Kanchan Kumar

Look who showed up for coffee & chat at our booth: Minister @VictorFedeli & Minister @ToddJMcCarthy

@TosinAdekoya Can’t see your email. Pls resend or DM

Hello @kanchankumar, I sent you an email to Kanchan@trulyfinancial.com . I am expecting your reply.

@ku1deep 💯 This + the PD backpack

I paid $640 for this and I would do it again.

@ku1deep You know that you could have gotten it cheaper ;) Right @helloanand?

@pitdesi Happy Diwali Sheel & Amruta

Happy Diwali! 🪔 It’s the biggest Indian holiday of the year, and my second favorite (after Holi). Different religions have different reasons for celebration, but everywhere, people light lamps to mark the victory of good over evil within each of us. In India it feels like Christmas, the ceremonial (and often financial) new year, time off from school and work, houses lit up, with fireworks everywhere (we did this every year growing up!). At our home, we always did a little ceremony. My dad keeps a “Diwali notebook” where he records the price of gold, the stock indices, and where each of us was in the world that year. I hope that this Diwali burns away all of your bad times and ushers in some good ones, and as always, I hope the new year continues to bring you all good friendships, endless laughs, refreshing surprises, clarity, adventure, balance, and lots of love. And always remember - it's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness!

@pitdesi @rabois How do we bet on your bet!

How are we feeling about this $100k bet I have with @rabois

@ku1deep That’s a mouthful

This man just had a matcha banana protein cold foam latte. He is pondering his life choices right now. One can fall far when trying to sell B2B SaaS.

If you missed @invideoOfficial at the @OpenAI dev day! 🙌🙌

💯 “One of the best gifts of startups are the people you get to meet along the way.”

@harnidhish Not my pet, but she adopted me for a few days

Can u pls show me photos of your dumb goofy pets pls 🤠

💯 Don’t part ways on a bad note. Applies to both sides of the equation

@mrjain “nice” 😅

How time flies, I’ve been in India for 20 years now. Every time that debate about leaving India for the US, I just laugh. My blog post about my journey in the next tweet

@harnidhish Happy to read and contribute to the thought process.

There’s a 10k word manifesto and rally cry coming. DM if you want an early peak.

@harnidhish One of those pieces, which once you read, you start replaying your entire life and it explains many things! It’s brilliant Harnidh

I’ve been wrestling with this forever now. Trying to articulate it. Here’s my theory: most men live as “buts.” Women are forced to live as “ands.”

@ku1deep Beautifully written Kuldeep! This is one of those treks which I miss the most. I felt bad about not being able to make it and dumping a new guy on you at the last moment, but only until I heard the story of how it went 😅

it is about one hour into the twelve hour trek that his shoe soles come off. He is perplexed, I am not. He is wearing his daughter's old bowling shoes because "those looked the sturdiest". I groan inside and roll my eyes. This was shaping up to be a long day. It is 2014. The monsoon has just arrived in Mumbai. This morning I am running late to the trailhead. I have missed a turn on the highway and have to take a long roundabout. This new fellow who runs a startup out in Goregaon is coming for the trek for the first time. He is taking the karjat local and I am to meet him at Neral station. I have planned a really long trek on a new route and I am not particularly happy about having to drag a newbie with me and with a delayed start at that. He is in his 40s, but he has a young enthu-cutlet vibe. He has bought extra vada-pav from the station and is keen to share, enthusiastic even. He leans slightly forward at the hip when talking, moves on the balls of his feet, turning his body and looking at you when he speaks, eyebrow arching above gleaming eyes as he listens. He is basically a Labrador. So now here we are an hour in and I have to solve the problem of his shoes. Most people are apologetic at this point at having spoilt the trek, this fellow is bemused at how this could happen to us and interested in what to do next. I graon and roll my eyes as we remove his shoelaces and tie the sole and upper, and proceed with the trek. He has to limp a bit to keep things together but we move on. It rains hard that day. The trek turns into a slog. At some point he pulls out a lunchbox full of theplas and achaar and we make a mid trail meal of it. His backpack is full of food. At one point he complains that his backpack is too heavy and to my horror I find that he has stuffed the Saturday edition of TOI in the bag which has absorbed water and now weighs a ton. Some light reading was his explanation. I have no words. What is even the appropriate reaction to such a situation? I think I recall some lines from Dante's inferno but I keep them to myself. He is full of stories and wants others to tell their own. By the time we make it to Matheran we are thick friends. I tell him that we should probably take a cab back to the trailhead but he insists that he can walk and we should finish what we started. He says the words I will hear for years. "only way out is forward" , he quips. So I groan and we trudge down the trail. It is dark when we reach back and I am soaked and exhausted beyond thought. We have walked 28 Km in a single day and I have clearly over planned this trek. This guy is far gone. His limp is bad, and I know he was gonna sleep through the weekend when he got back home. Yet all he can talk about is how we have to do this again. He is talking about the shoes he is going to buy. Perhaps a new backpack!! Do you think it rains like this every week? What other trails are there? I groan and We find transportation and go our separate ways. I have always wondered about the nature of leadership. Is a leader the strongest among a group or the smartest? What makes people follow a person into danger and difficulty? I think I experienced an answer that day. I realized when you do hard things with people it bonds you in strange ways. All you expect from them is presence as you do those hard things. You collectively acknowledge adverse reality together and face it together. But some people do more, they encounter this adversity and deny it. The hard things are not hard they are a novelty. You are not suffering, you are going on an adventure together. They are not planning for the worst they are looking forward to what's next. They endure through doubt and you endure the doubts through them. I had met a natural leader. He was not strongest of men, or the smartest and definitely not the fittest. But he had the stubbornness you need when you lead and a complete unawareness that hard things are meant to be hard. Anyway I knew I had made a friend. And friends we have remained. The best of friends. He has led me on many a fool hardy quests and I have led him on many a stupidly tough hikes. He has always be under prepared and I still roll my eyes. I still wonder how he manages to survive in nature and he still wonders why I can't just enjoy myself. He is still a Labrador and I am still the Pitbull. We make hell of a pack.

@jackerhack @helloanand @ku1deep @AjeyGore @sgaurav Interestingly I haven’t faced this issue. I have 20L and MBA 13.5 + sometimes an iPad fits well. Been using it for 9 years now!

@helloanand @ku1deep @AjeyGore @sgaurav @kanchankumar I have the PD EDB V1 in both 20L and 30L and they're the worst I've ever had. The problem is the laptop compartment – it's pushed out on your back, digs into shoulders and moves weight away from the back. Seriously uncomfortable. Remove laptop and the bag is magically great.

Backpack or messenger bag? I am thinking to shift to messenger bag, for better open access and change in bag, what people think? I am thinking to get osprey daylite 13

@helloanand @AjeyGore @ku1deep Totally! Nothing comes close.

@AjeyGore Buy Peak Design Everyday backpack. It’s both. Comes with lifetime warranty. Many fans in the group @kanchankumar @ku1deep

@camrrowe @keenanwyrobek @joshuabrowder @jaentwistle @cory @ItzSuds Congrats Cam!! And that’s a f’ing amazing pace!

Got my O-1 visa, so I ran a marathon before meetings today. Thinking of my Grandpa who served in the US Navy before moving to Canada. Said a prayer in Arlington Cemetery. Thank you @keenanwyrobek, @joshuabrowder, @jaentwistle, @cory, @ItzSuds, & many others for your support. Grateful to be here.

@ku1deep Ah that chai ☕️

Hiked 25 km from Lonavala to Kusur yesterday. Tough hike made easier by the weather and company.

Can’t recommend this enough. From my experiences of having trekked with @helloanand & @ku1deep - you can’t get better trek leads, better trail and better time of the year than this!