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Akshay Nandakumar

@AkshayNkr

Maker of rectangles at Grab. Makes Indie music. Tweets about personal conundrums & occasionally shares his new music

Bengaluru, India Katılım Temmuz 2009
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Akshay Nandakumar
Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
Wassup Bangalore! Im coming your way and bringing my living room setlist along. Join me THIS SUNDAY for a mellow evening of tunes. Limited spots available. DM if you want to attend!
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
Studio Ghibli’s market place scene is famously known to have been painstakingly drawn by their artist over 15 months. Miyazaki said AI could never replicate emotion. But wondering if theres a middle ground. Can the artist draw 10 frames and then ask AI to fill the rest 30?
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
Everyone generating studio Ghibli style illustrations today. Reminds me of the clip where Hayao Miyazaki got angry at his own team for trying to train AI with their art. But Im happy I feel as though real handmade art will become super expensive.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@st_one__c_old You just need a deck that you can share to generate leads. Make that first. It can be highlights of your work with sneak peak of a more detailed deck to make them wanna schedule a call with you. A fancy website ain’t gonna get you any leads.
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Keerthi Ramesh
Keerthi Ramesh@st_one__c_old·
Guys, im a designer, I do design thingies with products and visuals I had google drives and behance as my portfolio. I mean I think I did fine w it. Now I gotta mek website and all, how well written does it have to be in terms of the process or can you have fun with it? :) see ⬇️
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@sidharth_raja Im also seeing how there is an alternative to not sniffling all the time. Unfortunately air is invisible. One point made in the same podcast was, that all indoor places should now have air control just like they have temperature control. Real estate startup opportunity!
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Sidharth Raja
Sidharth Raja@sidharth_raja·
Personal anecdote: The first time I landed in SF (from Delhi), it felt like I could suddenly see clearly in 4k after seeing in 720p most of my life before. It was truly shocking how stark the difference was.
Bryan Johnson@bryan_johnson

When in India, I did end this podcast early due to the bad air quality. @nikhilkamathcio was a gracious host and we were having a great time. The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I'd brought with me ineffective. Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure. This was my third day in India and the air pollution had made my skin break out in rash and my eyes and throat burn. Air pollution has been so normalized in India that no one even notices anymore despite the science of its negative effects being well known. People would be outside running. Babies and small children exposed from birth. No one wore a mask which can significantly decrease exposure. It was so confusing. The evidence shows that India would improve the health of its population more by cleaning up air quality than by curing all cancers. I am unsure why India's leaders do not make air quality a national emergency. I don't know what interests, money and power keep things the way they are but it's really bad for the entire country. When I returned to the U.S., my eyes were fresh to see what is normalized to me. I saw obesity everywhere. 42.4% of American are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it. In many contexts, obesity is worse than air pollution in the long term. Why wouldn't American leaders declare a national emergency on obesity? What interests, money and power keep things the way they are but are really bad for the entire country.

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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@chiragbarjatya Another thing to charge? No electric point in the bathroom? Over techifying every single thing in your life?
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Chirag Barjatya@chiragbarjatya·
I will never not understand why some people, who can afford to, still don't use an electric toothbrush.
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Poan Sapdi@Poan__Sapdi·
I just watched my school classmate’s baby gender reveal video. She lives in Rajasthan, and the baby is still in the womb. What is going on??? How is this even possible??! Lol.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@TheEuropeanLad Traditionally, managers always agree for second choice keepers to atleast get games in cups. This is probably also a subtle message to Onana that even his place is not permanent. Also judging by Bayindir’s performance hes probably too good to not play the entire season.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@vibamohan_ It can give you a theatre like experience. But you do sacrifice a bit as it’ll never feel as bright or sharp as a TV.
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viba ☀️
viba ☀️@vibamohan_·
getting a projector instead of a tv sounds like a bad idea but it looks cool and i want to do it anyway
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@NCResq @appy_013 Trust me when I say its automatic filter for bad companies. Never share your current comp. If they say they cant proceed without that, politely move on. It’ll give you alot of peace in your job search.
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Chandra
Chandra@NCResq·
(Reposted with permission) - Every designer should read about @appy_013's very bad experience in the job interview process at Jio. This is the norm, not the exception, and one of the reasons I recommend designers to avoid Indian corporates, due to bad HRs, disrespect for candidate's time, and data privacy issues. He is very brave to call out like this. Most people are scared to burn bridges publicly so this kind of sharing happens in private forums and discussions/
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@theadityadas Gym in the evening. And suddenly you have energy till 12 am. But the sleeping on time becomes an issue.
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Aditya Das
Aditya Das@theadityadas·
Every time I work from an office, I love the idea of working with people in person but I hate the feeling of having no energy left at the end of the day.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
I was a big fan of the Uniqlo Airism oversized T. But the amount they shrink in a dryer is crazy. Its a good thing Cropped Ts are in right now 😅
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
@gonsalves_r Got my iPod nano free with my first mac as part of the student program more than 10 years back.
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Rahul Gonsalves
Rahul Gonsalves@gonsalves_r·
Was doing some house cleaning and came across this beaut.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
It was a simpler and fun time on twitter back then.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
Emails I get always start with US based startup and end with Koramangala or HSR.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
What Ill be working on the most going forward.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
So Im down 6 grand and have to just hope that it’ll be refunded to me. 😭 Thanks for making the simple process of changing postpaid to prepaid so complicated. Great job Vi.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
They tell me Im supposed to recharge with first time plans. So they start me on the lowest plan. Also did I mention their system has no record of the money I paid for the year long plan. Oh also, my postpaid had credit in it due to double payments.
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Akshay Nandakumar@AkshayNkr·
Wanted to convert my Vi postpaid to prepaid. Wont take scans of passport. Had to give aadhaar. Activated new sim but couldnt call or sms. Thought it was because there was no balance. So I got a year long validity pack. Still didnt work. Went to store…
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