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There are four ways to generate and accumulate wealth: - Build something (art, products, movies, buildings, businesses, brands, etc.) - Trade something (equity, commodities, crypto, real estate, services, contacts, etc.) - Control something (laws, land, unions, regulations, media narratives, etc.) - Support any of the above (through financial, legal, operational, or other strategic services) To build something great, you must optimize for curiosity, spending your time exploring, creating, and innovating. To trade, you must optimize for judgment and timing, spotting opportunities & trends, understanding value shifts, assessing people & their abilities, and acting decisively. To control, you must optimize for leverage and power, understanding people + their emotions, systems, and how they can be influenced. To support, you must optimize for efficiency and execution, ensuring things run smoothly, mitigating risks, and maintaining structures. How you choose to build wealth shapes how you see the world, what you value, and most importantly, whom you respect. This, in turn, influences your choices, your company, your friends, your conversations, and even how you spend your time and money. Who you become, the values you pass on, and how you lead your life are all shaped significantly by how you choose to build and accumulate wealth. Choose wisely :)

@Neelshah317 @ChiefGhaziabad @EkStep_Org LFG!!

Seeing Blue Dots + Proof of Skill come alive on ground in Ghaziabad was something special. We're building something where people get hired for what they can do, not who they know. No resumes, no connections, just real skills. This is going to change how India hires and we're just getting started!

I witnessed something pathbreaking in Ghaziabad last week that has the potential to accelerate India into a $5 trillion economy Blue Dots showcase by @ChiefGhaziabad brought together district admin, @EkStep_Org, NGOs, industry, and skilling institutions along Mr. Johannes Zutt VP of @WorldBankSAsia Bharat’s problem is simple: jobs and workers exist but can’t find each other coz they're still digitally dark. Most MSMEs still rely on offline methods like flyers and word of mouth to hire folks. Sometimes the right job and the right candidate are 200m from each other and still cant connect. Blue Dots fixes this discovery. With their AI calling agent, they made these jobs and candidates digitally discoverable in Ghazaibad. @UIDAI gave India identity at scale. @UPI_NPCI gave India money at scale. Blue Dots could give India its workforce at scale. But once the market is visible, the next question is: who actually has the skills? That’s where @proofofskill comes in. Blue Dots makes the market visible. Proof-of-Skill makes skills visible. Together, they show who is ready for which jobs, where the skill gaps are, and what needs to be learned next. The entire hiring, learning, and skilling ecosystem is now aligned to real market needs. That is how we build a a skilled workforce at scale for India. What was most reassuring was that the consensus was clear - Blue Dots + Proof-of-Skill is the combination that brings the ecosystem together and makes India’s skill-first economy real. That’s the movement we’re here to accelerate. And we’re just getting started.

@pareen Behave by Sapolsky doesn't cost $1000 tho...

Hypothetically, if someone released a book on ‘how to understand a human’ would you pay $1k? Imagine a blueprint to understand human behaviour like you understand a personal computer’s components

@waitbutwhy Wait till you see two slots fighting

Met my first sloth and the slowness is just unreal

GM! You can find some solid designers on chat.proofofskill.org We get expert designers from leading tech cos like Microsoft, ShareChat, Ather etc to verify their design skills before listing them on the platform. This means that you can skip the first couple rounds of interviews and assignments.

🚨 JioHotstar Design is Hiring! We’re designing what the world streams next — and looking for talented folks to join us at our Bangalore HQ.

Hi @ditherblue - We have a pool for 2000+ designers whose skills have been verified by expert designers so you can get to interviews quicker. Our agent Yoshi understands who you're looking for and shows you the most relevant designers from this pool. Do give it a try here - chat.proofofskill.org

🚨 HIRING a Product Designer We're looking for a Product Designer to join us at @ringg_ai. At Ringg, we're building the future of voice agents. You'll be working with some of the most talented people to make our platform a delight to use. - 0-2 YoE - Work from office (HSR, Bangalore) If you're high agency and make to think - come join us! 📮 Comment/DM me your work.

@MitcheIl launch

@anandlunia For India, aligned economic models can easily break network effects.

What does this chart tell you about the fate of 'Network Effect & Moat' in India?

@fin465 outbound

I got tired of showing 100+ YC founders the outbound guide that i've watched take many from $0 -> $100k, $500k, even $1m ARR during the 3-month YC batch, so i'm providing it here for free: every YC batch, I talk to new founders about the best strategy to go from pre-product to top revenue of the batch in that 12-week period. Here's what I've seen work: 1. Don't bother with cold email. Cold email infra will take weeks to setup. If you're not an expert, it's not worth it. even if done properly, it's gotten impossible to compete with AI spam taking over inboxes. 2. Linkedin is a goldmine for outbound in 2026. There's no reason you shouldn't be sending 200 new linkedin connections every week to great fit prospects. If 50% accept your connection, you have 100 new potential customers to reach out to every week. You can easily setup an automated Linkedin Connector safely. Just upload your lead list and it will auto-connect. 3. Don't automate your message sending (wait, what?) if you build your lead list effectively, you will have a list of the few hundred HIGHEST value prospects to target (your top .1% buyers). These people are really important to you, and limited. Treat them well. Try to use linkedin 'casually' to start conversations with them in a more genuine way (more on this in the full guide). 4. Build that 'top .1% list' write out your exact dream customer profile, first at the company level. Then, person level. The more specific you can be about your dream customer, the better. The goal here is to create such a perfect customer, that if they heard about your solution they would have no choice but to say "tell me more". A few more miscellaneous tips: • do max volume connecting on all of your team-members accounts • an empty note for connection requests has the highest accept rates • don't use inMail. Connect first, then message • as you connect with more customers in your niche, you will gain more mutuals and your connect rate will increase over time This is just the beginning though if you actually want to execute this well. I wrote up a highly detailed guide going over each of these sections in more depth. completely step by step. Want the guide? Comment "outbound" and I'll dm you the entire guide that shows the exact process used by dozens of founders to scale from $0 -> $100k+ ARR in their first few months, that still works in 2026.

@ruchirjajoo Hey Ruchir! Can you give me an example of a problem you have solved using first principles?

We're Recruiting: Head of Growth 50 LPA - Bangalore Needed: - Extremely Articulate - Cerebral, High IQ - Love for Tech Twitter - Thinks LinkedIn is cringe - Not a 'balance' person. We're not a yoga retreat. - If you're 27+ and make <2L/month, probably don't apply - Goes to the gym - Healthy Workaholic - First principles thinking - Immaculate vibes - Top 1% Viral Sense - Deadline Anxiety WHO WE ARE: Social Capital does viral product launches for the world's fastest growing companies. We established the launch playbook. Icon .com ran it first, and Cluely made it famous. Since then we've done Twitter trending launches for Deel, Gamma, Lovable, Cartesia, Airwallex, Wispr Flow, and many more. We do everything: narrative, launch video production, assets, posts, strategy, and advise founders directly on story, landing page, offer, and pricing. We built custom software to precisely measure engagement and attribution. Our launches are trajectory-changing for startups through direct traction, brand, recruiting, and access to capital. THE ROLE: You will be forward deployed into the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley, advising founders directly and orchestrating company-defining launches. You will own the full launch. This role is extremely demanding. You're managing a team. You're running budgets north of a million dollars. Multiple launches live simultaneously, Founder's trajectory depends on what you ship. Apply here: binary.so/eAjd5GD

@pareen decel leaders are instrumental in driving adoption of technology built by others

show me the part of history where a decel leader has actually driven adoption to any technology

Credentials, like degrees, played a key role in making skill acquisition measurable and scalable during the industrial revolution. This became the bedrock on which the research-driven system of colleges was built. This time, we have it the other way around. Learning and resources are freely available - what's missing is a trusted credential for skills.

We can talk all day about how these models are going to produce so much good and produce value. And I think they will. But the reality is many of my buddies are unemployed, can't seem to find jobs, and continue to send 1,000 resumes a week on LinkedIn. This is even worse for new grads. These models are wonderful tools but a majority of people don't know how to do much other than write emails with them. Just because you invent a tool like the hammer, doesn't mean everyone is going to magically know how to build a house with it. I don't think people are lazy. Last week I made a tweet doing a free Codex class and 5,000 people came by. It's clear people want to build and adapt, they just don't know where to start. The appetite is there, but nearly all of the scaffolding + education is missing. AI people love to quote the industrial revolution all the time, and how back then people were scared of machines taking their jobs but it all worked out. What they never mention is that it only worked out because we built an entire education system from scratch to bring everyone along. The industrial revolution created a massive wave of new jobs and nobody was trained for any of them. The tools didn't save anyone on their own, because the education had to catch up. It's never been a better time to start an education company. Millions of people want to learn, many of the tools are free, and the only thing missing is someone showing them the way.

@eriktorenberg built an alternative to college in india for engineers and designers that got 1500+ folks jobs & now building proof-of-skill - think credit score but for skills. Would love to talk!

If it’s your dream to build & shape what the future of college looks like and you have the skills to contribute, DM me.

@NayrhitB @SusquehannaVC @LightspeedIndia @BCapitalGroup @beenextVC @sparrowcapvc @2point2club deck

The exact pitch deck that helped us raise a $9M Seed Round copy whatever you want VCs that invested: → @SusquehannaVC (led) → @LightspeedIndia → @BCapitalGroup → Seaborne Capital → @beenextVC → @sparrowcapvc → @2point2club joined. fundraising is hard enough without guessing what investors want to see. so - I'm making our deck public. if you're raising right now, take it and make it yours. Reply 'deck' + follow (so I can DM it over)

@JeffDean @vishnuvivek87 @prajdabre @GhemawatSanjay DSA hard means having the ability to solve hard Data Structure & Algorithm problems within 15 minutes. btw what skills do you usually look for nowadays in engineers? I am guessing data structure and algo understanding would be quite fundamental no?

@vishnuvivek87 @prajdabre @GhemawatSanjay What is DSA hard?

Btw this question is a homage to @JeffDean and @GhemawatSanjay, who wrote the paper on MapReduce. I wonder if there was some fun lore around this.

@alexisohanian Building the credentialing layer that can power multiple of these kinda trade schools. DMed

I’m desperately trying to start and fund Trade School 2.0 please DM me if you’re that cracked founder

@kriti_kg Skills still matter just completely different skills

Hiring has fundamentally changed. 10 people team is moving mountains. Pace of iteration is faster than we could ever comprehend. Passion and vision alignment will matter way more than a skill set when everyone has intelligence in their pockets.

Comet is such a well-made browser. I only realized this after trying to switch to Atlas three times last week and running into multiple small errors that simply work seamlessly in Comet. Kudos @perplexity_ai @AravSrinivas

@trq212 Wish I had seen this before I panic upgraded last night 🥲

We've reset rate limits for all Claude Code users. Yesterday we rolled out a bug with prompt caching that caused usage limits to be consumed faster than normal. This is hotfixed in 2.1.62. Make sure you upgrade to the latest and hope you enjoy using Claude Code this weekend!

@ybhrdwj Bana de!

The best CMS for your website is actually a markdown file. The best interface to do anything on your website is claude code. I'm willing to bet that bloatware like webflow/framer will die within 2y if they don't adapt to the claude code standard. their pricing is so broken.