Dhrumil Mehta

was studying finance in Canada and was great at it. realised it wasn’t because i was smart, it was because my parents pushed me early, and everyone else started later. that gap never closed. so i quit the job, quit CFA, and came back home. because if a head start at 4 changed my entire trajectory, imagine what we could do for a generation if we scaled it! toddlr isn’t a toy brand. it’s giving every kid that unfair advantage. more details soon!

the biggest takeaway everyone ignores is how the movie confirms rumours about raw agents execute their plans with the help of Baloch forces

Your boy loves Lego. Loves building. This is a pattern. Fill your home with Popular Mechanics and Popular Science. Immerse him in the world of engineering, gadgets, and mechanical problem-solving. Stop treating his Lego obsession as toy play. Then watch what happens. The kid who hated school suddenly cares about material science, engineering, and how things actually work. Lego to engineering is a natural bridge that your child sees before you do. Your job is to light the path he already sees.

this is arguably one of the most underexplored versions of the pareto principle — a disproportionate share of your child’s life outcomes gets shaped in the first 5 years. give them the right tools early, and you’re basically setting them up to conquer whatever they choose later.

3 people are watching Samay’s still alive at 8 am in a local train

Your kid's piano teacher was reshaping their brain. A Harvard-led team tracked children from age 6 to 9 and found that kids who practiced an instrument at least 2.5 hours a week grew the corpus callosum (the cable connecting the left and right halves of the brain) by about 25% in the region that handles movement planning. Kids who practiced less or quit showed zero growth there. USC ran a separate study starting in 2012 that followed children from low-income LA neighborhoods. One group learned violin through the LA Philharmonic's youth orchestra program. A second did soccer. A third had no structured after-school program. Two years in, only the music group showed brain changes: stronger white-matter connectivity, faster maturation of auditory processing, and greater activation in networks involved in decision-making and impulse control. The soccer and no-program groups looked the same on brain scans. A randomized trial at the University of Toronto tested 144 six-year-olds assigned to keyboard lessons, voice lessons, drama, or nothing for a full school year. The music kids gained about 7 IQ points on average. Drama and no-lessons kids gained 4-5. That roughly 3-point gap showed up across every subtest, including reading and math. Now the language side. Bilingual kids outperform monolingual kids on task-switching tests (jumping between different sets of rules quickly), and it holds regardless of which second language they speak. Brain scans of nearly 1,300 children and young adults from a 2021 Georgetown and University of Reading study showed that bilinguals kept more grey matter (the layer where the brain's processing cells live) as they grew up than kids who spoke one language. The long game is where this gets serious. A 2025 Monash University study of 10,893 Australians over 70 found that people who regularly played an instrument had 35% lower odds of developing dementia. Bilingualism shows an even sharper effect. Studies across India, Canada, and the US consistently find that bilingual adults develop dementia symptoms 4 to 5 years later than monolingual adults. A 2024 door-to-door survey of 1,234 people over 60 in Bengaluru, India, found dementia in 4.9% of monolinguals and just 0.4% of bilinguals. Both piano and a second language work through a similar mechanism. They force the brain to manage competing systems at once, left hand versus right hand, one language versus another. That constant switching strengthens the frontal regions responsible for planning, focus, and filtering distractions, building what neurologists call cognitive reserve: a buffer that lets the brain keep working even as age-related damage accumulates. Those parents running their kids between piano on Tuesdays and Mandarin on Thursdays were basically running a two-front neuroplasticity program without knowing it.

sitting on polson pier watching the spring sunset is such a wonderful experience! toronto you beautiful beautiful city

@anmolm_ completely changes how you view life

everyone should live outside india for at least a bit (if they can afford to) in their 20s

The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to tackle the world to win. Travel more. Talk to people. Try a breakfast spot. Post on social media. Start a side hustle or a hobby. The world rewards motion. You don't find opportunity sitting still.

@kushgrwl @harleyf @tobi terrible service though, completely botched up my launch. switched to shopify in less than 1 week

Shopify is soon going to be killed in India by Amazon SmartBiz @harleyf @tobi

be it a sportsman or a professional, the ground work of these success stories start before the age of 5

@supreetkashyap used wellbi tshirts for @toddlrindia branded merch

We didn’t do any outbound push for corporate gifting last FY. Everything came inbound. Companies reached out, we spoke, and closed. Yesterday, we tried our first outbound. A simple WhatsApp message to our existing customers: Refer us to your company for merchandise, and get Wellbi t-shirts for the next 12 months. The response was solid.

@Ajain112 @kushgrwl same problem in mumbai as well, can’t even find stoves

<Something serious> Workers in factories are not able to afford black market cylinders. Cylinder bookings are getting cancelled. If this is not solved, we are looking at emergency migration of workers back to villages.

I’m getting sick of this shit

“Is it a little bit homophobic to focus on the straights of Hormuz rather than the gays of Hormuz?” No Kings protester, completely serious: “Yes, absolutely, I agree.”

EBITDA (2026 edition): Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs, and Donald Announcements.

@supreetkashyap 350/month should be easy

We are doing 1,050 units/month from Mumbai online. Exploring offline in Bandra via a multi-brand store (Broadway) At 2L/month commitment, we need 350 unit sales/month. Realistic offline?

@arindam___paul congratulations!

What an end to the financial year 😀😀 Upgraded to saying “do bachhon ka baap hu yaar” Both mother and baby doing well. Grateful 🙏🏻🙏🏻

lord shardul thakur never disappoints

@theswapnilsri @GhazalAlagh persistence pays off!

Since past two years, I was sending Ghazal Alagh a cold DM on Instagram. No intro. No mutual connect. Just one intent. Show her what we were building at Kidbea. And finally, She invested. Every few months, I kept sending her updates. A milestone. A product we felt proud of. A market we had just entered. No expectation. No “just checking if you saw this.” Just quietly building. And sharing that journey with someone I respected. Most people think investor relationships start in a pitch meeting. They don’t. They start the moment someone begins watching you build. By the time she said yes, she hadn’t just heard about Kidbea. She had seen it grow. Then came the call. I thought I would be speaking. I ended up listening. Her understanding of marketing and branding operates on a different level. How she connects emotion to consumer behavior. How she builds love for a category, not just market share. That one conversation shifted how I was thinking about things for months. Grateful feels like a small word here. She built a brand from zero to something people truly love. And she understands the real cost of that journey. Patience. Clarity. Conviction. There is a lot to learn. And we are just getting started. For every founder sitting on a draft DM they haven’t sent yet, Consistency is the real pitch. Not one email. Not one meeting. But showing up. Again and again. Building in public. Letting people see the journey unfold. Send the DM. Take your chance! 🚀

There are some people you see and feel like you gotta punch them in the face, Dhruv rathee is one of them.