Sriram Ramakrishnan

44% of millennials describe debit cards as their preferred payment method - over cash and credit cards 🤯 This goes against everything I was taught about building a credit score, rewards etc.

A lot of us spend our 20s and 30s optimizing our careers. Less of us ask: who are we helping as we climb? I wrote about my 3 years mentoring first-generation high school students in NYC through Minds Matter — and why that experience changed my view of success more than any job title ever did.

The NBA has way too many alternate jerseys and court designs now The hardwood classics series was legendary now it’s just impossible to keep up

If your company makes me download an app in 2026 you no longer have a customer

@pitdesi Big Tech involved in the AI buildout will need to allocate spend for positive AI propaganda (especially in rural red states) to convince the average voter that AI benefits them somehow

Bad sign that “cancel AI Data Centers” is important enough as a campaign issue that it makes it into the launch tweet of populists

This is the most poignant art installation of our modern era. In a world increasingly dominated by Al and synthetic content, the authentic human experience is the only thing we have left. Do yourself a favor and soak this in while it lasts. Thank you to @humansofny for always remembering the everyday person and capturing their stories. Please check out Dear New York in Grand Central if you can.

@AndrewYang What a time!!

Thank you for coming out NYC! Offlineparty.com coming soon to Chicago, Boston, Philly, Brooklyn, Miami and more!

@JasonSCui @a16z Congrats brotha 🔥

🚀 Excited to share that I’ve joined @a16z as a partner on the infrastructure team, where I’ll be investing in all things infra, data, and AI.

@vxanand @Alphabetlnc @CapitalG Congrats Varun!! 🚀

Weather sounds like the apocalypse in NYC rn

@nickgraynews Legend!! Congrats Nick 🎉

I got engaged this past weekend. We're going to get married and then hopefully start a family. That might be enough of a post for most people But since I've been public with my dating life, I want to reflect on this for a moment A year ago, the thought of getting married wasn't even on my radar. And yet now I'm in love. So I'll tell you what I did. And I'll tell you how I changed my mental models on dating, why I love this woman, and what comes next. First, my life was pretty good Or at least it felt incredibly full. I built businesses and made some good investments. I lived in NYC, moved to Austin, and just generally loved the thrill of dating and hosting events. My freedom is what I valued the most. I could fly anywhere in the world on a whim I could pack a bag and go to Japan just for fun, and then leave the moment I got bored. Being single felt like absolute freedom. I loved it. But about a year ago, something changed. I did the Tokyo blind date thing. Then my sister had a baby. And all my best friends started having kids. I looked around at my life and things just felt a bit more flat. The dating experiences that used to thrill me were starting to feel empty. I was getting older, too, and I started to feel like my time was running out. I realized that I wanted more. I wanted to share my life with someone, and I wanted to start a family. So I got strategic about it. Which I know is super nerdy and doesn't feel romantic, but I had to change something major with my lens on dating I read books on relationships, I interviewed friends in happy marriages, and I thought a lot about what my non-negotiables were. I created a framework: big stuff versus small stuff. Small stuff was what I'd always focused on. Looks, style, wit. These are the things for me that create instant attraction. Big stuff was the foundation. Values, wanting kids, where they want to live, how they treat people, and what a successful partnership means to them. For too long, I'd screened for the small stuff first. Attractive? Check Fun? Check. Good enough! But finding a life partner meant flipping the order. I thought I knew what I wanted, but my intuition about what would lead to long-term happiness was often dead wrong. I had to look at the big stuff first and be willing to walk away if it didn't align, no matter how gorgeous or charming they were. So I started being direct on dates and telling people that I was interested in a serious relationship. Then came the hard part: showing up. One Tuesday evening, dead tired from work, my friend Katelyn invited me to Barton Springs Pool. Every bone in my body wanted to stay home and keep working. But I went anyway. Lauren was up on the hill reading a book. She looked supermodel beautiful and was exactly my type. The book caught my attention. She was reading Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, which is not exactly a fun poolside read. I walked over to chat her up. Small stuff got me there, but the big stuff kept me talking. She had a rare confidence and a quick wit. When she talked about her family, there was a warmth I didn't know I'd been looking for. Three hours into our first date, I asked her if we should get married. But that was too bold. She laughed it off and said she'd think about it. That was ten months ago. We've spent nearly every day together since and moved in together earlier this year. Now she's become my best friend. When I get too intense, she grounds me. When I miss details, she catches them all. She pushes me to grow in ways I'd never push myself. Lauren has a rare gift of social grace. She can talk to anyone about anything. Venture capital one minute and cowboy boots the next. The first time I joined her family for Rosh Hashanah they welcomed me with open arms. They roasted me, teased me about my affinity for name tags, and brought me into their world. Seeing how close they all are - how Lauren talks to them daily, how proud she is of her brothers and cousins and dad - I thought, "I want this. I like this." Last weekend was her birthday. We went out to California to talk about our future. About kids and about what building a life together really means. I asked her again if she'd marry me, and this time she said yes. It feels big. It feels right. And I'm super happy for what comes next.

Excited to host our April Research Roundtable in partnership with @hebbia in NYC tonight! Looking forward to having interesting talks on the intersection of Finance and AI. lu.ma/april-hebbia-rr

Your productivity app ain’t got shit on this

I just turned 30. Been reflecting on the past few decades of hard knocks and valuable lessons. Reminding myself out loud here for the decades to come 👇 1. You’re stuck with yourself for life - make it the best relationship you have. Take it seriously and love yourself. Everyone’s going through their own shit - nobody thinks about you as much as you do. The secret? You’re literally a walking energy magnet. Be the person you’d want to love/hang/work with and you’ll enjoy all who show up. 2. Compounding is the secret sauce. Friendships, habits, love, resentment - everything compounds. Choose wisely the bricks you stack every day and watch what happens over the years. 3. Audacity is the ultimate arbitrage. Everyone’s playing it safe, which means the rewards for bold moves are massively underpriced. 4. The juice is always past the discomfort. Every time you feel that anxiety spike? That’s the universe identifying your level-up. Run towards it. 5. Default to “hell yes” on spontaneous adventures. Your life highlight reel won’t feature all the Netflix binges - it will contain the random Tuesday you said yes to something crazy. 6. “Wasted time” is a myth. Your life clock is ticking by second - extract one gold nugget from every experience and keep moving forward. 7. Choice architecture matters. Design your surroundings to make winning the default. Change what’s around you to change your outcomes. 8. “You don’t have to attend every argument you’re invited to” - Charlie Munger + “A wise man told me don’t argue with fools, cuz people from a distance can’t tell who is who” - Jay Z (by way of Mark Twain). Life’s too short for a petty beefs. You’ve got heights to climb and levels to achieve, keep it moving. 9. All advice cancels out. Everything worth saying has already been said - everyone online is just remixing it for new ears (including me right now). Find what resonates and run with it. 10. Look up from your damn phone. This moment - right now - is all you’ve got. Your surroundings are beautiful if you pay attention. All of you inspire me. Thank you 🥂

@pitdesi It’s never hot enough to go swimming in SF

TIL: SF had the largest swimming pool in the world—1,000' x 150', big enough to accommodate 10,000 swimmers at once. Lifeguards patrolled thewater in rowboats! They pumped water from the Pacific (right there), filtered, and heated it. Now it's the zoo.

“Personal finance” is more “personal” then “finance”

@snigdhasur Congrats Snigdha!!

2.15.25 ♾️ We did the thing

Looking forward to hosting another @GenAICollective Research Roundtable with the NYC tech community. This time having my colleague at @cohere on the multilingual modeling team @weiyinko_ml and the CTO of @RogoAI, @TumasRackaitis speak. Wei-Yin is talking about unique challenges of building multilingual LLMs and the language confusion benchmark/paper he wrote with the Cohere multilingual team. Tumas will be talking about building a good search eval pipeline, especially relating to search within Investment Banks and PE. Sign up here, space is limited: lu.ma/gaico_nyc_feb_…

@barstoolsports @mworthofgame Bay Area stand up 😂

PHILLY IS ON TOP OF THE WORLD BLOW THE WHISTLE!!! @mworthofgame