Keshav Gupta - e/acc

I am a global common sense patriot

It's hard to find work you love; it must be, if so few do. So don't underestimate this task. And don't feel bad if you haven't succeeded yet. In fact, if you admit to yourself that you're discontented, you're a step ahead of most people, who are still in denial

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If it’s not one of the best books you’ve ever read, don’t read it.

What you really want is a challenge at the edge of your capability.

The latest IQ test involves data centers and water.

The new rule: Only do things that scale.

It's funny how nihilism is both a cause and the cure for panic in life.

So if we want to increase our creativity, our innovation, our imagination, our knowledge, our wisdom, our fun — then we need to increase our intelligence.

Learning, knowledge, reasoning, imagination, creativity, innovation, fun, evolution, and technology are actually all sub-processes of intelligence.

@0xratnakar Deep

greatness is born in silence. in the nights where nobody claps for you, where the world sleeps while you keep going. it lives in the hunger that refuses comfort, in the scars earned from choosing discipline over distraction, in the quiet promise you make to yourself to never stop becoming. the path is lonely. it breaks people. it asks for everything before giving anything back. but those who keep walking through the dark, with faith in something they cannot yet touch, are the ones who one day wake up and realize they became the impossible version of themselves.

@100milesss @100dreamsss Cool

hi, I’m Soumil, I am 19 and I never went school after 7th. here I am taking, the biggest swing of my life introducing @100dreamsss

“A taste of freedom can make you unemployable.” — @naval

At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years. By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants. The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels. That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too? After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses. A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story. - @hihongjie

The enemy of truth is motivated reasoning.

"There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion."

Mental side quests: • Read 12 books in one year • Learn a new language to conversational level • Meditate for 30 days without missing one • Write in a journal every morning for 90 days • Spend one full day completely alone in silence • Do a full week with no social media • Learn chess and actually get good at it • Study one subject you know nothing about • Write your own story from beginning to now • Memorize 10 poems or quotes that move you

The right kind of ambition is to compete against yourself. To be the best version of yourself.

It's easy to talk and hard to do

Billionaire Michael Milken joked “if a US company replaces the US-born CEO with a CEO born in India, I buy the stock” But he reveals he hasn’t backtested the idea. So we did. In the last 15yrs, that would’ve 50x’d your money: 7.5x more $$ and >2x IRR vs S&P500: 30% vs 14%!

New podcast on sales - Sell the Truth. 00:00 Be Credible 03:18 “Yes, And” 04:31 Selfish Honesty 05:37 Charisma Is Confidence + Love 07:56 Don’t Manage, Lead 11:16 Hunt Together 14:51 Feed Your (Good) Obsessions 18:57 Sell the Truth 21:07 Good Deal or No Deal 23:39 The Age of Nonlinear Returns