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@ku1deep 😂 yes, are there any events which do match the scale of Napoleanic campaigns?

@pranavdp17 Hmm not sure if it is same scope. No?

An event so dramatic that I have always had a hard time believing it to be true (it is true) ; Makes me curious if there were other events where fighting men showed such loyalty to a leader when they did not have to.

@ku1deep @DarthChatri Fair PoV

His largest battle was battle of Bhopal I think. But it was mostly maneuvers. This was an agile cavalry commander who knew how to play the board very well. He rarely fought sustained battles because he could not. His enemy was an empire in decline with very poor ability to project force. Don’t get me wrong I think he was brilliant but this pyramid has even Duke of wellington in the bottom tier.

Ok this is a great pyramid.

@ku1deep @DarthChatri How do you define scale and strategic scope? The actual land mass under influence and population under influence would have been roughly equivalent or slightly lesser than Napoleon’s according to estimates

@DarthChatri Successful cavalry commander. Tactical genius, but regional player at best. Fails at Scale, strategic scope etc.

@amazonIN @AmazonHelp What is up with Amazon Now? I ordered 3 items (order id: #404-6875921-0243540) The delivery is marked as delivered, I called the exec. he said there’s traffic & will deliver in 15 minutes and had multiple orders. Now I can’t call him and order is undelivered

@_prashanthn @VishalBhargava5 @RahulAjmera_ @aditya_kondawar @WadhwaAjinkya Yessssss

@VishalBhargava5 @RahulAjmera_ @aditya_kondawar @WadhwaAjinkya and @pranavdp17 - have you guys been here?

Dorabjee’s, Balewadi: When I’m travelling I consciously avoid food from popular chains. So checked out Dorabjee’s with @RahulAjmera_ and @aditya_kondawar It has a big following in Pune as its oldest supermarket. Had snacks there. The combo of quality + price + legacy wins

@myprasanna @emergentlabs @mukundjha Will you sponsor the visa?

@emergentlabs is hiring a great biz ops / generalist in SF. The co is on fire. Great opportunity for smart generalists. Please reply back to this thread if interested. cc @mukundjha

@tgutka Hey Tejas, how are you doing. Is your weekend bulletin still active? I don’t think I have received one in quite some time. I don’t know if you remember, but we had connected back in 21 over the email. Miss reading the bulletin

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - Rumi #QOTD

@vaibhavbetter Can you elaborate? Is getting into YC as a goal, wrong in your journey of being an entrepreneur? Or are you saying these shouldn’t be the aspirations?

everything that is wrong about sf entrepreneurship today

@VikParuchuri @VikParuchuri Can this work for PDFs which contain diagrams or flow charts?

Parsing PDFs has slowly driven me insane over the last year. Here are 8 weird edge cases to show you why PDF parsing isn't an easy problem. 🧵

@aakashgupta Interested

Opening up a handful of 10 minute slots later this week - anyone can book on a first-come, first-serve basis. Happy to chat through finding your next role, product management, content... you decide. Drop a reply below. I'll reach out with the link to book later today.

@_prashanthn @ActusDei @WadhwaAjinkya Been here, great place! Especially for non vegetarians @WadhwaAjinkya

@ActusDei @pranavdp17 and @WadhwaAjinkya, if y’all are fans of South Indian food. 😅

For a city accustomed to Idli-Dosa for breakfast at Vaishali, Wadeshwar etc, Savya Rasa in KP (Pune) is a great place to have fancier South Indian food. They have a Madurai street food festival ongoing. I went with their normal menu though. Neer dosa, chicken chettinad & payasam

@_prashanthn @jayeshparanjape @ActusDei @WadhwaAjinkya @_prashanthn Looks great!! 😋

@jayeshparanjape @ActusDei @WadhwaAjinkya and @pranavdp17, go grab some!! 🥘

I've been to Khadadi in Sadashiv Peth before but rediscovered recently! Maharashtrian, nostalgic and homely dishes on the menu. My go-to things are bhoplyache gharge with tup, bhajani wade with dahi and kharachi mirchi, bread loni and sakhar, alu wadi & piyush! #pune

@paraschopra @paraschopra I have a Piping Engineering organisation and have always felt doing this for P&ID diagrams or Engineering 2D drawings.

I'm dying to do a yolo run, i.e. train a large AI model to learn what happens at scale. But I also don't want to just replicate what exists. So, what's an under-exploited data source that's waiting to be mined for gold?

@frankdotlee @ycombinator @paulg Would love the full list

i loved @ycombinator's recent video on @paulg's famous "do things that don’t scale" essay. i was looking for a repo of examples and couldn’t find one, so I put one together! here’s almost 100 instances of startups doing things that didn’t scale. ➡️ comment below and I’ll dm you the full sheet. ➡️ reach out to @useinari and i’ll personally figure out how to improve your product. 1. provide a personalized and “insanely” delightful experience 💕 provide "insanely" high-touch, personalized service by manually onboarding users and giving extremely quick support and product velocity (ex: stripe, algolia, warp, liquifi) have an exact person in mind you’re building for and make your product experience perfect for them (ex: substack) create a low-volume of exactly personalized demos (ex: commandbar, behance) send handwritten thank-you notes to early users (ex: wufoo, reddit) 2. go directly to wherever your customers are ✈️ share and refine your product by physically going to places your customers exist and onboard + activate them there (ex: airbnb, tinder, pinterest, hipcamp, uber, blue Moon, rent the runway) earnestly engage and embed yourself within communities and events where your users exist (ex: pinterest, behance, etsy, github, netflix) 3. validate the problem manually and punt scale for later 🛠️ manually fulfill orders yourself or hack an existing product before building something scalable (ex: doordash, instacart, lugg, vanta, airbnb, groupon, zappos, starbucks, producthunt) manually assemble your initial product instead of being blocked on external partners (ex: cruise, pebble, meraki) choose a scrappy tech stack that works for the stage you’re at instead of building everything scalable (ex: gmail, facebook, levels) manually label or curate data to deeply understand a workflow and product requirements (ex: pandora, andrej karpathy) 4. start a deliberately contained fire 🔥 deliberately constrain the initial user base geographically or demographically (ex: facebook, tinder, farcaster, buildspace) focus intensely on a tiny niche and iterate on product until there’s fit (ex: tbh, bitcoin) 5. be relentlessly resourceful and creative 💡 surprise users by doing unscalable and unexpected campaigns (ex: airbnb, antimetal, brex) find workarounds and temporary hacks for tech limitations (ex: facebook, twitch) 6. consult while building the product 🤝 provide consulting services in the domain you’re building to deeply understand customer needs then build product (ex: looker, vanta) use your product on your customer’s behalf to speed up product development and onboarding (ex: viaweb) 7. ask for help and referrals 🙏🏼 beg friends, ex-colleagues, and your network for initial users and incentivize them to refer others (ex: linkedIn, quora, yelp, facebook, producthunt) ask for intros and referrals from investors, other founders, and related communities (ex: lyft, substack)

@sapoorve Look's amazing @sapoorve ! Is there anyway to try it?

lately haven't been active on here ... have been heads-down working on v1 of a tool that formats/beautifies powerpoint slides (not for creating slides, only for redesigning them) formatted slides are in powerpoint itself, so 100% editable input & 3 (of 20) output slides shown

@UnrealEngine Shark Tank style game to teach, investing, decision making, negotiation. Player is the investor.

Design a game in one tweet. What's the title and tell us about the gameplay?

@AaronSitze Ofcourse, this is just one aspect of many that might be present.

@AaronSitze Coaching: Places the responsibility for learning on the learner. It's rooted in the belief that individuals are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach providing support and guidance to facilitate this process.

Philosophically and pedagogically, what's the difference between "coaching" and "teaching"? ted.com/talks/atul_gaw… #edchat