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Japan Debut Alert! Recorded live at Tokyo Beer Lab, Shibuya, Tokyo on 02.01.2026. Fun fact: As my set was winding down, I glance up at the huge window opposite my decks only to see Snow (for the first time ever) - soft, unhurried - falling through the glow of a dim street light outside. I couldn't believe my eyes. It was Tokyo's first snow of the winter on my last day in Japan. Life is truly mysterious and abundant. And so it goes. youtube.com/watch?v=NO9K8s…

@paulfinneyx @ycombinator @sanctuaryparc @Shonik @rahulrmv @saaketsharmax @MotwaniSuhas @TheProductfolks @AWSCloudIndia 👀😻👄

When @ycombinator announced Startup School was coming to India, I knew we had to do something unforgettable. We're throwing Bangalore's first Boilerroom for builders. Featuring international DJ and Boiler Room artist, my friend @kandykuri live, loud, and made for people who ship things. This is the official Vibecon afterparty in partnership with our friends at @emergentlabs And the unofficial YC Startup School pre-mixer. See you there, builders. Luma in the comments

👀😻 April 17th, BLR 📍 @ycombinator @emergentlabs @spacekayak

Turns out the bottleneck is the human’s context window, not the AI’s

i regret to inform you that personal growth rarely comes from acquiring new knowledge and almost always from: - getting humiliated - showing up terrified and doing it anyway - admitting you might be the problem

I accidentally discovered how to compress a month of research into 3 hours. A founder at a YC company showed me his Claude setup. I thought he was just fast. Then I watched him build an entire go-to-market strategy for a market he'd never worked in before. Here's exactly what he did: First: he didn't ask Claude to "research the market." He fed it 8 competitor landing pages, 3 earnings call transcripts, 12 customer reviews, and a Reddit thread of complaints. Then he asked one question: "What does every successful player in this market understand that their customers never say out loud?" Not "summarize these." Not "analyze the competition." The unspoken insight. The thing that takes founders 2 years of customer calls to figure out. But the next part is what broke my brain. He followed up with: "Now show me the 3 assumptions this entire market is built on, and what would have to be true for each one to be wrong." In 15 minutes he had the attack surface of an entire industry. The blind spots. The fragile consensus. The opening nobody was talking about. Most founders spend 6 months doing customer discovery just to find one of those. Then he did something I've never seen before. He asked: "Write 5 questions a world-class investor would ask to destroy this business idea, then answer each one using only the evidence in these documents." He spent the next 2 hours stress-testing every assumption. Every weak answer triggered a follow-up: "What's the strongest version of this argument and where does it still break?" By hour 3, he had a strategy deck that felt like it came from someone who'd spent a decade in the space. The tool didn't change. The questions did. Most people treat Claude like a faster Google. These founders are using it like a thinking partner who has read everything and has no ego about being wrong. The difference between 3 hours and 3 months isn't the amount of information. It's knowing which questions actually matter.

@itsiddharth_ @ankitkr0 @sanctuaryparc @paulfinneyx @saaketsharmax Awww miss you sidduu! Come back home soon, we'll party

@ankitkr0 @sanctuaryparc @paulfinneyx @saaketsharmax i 110% will dream is to attend a @kandykuri set in sanctuary 🤌🏻

if you are working on your side projects this weekend, join us @sanctuaryparc 🫡 every Saturday, we have a bunch of upcoming founders, narrative artists, developers come in and work out of here :) Reply/ DM Aif you want to join in today 🍻

just paid $6 twice on Claude for extra usage and yet i'm unable to see any extra credits - wthelly pls help @AnthropicAI

bespoke warm-intros as a service - love it

Start in march Start in your 30s Start on friday Start at 5:01pm Start

@riyazmd774 what the helly

During a job interview, if they ask: “Do you have any questions for us?” USE THE GOLDEN RESPONSE: 

@chiragchhajer @burmaburmaindia u go girl burma burma - easily my fav spot

We’ve taken over 12 years to open only 21 @burmaburmaindia outlets, and I think it’s worth talking about. In today’s VC and PE funded world, this is the opposite of blitzscaling. And in a world full of ESOPs, Series ABCDE news and so much more, it has taken a lot of restraint in managing how we grow Burma Burma. Given this isn’t madness, but pure method, wanted to share a few things that we’ve made our strategy’s cornerstones: Clustering: We now have 6 outlets in Mumbai MMR. While Mumbai is home for Ankit and me, it is also one of the largest metro clusters in India. We’re working on a similar strategy for Delhi and Bangalore, and they will continue to form the backbone of our network in the years to come Unit Economics: To paraphrase a not very famous bollywood dialogue- we don’t leave old relationships to form new ones. Our existing network restaurants and their growth is equally important to us as making new outlets profitable. I’d dare say Burma Burma has one of the industry’s best breakeven timelines, even as we continue to open new outlets at scale Going Hybrid: This part of our journey is still growing- apart from dine in and delivery, we are steadily growing the pie of pantry items- chips, sauces and so much more coming up These decisions are the opposite of haste, and we’re insanely lucky to find patient capital at each stage of our growth. @NeilBahal

V cool that this exists. RT for good karma

As a big fan of the pink flower blooms in Bengaluru, I try to click pictures of these trees wherever I spot them. In that journey, I got curious and did a little research and plotted it on a map. There are around 27k tabebuia rosea trees in Bangalore currently.

Bytedance just dropped a paper that might change how AI thinks. Literally. They figured out why LLMs fail at long reasoning — and framed it as chemistry. The discovery: Chain-of-thought isn't just words. It's molecular structure. Three bond types: • Deep reasoning = covalent bonds (strong, unbreakable) • Self-reflection = hydrogen bonds (flexible, context-aware) • Exploration = van der Waals (weak, ever-present) Why most AI "thinking" sucks: Everyone's been imitating keywords — "wait," "let me check" — without building the actual bonds. It's like copying the shape of a protein without the atomic forces holding it together. Bytedance proved: structure emerges from training, not prompting. The fix: Mole-Syn Their method doesn't just generate text. It synthesizes stable thought molecules. Results: better reasoning, more stable RL training. Bytedance is treating AI reasoning like organic chemistry — and it works. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2601.06002

@paulfinneyx @ankitkr0 @sanctuaryparc @spacekayak @SumedhaUppal Cannot wait to send it ⚠️🐍💞

@ankitkr0 @sanctuaryparc @spacekayak @SumedhaUppal @kandykuri 😮‍💨

A couple of months ago I started designing and building the Igloo @sanctuaryparc. The idea was simple, create a space that feels like escape velocity. The calm of the arctic. A pocket of stillness where you wander, wonder, and make decisions that actually matter. Last night, V1 came to life. @sanctuaryparc now has its arctic corner 😮‍💨❄️

DMs open for more info! exciting work in store I promise.

1. When you write something intended to be read by an important person, go through it and cut every unnecessary word. 2. The reader of anything you publish is an important person.

when u start your Mondays w an @anuatluru banger but realise it's too early in the week to get existential 🥶 open.substack.com/pub/anu/p/stab…