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@santoshpanda @GrittiestOrg Tks for the support #Grittiest

This is what a real pizza menu should look like 😂🍕

Beautiful essay on adult friendship

"No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up." | Paulo Coelho

Flamingos are back in Navi Mumbai finally❤️❤️❤️

Not many are talking about it, but this is one of the most underrated things India is shipping right now and every Indian must know what this is all about. Let me explain; The system is called DIGIPIN and the username layer sitting on top is called DHRUVA. Built by the Department of Posts in partnership with IIT Hyderabad and ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre. Officially launched on May 27, 2025. Here's how it works. DIGIPIN divides all of India into 4 metre by 4 metre squares. Every single square gets a unique 10-character code like 829-4G7-PMJ8. That's down to the level of your front door, your shop counter, your hospital entrance, your village home, even a fishing boat in territorial waters. The entire country is now a digital grid. But remembering a 10-character alphanumeric code is hard. So DHRUVA sits on top of it. You convert your DIGIPIN into a simple readable handle like rajesh@dhruva. The handle stays with you for life. If you move houses, only the underlying DIGIPIN updates. Your handle doesn't change. Exactly like UPI replaced 16-digit bank account numbers with simple handles. malay@ybl instead of remembering an account number. But why is our government building this? Today roughly 20-25% of Indian addresses are unstructured. Slums, tribal areas, unplanned colonies, rural homes without proper street names. An average Indian spends 8-12 extra minutes on an average in finding an address in India versus 2-3 in the West. Ambulances reach late because nobody can describe the lane. Banks reject mortgages because they can't verify the property location. Insurance claims get delayed because addresses don't match across documents. Quick commerce loses crores in failed deliveries every day. DIGIPIN solves all of this with one open-source standard. The full source code and documentation are on GitHub. Any government department, private company, or startup can integrate it for free. This is exactly the India Stack playbook. Aadhaar (identity), UPI (payments), ULPIN (land), DigiLocker (documents), and now DIGIPIN (address) are all open public infrastructure that private companies build on top of. Of course developed countries already use a version of this. But India is building the best of the lot. > UK uses postcodes plus house numbers. Works because they have structured street planning from the 1800s. We don't. > Dubai built Makani numbers. 10-digit codes tied to building entrances. Government-only, not open. > Japan uses block-based addressing that relies on physical signage and local familiarity. India just built the best version of all of these. Open-source, geo-coded, privacy-first, with a human-readable layer that even a non-tech grandparent can use. And it's free to integrate. Once this gets rolled out, the government expects that; > Ambulance response times improve by 40-60% in unplanned areas. > KYC verification becomes instant. No more manual address proof. > Rural credit unlocks. Banks can verify property and ownership in seconds for loans. > Disaster response improves. Floods, fires, earthquakes. Rescue teams know exact homes to reach. > Insurance pricing becomes location-precise. Same building, ground floor versus third floor, different flood risk, different premium. > E-commerce delivery accuracy goes from approximate to exact. Failed deliveries drop sharply. > Privacy too gets better. You share your DHRUVA handle, not your physical address. The delivery agent gets the GPS coordinates without seeing your full address. Less data exposed, less misuse. Boring infrastructure rarely gets any hype. Everyone laughed at UPI for the first two years. Now it processes 16 billion transactions a month and seven countries have adopted it. DIGIPIN will be the same story. In 5 years we'll wonder how we ever functioned without it. In 10 years it'll be quietly running underneath every delivery, every emergency call, every loan approval in India.

The brain is designed to learn through constant repetition and active, hands-on involvement. Through such practice and persistence, any skill can be mastered.

I REPEAT: Gym is important, but daily walks might be the most underrated fitness habit ever. Get your steps!

🚨 India is working on a UPI-style unique username-based digital addressing system that would enable people to send and receive parcels, letters, food deliveries, and other services without sharing a conventional physical address. 🤯 (ET)

we were 5 days/week work from office. started wednesdays work from home since november. increased productivity multifold. leaders had more time to think. their team had time to take a breather. splits up a long week in two short days each.

man this might be the most insane Claude story I've read 🤯 guy lost access to a wallet with 5 BTC for 11 years. tried 3.5 trillion password guesses. 8 weeks of brute force. paid recovery services. nothing worked. as a last resort, he dumped his entire old college computer into Claude Claude found an old wallet backup from before the password change, debugged a bug in the recovery tool, and extracted the private keys. 5 BTC recovered. $400K. 11 years locked away. we are so unbelievably early.

"No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up." | Paulo Coelho

What is stopping the government from doing this ???

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu

Don’t forget to overthink the best case scenario too.

Very good one! Authored by former Omidyar India CEO Roopa Kudva.

🚨 2 billion people use Google Maps. But most people only use 10% of it. Pair it with Claude… and it becomes a life optimization tool. 👇🧵

Ask ChatGPT or another LLM with memory: Knowing everything you know about me, generate a bookshelf of the books you would recommend me to read Here’s mine. I read most of them and have some on my to-read list, so it was a pretty accurate suggestion. What did you get?

Paul Graham (Y Combinator co-founder) who funded Airbnb and Stripe says the ideal startup is a cockroach: cheap to run and almost impossible to kill.

The gym isn’t the hard part — it’s the eating, actually.

Nice write up @mknid - before I could answer, he gave me a 15-minute lesson on Time Shelter, Gospodinov’s novel about a clinic where each floor recreates a different decade, where patients with dementia choose which era to live in.