Ranee Soundara

So many people have asked me “where are you going?” or “what’s next?” Nothing’s next. That’s the whole point of quitting a job when you have PTSD from burnout. I 👏🏻 am 👏🏻 doing 👏🏻 absolutely 👏🏻 nothing 👏🏻

@neeraj Snakes in our jobs everyday

Still not used to seeing snake(s) on the running paths and trails here in NC.

@Kellblog @bryancsk Sometimes you need to spend the money in order to do it…

@bryancsk "Buy garbage cans" (like every other place on earth) isn't worth $1.6M

Before McKinsey and co, versus after McKinsey and co. You can be a hater all you want, but McKinsey WORKS

@bryancsk LOLOLOLOLOL

@BenjaminDEKR @VinciRSS Unless you’re in a foreign country, at a 5 star property or resort, you can check in and out without ever going to the front desk most of the time.

@VinciRSS I don't want to make small talk with Shirley the desk person at 22:00, I want to get into my room

What is the point of hotel check-in desk people anymore? Why isn't this 100% automated? Verify your ID, pay, get entry code. Why are humans still doing this?

@flowidealism People often believed Columbia was the most diverse Ivy, and it was by numbers, but in no way was it inclusive lol

As a working class kid going to Harvard, I was completely caught off guard by the role of high status socializing as a big part of college for both the elites and savvy outsiders. I had gone in thinking college was about taking classes.

@Kellblog This is literally what every Asian parent says about their kids.

AI is so smart and so dumb at the same time. It's uncanny. (The prompt was to judge the second paper on its own; not in comparison to the first paper.)

@brexton Chief, but make it Asian. A couple years ago, one of their board members posted a job for GoldHouse based in LA, with a salary of $75k. I sent them a private message telling them that it was inappropriate, as it was not even a living wage. They stopped talking to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Goldhouse Asians are the pick-me’s of the Asian community Grown adults doing this btw

👋 I've created an AI-powered mini-me, and for this first pass, I'm looking for a handful of adventurous friends to help me break something I've been building. It should take about an hour of your time. I've spent the last two decades leading GTM strategy across Fortune 100 companies and startups through multiple exits and an IPO, and this system is built from that experience. It's an MCP server that acts as the analytical infrastructure for growth readiness, applying my proprietary TEAMS™ go-to-market methodology, a framework for diagnosing whether your company is structurally ready to scale with the team and resources you have today, across your data environment to identify where to focus first for scale and revenue impact. ⚡️ Think of it as a force multiplier for your existing GTM leaders. It surfaces where your system is positioned to perform, where you can unlock immediate impact, and how to prioritize the specific levers most likely to drive revenue. This is a massive advantage for a few specific scenarios: 🎯 The New Leader: You've just stepped into a GTM executive role and need immediate, data-backed insight to build a high-impact 30-60-90 day plan and identify your quickest wins. 🚀 The Scale-Up Push: You're gearing up for a new market entry or aggressive growth target and need to ensure your revenue engine is ready to support that growth. 💡 The Strategic Unlock: Your team is moving fast, but you need deeper operational insights to align with your leaders on which marketing, sales, or messaging levers will deliver the highest return on effort. 📩 Send me a DM if you want to look under the hood.

@stevesi @jasonfried DIY is when you got time and no money. Precisely why I'm playing in Claude Code 🤣

@jasonfried This is so obviously true. Home Depot did not turn us all into general contractors.

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

@bruceclarkprof beyond porn, just sex industry in general... dolls and alternative lifestyles, etc.

@naynerz Oh, yes. A prominent use of a lot of technologies seems to be porn

Today in brilliant headlines

@pmddomingos Making its default model setting agreeable, validating, pandering, and confidently wrong is dangerous. But I think I’m in the minority here.

Anthropic will go to any lengths to prove that AI is dangerous, including making it dangerous.

@_robyn_smith Vancouver BC?

I come back to Canada and tell my friends insane sf pricing lore and they’re in shock: - low income is $110k - a “starter home” is $1.4mm - a coffee is $8

@AdamMGrant Taste is inherent. People who talk about it don’t have it.

The most important skill for creativity is no longer original thinking. It’s taste and tenacity. In the age of AI, ideas are abundant. Good judgment and execution are scarce. The future belongs to those who excel at finding and amplifying the signal in the noise.

@nalinrajput23 they copied MySpace and made it blue… that’s how old I am lol

can you believe they made this without claude

@MeetSiddhapura @munna_bhai_bsms Doesn’t always carry unfortunately…

@munna_bhai_bsms Try this system prompt, works well for me.

This is why I hate ChatGPT. It is just fine-tuned to amplify your views and opinions. Nott concerned with the truth at all

@munna_bhai_bsms I think the other models are just as bad if not worse.

@stevesi That area has been weird my entire life and I’m 40 lol

💔💔💔Lived on other side of this for a decade. For years before pandemic you have not been able to walk into the store because of people just hanging out at the bus stop and the shelter around the corner. With the pandemic and the changes to bus stops / routes this became a danger zone.

Harlequin shrimp eating a starfish in Similan Islands, Thailand 🇹🇭🌊🏝️🤿🪸🦐

@mattshumer_ Like a toddler showing off they can potty without you, until you find small clumps of their poop in the hallway.

Hate to be this guy, but is anyone else finding that GPT-5.4 feels noticeably dumber today?