Rajesh Nathani

@ShashiTharoor What a beautiful post!! Thank you

There is a singular pride in watching a young person grow, but there is something deeply moving about watching a protege exceed even the high hopes you held for them. This past Sunday, as I looked out at the graduating class at the Fletcher School, my eyes kept returning to one face in particular: @ArmaanMathur, now officially a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy. I first encountered Armaan when he was a high school student, sending an email filled with a rare earnestness and a sharp, inquisitive mind for international affairs. He had his heart set on St. Stephen’s, my own alma mater, and while the cruel mathematics of admissions cutoffs meant he didn't secure his spot there, I told him then what I believe now: Make them regret it. He took that challenge to heart. At @Hansraj_College, Armaan didn’t just succeed; he flourished — excelling in the classroom, leading student societies, and proving his mettle on the cricket pitch. When he joined me as an intern, our correspondence shifted from advice to a genuine intellectual partnership. His reflective emails and deep insights into the world made it clear to me that he was a scholar of the highest calibre, as well as a genuinely likeable human being. When he looked toward graduate studies, I knew exactly where he belonged. I was thrilled to support his application to my alma mater, the @FletcherSchool. And this time, the doors swung wide. He didn't just attend; he conquered. He secured a fellowship, maintained straight As, represented the school on the national & world stage, and ultimately achieved something that touches me more than I can adequately express: he became the Editor-in-Chief of the @FletcherForum of World Affairs. In 1975, I helped found that journal and chaired its editorial board. To stand there a half-century later, serving as the Commencement Speaker for his class, and to watch Armaan take up the mantle of that very journal was a moment of pure, overwhelming gratitude. A journey that has, for me, come full circle. Armaan, you have been a constant source of inspiration. You are a brilliant scholar, a leader of integrity, and a true inheritor of the work that has defined so much of my own life. Watching you accept your degree and standing alongside your parents after you did so was the highlight of my year, and I cannot wait to see how you change the world. Congratulations, Armaan. The future is yours.

@KahanJulie @krishashok How do you get the cooler temperatures needed to she cheese cheaply and on scale in hot environments?

@krishashok I’ve wondered a similar thing about Europe - why do the southern regions (e.g. Greece) have softer cheeses? Wouldn’t the less-perishable hard cheese suit the warmer climate better?

India makes more milk than any country on Earth. Italy has 400 cheeses. India has roughly zero aged ones. Ever wondered why?

@Tom_Cruises_Dad @vlelyavin @nntaleb Actually, their strength is incredible! The only place I have used them is during surgery and we have to remember not to tighten our knots anywhere close to what we do in open surgery. If you use even half the force, the sutures break. I do not know how strong these fellows are.

@nathanirr @vlelyavin @nntaleb Maybe in 20 years, sure. Do you think those robots would have the strength to bust open a rusted bolt? Would you trust them to saw into your concrete to fix some piping? Saw into drywall to diagnose leaks? It's both a physical job and technical job. Robots can't soon replace that

Every job invented in the 20th Century is threatened by AI.

@vlelyavin @nntaleb Robots running on AI? You saw what robots were capable of on the Chinese New Year show?

@nntaleb i highly doubt that the man who fixes pipes has ever even heard about what ai is it will be pretty hard for a computing model to replace him unless it gets its own highly functional body and handlers for every use case that man’s work requires

@themarginalian Outstanding! I think a must-read for all, especially young parents

Fixed vs. Growth – the two basic mindsets that shape our lives and how to cultivate the far more fruitful one themarginalian.org/2014/01/29/car…

When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. The tragedy was that we knew we would never see each other again. I don't ever expect to be reunited with Carl. But, the great thing is that when we were together, for nearly twenty years, we lived with a vivid appreciation of how brief and precious life is. We never trivialized the meaning of death by pretending it was anything other than a final parting. Every single moment that we were alive and we were together was miraculous-not miraculous in the sense of inexplicable or supernatural. We knew we were beneficiaries of chance. . . . That pure chance could be so generous and so kind. . . . That we could find each other, as Carl wrote so beautifully in Cosmos, you know, in the vastness of space and the immensity of time. . . . That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don't think I'll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.” ― Ann Druyan

Never patented a thing!!! Reminds me of Salk On April 12, 1955, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent to the polio vaccine. “Well, the people, I would say,” Salk responded. “There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?” @ronathaniMD

@nntaleb left please

Left or right? (via AI)

@nntaleb @HMKnapp Why not allow everybody an opportunity to train and understand the method ? you would have a level field. What would be the criteria for trained vs untrained and then the level of training? As @HMKnapp observed,the upper level after training is your true limit. Am I missing smthn

@HMKnapp @nathanirr So you must adjust results by discounting training as some don't train.

A reminder: this IQ thing is 100% intellectual fraud.

@fabianstelzer @heyglif Especially interested in health-related explainer videos Please send testing credits, if possible. Thanks

Claude did this whole thing end to end inside of @heyglif new Simfluencer agent within 5 minutes - no capcut, no other app, just one simple chat session we'll launch a whole suite of hyper capable agents like this pretty soon - comment here if you'd like a bunch of testing credits!

You are insufficiently astonished by what Claude can do with the right scaffolding. Here I asked it to generate an influencer video explaining LDL cholesterol and statins on a white board.

@Anime8001 @kaul_vivek money, the market is higher than what your average cost is and gives you a decent rate of return. If you have to ask, then you should probably have these answers ready BEFORE you invest a dime of your hard-earned money!

@Anime8001 @kaul_vivek Nobody can time the market or tell you what to do. Before you invest, you need to decide at what point you will sell, at what point you will buy more, and whether you will continue buying irrespective of the market dynamics and hope that when you actually need to withdraw

Mutual funds aren’t always sahi "Mutual Fund Sahi Hai" isn't the whole story. The hard truth? 2025 has been brutal for stocks, with prices of 3 in 4 stocks falling. The problem isn't the product; it’s the behaviour. We’re FOMO-buying at the peaks while the "smart money" –foreign investors, promoters, and VC-backed startups via overpriced IPOs – is busy selling. As Sandeep Bhaiya of Aequitas Investments put it, this amounts to “a systematic wealth transfer from India’s middle class to the rich”. Driven by "WhatsApp University" and loud finfluencers, we've forgotten that markets aren't a straight line up. The returns are not guaranteed. Before you "invest and chill," do remember: When money flows in after prices have already climbed or peaked, disappointment is almost unavoidable. That’s why it’s worth stating clearly: mutual funds aren’t always “sahi” or right – particularly if you’ve fallen for the recent marketing blitz and are chasing quick gains. My Paisanomics column for the Mumbai Mirror. Also, my last column for this year. mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/mutual…

@jeanluisr @avantika93MD @ronathaniMD @ShreyaSodhaniMD

@hvpandya Very thoughtful and analytical post! Thank you

@amazonIN @amazon Just for the record, I had 141 orders in 2025 and hundreds more in the previous years and there was never this stupid excuse we couldn't find your address! No wonder the hyper-local guys are giving you a drubbing!

@amazonIN @amazon Firstly, please look at the delivery time attempted: 10:53 pm! Does anybody try to deliver at that unearthly hour??!! Then instead of admitting that you couldn't deliver, you make an excuse that we couldn't find the address and that I should verify my address!!

@nntaleb I say yes from personal experience. The issue could be the inability to afford or even access top class personal trainers on a daily basis

Seems to me that self-employed & independent people tend to not like to work under personal trainers telling them precisely what to do. Is this observation correct?

@dieworkwear Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote about his own last‑minute reprieve most directly in his semi‑autobiographical prison memoir “Notes from the House of the Dead. " It affected him so much that he wove it into “The Idiot” (Prince Myshkin’s thoughts on capital punishment).

If you can, I recommend reading Ivan Turgenev's "The Execution of Tropmann," a short story that gives a first-hand account of the cruel barbarity of public executions and the moral sickness of the voyeurs. It's one of the first pieces of writing that really moved me.

@sankha_shubhra @malpani You still need to step out of your enclave. Sometimes, an unforgiving Nature makes sure reality hits you in irregular doses (remember the floods in all the major cities?).

@sankha_shubhra @malpani It is understandable to try to proof oneself and family from the sheer misery that exists otherwise. The problem is thinking from ivory towers proclaiming "सब चंगा है!" Nothing new about that - the most famous example was Marie Antoinette. One can run but not hide

I call this Bharat-proofing oneself. We do it regularly- in gated communities served by Zomato, Swiggy, Blinkit, Amazon, in AC cabs and cars, in fine dine restaurants, in first AC cabins in trains, in Business class and first class flights. And remain oblivious to Bharat. And keep repeating ad nauseam- 4th largest, 4th largest, 4th largest!