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Even we have to agree with this.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

This is the same species that hunted and gathered on the African savanna with stone tools not so long ago. Now four members of their species are tracing a breathtaking path across the heavens, reaching over 250,000 miles from their grasslands. What curiosity does to a species.

@aakashgupta Ngl, this the best one so far Aakash

NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices. And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works. Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse. This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster. The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit. Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.

@predict_addict Wow!!!!

I kept hearing about one legendary math textbook: Kiselev’s Arithmetic. The book that trained generations of mathematicians in Russia. But it was never available in English. So I translated it.

@ProfVemsani Resources?

Friends, Please learn #Sanskrit spend 15 minutes a day. It will help tremendously

@EcZachly Happy Holidays Zach!

All work and no play will make your poorer! Holi reminds me this every single year I celebrate. The colors remind me to think more colorfully The people remind me that we are all equal The dancing fills my soul with joy Without adequate joy, your spirit will rebel against you! Happy Holi everybody!

@kangminlee Retard spotted

Not a single H1B

@pitdesi @Duderichy Oh man!

@Duderichy By the way i paid for they $200 mattress with 0.85 BTC 😭 So it actually was very very very expensive x.com/pitdesi/status…

I have literally never slept on a “high end” mattress that felt worth it

A simple cheat code for life is to just be easy to work with. Respond quickly. Do what you said you'd do. Be pleasant. An alarming number of people suck at all of this.

There's two ways to create massive change in your life: 1/ Hit bottom, have nothing left to lose. 2/ Make a true commitment and go all on. Having done both, I recommend #2 whenever you can 😉

Major cheat code for life: Increase your recovery speed. You will get rejected. You will lose money. You will embarrass yourself. The goal isn't to avoid the fall. It's to shorten the time between the fall and the reset. Fast recovery compounds.

@AussiesArmy 🔔

India vs Pakistan is overrated. #T20WorldCup

@tunguz I agree

I wrote a thing.

@ujjwalscript How did you manage to get the same compensation in India? Won’t they match the market? Genuinely curious

I left my job as a Developer at Microsoft in US, and moved to India for a remote job opportunity. It changed my life for better: 1. The "PPP" Superpower: In Seattle, $250k is "comfortable." In Delhi, it is "Dynasty Wealth" (Family House). My rent dropped 80%. My savings rate hit 90%. I stopped looking at menu prices. 2. The "Time" Dividend: No more lonely winters. No more frozen dinners. No more 2-hour commutes on the 101. Now, I have chai with my parents every evening. I have a cook. I have a driver. I have time (Yes I pay them well). 3. The Career Hack: I didn't "step down." I stepped up. Remote work strips away the "visa anxiety." I focus purely on the building good products. And on my own ideas. I didn't leave the US to retire. I left to actually live.

The signal strength hitting Earth from Voyager 1 is less than one trillionth of a watt. To put that in perspective, your phone’s WiFi signal is roughly 100 billion times stronger, and it drops a connection walking between rooms. NASA picks up Voyager’s whisper using arrays of 70-meter antennas, then reconstructs coherent data from it at 160 bits per second. That’s slower than a 1990s modem. Downloading a single photograph at that rate would take weeks. The spacecraft itself runs on 8.8 kg of decaying plutonium-238 that generated 470 watts at launch in 1977. Today it produces roughly 200 watts, losing about 4 watts per year. NASA has been shutting down instruments one by one since the 1980s to keep the math working. They turned off the cosmic ray sensor just this year. And here’s the part nobody’s talking about: there is exactly one antenna on Earth that can send commands to Voyager. Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra. It went offline for major upgrades from May 2025 through early 2026. During that window, if Voyager had a critical fault, the team would have had to wait months to respond. A 48-year-old spacecraft built on 1970s computing, running on a plutonium battery that’s lost 60% of its output, transmitting at a power level that barely qualifies as existing, from a distance where light itself takes 23 hours to arrive. And a German observatory just casually picked up its carrier signal on a live stream. The engineering margin NASA built into this mission was designed for 4 years to Saturn. Everything after that is borrowed time the engineers keep extending by doing math with 200 watts.

@pvergadia Inspirational!!

I failed IIT twice. Took loans I couldn't afford. Started as a Quality Engineer while my friends climbed faster. 25 years later, here's the timeline: 2000: Decided to become an Engineer from IIT 2004: Failed to get into IIT 2005: Failed to get into IIT a second time—reluctantly took admission in another engineering school 2006: Started preparing for grad school in US 2008: Ran around trying to get a loan to go to grad school. 2009: Graduated with an engineering degree in India 2009: Moved to the US for grad school at UPenn, started from scratch in a new country 2010: Struggled landing an internship, while all my friends had one. 2010: Clock was ticking on student loan installments 2010: Finally got an internship at a tiny startup 2011: Finally landed a job at the same startup 2012: Struggled through tech career beginnings as a QA engineer 2013: Doubted if I belonged, took a leap into customer-facing engineering 2014: Really felt like I'd arrived in my happy place—solving new business problems every day with engineering 2017: Google found me! 2019: Found this role called DevRel, found my love for learning out loud 2020: Launched some cool zero-to-one products 2021: Became a published best selling author 2023: Led Developer Advocacy for North America at Google Cloud 2024: Microsoft found me to lead Developer Strategy for GTM! 2025: Earned Wharton MBA, launched another best selling book, took the TED stage while building and leading a team with multi-billion dollar impact. Story goes on... The entire time, one truth kept me going: I had to believe in myself before anyone else would. Failing IIT twice felt like the end of the world. But it wasn't my destination—it was just the beginning. From a "Not-IIT" engineering school to leading developer strategy at the world's biggest tech companies wasn't about being the smartest person in the room. It was about showing up consistently, learning relentlessly, and never letting failure or fear make my decisions. Don't give up on yourself. Your timeline is your own. Dream! Dream big! You can only achieve what you can imagine..so don't hold back. #hustle