Shreyas Kulkarni

"A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to create anything great." @naval

"Read books, avoid news." @naval

@aaditsh Great going @brave

Don’t take it personally when life gets hard and painful, consider it an opportunity to grow the kind of mental strength that will become your most valuable asset for the rest of your life.

Many successful, talented, and humble people are being portrayed as arrogant because, in the eyes of insecure individuals, self-confidence and arrogance look identical. True humility has little to do with how you speak or how the media depicts you, and everything to do with the "invisible" efforts you make in private, when no one is watching.

Everyone talks about how they have less free time once they have kids, no one talks about how you also learn how to be much more focused and more efficient with your time.

Your mind will feel annoyed by the smallest inconveniences as long as you aren't focused on ambitious enough goals.

Overthinking is a sign of average intelligence. Keep investing in your mind until clarity becomes your default state.

@rileybrown @YouTube I agree!

Hey @YouTube I would pay an extra $10/month on top of YouTube Premium to disable shorts. I don't want to see another short ever again. Please let me toggle them off.

Clarity hits after boredom!

The 99% wait for a "good mood" to work. The 1% follow a routine no matter how they feel.

Google Docs show words left until AI replaces you

Taking risks is actually therapy.

This!

When Sam Altman was at Y Combinator, he built a script that monitored how quickly the best founders and worst founders replied to their emails. "It was a difference of minutes versus days on average response time"

After debugging a few AI applications, I've learned a few things: • Long prompts are not free. Models don't treat all tokens equally • Retrieval is worse when you overstuff context • Multi-step prompts don't solve polluted context • Bigger models help, but they don't eliminate hallucinations To avoid getting your model lost with a ton of context: 1. Keep your context as short as possible 2. Put anything critical at the end 3. Structured context works better than narrative dumps 4. Use tools instead of prompts 5. Use reranking to bring the best chunks, not the most 6. Evaluate your system for this failure mode explicitly

problems make life interesting.. It challenges you, it makes you explore feelings that you never felt, eventually every problem gets resolved, either you make peace with it and learn to live with it or you outgrow it, that it doesn't bother you. In both ways, you see growth!

If you are scared of ignoring the whole world for a few hours every day, you are not serious about your goal.

Python 3.14 is here! We are finally witnessing the foundation for a truly fast, multi-core Python. Free-threaded (no-GIL) Python is now out there.

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