Issac John

In 2015, I took a sabbatical from a plum role at @PUMA that unintentionally lasted 2 long years. While I eventually landed in a fulfilling role at @Discovery in 2018, lessons from that long break gave me the courage & self-belief to set out on my own in 2022. (1/6) 🧵

@codewithimanshu Is he really the Head of Claude Code as you called it? Or a Member of the Technical staff that he says he is.

The Head of Claude Code at Anthropic hasn't written code by hand in months. In 2 days he shipped 49 full features. 100% written by AI. He just dropped a 30-minute talk on exactly how he does it. More valuable than any $500 vibe coding course. Bookmark it.

@nishikoripicks Remember seeing his interview the the @NothingMajorPod folks. Really genuine chap who’s rising through the ranks. Separately, when he beat Djoko, some of the BH winners down the line were screamers.

I don't think I've ever seen a player who started breaking through this late in his career. Is there any other case like Valentin Vacherot? I can't think of one.

@RanaAyyub @RonanFarrow Is there anything in here that the world already didn’t know. All that board ousting stuff is so 20th cehtury.

If you ever had any doubt that @RonanFarrow is one of the finest investigative journalists of our time

@RichLassiterMD @RonanFarrow @NewYorker @andrewmarantz I have the same question. Any reason you didn’t venture here @RonanFarrow? Everything you mentioned in your thread seems to be out there - lying, untrustworthy, plays fast and loose with rules et al.

@RonanFarrow @NewYorker @andrewmarantz How did you leave off the murder of the whistleblower kid that was painted as a suicide?

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people. OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted? A thread on some of of our findings:

@aakashgupta Fab note!

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

Life's too short for bad books but long enough for bad movies.

@Zwxsh Nadal. I was so blinded by Roger’s brilliance that it took time to appreciate his.

Who is a tennis player who you used to hate, but later started to like/appreciate?

Dhurandhar is a 10 on 10 film. Part 1 was 8/10. Part 2 a solid 2/10.

I read in passing somewhere yesterday that India has risen from 118 to 116 in the Happiness Index last year. People truly underestimated the role of a fully completed, operational Andheri East-West flyover on the collective happiness of our people.

Yo @TennisTV - how about we do something abut this app of yours?

@aymanalabdul Tennis. Being present Books Ready access to certain Woody Allen, Kieslowski, Wong Kar Wai & Kubrick films

A few things that are actually worth the money: • A great nanny • Direct flights whenever possible • Living in your favorite neighborhood • Retiring your wife • A great school for your kids • A safe newer car for the family • Flying lay flat on international flights • A house cleaner • A personal trainer • A second Kindle • Therapy or coaching • Multiple gym memberships • A great mattress • TSA PreCheck + Global Entry • A world-class CPA • A great lawyer when you need one • A few unforgettable family trips each year • A sauna and home gym • A really good espresso machine • A babysitter so you still date your wife • A great barber • Boots that will last you 10+ years • A proper home office • Noise cancelling headphones • High quality luggage • An heirloom quality watch • Donating to causes you care about What else would you add?

Not a flex or a signal. And I am sure this will be an unpopular opinion here. But if you're a Founder, you'll love working, when no else is working; when others are sleeping or glued to a semi-final! Your default mode will be that "9-9-6" is table stakes.

@marcrandolph Super valuable!

In entrepreneurship … I’ve learned it’s impossible to tell if it’s a good idea in advance, so I no longer waste time “thinking things through.” Instead, my mind immediately switches to searching for some quick, cheap, and easy way to test it. A dozen sloppy tests teach me more than a single perfect one.

@Taylor_Fritz97 @josemorgado @Djoko_UTD You’re good Taylor! Don’t sweat the small stuff.

I’m not sure why you are acting like I am complaining about this ? I got asked about how this stuff works by a fan on my stream and answered accordingly. The better and more decorated players will usually have more say in when they play, as they should, they have earned that right. Me getting on stream and thoughtfully answering questions for fans isnt something I am doing me, but for the fans that support me enough to want to come in and ask me questions live. If people want to misinterpret and turn the things I say against me and turn it into unwarranted hate towards me then maybe it’s not worth it 🤷🏻‍♂️

Taylor Fritz on scheduling : “If I play Novak, Carlos or Sinner and they want to play at night, I’ll be put in the night session” Better players who sell tickets gets prime time, ig that's how the world works

@Zwxsh No matter how you look at it, clearly #1. 😀

Roger Federer has become one of the most disrespected athletes in the world. People treat him like a B-tier player. Just because a lot of his records were broken doesn't mean he isn't one of the greatest ever - at the VERY LEAST top-3 all-time, no matter how you look at it.

@Nithya_Shrii Cut pictures of my favorite sports stars in action meticulously from magazines like Sports Star/ Sports Illustrated and pasted them in a scrap book with my handwritten notes.

People who grew up without smartphones. What did you do when you were bored?!

Don’t post on @X @XCorpIndia today if you aren’t at the India AI Summit. All I am here for, is to dip into the algorithm by mentioning @OfficialINDIAai Summit 2026 twice, in this post. You can come back here to see if lazy hacks like these work. You’re welcome!

@justbyte_ Tooooo goood!

Name an app with 0 haters I'll start:

This is just to say that last three days, I haven’t had an opportunity to be at the India AI Summit. And I am grateful for it.

@0xratnakar Hmm.. I was at a Singapore Tech event last year and the organization was just kickass! Maybe half the scale but flawless AF. The UPI bit is super jarring. 😀

the impact ai summit in delhi was a perfect demonstration of why india keeps losing in tech and i’m tired of pretending it wasn’t a disaster. let me paint the actual picture: > cash-only payments at a “digital india” upi ?? > pm visit → main hall cleared for hours, everyone else just stood around doing nothing > exhibitors locked out of their own stalls > 3-hour queue just to enter > a founder’s product got stolen during the summit > no wifi at an ai event. > can’t take your keys if you came via car/bike > no laptop/camera at tech event > people were asked to sit on the ground > speaker lineup with consultants/bureaucrats who’ve never shipped a real product > the registration system crashed multiple times. people who registered weeks in advance couldn’t get in. vips walked past massive queues while founders and builders stood outside in the heat. 🤡 and 27 countries witnessed all of this live networking areas? no space to stand. many demos didn’t work because there was no stable internet. 5g?? this is what happens when optics matter more than execution. when innovation becomes photo-op the sad part is india has insane talent. founders building world class products. engineers and researchers doing real work. leave India for a sec, im at network school and the youngest crowd is all Indians. but we keep shooting ourselves in the foot with performative nonsense. the west isn’t winning because they’re smarter. they’re winning because they care about details. because they respect builders. because their tech summits actually work. same story when @sama came to india last time. boomer uncles asked the dumbest questions. and when he said it’s hard for india to build foundational models, we took it on our ego. rn, every founder who attended left embarrassed. imagine international delegate left with stories about our “infrastructure.” many friends and young builder lost a little more faith. this wasn’t just bad planning. it was a signal of what we value. and clearly, it’s security theater and photo-ops over builders. we can do better. we have the talent. we have the market. we have the potential. what we don’t have is execution and respect for the people building the future. maybe one day we will do better. till then if you’re a founder, ignore the noise. keep building.