Aditi Parekh

@parmita @Gena_I_Gorlin

my friend is a brilliant solo founder and needs therapy, but finds that most therapists cannot keep up with his specific wiring. who would you recommend him to to try in the bay area? dm's open

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

papa come home from hunt. empty hand. bad hunt. no meat. nothing. papa sit by fire. say nothing. face heavy. mama not ask what happen. mama not say "it okay." mama just put warm root soup in front of papa. sit next to him. close. shoulder touching shoulder. whole cave quiet. then mama say: "remember first hunt after we met? you come home with one skinny rabbit. smallest rabbit in whole forest. you hold it up like you kill great beast." papa: "...was not THAT small." mama: "hmmmm... koom bigger than that rabbit." papa mouth twitch. fighting it. fighting the smile. lose. small laugh. tired laugh. but real. mama not fix the empty hand. mama not make meat appear. mama just go back far enough in the story to find a version of papa who still believe in himself. and she bring that version forward. sit him right next to the tired one. oog watching from dark corner of cave. taking note. THAT what partner do. not fix the bad day. just refuse to let the bad day be the whole story. love, oog

something I've been reflecting on recently: if you're a parent who is decent at introspection, you should probably spend *less* time thinking about how to parent differently than your own parents and *more* time thinking about the potential risks of doing the "opposite" of your parents. e.g. if your parents were too strict and overbearing, then you probably know a lot about the dangers of being strict and overbearing. otoh, you know comparatively little about the dangers of being too permissive and unstructured. The risks of this are a total blind spot to you, and even if you have an idea of the risks they likely don't feel very emotionally real. same goes for all kinds of things: suppressing emotions vs validating emotions, fixating on physical beauty/diet culture vs. body positivity/avoiding physical comments altogether etc. You and your kids will probably benefit more if you really try to mine the "opposite" of what your parents did for risks and attempt to flesh out your blind spots rather than just fixating on ending "generational curses" or whatever. I think the proper goal is to find a real positive to shoot for instead of more-or-less blindly reacting against the negatives you experienced as a kid.

It’s not good to flaunt wealth like this

@MichaelFKane Impossible to pass this thread by without at least suggesting one look at the Montessori method (and how to do it well!)

Time to start researching homeschool curriculum. I know it's just kindergarten but... I always hate approaching a subject with zero knowledge. Once I get my foot in the door, fine. Zero knowledge does NOT make me comfortable at all.

@justalexoki @icedpourover reminded me of your tweets 🤣

"can you hop on a quick call?" can you hop off a quick bridge

@parina_anand Get them an Access pass by @puttingscenes

Need reccos for a ‘Welcome to Bangalore’ gift for someone who loves exploring new eating places. I’m thinking of maybe a face/restaurant guide - something like a Times Food Guide but maybe more curated?

@babieswithb Yes, we go at least a couple of times a month! Ideally for us, they’d be open on Sundays too (and maybe closed on a weekday?) but I guess everyone needs a weekend 🫠

@aditipar wow looks cool, do you go there?

I'm localmaxxing & porto-pilled... ideal scenario would be to open a family center (coworking club with montessori childcare, parenting classes, workshops) in the next few years so it can serve my present and future friends. but I haven't figured out the exact path towards that !

Sarvam's new model releases are stellar. But more than that they have brought a cultural revival. People will rush to find and preserve their culture's literature. Something we hardly talk about. As someone who has grown up listening and reading to Dinkar's poetry, I wanted to have something to read the poetries with perfect pronounciation. I tried vibecoding with the help of Sarvam's API. Used Gemini for OCR and Sarvam's Text to Speech API for Reading it out. Check this out: lovable.dev/products/liste…

1. Sleep when sleepy 2. Cry big. Recover instantly. 3. Eat when hungry. Stop when full. 4. Forgive before bedtime 5. Fall without shame 6. Say what you mean in 4-5 words 0. Remember that aliveness is a skill you once had without training.

@_mnpw Aiyo! I hope you find it. In the off chance that it’s on their public Spotify playlists: open.spotify.com/user/31mc6epcu…

@aditipar Yes! But then the track title was nowhere to be found on the internet :(

i have tried shazam-ing at least 20 times this song that has been playing at blue tokai. man's voice, hitting high notes, tabla/violin, and sad-ish notes. somebody help me!

Brain sees this and unconsciously asks if Monet is a new Claude tool that generates beautiful images of gardens and flowers

@made_in_cosmos x.com/nileshtrivedi/…

always love to see the kind of sign that makes me wonder what must have happened here the last time to warrant putting up a sign like this

Co-sign: Make the world neighbourly again!

@silverarm0r breaks are for the weak

can I get a fucking break

@IterIntellectus We played Four Seasons to our baby since he was about a week old and eventually it became… his lullaby Even if it “does nothing” for him, definitely gave us a lot of sleep!

playing bach for my daughter every morning knowing full well it doesn’t do anything but every cocomelon parent can feel my contempt and thats enough