Debopam Basu

Each election has its own story, but the strategy behind the Haryana 2024 win remains my top pick. It truly set the tone for everything that followed in Maharashtra, Delhi, Bihar, and now the West Bengal 2026 elections.

@SMitra_ Why did the accused Bengalis in your post, settle outside Bengal? That's the question to ask and answer first. Why aren't they returning to Bengal? Is this pattern true at scale for other cities in comparison?

@DataGuyRedux Don't think that you need to sweepingly generalise an uncouth comment about the culture of a state. Treat it as an error in sample, not a projection of the universe, in other words.

The Culture of Bengal.

@vatsal_sanghvi Is the underlying assumption that spirituality or astrology is not logical?

i’ve seen the most rational, insanely smart people turn to astrology and spirituality when life stops making sense - logic fails, solutions don’t work, the brain stops braining, and in that moment it’s not chasing truth or proof but relief, direction, and hope - call it faith or whatever you want, but when survival kicks in, maybe meaning matters more than logic

"The greater the outward show, the greater the inward poverty." — Jiddu Krishnamurti

@evanlapointe Got it. Yes, agree. Curious - how would you rephrase it?

I’m suggesting that the phrase affixes most minds to exactly what the phrase says. Indiscriminate, unintelligent, impulsive action is the most likely and most common outcome. It’s exactly what we asked for. When we use more precise and smarter language, we get very different outcomes.

A bias to action is also a form of not listening.

@evanlapointe Are you suggesting that an action is agnostic of corresponding impact? Every action has an impact; we should balance "bias to action" w/ "being right". At every step. Bias to action in isolation is perhaps not possible practically; every action has some "thinking" behind it.

@badpoem Bias to action is definitionally action w/o direction. A lot of people try to make this phrase mean something it doesn't mean. If you're doing everything you listed, you have a bias to impact or a bias to effect, not a bias to action.

@shreyas Individuals gloat about their hard work as the input for success; however while assessing someone, they are not keen to attribute success to that someone's hard work alone. Biased view about self.

Can you *independently* think through what the disparity of results in these 2 polls means? It will require 1-5 minutes of sincere thinking — a rare practice. You can also see Claude get this terribly wrong, then work its way to getting it more right: claude.ai/share/3f3ce229…

@ankitatIIMA That you are intellectual and rooted; this distinct positioning among "experts" creates a core learning fan base.

💥Surat, Karnavati, Chennai and Delhi is still understandable... -but Bengaluru crowd gathered without me 😂 What does that even mean? like what do you discuss without me coming and speaking 😃 Amusing!

@ArchNeha 🙏

@ArchNeha Professional context - power dynamics. Personal context - seeking validation. IMO.

@MandarSawant184 Yes. Should there not be an official call out of the ceasefire behind the scenes story? Major perception loss there currently.

@badpoem Let us too as Indian citizens do that without waiting for the govt

Hope Indians don't go out of way to prove we have had the upper hand. It is clearly evident that India has had the upper hand. Our air defense system and missiles tested and came out successful. Most of them produced in India. Even Brahmos was fired today. Remember India is a future worldly power so we as citizens need to be behave in a manner to that. The world powers know who did what in this conflict.

Overton window shift. Speeding up now.

@GabbbarSingh Bongs are lazy by default; which leads to simplicity in conversational levers. Drinking and eating simplified into consuming (khawa).

Questions that keep me awake at midnight: Why didn’t Bangla have a separate word for drinking?

@ankitatIIMA @JayduttPandya @AMIT_KM_007 With all humility Ankit Ji, I get what you are saying; it's not easy to acclimatise. I am curious whether parents' intent to a) help their children vs b) not changes perspective. Familial bonds/love transcend borders...

@badpoem @JayduttPandya @AMIT_KM_007 Ever tried changing your sleeping room multiple times?

💥Good riddance of the aged parents from the land which sees humans as a unit of labor & where Cash is the only relation. @SreeIyer1 What percentage of Indian parents are being exploited by NRIs as MAIDS to take care of their households & kids while they themselves are at jobs during the day? It is better to be removed by the US authorities than to be emotionally blackmailed & do chores for free and be treated badly. There are instances of Aged Indian parents serving like slaves alternatively from Winter to Winter, not able to see Sun or even Humans for months, as they have children in different western countries calling them to serve as labor.

@ankitatIIMA @JayduttPandya @AMIT_KM_007 Get your point but am curious - if parents want to help their children, why is that bad? End of the day, the family can stay together. Why do we need to paint everyone w/ the same brush?

@JayduttPandya @AMIT_KM_007 Turn by turn Parents of both sides are called to the West? Imagine continuously changing bed, room, house, climate & social circle at that age.

@grok - verify this

5/n ...key initiatives against a metric is driving efficiency in execution planning c) phasing out solutions and experimenting is about driving efficiency in risk management; so on. Great product management teams help make an org more efficient; everything else is an add on.

1/n Product Management at its core is organisational efficiency management at scale. It builds and executes customer backwards narratives across functions such as sales, marketing, operation, tech, UXD and others to deliver impactful business outcomes. Would these functions not