Once a teacher, now an entrepreneur building @adaptiv_me. I tweet about learning, startups, & everything that I find interesting.✨ Je pense, donc je suis.
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🌿 Last week we filled the floor below our rooftop forest with plants — and watched something happen.
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Where do you go when you need to focus?
(asking for everyone whose sofa has won again)
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Chasing the green in my workspaces since 2020 — from my desk at Kolimi Heights, to our first office in France, France, to Chhaon.
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If you care about the future of India (and especially the future of its young people) this conversation matters.
This is an online discussion, so you can join us from wherever you are: tinyurl.com/august-at-bhaska…
🪲 Actual jewel-beetle wing casings, could be inlaid into paintings to stand in for emeralds, because painted gold leaf apparently wasn't iridescent enough?
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The moment I read that, I knew I had to dig deeper into an art school I realised I knew embarrassingly little about.
I spent a rather long time on the latest article for Bhaskar Stories - and I hope it shows!
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If you care about India's future and want to develop an understanding of why we are seeing the youth employment crisis, and what can be done to fix it, then dial into this webinar, panel discussion
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Even 1 is an audience. @plaingeets comducting a reading circle with a select few members for the #indiapadhtahai challenge that Project Bhaskar is running.
It's not about the quantity but the quality of engagement that truly matters.
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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again:
Using LLMs-written content professionally will spoil your career, especially if you’re in early stages. Everyone worth their salt that I know is hugely aversive to reading slop and despite your smart attempts, they can sense signatures of AI writing (even if they can’t articulate what gave it away).
When you delegate writing, you delegate thinking and that delegation takes away from you the very thing you need for your future career advancement: careful thinking.
I often hear.. “but my writing is bad”. Well, if you keep on delegating, how will it get better? It’s like complaining that you don’t go to gym because you’re unfit.
Write the first damn draft yourself and then take feedback from AI. Do not ask it to rewrite, but rather ask it point errors and suggestions for improvement.
Writing using LLMs is analogous to binge watching short videos, or eating junk food. Pleasurable dopamine hits in the short term, but complete dependence in the long term.
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A decade on the Iberian frontline has shown me that Europe’s climate emergency is impossible to deny | World news | The Guardian share.google/jaUbEbuil219wY7…
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This speech has been circulating in MAGA circles, and they’re absolutely horrified by it.
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I went to the Tour de France last week and it feels like a perfect microcosm of how Capitalism and Socialism differ (and why America is diverging economically and stagnating socially).
As an American I couldn't believe how poorly they monetized the event. You have millions of people watching and 99% of them watch for free.
The result - the median rider in the event is earning $250K a year, but the public has an event that is loved and accessible by all. The broader result is you don't get the private (and public) investment that coincides with such events in the USA because it's not being monetized well. That is, the teams earn less, the riders earn less and municipalities hosting earn less. So the aggregate result is everyone is poorer, on average, in the long-run because they don't capture the economic value of the event well.
BUT, the Europeans love their bikes. Boy do they love their bikes. And you see the happiness and social value of making this a public good instead of a private profit maximizing endeavor. So there's social value in NOT monetizing the event that **arguably** makes it a better overall social value than the Capitalist model.
In short, the American model creates a wealthier, more capitalized industry, while the European model sacrifices financial maximization to generate a widely distributed, unpriced public good. Which is better? Most certainly a mix. The hard part is getting the balance right.
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India's young people don't lack ambition; they lack systems that help turn ambition into opportunity.
And that's where the real investment needs to be.
It's so inspiring to see Gen-Z take a stand for their future in India, and stand united across different parts of the country.
After all, with their entire lives ahead of them, they're the ones with most to lose.
Everyone knows India's education system is a big mess. We're not adequately prepared for the future. We're not investing in basic R&D.
We're the backoffice of the world, but we shouldn't settle for that, shoudl we?
Statistically, the largest population in the world ought to have the largest number of geniuses. I think they're still there, but our education system has failed to harness their potential.
India's largest pool of youth was once hailed as an asset, but is it now?
I feel there's still hope our country can deploy a billion brains to craft a better future for entire humanity. But that won't happen unless the youth feels empowered, and unless the country invests in highest quality education at all levels - primary, secondary and higher.
So more power to the young generation!
India's Brain Drain: A Century of Talent Lost bhaskarstories.substack.com/…
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For those of you who defended the government by saying
"Dus din mein retest karwa diye NEET key"
Watch this film. And if you still don't get the pain that a cancelled exam causes, then you are not just anti-national. You are inhuman.
Exams should be bulletproof. No excuses.
Last week, India's young people were on the streets, asking hard questions about the country they're inheriting. That energy was real, and awe-inspiring. It definitely forced the hand of the government...
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India doesn't just need more protesters. It also needs more readers. People who've sat with Ambedkar's actual arguments, not just his quotes. Who've read Phule, not just heard the name. Who know what Mahasweta Devi wrote about power, what Premchand wrote about dignity...
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The unread shelf isn't guilt. It's a map of the thinking still ahead of you.
Start walking it.
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