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@sidin Anti paneer and anti mangoes. MEA kindly take notice for OCI extension purposes.

You develop a certain mental picture of people. You think of them as competent, professional and helpful. You build a certain high regard for them. And then it turns out they are a mango person. Tragic really.

This guy @KananGillFC is so good in his new special - youtube.com/watch?v=QQCjSK…

@themgmtconsult @Spotify It’s a podcast world! I can only listen while traveling, but will find a way to read. Love this tweet and others - you give out so much meaningful insights straight. Keep inspiring the young!

@RiggedVeda @Spotify It's on Audible but it's narrated by a robot voice 😢 Best format still the written word.

Worked 2 decades in in consulting. Made Partner in my 30s. Led teams of 100+ people. Run 9-figure client portfolios. Lived and worked in 4 continents. Young people are entering the workforce at a strange moment. AI can draft your emails, build your slides, write your code, analyse your data, simulate your voice. The default advice sounds smart: "Upskill" "Learn AI" "Be adaptable" Obvious stuff. Let me give you 5 slightly heretical (but useful) ideas if you actually want leverage in the AI age. Not survival. Leverage. 1) LEARN TO SELL BEFORE YOU LEARN TO BUILD Everyone is learning to build with AI; who's learning to sell? Because production is cheap, distribution is not. In my experience, markets reward those who can convince others that something should exist and then align capital, people & narrative around it. E.g., Steve Jobs didn't invent the GUI, the MP3 player, or the smartphone. He sold a vision of WHY they were cool. Or Elon Musk. You can argue about him all day, but he bends capital markets through narrative force. Young people obsess over becoming technically formidable. Good, but if you can't: > articulate a problem in a way that feels urgent > create emotional energy around a solution > negotiate compensation/scope > pitch yourself w/o sounding desperate AI will outperform you on the build, and someone else will capture the upside. 2) BUILD SENSE-MAKING AI can generate infinite variations but it can't reliably tell you which one is elegant. You need pattern recognition + aesthetic + strategic sensemaking. You need the extraordinarily valuable ability to say "This feels right"... and be correct 90% of times. Steve Jobs called it "taste". Designers call it judgment. I prefer discernment. Where does it come from? Exposure. Feedback. Long apprenticeship. Studying history. Reading widely. Being around people better than you. Caring about the craft. Everyone can create, but can you curate? That's the challenge I'm giving myself. 3) CHASE POSITION AI makes you faster. So what? Speed in the wrong direction is basically accelerated irrelevance. Young professionals obsess over productivity hacks, automating emails, summarise meetings, generate slide drafts. BS. Meanwhile, someone else is positioning themselves closer to revenue, clients, capital allocation. You want exposure to projects with visibility, problems tied to money, roles adjacent to decision-makers. If you become the most efficient note-taker in the company, AI will replace you. If you become the person who reframes what the company should be doing, it won't. Simple. 4) LEARN TO WORK WITH AFRAID HUMANS I see AI is making people anxious. Managers worry about irrelevance. Employees worry about layoffs. Executives worry about being disrupted. Walk into that fear and stabilise people: > explain AI w/o hype > show people how it augments rather than humiliates them > design transitions instead of revolutions Look at Satya Nadella. He pivoted Microsoft to cloud & AI, and changed the internal psychology of the firm from know-it-all to learn-it-all. If you understand identity & ego, you will navigate the AI era far better than someone who just knows Python. 5) OPTIMISE FOR OPTION VALUE Prestige brands still matter. McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Google still open doors. But if you optimise purely for logo collection, you might wake up one morning highly employable and strategically constrained. The AI era will produce volatility, with entire functions that will shrink and new ones that will explode. Option value means: > skills that transfer > geographic flexibility > intellectual independence > networks that span industries > income streams that are not singular Status feels good today but options protect you tomorrow. Chase convexity: small downside, large upside exposure. You want an identity not fully fused with your employer. When layoffs come (they will) your sense of self doesn't disintegrate. All the best!

Love a good Ad war!

So my profile, timeline everything is wiped clean. What’s up @x?

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp 1. Intererpret my style of interaction so far and help prepare a super prompt to make Gemini respond better. 2. Organize chats to improve local context (perplexity spaces) 3. Paper cut : background runafter asking question on iOS app (I don’t want to see you think)

You're a power user on @GeminiApp. What else do you want to see? Top known requests: MacOS app, Projects, and Branching Chats.

Any @GeminiApp iOS devs here? Why do i need to keep the app open as the model thinks... let me close the app and tell me when done. If i navigate away, it stops working through the follow up question. @perplexity_ai does it well. #PlsFix.

@hindookissinger why not link the good book - ndian Voices of the Great War: Soldiers' Letters, 1914–18. amazon.com/Indian-Voices-…

@JacobSingh instagram.com/rahulpawarart?… Like his work

I want to buy some art from small, original artists in India. Where can I do this? Not derrivitive trend art, but unique stuff.

Turns out the greatest startup idea of the last 10 years was a chatbot where you ask a question and it answers with something a guy wrote on Reddit 8 years ago

@jonathonstaff @stromdotcom @sahillioo Unrelated but please let some form on caching work on library in the iOS app. I love to read past threads on flights with low wifi.

But we're going to continue pushing and improving. Send us any issues you run into and we'll take a look. Feel free to tag me or the engineers who built it: @stromdotcom @sahillioo

Last night, we quietly rolled out another major update to the Perplexity iOS app, this time focusing on answer rendering. The team did an incredible job on this. Best-in-class performance while streaming and delightful animations make the experience feel super polished.

@krtgrphr Same as Raveena’s “likhte likhte love ho jaye”?

Friends of a certain age will remember Rotomac's "sab kuch dikhta hai" ad and I just remembered it for no reason today but due to advanced age and outdoor activity, "sab kuch dukhta hai". Ow.

@sidin good man. Always love to read your content. Side note - seems like all your cubiclenama and writing from Mint are behind a paywall. What travesty. any other sources?

Hi. Whatay is back. With a recap to start. whatay.com/p/so-this-funn…

@amitvarma @DembiDivyanshu I tried it - not so good at whimsical analogies and side quests. Your job is secure. 🤞🏽

@DembiDivyanshu Bhai, thand rakh! 😦

Been using the deep dive feature of NotebookLM (generates a podcast chat between two people based on the docs you share) and it has blown my mind. You can even ask questions and those two people reply!! I wonder if, and how long, until AI replaces someone like @amitvarma !

@iansilber Increase metadata capture from users voice to improve prompt context - tried to use it as a speaking coach but it only focused on the text content. Should be easy to capture and will give good results on pausing, style of question etc.

we’ve been busy making improvements to the core chagpt experience (long overdue). what do you think we should do next?

@Suhail Explainability in responses is what makes @perplexity_ai a true winner. Only thing worth paying for. I dont want AI romance, just simplify my cognitive load for facts in this information dense world.

There’s something about Perplexity’s brevity, format, etc that nothing else seems to have. It feels like a function of what you’d focus on it if you primarily care about search/Q&A over a general chat product.

Bro Ed Sheeran how you pronounce sapphire “sa-fire” like “stand-by” in the chorus bro? I had to google song lyrics to see what you are saying man. Arijit talk like this or what

@jeffgrimes9 @AravSrinivas Thank you! Mass refreshed content will make amazing app usage up-time. Very similar to early days Google news and reader.

@RiggedVeda @AravSrinivas We have some finance features in the app, but figuring out the right way to bring even more from desktop to mobile.

Finance queries and page views on Perplexity are up 4-5x since we started improving it in April. Let us know in comments what you want as improvements. Appreciate the love for Perplexity Finance. @jeffgrimes9