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2 years

gurgaon boys be like “I know a spot” and take you to cyber hub 🤠

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@sameeraculous

9 months

dating app idea: you get matched with someone from X on the basis of your bookmarks 👀

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8 months

@theproductwoman Hot take but I'm a Gen Z and I'm definitely in the millennial camp this year 🤠(and usually every NYE)

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5 months

@theamberyang This is definitely my dad (minus the marriage clause actually - he’d rather I have a company before a husband 🙇‍♀️)

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6 months

Instagram being down and getting all the attention. #LinkedIn :

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4 months

I feel like I think too much about SaaS for a 23 year old 🤠

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8 months

@badtweetgirl is this… is the name a pun on Noam Chomsky 🥸

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2 years

@Capri_lynnn wow I love this, especially as someone who was rejected in 2018 and whose response was to bawl her eyes out… but yk u live and learn🤪

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1 year

@lilcosmicowgirl it’s giving “it’s not cheating since she’s in another country” 🤡

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3 years

As I told @shriyanevatia in my interview, I ended up on @beondeck Twitter despite not being involved... And now that's going to change! super stoked to start 2022 as part of Catalyst Scouts and learn more about VC 🚀🚀scouts / #ODC alums, send any and all advice!!

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8 months

I video called my dad after a while and I kept smiling at him so much he went “what?? What happened??” and I was just happy to see him🥸

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@sameeraculous

9 months

wow I am honestly unable to talk right now - which if you know me – that’s a rare occurrence - I’ve been following @anuhariharan quite a long while and spent a lot of Sundays blasting podcasts she’s on (big fan of the episode with @patrick_oshag !!) welcome 🥹‼️

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6 months

just messaged my dad “Snowflake’s new CEO is your age.” 🤠

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@sameeraculous

1 year

Very like me to procrastinate and tweet almost a week later but last Thursday I had the privilege of hosting my first women in tech mixer with the lovely @meerarachamallu 💖 (who I actually met at another mixer a ~month ago!) you can tell how happy I was from the second pic hehe

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@sameeraculous

9 months

✔️ran 10k for the first time!! ✔️met some really lovely people (iykyk) and kept + rekindled old friendships ✔️ greater clarity on how I work and operate personally and professionally ✔️ just kept swimming 🐠 🐟

Jacy, LPC

@ATMwithJacy

9 months

BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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1 year

growing up is baking for hours and reading in bed on a Saturday night with zero fomo 🤠

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@sameeraculous

4 years

It took a while for me to turn a weeks-long saga into this column but I'm so happy with how it turned out. big big thank yous to @ejpanaligan for guidance (and lots of patience) and @lucy__carroll and @nebulenaa for helping me begin writing!!💜

Columns From Quarantine: A hectic international trip back home in search of safety and comfort -...

This post was updated April 27 at 2:39 p.m. The coronavirus pandemic has drastically upended life in the most unforeseeable of ways. At UCLA, our community is remarkably united by similar feelings of...

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7 months

RTed as well but I wanted to add – it’s really gratifying to read this when you’re early career and feel fearful of getting pigeonholed. If you’re in the right environment or honestly, if you just have a more open, generalist mindset, there’s no such thing of being boxed in

Cyrus Yari

@CyrusYari

7 months

some personal news: ~6 months ago i joined tesla as a senior software engineer. as the quoted tweet below says, am doing a bit of everything, & not a trad swe role, rather "full-stack operator" building a lot of 0-to-1 really cool internal stuff i can't really talk about. i'm

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4 months

did my second 10k race ever on Angel Island yesterday. So beautiful - legs a little sore but heart very full ❣️

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1 year

getting rejected twice in one day 🤝 raining in SF = me having a reeeal main character moment on my commute home

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9 months

honestly could work for platonic connections too. I feel like so many of us bookmark and forget about things so it would be interesting to see what comes up.

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8 months

Still thinking about how I got a big bowl of noodles for less than $9 at Incheon airport (assuming it’s inflated, as airport prices often are) good to be back asia 🥲

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2 years

my dad just used chat gpt to write a poem about me - new love language unlocked 🤠

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1 year

@nikillinit My first thought was - ironically there’s no salt in this?? iykyk

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2 months

signed up for my first half today. Truly leaning into the mid twenties stereotype here but pretty excited for it because I’m already nervous and ready to train up a storm 🤪

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@sameeraculous

8 months

Wanted to share a post I read this year that I loved - this one by @cdixon on meandering early on in your career to find your “highest hill” i.e. your dream goals, instead of pushing yourself to the top of where you currently are #SameeraReads

Climbing the wrong hill

Chris Dixon's blog.

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9 months

aloo tikki + khan chacha mali tikka roll + thums up = three course meal of champions 👍

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1 year

Mildly amazing how much a run, a solid burrito and a mean girls rewatch relaxes me 🤠

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2 months

At the risk of sounding creepy, I really do miss seeing other peoples likes on X - it also was a good way to find new accounts to follow 🥲

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1 year

what dating in sf looks like 🤠

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1 year

I talk to my mom a lot about my career and while B2B SaaS in 2023 is a specific kind of beast, GTM at a D2C CPG startup (healthy snacks! In India!) is quite another wow

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9 months

feeling a bit of anger at a missed opportunity and got this text from father “no worries… things happen for a reason… and it ain’t finished yet.” 🥸 never heard him say ain’t in 23 years but the sentiment stands. four weeks left in 2023 and this is the energy we r bringing

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7 months

goals for 2024

loveofdoing

@loveofdoing

7 months

pivot from pivoting and just do the work

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2 years

@rajanluthraa12 in that case I’m boys and proud of it 🤪

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4 years

I’m really proud of @MaanasOruganti and @laurman34 ’s latest! Mainly because of the effort it took – days of sourcing and following up – but also because I’m an international student and the past few weeks have been.... complicated (1/10)

International students speak on how they are impacted by COVID-19 - Daily Bruin

As news of the coronavirus pandemic spread and UCLA suspended in-person classes, many domestic students traveled home immediately. However, international students often have more factors to consider,...

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2 years

Told my roommate I was going to read Peter Thiel on the Peloton without thinking and it hit me how SF that sounded… it’s been barely six months 💀

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8 months

Finally getting into Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia (better late than never!) and the hype was worth it for me. A lot of great research on the scientific roots to longevity - worth a read if you’re interested in the space, though slightly dense in some parts

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1 year

Today’s version of this: weights, sesame noodles, and a book!! (I am a woman of multitudes. Also a woman finally taking time to decompress, phew)

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@sameeraculous

1 year

Mildly amazing how much a run, a solid burrito and a mean girls rewatch relaxes me 🤠

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5 months

having fun playing around with data in pivot tables 🥸 is this what your mid 20s are for (yes)

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1 year

Me to my dad: “sometimes the best advice we give others is what we struggle to follow ourselves” Papa Pant: “Tweet that! Tweet that!”

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8 months

Watched 12th Fail yesterday - probably one of the best movies for me to end 2023 on since I feel like I’ve also been hitting walls more than not this year. So good to see Vikrant in a leading role (I’ve always liked him!) and Vidhu Vinod Chopra never misses 👩🏽‍🍳💋‼️

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9 months

this… this is what I’m looking for

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@randomusements

1 year

Dean of FMS Delhi spamming 16 batches of FMS with his wife's YouTube channel link

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2 months

remember when I ran my first 10k race? I’m now going to do my third this week 😅 and I fear I may be close to signing for my first half. Thoughts and prayers (and TIPS PLS)

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2 months

since I’m going to finish my first month here TOMORROW (wow) - I’m now at @statsig working on all things revenue ops 🤠 clearly im a fan of all things developer and enterprise-first and very excited to be here.

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2 years

A small part of my brain will be always be thinking about fish moilee and porotta and the most efficient way to obtain it

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7 months

might work in tech but one of my favourite founders has and will always be @kellyxpan – was so good to try some of @eatimpactfood at Sancha Sushi in sf. vegan sushi is good yall, and we might be all eating it sooner than we think 😅

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8 months

happy anniversary to my first mildly viral tweet🫣🤠 thankful for how I’ve been able to connect with so many new people on this platform since then - goal for next year is to meet more of yall in person (which admittedly my extroverted introvert self needs to work on)

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3 years

@shriyanevatia Honestly, working at a fund (eventually) is the dream but not sure if doing it immediately postgrad is the move… any thoughts?

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9 months

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9 months

Without downloading a new image where are you mentally

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1 year

another lesson you learn in your early 20s is that you can wish someone both good vibes and good riddance - not mutually exclusive!!

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6 months

being back at @UCLA also meant I took a quick trip to Kerckhoff aka @dailybruin HQ - i was obsessed with the coffee house and snacks from ackerman. Probably the building where I spent the most time even when I wasn’t on staff🤠 the future is going to be built by…

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6 months

my first 10K is <3 weeks from now and I’m getting a little scared pls send good energy (and tips! I have run a 10k before but not in a race 🌞)

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9 months

feeling the urge to clean out my drafts over the weekend 🥸 I feel like I talk myself out of posting sometimes (even though they’re not spicy or anything I’m just still getting used to putting my thoughts out there)

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6 months

Spent some very chaotic days back in Los Angeles after not having been back since graduating - bff did make fun of me for romanticising everything and doing all the cliches (made her go to campus and also get diddy riese) but it was all worth it to reflect / reminisce

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1 year

Took me two weeks but I finally read the @BessemerVP on India’s SaaS market and I really, really enjoyed it. Highly recommend to anyone interested in the space 💥

The Rise of SaaS in India 2023

As the Indian SaaS ecosystem continues to mature, AI and efficiency are emerging as key themes for cloud growth in India.

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2 years

@nona_uppal this isn’t clothes but couldn’t help sharing - Coffee got a box to play in and we tried to cozy it up by swaddling him 😛💖 he is truly the loml

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@sameeraculous

8 months

in the spirit of writing in public more and not holding myself back in doing so – introducing @IshnoorSingh11 and I’s monthly newsletter ✨Overthinking Startups✨(because we do a lot of the former and talk a lot about the latter) here’s a favourite snippet ⬇️

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@sameeraculous

6 months

this tweet is always on a mental loop during my 9-5

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@jaiyagill

1 year

your 20s are for working on b2b saas

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9 months

I think bff wins the worm challenge

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@sameeraculous

9 months

2023 seems like it was tricky for a lot of us - when things got choppy in March for me, I made a list of things I read/heard/watched that made me feel better. And now I have a time capsule to always fall back on 😎 highly recommend

Tahira

@IsitTahira

9 months

Quote with anything from your notes

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1 year

“You have to be patient, quality oriented, disciplined, selective and prepared to play the long game.” Holds true for the Indian ecosystem but also the global startup economy, and working in the space as a whole. Needed to read this today‼️

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@bsomaia

1 year

Some straight talk on India venture capital

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8 months

most readers have a book that absolutely changed their worldview/career path/life in one way or another. I’d love to hear which one is yours! (Yes I’m also trying to read more in 2024 like everyone and their mom)

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8 months

Not sure if it was my habits of being chronically online and overbooking myself, but I felt stretched thin more than ever this year. I did, however, feel fulfilled at the end of it all. Tiny takeaway below👇

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@sameeraculous

8 months

not to steal from one of the only movies I had on dvd as a child but

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@prmshra

8 months

Quote Tweet this with the greatest lesson you learned this year, in 3 words or less. Me: Be aggressively yourself.

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1 year

I love my dad for many reasons but one is that even though he doesn’t live in the states he will constantly monitor Nordstrom rack online and send me good deals 🥲

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9 months

I kept thinking about this today and how important it is – especially as someone who is single minded, it’s probably better to double down than to bottle those tendencies up

parm

@prmshra

9 months

Listen to me. If there’s only one thing i could say to you right now, it is this: If you have a “negative trait”, you can choose to change it. But never forget, you can also choose to double down. Too obsessive? Go 100%. Too talkative? Start a podcast Stop dying inside

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9 months

so excited to see shami rally, got up for a second and he was gone… what’s going on man👎

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8 months

First day of work in 2024 (last night because I’m doing the IST <> Pacific flip this week) and honestly, felt good to be back at it. Ready for the growth and learning this year – and to post more about it too😎

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5 months

#HappyHoli tpot🫶 Always missing home a little more when it’s a festival

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2 years

@aburducky Nooooooo the sacrilege

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8 months

This AND the fact that everyone around you is also still figuring it out. You might feel alone thru it all but trust that everyone is stumbling around just as much as you are (you just learn to mask w time 🥸)

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the older you get the more you realise you don't know shit

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8 months

@kriti_kg @deepigoyal @albinder It’s an annual tradition to see the hourly updates imo 🫣

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@sameeraculous

8 months

papa: "we're getting late for [errand]!" me: "we'll be fine, we're not doing anything after" papa: "we have to come home and rest ON TIME."

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2 years

the fact that my one popular tweet memes gurgaon boys cements me as an ncr girl despite my nri level hindi imho 🤡

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8 months

cute baby on a plane pro: cute con: baby on a place 😭

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@sameeraculous

4 years

@MarilynChavezDB and I are here at a #coronavirus information session on the Hill, where representatives from the Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center will discuss the disease and UCLA’s procedures with event attendees. Stay tuned for live updates in the thread below.

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9 months

All father and SO think I do is eat apparently 🤠

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@sameeraculous

1 year

My first scoop 🍨 for @UnicornerNews is out! Edtech is something I’ve always wanted to explore so glad I could start the journey by talking with @GetSmartPass - definitely want to write more second half of the year so lots to come‼️

Unicorner 🦄

@UnicornerNews

1 year

Remember hall passes in elementary school? Turns out keeping track of them is pretty difficult. @GetSmartPass is building a digital solution for over a thousand school nationwide. Some highlights from our latest Unicorner article👇

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6 months

Spending more time delving into female founders and investors & reading Glossy (despite my misgivings of how founder Emily Weiss was portrayed) put @kirstenagreen , on my radar. Takeaways from @mariogabriele 's Modern Meditations with her below👇 (1/4)

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4 months

Airchat needing a referral is remind me of the clubhouse days and how I fought to get one 😅

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@sameeraculous

2 years

Trying to read more South Asian writers this year (honestly trying to read more in general 😅) so appreciated this ⏬

Sukhada

@appadappajappa

2 years

📚 Books by Indian authors in 2023 If you read a great book by an Indian author this year that you would like to recommend, reply to this and let's help Indian authors get more visibility 😊

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5 months

definitely something I’ve learned since graduating college - better to do it scared than not at all.

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6 months

If you're not a bit terrified, you're not maximizing your potential.

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@sameeraculous

1 year

Shared this with my father (because, yk the subject matter) and got “Great advice. Nurturing risk taking is a must. That gives you confidence to conquer the world and you will.”🥹

Tara Viswanathan

@TaraViswanathan

1 year

shoutout mom & dad getting the credit they deserve 🥹 cc @nikil

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@sameeraculous

8 months

At times I’m reminded of how much I’m embarrassingly and extremely a city girl 🥸 was walking the dog and yelped when I saw a random blob approaching on the sidewalk… readers, it was a CAT

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@sameeraculous

5 months

this is such a good thought - especially if you're wired to think making mistakes and stumbling around is something to be looked down on.

Michelle Qin

@michelleqin_

5 months

I took a class in undergrad with someone who, whenever we made a mistake on a pset, would say “We’re gaining an intuition.” I love this phrase so much and think of it often

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8 months

Not sure why I’m already doing this but I keep saying I did things “last year” when I really did them “last week” or “last month.” My brain really wants to speed run the next two weeks huh 🥸

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@sameeraculous

9 months

Got a lot of new followers off of this take so 👋 welcome!! I’ve been trying to be better about sharing my takes / what I’m up to on X (or as I say, tw!tter) so glad to see many people finding my weird twist on consumer social interesting 😎

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@sameeraculous

9 months

dating app idea: you get matched with someone from X on the basis of your bookmarks 👀

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2 months

24 is also staying on a support helpline for over three hours but doing all the chores you procrastinated on as you wait

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@sameeraculous

2 months

24 is feeling like a champion when you're able to take a bus and train to office and *still* get there before nine am.

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6 months

@i_sudeepa I worked as a marketing/communications associate for @ucla alumni association! A lot of schools have marketing departments that might need more hands - valuable if you’re interested in a more media oriented career which I was at the time :)

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@sameeraculous

9 months

Whenever I’m under the weather and/or a little glum, grocery store workers and baristas always seem to know - wonder if working with people all day just makes them THAT good at sensing it

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@sameeraculous

8 months

Spent a looong time shying away from audiobooks but finished one last week and may finish a second this week - largely because Spotify offers 15 hours of listening / month with premium (and they have a lot of popular names👀)

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2 years

nothing like postgrad friendships honestly 🥲

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@sameeraculous

5 months

haven’t seen the bear (though I did see all the hype 🥸) but I’ve rewatched this three times in the last hour – so good.

Caitlin Cook | Moonwalk Fitness 🌘

@DeadCaitBounce

9 months

If you’re ever feeling lost or lacking in motivation and purpose, watch Season 2 Episode 7 of The Bear Without question one of the best episodes of a show ever made Every Second Counts

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7 months

"most people are limited not by what they can do, but what they think they can do." i.e. lack of conviction, lack of self-belief/esteem and something I needed to hear today 🫡

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@sameeraculous

7 months

the urge to RT every @NavalismHQ quote is painfully strong 😶‍🌫️

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@sameeraculous

8 months

ending 2024 realizing that some days all you need is to blast watch the throne and work and things fall into place – if not now, then eventually

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@sameeraculous

2 months

My favourite season is graduation season - I say as I graduated two years ago - but still. So much fun to see!

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@sameeraculous

10 months

Chatted recently with an aspiring founder and realized that two elements for success consistently stand out: intelligence and determination. IMO determination usually always wins out as the stronger factor (or stronger determinant🤠)

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@sameeraculous

9 months

the world is really thrown off its axis rn 😭

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@sameeraculous

9 months

@riachops Casual misogyny really needs to go 👎

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