and certainly an idea whose time has come

Arnaud Benard

@arnaudai

11 months

Super excited to be able to share this with you all! We're entering a new revolution in interface design!

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

goodnight

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

9 months

I’ll take the other side here 😊 I strongly believe that open source will beat OpenAI on many dimensions. As a % of completions, I think this is already the case that open source AI is serving more completions than GPT-4. Mainly due to cost, specific task training and

Arnaud Benard

@arnaudai

9 months

if you think open-source models will beat gpt-4 this year, you're wrong. i worked at top ai research labs (google ai) and built open-source libraries with > 5M monthly downloads. gpt-4 is one year old and so far, no model matches it, here's why: 1. talent - openai recruited

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

gamechanger

South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

2 years

Today we're excited to announce our newest experiment in helping talented technologists navigate -1 to 0: the $25k SPC Community Grant. Think of it as funding to work on your side project in the SPC community. Here's what we're looking to support 👇

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

1 year

The first cappuccino of the week represents hope. The last one represents acceptance.

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

@typesfast @coffeelance Another explanation is that educated people in corrupt countries follow the law because they see how corruption ruins a country, and those in non-corrupt countries just do it to avoid punishment.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

Everyone was always on about “How is this app free?” - congrats, you convinced someone to fix the market inefficiency.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

8 months

Playing the metagame like this is nonsense. You should have strongly held beliefs that are well thought out and if they go against the crowd then so be it. BTW, telling an audience that prides its contrarian-ness to conform, is in fact, a very poor attempt at being a

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@knshkvshsht

8 months

@pmarca Software people don't think hardware is easy

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

DPS Mathura?? 😂

peeleraja

@peeleraja

2 years

Every city has one super elite school where all the fancy people go. Bombay - Dhirubhai Ambani International Bangalore - Mallya Aditi International Delhi - DPS Mathura Road Dehra Doon - Doon School Kolkata - South Point

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Kanishk

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9 months

You asked, we delivered. Custom layouts now live on Construct :) Simple + intuitive drag and drop editor to resize and arrange views however you want them. Check it out now: 😁

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

Every few years, CERN announces a great advance and my latent regret for not becoming a particle physicist comes back. Physics is pretty much one of the most exciting things out there. Here’s a photo from when I visited CMS in 2014.

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@knshkvshsht

9 months

@isaachasson what are we getting for all the spend

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@knshkvshsht

4 months

Ever wondered how corrupt the medical device system is? @reggylong just took a vanilla CPAP and made it a BiPAP with a simple software change.

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@knshkvshsht

11 months

The Ai Pin may be silly but its a welcome departure from the otherwise homogenous vomit of b2b saas startups.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

1 year

just do @southpkcommons 🤷‍♂️

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1 year

Accelerator wars I have never seen YC be on such offensive so publicly in 9ish years I have followed the tech scene

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2 years

I’m so grateful to not be in generative AI right now. The flip side of “fast moving water” is thats also where most of the drowning happens lol.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

Bear market is for the builders

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

Computers made it easy to build things that people love, internet made it easy to distribute them and crypto makes it easy to monetize them.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

So when is someone making CX GPT? I want to feed in all our customer interviews and have the model mimic some generic representation of the customer as I ask it questions.

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@knshkvshsht

1 year

@itsvarora Maybe more of "things that can only happen in cities with cruise cars" :)

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Kanishk

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3 months

@deedydas Singularity vibes

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@knshkvshsht

2 years

@arnaudai lol google will incorporate LLMs into the first box on the search results and call it a day

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

@Anastas47401813 @UpSkillYourLife Finite and Infinite Games (James Carse) The Power of Habit (Duhigg) The Outsiders Poor Charlie’s Almanack Wanting (Luke Burgiss) Factfulness The Gray Lady Winked All of Asimov Men Machines Modernity Merchants of Doubt is a list of books I’ve found helpful. Follow for more.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

Patagonia -> Cotopaxi is the vibe shift you dont see.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

All the hate on $8, and yet theres a ton of blue ticks everywhere. “Dont listen to your customers” - Jobs

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

7 months

🌐 Construct is coming online soon... 🌐

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

7 months

@garrytan de-facto ban on anything sounds like a great way to lose out in an outlier-driven business.

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

1 year

I dont understand this new trend where all these PMs are writing product release threads for products they didn’t work on 😂 “15 new things with AI etc..”

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@knshkvshsht

7 months

@gurtsquared Soon this will be free on Construct! :)

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

2 years

United EWR to SFO should just be operated by shatabdi at this point

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Kanishk

@knshkvshsht

10 months

Every new technology faces two paradoxical forms of skepticism - "It will end the world" and "It will not work". The more things change the more they remain the same.