Akkshaya

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I bow down to the people of TN for your verdict. Happy to see in my land, people have risen in one voice and spoken 1. No to buying of votes 2. ⁠No to dynastic Politics & yes to a generational shift in politics. Whoever gets it done has actually done a favour to all! Congrats and best wishes to TVK & Thiru @TVKVijayHQ avl for a spectacular debut in TN politics. Let Almighty be with you to do what you intend to do. And to all NDA candidates, it was a hard-fought battle on the ground. Congrats to all those who won, and for those who couldn’t register a victory this time, let’s keep fighting. Commiserations to Thiru @mkstalin avl & Thiru @Seeman4TN avl for your loss in this election! Finally & most importantly, I thank my dear @BJP4TamilNadu cadres and leaders for toiling hard on the ground. Better times will come soon!

I’m in love with this sentence: “The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions.”

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia. The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue. India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive. The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear. But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth. The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale. India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper. The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply. The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too. When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

India arrests US agents, India refused to toe American line on IRAN. Swamy who is a CIA agent is activated followed by Madhu Kishwar. Arvind Kejriwal's party who is accused to be close with Soros and ford foundation is aggressively picking this up. Just see the pattern.

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.

Does anyone else feel like there are two completely different realities right now? On X… people are watching events unfold in real time. War developments… economic data… policy debates… global shifts. Then you walk outside, talk to people in everyday life, and it feels like none of it exists to them. No awareness. No curiosity. No sense that major things are happening in the world. It’s like two parallel conversations are taking place at the same time. One group is tracking information constantly. Another group is completely disconnected from it. So I’m genuinely curious… Is this just the nature of social media concentrating news and discussion in one place… Or are most people simply too busy living their lives to follow what’s happening? What do you think? #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

CIVILIZATION JUST SENT A MESSAGE While Silicon Valley debates whether AI will end humanity, a 19-year-old in Varanasi just proved what can never be automated. Vedamurti Devavrat Mahesh Rekhe completed the Dandakrama Parayanam: 2,000 mantras of the Shukla Yajurveda recited flawlessly over 50 days without a single interruption. The first human to achieve this in over 200 years. Not downloaded. Not prompted. Transmitted mouth to ear across 5,000 years of unbroken memory, predating every empire that rose and fell while this chain continued. The leader of 1.4 billion people personally honored him. Not a billionaire. Not an influencer. A teenager who mastered what his ancestors mastered, in the exact city where they mastered it, using the exact method they used. Here is what the modern world cannot compute: No algorithm can replicate this. No server can store it. When the lights go out and the data centers fail, this tradition will still be passing from guru to disciple in the same sacred city where it has lived for millennia. The West builds monuments to remember. India builds people who ARE the monuments. Every civilization that abandoned its transmission chains is now archaeology. Every civilization that maintained them is still here, still speaking, still breathing. This is not nostalgia. This is not religion. This is the most sophisticated information preservation technology ever developed by humans: the living voice, the trained mind, the unbroken chain. Empires end. Traditions do not. A 19-year-old just proved it. The Ascent Begins.

@makkupedia True 😆

@akkshaya_ At least there is a realisation - in most cases people who nod a lot don’t ask questions and say make sense go back to do what they were doing anyway .. 😂😂

I’ve realized 'alignment' isn’t the same as 'understanding.' We often nod in meetings, say “makes sense,” and move on, only to realize later that we were never talking about the same thing. I’ve done this too. I've walked out feeling confident we were aligned, when in reality, alignment was just polite silence. What I’ve learned is that alignment isn’t about agreement, it’s about translation. Each of us speaks a different language shaped by our roles, incentives, and fears. Engineers speak precision. Designers speak empathy. PMs speak trade-offs. Execs speak outcomes. And unless we slow down to translate what we actually mean, “alignment” becomes a prettier word for misunderstanding. Wrote about it here — akkshaya.blog/2025/10/25/ali…

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everyone has “I wonder what would happen if” thoughts, but toddlers actually do the shit. I respect that.

Krishna to Arjun - Arjun bro, no cap, you’re tweaking rn. I know you’re staring at your fam like “bruh I can’t smoke my own cousins,” but fam… this ain’t about your feelings, it’s about dharma. Pick up the bow, lock in and let's cook.

what honest slack replies would look like.

tbh the only strength training i do is carrying the weight of unrealistic deadlines. warm up with 400 ‘quick’ slack huddles, 3 sets of JIRA anxiety, 10 reps of panic, cool down with existential dread. all good. 🧘‍♀️

Last week I wrote about the trap of wanting to be liked. This week, I found myself reflecting on negative self talk - the kind that sneaks in quietly and makes us second-guess ourselves. It’s strange how often we mistake those voices in our head for the truth. Most of the time they’re just echoes of old fears, shaped by years of little comments, comparisons, and conditioning that we’ve carried forward without realising it. akkshaya.blog/2025/09/27/the…

What an Amazing Discovery! Scientists have discovered that Ants, after collecting grains and seeds which they need to store for the winter, actually break them into halves before storing in their nests. This is because by breaking the seeds into half, it stops them from germinating despite the most perfect conditions. But Scientists were stunned when they discovered that Coriander seeds stored in the Ant nest were always broken down into 4 pieces instead of 2 pieces. After some lab research, Scientists discovered that a Coriander Seed is the only seed that can germinate even after being divided into two, but can not germinate after it’s divided into four parts. So how do these tiny tiny creatures knew all this? And we Humans thought we are the ONLY intelligent creations of God. Truth is We know very little & there's a lot to learn from every creature even if it’s so tiny. God is just Great & Impartial!!

Why do so many of us chase being liked at work and why does it weigh heavier on women? I wrote about this trap, and how I’m learning to step out of it. Mindy Zhang (Product Leader and Executive Coach)’s advice to me on this topic has been a real anchor, and I’ve included it in the essay hoping it resonates with others too. 🙂 akkshaya.blog/2025/09/20/the…

"Friends in finance watching algorithms do analysis they spent years learning. Consultants seeing AI produce better decks in minutes. Developers realising that coding might not be the safe bet they thought. Work is splitting into two surviving categories: practical and personal. If your job involves fixing physical things or genuine human connection, you're probably safe. Everything else, the vast middle of knowledge work, is vulnerable." thestillwandering.substack.com/p/the-death-of…