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Every AWS Lambda invocation runs in a full VM that boots in under 125ms. Firecracker is the ~50,000 line Rust binary that makes that possible. I wrote an interactive blog about it, with components you can play with.

He built it over a weekend. For himself. Today every developer on the planet uses it. Meet Abhinav Asthana ,the IIT kid who built a $5.6B company from a Chrome extension. > Born in Kanpur. IIT Bombay. Computer Science. > Interned at Yahoo Bangalore in 2010. > One frustration kept following him. > Testing APIs was a nightmare. No clean tool existed. > So he built one. > In 2012 - A Chrome extension. Built on weekends. Named it Postman. Put it on the Chrome Web Store and forgot about it. > Downloads started trickling in. > Then flooding. > His manager had no idea. > The "side project" was quietly becoming the most downloaded developer tool in the Chrome store. > Half a million developers. Zero marketing spend. > In 2014 — quit his job. > Team of 3. Office in Bangalore. > Before Bangalore startups were cool. > Growth strategy? None. > Just a tool so good — developers told other developers. > In 2016 → 1M users. > In 2019 → 7M users. $500M valuation. > In 2021 → 30M users. $5.6B valuation. > No cold outreach. No sales team. No ads. > Pure product-led growth — before anyone called it that. > Today 98% of Fortune 500 companies use Postman. > Every API in the world — tested, built, documented — runs through something he built over a weekend in 2012. From Kanpur to the global developer stack. Absolute legend.

Warren Buffett net worth at 92: $105,300,000,000. Amount that came after his 47th birthday: $105,233,000,000. His entire life is a case study of compounding.

Being able to articulate your thoughts into writing is a crazy gift.

"YOUR CLAUDE CODE SESSION LIMIT HAS BEEN REACHED"

No matter how good you are, the wrong room will never see your value

“Poor Americans who attend church regularly are happier than wealthy Americans who never go.”

Just 8 minutes of walking increased creative output by 60%. Stuck on a problem? Go for a walk.

Hot take: Your communication skills determine your compensation more than your technical skills ever will. Learn to speak.

The fastest way to accelerate your career is to get in environments where your dream life is their average day.

Anthropic went from ~$380B to $1 trillion in just three months. The fastest valuation triple in tech history. x.com/shiri_shh/stat…

Never quit as a founder. I’m begging you. It’s 0 for longer than you’ll ever expect. No momentum. Soul-crushing doubts. Nobody seems to care. Even when it looks like it’s working, it’s not. You keep trying new things. You don’t lose hope. Then it snaps to 100. You finally find the one thing that resonates. You wake up with more customers than you can handle. Everything is breaking. Momentum keeps building even when you’re not pushing. Something changed. You didn’t get lucky, you just didn’t leave.

Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, offers a sobering view: The biggest technological shift in human history is happening, and almost no one is talking about it. Schmidt opens with a startling industry prediction: "We believe as an industry that in the next one year the vast majority of programmers will be replaced by AI programmers. We also believe that within one year you will have graduate level mathematicians that are at the tippy top of graduate math programs." He explains why this matters so much. Programming and math aren't just two fields among many: "Programming plus math are the basis of sort of our whole digital world." And the AI labs are already using AI to build better AI: "The research groups in OpenAI and anthropic and so forth… around 10 or 20% of the code that they're developing in their research programs is being generated by the computer. That's called recursive self-improvement." @ericschmidt then lays out the timeline most people haven't grasped: "Within 3 to 5 years we'll have what is called general intelligence AGI which can be defined as a system that is as smart as the smartest mathematician physicist artist writer thinker politician." He gives this belief system a name: "I call this by the way the San Francisco consensus because everyone who believes this is in San Francisco it may be the water." But the truly unsettling part comes next. Once AI starts improving itself, humans become optional to the process: "The computers are now doing self-improvement… they don't have to listen to us anymore. We call that super intelligence or ASI… computers that are smarter than the sum of humans. The San Francisco consensus is this occurs within six years." And here's where Schmidt sounds the alarm. The conversation isn't keeping pace with the technology: "This path is not understood in our society. There's no language for what happens with the arrival of this. This is happening faster than our human that our society, our democracy, our laws will address." His closing thought captures why this matters: "That's why it's underhyped. People do not understand what happens when you have intelligence at this level which is largely free."

@realBigBrainAI Emphasis on “Largely free”

Sugar in a baby's brain is called ADHD. Sugar in an adults brain is called dementia. Sugar in your eyes is called glaucoma. Sugar in your teeth is called cavities. Sugar in your sleep is called insomnia. Sugar in your blood is called diabetes. Excess sugar in your body is called cancer

The antidote for brain rot is going back to longer formats: reading books, essays. Reading will help you rebuild your focus and attention span.

Stop watching Reels and TikTok Stop watching Reels and TikTok Stop watching Reels and TikTok Or else you won’t even have the concentration levels even to study a 10 lines of a Paragraph.

I made the anti-Grammarly. Mess up your emails with AI. Sinceerly.com

@PeterRex @Polymarket Same here lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Polymarket Been beta testing this one manually 😉

NEW: AI startup unveils "anti-Grammarly" tool that adds typos & grammatical errors to emails to make them seem human-written.

@theNyx__ Damnnnnnnn lol

Asian dude violated Black dude at the laundry mat this how it ended🤯