praful (dog talker) 🐶 🐬

There’s a kind of misanthrope who dislikes people in the abstract but likes actual people and there’s a kind of humanist who likes people in the abstract but dislikes actual people.

This is why I could never, ever be a Democrat, my disagreements with Trump and the right notwithstanding. It's disturbing and un-American to demonize successful people and then mock them for wanting to keep a larger share of their wealth.

the bangalore/ sf corridor is finally real: founders, capital, and ideas moving both ways. but the conversation needs way more common sense. silicon valley doesn’t fund tourism. it funds ambition, originality. the physics are completely different across the two markets. what actually works in the us: enterprise + vertical ai (trust + network driven) ai infra + devtooling (evals, model orchestration, security, compliance) foundational research + frontier labs: (stanford, berkeley, openai, anthropic: deep tech compounding) to win here, you need presence, references, domain fluency, enterprise relationships, patience for immigration + burn india is built for: -consumer ai (billion-user distribution, low CAC, mass-market behaviour) -smart hardware & robotics (cost curve, manufacturing, gov support, talent density) -space tech, defence, deep ops (no-bloat engineering + regulatory openness) -commerce (zepto, razorpay, meesho, groww: real scale, real money) india’s advantages are structural: cheapest feedback loops in the world, engineering ambition + hunger, cultural comfort with hybrid workflows, vernacular + multimodal by default, cost curves nobody else can match. copying what’s hot in SF won’t work. match the problem to the market. not the other way around. sf still sometimes looks down on india. and india still gets performative about sf. both are useless. credibility is earned, not borrowed. geography amplifies your work, it doesn’t replace it.l i meet founders on both sides every day. the outliers don’t chase vibes or locations, use the corridor strategically, build where their product deserves to live understand distribution > hype and pick markets, not aesthetics. the india/ us corridor is finally compounding. use both, but be honest about which game you’re actually playing.

If you're interested in building in the world of atoms, there's no better place than Austin. SF -> ship code NYC -> ship spreadsheets Austin -> robots with Tesla, education with Alpha School, rockets with SpaceX and more. If you want to change the *actual* world, move to Austin.

This is why Canadian builders are better: they can’t leave the house and NOT build even if they wanted to

nvm lmfao they're already on this shit

right spouse > no spouse > wrong spouse

No one talks about the aura loss when you're job hunting