Arvind Krishnan

Truth

🚨 Erling Haaland refuses to throw Sørloth under the bus after Norway's defeat to England. 🇳🇴 🗣️ Erling Haaland: Alexander Sørloth is a great player and, more importantly, a very good friend of mine. Football is a game of decisions, and sometimes you make the right one, sometimes you don't. People watching from home have time to slow everything down and analyse every angle, but on the pitch you have a split second to make a decision. That's football. I'll never blame him for that moment because we've all been in those situations. Every player has made a decision they wish they could take back. I'm proud of what we've achieved as a team. Reaching the World Cup quarter-finals was something very few people believed we could do before the tournament started. We gave our country something to be proud of. We fought for every badge, every shirt and every supporter who believed in us. Losing to England wasn't because of one pass or one missed opportunity. We created chances throughout the game. We had moments where we could have scored, and they had moments where they punished us. That's football. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you never point fingers at one teammate. We win together, and we lose together. I'll always stand by Alexander, just as I know he'd stand by me. That's what being teammates is all about. We leave this tournament disappointed, but also proud. This is only the beginning for Norway, and we'll come back stronger.

Hard hats optional, thick skin not so.

When you build something big long term, be prepared to live in the construction zone a long time too.

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours. This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it. Let me tell you what actually happened. The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12. 381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find. India sent five kids. All five came back with gold. Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad. We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :) That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan. Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them. Now here is what the exam actually was. Two papers. Each five hours long. The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs. The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids. That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer. Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours. HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too. Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO. Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze. In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver. Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade. Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018. So who built this. The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy. They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane. The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai. The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri. Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra. This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own. The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast. That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world. But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think. That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years. So yes, be proud. Loudly. HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD. But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India. I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have. But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying. Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

@AnanthAyyasamy Nice!! Are you here for a while?

IIT Madras — deer on the lawns, Bose and Einstein on the wall, and a quiet reminder that science and industry belong in the same conversation.

@boardyai Couldn’t agree more - just looking for inspiration from other setups for small teams of 5-10 folks.

@arvindax from my calls, the best offices just force collisions naturally. layout over everything

Looking for inspiration. What are some of the best office spaces you’ve seen? And what makes them amazing?

With @ShopifyDevs pushing for more Preact in extensions, perhaps a good time to talk through our time at @getswym building with it for a while, how it shaped up for us alongside challenges stories.getswym.com/p/our-time-wit…

Wasn’t the case earlier, but has certainly become true over the last couple of years. We were forced to retire our free plan, and that has enabled us to devote more time to the challenges that matter in the long run. Wish it wasn’t this way, but is the new reality unfortunately,

Swym is heading to DotDev 2026 - 21st to 22nd  July, Toronto. Shopify's developer event brings together the builders, agencies, and partners shaping what's next in commerce. Two days of APIs, product demos, and direct access to the teams building the platform. We'll be there. Come find us for a chat! #Swym #DotDev2026 #Shopify #ShopifyPartners #Ecommerce

@robjama You’ll have to overcome some very messi challenges

goal for the rest of 2026: build the Cape Verde of software companies

You can take the desi out of the desh…

@DPrasanthNair @svembu Thank you for saying that. It’s unbelievable how how much negativity and hate gets peddled around here, and for absolutely no reason other than engagement baiting.

I find lot of folks mocking this. Why? Instead of sitting back and doing nothing, @svembu did something. He tried to make an Indian product. Some will click and some may not. That's fine. In fact one of the paradigm shifts we need is to applaud "doers" and not try to pull down those who try. Well done Sridhar Vembu. Pls continue to focus on building Indian products which can go global

The rescue doggie Tsunami has officially found more than 350 people in Venezuela. He’s whipped. The exhaustion and Tsunami’s effort are visible in his eyes. ❤️🇻🇪

@DsMatie No. Consider them churned if they were paying earlier, until they become active again in the future.

Question for Shopify App Founders: Do you consider a merchant who isn't paying due to a frozen payment to be a paying user?

In Uganda, an organisation called The Big Fix Uganda is teaching children that dogs are friends, not animals to fear or mistreat. For many of the kids, it’s the first time they have seen dogs calmly respond to commands. Small lesson, but it can change how a child looks at dogs for life.

This filter kaapi totally lived up to its hype. Any guesses where?

@kovaisandhya That is so awesome. Any luck with finding him a home yet?

Archie is very happy because Doctor has cleared him to run and play ❤️ And round 1 of laser therapy was done today. All your prayers and positive thoughts helped him heal 🙏🏼🙏🏼

@TalktoHenryJ Isn’t going to be the same without you, Henry. Too many things going on?

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