At 300 rupees fory everyday cup of coffee, I'm losing money, they're losing money. My friend owns a coffee estate and says they're losing money too.
Clearly this cappuccino culture is a plot by the milk industry.
Everyone thinks the dystopian novel of our times is either 1984(control via surveillance/surveillance capitalism) or Brave New World(political apathy via hedonism/regular capitalism)
I think it is Lord of the Flies. A loss of trust so deep, we can no longer govern ourselves. 1/6
Me presenting to
@BillGates
. Amazed how well-read & informed he was on each of the three sessions - Fin Inclusion, Health and Education. Also, how quickly he gets new ideas.
A pleasure to be volunteering at
@Product_Nation
that can even get BG excited about India.
Finally! 😅
Writing this book has been the hardest thing I've done. I owe it to all my friends, family and colleagues at
@Product_nation
who have been super supportive.
Working with
@NandanNilekani
is always fun.
Can't wait for all of you to read it next year!
This is truly a book for our times. Delighted to share that we will be publishing
@NandanNilekani
and
@Tanujb
's powerful new book THE ART OF BITFULNESS: KEEPING SANE IN THE DIGITAL WORLD. We are all in need of digital self-help!
AI can improve the lives of a billion+ people in India & it’s happening already.
The first video from our 7th May event is finally out!
Here's
@tanujb
on making India Adbhut
This is the first of many videos, including those from
@NandanNilekani
@nikhilkumarks
& others
Ultimately we're not going to become rich overnight.
But if we work real hard over the next twenty years, just like 🇨🇳 did, people will one day wake up and say woah, how did India become an overnight success.
So please stop fighting over the fucking conch & start building. 6/6
Hey
@zomato
@ICICIBank
Need help with some maths here. The maximum discount one can get on this offer is
16% (max discount 80 / min order 500)
Why is it up to 40% off?
I see violence, intolerance and megalomania in the liberal left as well.
Indians in my class (top 1%) still believe themselves to be 'middle' class and will rage against billionaires.
'Eat the rich' actually means 'eat the rich(er than me)'.
3/6
Just waiting for the day 1000 years from now, when potterheads will convince the UK supreme court that the train station at kings cross be shut down so that they may construct a temple at platform 9 & 3/4, a religiously important site as per their religious text.
#JaiShriHarry
Why I like Lord of the Flies is because the answer is obvious, just hard to implement.
The kids almost get it right. They try to implmnt principles but then instincts take over. Instincts lead them to disaster.
Just because you 'feel' something is right, doesn't make it so.
5/6
We need to stop believing in zero-sum games.
Even stripping an Ambani of all his wealth and redistributing would only feed (& NOT clothe NOR educate) the nation basic rations for < 1 month.
We need big change but such diatribes take attention away from hard work. 4/6
@balajis
Underappreciated hero. Please show some love to
@rssharma3
, man behind
Aadhaar
Preserving net neutrality in india (fought freebasics as chair of India's telecom regulatory authority) &
Covid vaccine rollout
Got himself a computer degree from USC at age 44.
Here he is in SF👇
My most common career feedback is to avoid this kind of smug bosses/colleagues.
Go ahead and forget a few punctuation marks
If it helps you be rejected by such people, you'll live a much happier life.
My most common resume formatting feedback. I use this as a resume rejection criteria esp in PM and Product Design functions.
Harsh? Maybe. But this lack of attention to this detail in your CV (!) is a trust breaker for me, personally.
This is my first time presenting what I've been up to for the last 6 months in public.
This poster is very literal. They cropped a photo of my head and called me head, people+ai.
See you at GTS with my body too!
We're looking forward to this talk by
@tanujb
, Head,
@PeoplePlusAI
, on ‘An AI strategy for an Adbhut India: Leveraging India's strengths.’
Sign up now to make sure you don't miss it: .
If you haven't heard from me in a while, it was because I got busy writing a book. Now its out, and I'm very excited to share it with all of you.
Check out this tweet thread by my co-author
@NandanNilekani
or just head on over to to buy it!
I’m excited to share my new book ‘The Art of Bitfulness’ published by
@PenguinIndia
. Co-authored with
@tanujb
, the book is now available for pre-order at
The origins of this book begin with a walk in the park.
It was lovely to come to GFF Mumbai and meet all the Bengaluru fintech people I don't meet in Bengaluru 😛
Also, Hello! UPI and UPI lite X - now tap and pay or say and pay!
Hello
@nikhilkumarks
caught you on big screen.
This is the first time I talked in public about what I've been up to for the last 6 months.
What do you think?
Btw, most of this is built in the open, and in open source.
Get to our GitBook/GitHub to know more via
@PeoplePlusAI
Before you start agreeing and imaging your favourite political opponents as savage adolescent boys, hold up.
Here's where I lose all friends -
I would claim that both the left and the right take turns playing Jack&scaring us of the 'beast'.
Not both sides, this is obsrvtn 2/6
@balajis
Man picked to do this is RS Sharma. CEO of Aadhaar ten years ago, when they did 2 Mn enrolments/day at peak. That involved collecting fingerprint, iris and face biometrics, checking ID, doing data entry and issuing a receipt.
They picked a guy who knows what offline scale is.
Here's a trailer of "Making an Adbhut India"
Definitely one of the top 3 days of my life.
(P.S. today is my 35th birthday, and it's not even close.)
So proud of the team and partners at
@PeoplePlusAI
I'm grateful to everyone who poured their soul into this.
It shows.
Here's a glimpse of last week's event: Making an Adbhut India.
But we don't want to keep it to ourselves – very soon, we'll be sharing videos of each of the speakers.
Get ready to hear how AI is transforming the lives of Indians around the country already! The future is here.
As an engineer, you're often seduced by the complexity of your solution.
This
#WorldBookDayWithPenguin
, a book that reminds you that simple solutions can have world changing results.
If you ever need a reminder of the power of the people - remember this. When the people are focused & demanding, our systems work. Magical ways in which the cracks close and things stop falling through them.
Anger is not a sustainable source of focus.
Civil society is.
BREAKING: Pune Police arrest head of Forensics Dept & a Sassoon Hospital doctor for switching blood samples of the underage driver to show no alcohol content during his medical test on May 19, reports
@divyeshas
My theory is Zuck is unhappy about not being invited to either the daughter's wedding in 2018 or elder son's in 2019.
This investment is to correct for that before the last son gets married.
Went out with the family today to celebrate success of my book
@bitfulness
about fixing our relationship with our devices.
Family subtly reminded me to stay humble.
@ikirigin
If you feel this way, Roam is not solving a problem for you. I could see the point in 30 mins. Instead of well crafted onboarding flow that makes me go oooh & aaah (eventually meh)
Roam made me go "a-ha!", Still does.
So much less effort for both me and
@RoamResearch
this way
Thanks
@madhavchanchani
I know all of you want to see the talk.
The videos are coming from this week!
But what fun are just videos in the age of ai?
We have something very special planned. Please follow
@PeoplePlusAI
to be the first to know.
🚨 Nandan Nilekani says that India’s path in AI (artificial intelligence) is different.
Indian startups have to focus on applications and use cases rather than building the biggest large language models (LLMs) like Silicon Valley startups.
“Let those people with capital, and
The launch week of the book has been physically and mentally exhausting. Lots of tiny little things going wrong.
But it just takes one message like this to recharge.
I'm so grateful for everything in my life, good and bad, that led to here. Please send me more of these 🥰
I argue that the Internet changes the fundamental structure of society, and forces us to ask deep questions.
The railways made us ask - what do we do about time?
The internet makes us ask - what do we do about data?
My op-ed in
@FinancialXpress
We are thrilled to announce our latest $41M funding round by our partners-
@LightspeedIndia
,
@peakxvpartners
, and
@khoslaventures
.
Our mission is to build full-stack Generative AI for India.
Press Release:
@paulg
@techreview
But that's the point, Paul. There's what we want and what we (or advertisers) will pay for. VC knows how to accelerate this.
How do we encourage smart people like yourself to the problem of building what we NEED but may not be profitable/grow fast enough for VC?
Dear
@RoamResearch
India users, Firebase experiencing some issues in India since midnight yest. You can get around with a VPN. I just tried it and it worked.
@matthan
@rmnth
@nikhilkumarks
@Conaw
Please let people know. Hopefully
@Firebase
traces and fixes the problem soon.
Leather jacket + Nehru jacket
The man in the cool leather jacket is responsible for identifying, encouraging and building this new moment of AI that we're in.
That's me in the nehru jacket, trying to make it work for India via
@PeoplePlusAI
It was great meeting
@nvidia
ceo
We complain about lack of GPUs. Simultaneously retail investors in India are buying $NVDA to bet on AI.
Creating a vehicle that gives returns linked to underlying investments in AI can help Indians put our money where our hearts are.
@PeoplePlusAI
Beyond procuring GPUs, India should also explore creation of a ‘compute bond’ to create an investment vehicle, pool demand, and negotiate future GPU access.
@tanujb
and I were brainstorming this under
@PeoplePlusAI
initiative of
@EkStep_Org
. We hope to write something up soon!
Today I learned that even though I live and work in a country with a GDP per capita of ~$2000, I paid more taxes (in absolute $ terms) than the President of the United States. 🙏
Kids are earning $10,000/month with Chat GPT.
But 99% of people don't even know how to make a single dollar from AI.
Neither do I.
But I wanted to use these emojis in a tweet so I did.
👇🧵
IndiaAI Compute Capacity, envisions to erect AI computing infra by deploying 10K GPUs via PPP.
"The govt can do a pooled procurement negotiation on behalf of the Indian ecosystem & let the private players buy at that rate":
@tanujb
@EconomicTimes
April 18th vs June 19th.
You can't run away from all your problems, but if you try, you can run faster.
That gives you a bit of a headstart before they eventually catch up to you & you die.
Running can't cure nihilism, but it's great for your physical and mental well being.
@rmnth
But to be clear. All others are note taking apps or collaboration tools. Notion especially is more about presenting than capturing information.
Roam is a personal knowledge mgmt system
You can think of all else as subcategories:
GTD
CRM
Notes
Journal
...
Ref commonplace books
The internet spoils us for choice. Whether it's Netflix, UberEats or Tinder :
We spend more time deciding what we like, rather than liking what we've decided.
@madhavchanchani
@chaosguru
@PeoplePlusAI
Our intent is to release everything that was shown at the event and then some more.
But there was more than three hours of programming so post production will take a bit. Please bear with us.
The inconvenience to your curiosity is deeply regretted 😇
Thanks
@madhavchanchani
I know all of you want to see the talk.
The videos are coming from this week!
But what fun are just videos in the age of ai?
We have something very special planned. Please follow
@PeoplePlusAI
to be the first to know.
My current strategy is reinforcement learning.
I just ignore "How are you?" messages till they eventually get desperate and then make the ask.
At that point I reply within the hour.
Life tip, please don't make small talk before coming to the ask. The "hey, how are you, long time" routine is overdone. Noone is offended with a straight polite request which does not burden the other person with pointless small talk
I am delighted to announce the Finternet, co-authored with Agustín Carstens
@BIS_org
, which presents a visionary framework for empowering individuals and businesses by placing them at the centre of their financial lives
@pramodkvarma
@imsiddshetty
This recent AI advisory gave me Deja Vu.
In 2014, I was a drone entrepreneur. Amazon announced that they will fly drones in India. Massive concerns of privacy & safety were raised resulting in a blanket ban on all drones.
Things may look the same now but a lot has changed 🧵👇🏽
Some of us have been engaging with the government over the past few days on the recent AI Advisory and LLM regulations.
Together with the good folks at
@PeoplePlusAI
, we are collating views on this topic from India's AI community & startup ecosystem. These will be shared with
Why would anybody, that too, folks in Tech jobs who get paid tremendously well,
#volunteer
their time for the success of others?
We collected our
#learnings
from building playgrounds over the last seven years and put them all on our blog. 🚀
Do read now!
Changing the world is overrated. Truly extraordinary people change themselves first and encourage others to follow. The world changes as a consequence, not as a goal.
Very excited to go deep on all the footnotes in the slides, and spend my weekend having my view of India turned around. What a hat-trick,
@sajithpai
and team!
Was going through an
@otter_ai
transcription of a call about Data. There were a surprising number of mentions of 'tonnage'. Clearly, nothing to do with the subject.
I kept wondering what word it was mishearing till I realised it was my own name.🤣
What does your AI call you?
Addressing to Pro
#CAA_NRC
supporters Tejasvi Surya made a remark against unprivileged in a Poor taste. "People supporting this act are from IT/BT, Banking sectors who contributes to nation's economy. And those protesters opposing this are just Illiterate puncture walas" 1/n
Did ya know that Victor Mills, the engineer who invented Pringles, also invented the Disposable Diaper.
The guy was responsible for end-to-end revolution.
Spent 20 mins traveling 1 kilometer in Koramangala.
No Traffic. Just the trees are so damn pretty right now!
It's Blossom season. Look up, Bangaloreans.
Now a K shaped recovery. Economists need to look outside of alphabets for their recession shapes.
How about a cake shaped recovery? Where you dropped the cake and now you're just using frosting to hide the mess.
@Noahpinion
@matt_levine
please retweet for more suggestions.
@acorn
I am thinking of starting WeSatyagraha. A co-working-cum-protesting space.
We will provide charging points, WiFi and filter coffee to those protestors who are willing to work-from-protest.
Even Neumann couldn't elevate human consciousness to this level.
We should agree to Trump's offer to mediate on Kashmir, so that all of us Indians, Pakistanis and Kashmiris can hate a common figure instead of each other.
I call this the Watchmen Solution.
Since last year,
@NandanNilekani
(& sometimes I) have been on many trips telling a story to explain what's happening in India to CEOs, boards, conferences, etc. We use this deck to tell that story. Nandan calls this our 'little travelling circus'.
Give us more data for our act!
A presentation of mine has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp. It is from a talk on India's
#DigitalTransformation
over the last 15 years led by the many
#DigitalPublicInfrastructure
(DPIs) we've built. There have been many non-linear changes in the country. I attempt to join the
"India's emerging status as a technological powerhouse, combined with its unique socioeconomic landscape, puts it in a favorable position to be the world's most extensive user of AI by the end of this decade."
@tanujb
and I write for
@IMFNews
' F&D Magazine
Do listen to this incredible pod from
@exmachinapod
&
@matthan
This story is a down-scaled version of our current crisis - a debilitating disease, an indifferent govt, advanced sci, dogged perseverance & most of all, a ray of hope - humanity can overcome.
This is art we need.
Episode 1 of
@exmachinapod
is about rare diseases and the challenges with finding a cure. Modern genetic technology has given us the ability to better understand these diseases but even if we find a cure will our drug regulations allow us to use it?
#ExMachinaPod
Breaking News : Information & Broadcast ministry confirms that India is not the world's largest democracy, but the world's second largest China.
Modiji to be referred to as Modi-Xi from now on.
Arrived at 6:22 at T2, Bangalore for a 7am flight. When I saw the queues at security, This time I truly thought I'd miss it.
Once again last to board, once again business class upgrade at gate.
Airlines should not be rewarding my delinquent behaviour.
How will I ever learn?
The Quote tweets to this one are fascinating. You can see who self-identifies as an outrager.
So the self awareness exists, yet they persist.
Very well put
@suyashrai
!
"If you added up all the time wasted searching for shortcuts and trying to cheat the process, the hard work could have already been done by now."
–
@JamesClear
Estonia is really taking this e-estonia business seriously. Just learned that Estonia teaches robotics in kindergarten and advanced programming by 6th grade.
e-Residency program bringing significant revenues. They're asking why can't Countries be Startups that "acquire" users.
Some exciting news - I just killed a mosquito sitting on the screen of my laptop, by pinching it between my thumb and forefinger. Managed to not smudge the screen.
It was a very ninja move. You should've been there.
I'm trying to adopt a dog. A Pawrent has arranged for a video call between me and the dog.
We live in the future but we're too busy fighting over masks and cancelling each other to notice.
@TCPD_Ashoka
is looking to hire a full-time software engineer/data scientist for research on Indian political data. More details here - Please share in your networks!
We need to start making startups suck again. I see mental health disasters from people subjecting themselves to startup status games.
We should treat it as it is, a dangerous lottery. Skill is important, but at the end of the day, results are arbitrary.
Romans knew this.
Humble request to startup media 🙏🙏
Pls publish logo of company or pic of team when funding news are announced instead of having a solo pic of the founder on it.
We are creating a wrong culture by celebrating vanity badges and making heroes of founders for raising money.
What an excellent workshop today by
@charles_irl
at
@aiDotEngineer
summit!
It covered a lot of ground and he handled questions with grace and humour. What a fabulous teacher.
Hoping to get Charles to Bangalore for
@PeoplePlusAI
The govt wants to listen to startups & co-build a world-class AI industry.
The road to AI regulations will be long, winding and bumpy. But this dialogue won't happen over twitter.
@PeoplePlusAI
is trying to convene startups and govt. for calmer dialogue 2/3
@paulg
May I suggest addendum:
number of people (from our tribe) on Twitter mad (with us)
--
Most media seems to be about getting someone riled up. Sometimes their own tribe, or sometimes the outgroup.
Infinite appetite for incitement. Zero tolerance for when you miss target audience.