Varun Das

@zarazhangrui I have been building decks for over a decade now. The real problem isn't beautifying the deck, it is about what needs to be said. One can't solve for that.

Calling for ugly PPTs I'm making a skill that turns any ugly PPT into a beautiful HTML deck with just one shot But first I need some samples of ugly PPTs to test it out If you have some ugly PPTs at hand that you'd like to beautify, pls send them to me at thatzara@gmail.com. The uglier the better, thanks!!

@CyrusShepard @Vincent_Po_Li If my brand is getting featured in AI overviews prominently, and still clicks are falling, what could be the case?

@Vincent_Po_Li I dunno man. A lot of publishers care about CTR :)

Do Google AI citations actually matter? - Best place to rank = #1 Organically - AI Overviews drop click-through rates (CTR) by 50-60% - AI citations themselves send very little traffic So what's the point? It turns out AI Overview citation links can be hugely beneficial

The last three years of low crude prices didn't help Indian consumers (we kept the petrol price the same) Who made money? The govt, and the oil cos. The largest oil retail co, has more than 82,000 cr. in collective profits since FY24 to now. They should take the hit now.

@Rahul_J_Mathur interetstind article, Rahul. I wonder what is so different about PRISM though. ecom companies have been doing this for ages.

Meesho is trying to solve India’s hardest commerce problem: How do you make a ₹250-ish transaction economically viable at population scale? In FY26, net loss per order improved from ~₹5.2 in Q1 to ~₹2.3 in Q4. How was this possible? > 5% lower routing cost through GeoIndia LLM > 10% reduction in RTO through TrustMesh > 22% conversion lift through Vaani AI bot > 62% consumer queries handled by Chorus AI assistant > 75%+ orders placed from AI-generated feeds Meesho is leveraging AI across the commerce stack ⤵️

@zarazhangrui @bcherny I get all of this, Zara. But name 1 product that seems better over the last few years in terms of use. One could even argue that Claude itself has become worse, from a user experience POV.

Most memorable parts of this interview with @bcherny : - Boris casually mention that he has "thousands" of agents running during the night... - Boris saying he almost exclusively uses Claude Code on the phone now - Coding will become the new literacy, just like reading and writing youtube.com/watch?v=SlGRN8…

@markmeyourze Stunningly beautiful, but too crowded. Not too difficult, but can be hot sometimes.

Hello, has anyone done the Kashmir Great Lakes trek? I’ve signed up for it last week knowing it’s rated moderate to difficult. I have done treks before, but not really difficult ones, so I’m a bit skeptical. I’ve been to Kashmir three times and done some smaller treks on my last two trips. But this one feels like a big step up, so I’m not entirely sure what to expect. Just wanted to check how difficult it actually is and hear from people who’ve done it.

@historywali There is no way AI can ever be this evocative. Brilliant!

Eat all mangoes. Eat every mango you can. The small, juicy, fibrous, nameless ones you pluck off that old tree down the gully. The planted-a-Dussheri-seed-but-never-grafted Dussheri-ish mango from your masi’s garden in Bhopal. Blushing Sindhuras. Sweet Kesars. Yes eat as many of those beautiful Alphonsos from Devgad packed carefully in cardboard boxes as you can. But also eat Pairi, Neelam, Ratna. And Sindu - a cross between the Ratna & the Alphonso which is slowly gaining more ground because climate change has wreaked havoc on the finicky Alphonso - ask farmers, yields have been down for a few years now, talk to farmers. Eat with the season. Eat the early mangoes from the south - Mankurad, Badami, Banganapalli, Imam Pasad in late April-May. Eat your middle-India mangoes - Kesar, Bombay Green, and also Malgova and Mallika which are late season bloomers from the south, and your Himsagar, Gulabkhaas, beauties from Malda and Murshidabad - try to lay your hands on a Champa, Saranga, or Kohitoor in May-June! And go both hands in, into piles of Amrapali, Chausa, Malihabadi Dussheris, Langdas in July. This is just the tip of the mango iceberg, there are so many more loved & delicious varieties - India has near 1,500 varieties of mangoes. Why would you eat just one? Of course have your favourites but also look at our beautiful biodiversity - please cherish it! Eat widely. Eat greedily. Eat because these mangoes are so delicious. Eat in RESISTANCE TO LOSS, eat like these mangoes might disappear because some of them already are!

@SatanAtWink what about in July? Still recommended?

If you are wondering a good destination to travel in May with cold weather (high of 25 degree) - the answer is Jordon which is 30-40% cheaper now for Indians. A week long trip would be 1.3-1.6 lacs which used to be 1.7-2 lacs, earlier. Temperature right now in the capital of Jordan (Amman) is 13 degrees with a dust storm warning. Recent war, while they have been neutral & were fired upon 300 missiles (all intercepted), has resulted in significant loss in tourism arrivals & prices of hotels, tours, & other things have reduced drastically while the air fares are holding around 50-60k return per person. The risk being that war can start any moment & you might have to add a few extra days of stay.

The Veg nonsense in India will be the end of us.

@hridoyreh You will be a billionaire if you get 10% of this result for ecom companies.

For one of my websites, I got, • 59,200+ traffic • 108,000+ impressions • 54.9% CTR And I mainly use Claude AI for this. Here's how I achieved this:

@NiranjanShendge @amazonIN I have your table lamp which I absolutely love!

Our Ice-Cream Maker and High-Power Air Duster are now #1 Bestsellers in their categories on @amazonIN Yes, summer has definitely helped these categories. But seasonality only opens the door. The rest still comes down to getting the basics right. Nice little win. On to the next one. ☀️🚀

From today, Algebrica’s content is open, free, downloadable in Markdown, and reusable by anyone. This is a step toward a university-level knowledge base that is freely accessible to everyone. Entries will be progressively released on GitHub in Algebrica’s public repository, and can be reused for non-commercial purposes. To increase transparency, I’m also documenting the editorial process and revising content to improve accuracy and reliability. On some pages, a quality indicator is now visible, including a GPTZero score (not affiliated), as an additional signal of transparency. I believe these changes move Algebrica toward something more open, more reliable, and more accessible. I’d also like to thank everyone for the unexpected response to the project, and for the many visits and thoughtful comments.

@Ajain112 On all health metrics, ganne ka juice is worse than Diet Coke. Avoid juices and dtinks all together.

True but we dont have good ganne ka juice packed and delivered through qcom. If someone solves his, this is an easy 100 crore brand.

@doodlestein The goal of that college csae study was not the end product, but what you learnt while designing it. Do not outsource your thinking.

This stuff just has to be so depressing and soul-crushing for people who wanted to dedicate their lives to this field. What’s the point? Either of these could be a final project in a college-level design course, but I just dashed off both of them as a joke in under 3 minutes.

@dhwaninanavati hahaha

the beauty of first principles is that if you first principle hard enough you take a full 360 degree & land back at exactly what you wanted to disrupt in the first place

@ku1deep The only issue with Diet Coke is that it tastes terrible.

Every single risk the good doctor ( I am sure) mentions are so small that they are probably noise. People have been trying to besmirch aspartame for 40 years now and no one has shown a single case of adverse effect in humans. This is honestly zero sum game attitude. If you are drinking 1-2 cans of coke zero a day the effects are basically indistinguishable from water.

I recently discovered the “Everything Is Everything” podcast by @amitvarma & @ajay_shah and I loved it so much that I felt like we needed a book companion for all those incredible recommendations! So here it is: eiebooks.com

@halfburntcookie @amitvarma @ajay_shah Absolutely gorgeous! although i must admit that it is a sad state of affairs when there are only 20 works of literature present.

@ponnappa Arre sir. But views kaise aayenge? If we don't exaggerate!

yaar just run 2 agents in parallel first without slopping the f***k out of everything, then tweet your theories about "multi agent orchestration" allowing "founders to run many companies like elon"

@2001_atharva Very interesting.

I vibe coded a product which gets public rental listings from Facebook and puts them on a map. So you can ask questions like- "Show me 2BHKs close to Embassy Golf Links Business Park, furnished and under 30k. " And it will put those listings on a map, give you travel times, nearby places and so much more. I have always wanted something like this, so built it. Try it out at fastflats.in No paywall for now. #rent #Bengaluru #VibeCoding #BuildInPublic #RealEstate #rental #flathunters