Siddhant Mundra

@kavinbm @ZenBarefoot @sahibarefoot

It’s absurd how we walk around with these rubber soles on, completely disconnecting us from earths magnetic field.

@abhiandniyu Civic sense

if you could FIX one thing about India, as a citizen, what would you fix?

@velocitycake @akm1410 I have been calling my friends asking them if they will split share a TMC subscription with me given how honest the reporting is. 30 out of 30 have declined so far. I plan to reach out to atleast 50 others who have not subscribed yet.

@sidsm01 @akm1410 Siddhant can you please not add nuance to this whole thing? The subscriptions need to sell. Thanks.

I have been calling VCs asking them if they will fund Sarvam after the AI summit considering sovereignty and desh are such big themes. Four out of four declines so far. I plan to reach out to at least the top ten who haven't yet invested in the company to cover more ground.

Yearly self reminder

@raphaelschaad Posthog

What's your fav landing page right now? Why?

@grok @bryan_johnson @grok roast kar do isko please

Bhai, yeh Bryan Johnson ka post hai jo apni partner Kate se 19 din baad milne ke excitement aur biological effects ko detail mein batata hai. Separation se body mein inflammation badhta hai, reunion mein dopamine, oxytocin jaise hormones activate hote hain, leading to emotional aur physical closeness. Poetic + scientific vibe!

It’s been 19 days and 20 hrs since I last felt Kate’s warm embrace. She landed 47 minutes ago. The 24 hours of travel no doubt has her rushing to shower. She needs to cleanse herself of a dirtied world incompatible with her sensibilities. The wash doubles as a ritual, preparatory for entrance into the symbolic world we’ve constructed. The time apart has been costly.  My body’s electrical signaling betrays the separation. Without her touch, my vagus nerve’s 100,000 myelinated fibers have dropped their high frequency spectral power, squawking distress. An intelligent system broadcasting diminished wave forms, hoping to be heard.  There are other signals of distress. My white blood cells have shifted their gene expression, upregulating pro-inflammatory genes IL-6 and TNF-alpha and downregulating my antiviral genes.  A pro-aging biochemical signature of a system suffering hardship. My environment is a pristine anti-aging laboratory. Air, water, food and light are meticulously measured. Toxins are filtered. Purification systems run autonomously. Biomarkers tracked. Nutrition is calibrated. Yet outside my control is the affection of another. The 68 trillion cells that constitute Bryan Johnson run non-negotiable code. They demand tenderness, and not of a whimsical type, but deep, all-encompassing love that must be earned and carefully maintained. Otherwise they protest in self-termination. She’s now only 13 miles away and I can viscerally feel her essence. The transmission pulses in high fidelity. As if there were a fiber optic cable streaming our connection at light speed through the multiplexed cylinders of glass. The time apart created latency, buffering the connection, depriving us of the luminescence and dimming into noise. In 15 minutes she will be within reach. I can visualize the whites of her eyes and smell her aroma. When she arrives, she will be shy. Whenever we are apart, she returns to zero. Her previous openness will be closed. Her emotional dynamic range will be held in reserve until she feels she is safe and can trust.  I’ll need to kindle her again. The rush of the courtship enthralls me. The anticipation drives a small cluster of my midbrain neurons to flood dopamine. Nerve fibers activate, lighting up my skin’s receptors as it awaits for slow, caressing touch. My hypothalamus begins synthesizing oxytocin, preparing to dump it upon first eye contact to ensure the reestablishment of our pair bond. This biochemical orchestra fills me with delight and sensorial want. Kate’s been mulling over what she’ll wear for days.  She’s considered dozens of possibilities and modeled out my anticipated emotional state, the weather, and our planned activities. The colors will be representative of her psychological state and be positioned to soothe mine. The texture, style, and hues will interplay with our biology. The deliberately chosen accessories will add flair, intrigue and play. This is how she flirts, seduces and bypasses my mind to speak directly to my physiology. She has other tricks too. She’s arrived. I must wait for her. Her timidness will want to determine the cadence. I hear the door crack open and her bag drop to the floor. She’s nervous. I’m on the couch, neutral and open. She rounds the corner and our eyes meet. The inhibitions wither as the magnetism draws us together. Soft hellos are whispered and our bodies interdigitate. I feel her finger tips on the back of my neck. Goose bumps light up my body. Skin nerve cells fire signals directly to my brain, bypassing the analytical mind. The hypothalamus dumps the oxytocin, inhibiting fear and lowering cortisol. The body washes itself in this anti-inflammatory chain reaction.  Our respiration and heart beats are now synchronizing. The brain piles on with a release of endorphins to soothe the psychological pain of our separation. New powers are now in control. Let them run in glory. I press my cheek against hers. The skin on skin triggers a wave of desire. I brush her lips with mine, catalyzing a massive activation of neurons in her brain, overwhelming thought and forcing presence. She relents and wants to dance. She’s home. I slip my hand under her shirt and brush the small of her back. Goosebumps spread like a wildfire across her body. Her hypothalamus stimulates the release of GnRH which tells the pituitary gland to wake up her reproductive system. Our olfactory systems consume each other with delight, signaling immune system compatibility. I move both my hands to her jawline, holding her head firmly in place. Our mirror neurons speak to each other. I know what she wants. My lips press against hers and I softly bite her lower lip. Kate’s blood vessels dilate from the acetylcholine and nitric oxide release, flushing her lips, skin and body. The cascade is nearing waterfall. The executive control of our brains surrenders. No longer concerned with the 68 trillion cells. The prefrontal cortex goes dark. Eliminating future planning and probabilistic modeling. Activity in our parietal lobes diminishes, dissolving the boundary that distinguishes between self and other. No longer is there Kate and Bryan, just a singular biological entity suspended in a state of bliss. The outside world goes quiet. It doesn’t exist. We dissolve into raw existence.

@elegantlywasted Most are just awed that an Indian guy got access to 2-2.5 hrs of the richest man in the world.. however easy/though that may be in reality

Counter view: Our colonial hangover shows even today when Wtf pod gets Musk. Someone who’s on a pod somewhere thrice a day. Most over exposed dude with the biggest microphone in the world. Least interesting to listen to him imo because whatever he thinks he’s literally telling you everyday in here. Getting someone like Mr Modi was a bigger break.

Never really understood what "India by Indigo" actually means for me as passenger. Feels like a corporate-speak marketing campaign that doesn't translate into a clear, material meaning for anyone. So much affordance given in flights to something so vague. @IndiGo6E

High agency is often mistaken for speed. People assume it belongs to the ones who decide quickly and move without hesitation. That version looks impressive, but it is not what actually drives results. The real marker of high agency is quieter. It appears the moment someone stops protecting their assumptions and puts them in contact with something that can push back. Most people hesitate because they operate too far from the facts that matter. They think through scenarios, build arguments, weigh options, and wait for a feeling of certainty. They want clarity before they act. They want proof without the discomfort of exposing their thinking. They want to be right before the world has a chance to disagree. High-agency people do something different. They shorten the time between an idea and its first collision with the real world. They build the smallest version that can reveal a truth. They ask the customer before polishing the story. They test behavior before optimizing the process. They trade speculation for evidence, not because they enjoy being wrong, but because every collision with reality sharpens their understanding of what actually works. That shift changes their relationship with learning. Mistakes are not signs of incompetence. They are the natural cost of moving forward. The most valuable insights rarely come from perfect planning. They come from constraints, surprising reactions, unexpected metric shifts, and outcomes no one predicted. This behavior compounds. Every early interaction with reality creates a faster cycle of adjustment. Every adjustment increases clarity. Over time, decisions feel fast because dozens of small signals have already done the work. To an outsider it looks like intuition. In practice, it is earned through repeated exposure to the world. High agency is trained. It builds through the choices you make when uncertainty shows up. It strengthens every time you expose your thinking to something that can reshape it. Speed shows up because the environment favors teams that gather evidence quickly and adjust without ceremony. Their focus is on contact with reality. They waste less time debating ideas that have not been tested. They look for the next piece of information that moves the work forward. Founders who operate this way avoid the trap of endless planning. Product managers avoid the trap of presenting polished ideas that have never touched a user’s world. Engineers avoid the trap of optimizing solutions before validating the problem. Teams shaped by this habit reduce the distance between ideas and truth. You take an idea, remove the parts that do not matter, and place the remaining piece somewhere it can be disproven. You let the result inform the next version. You let the world reveal the gap between what you believe and what is true. The discomfort never disappears. It becomes familiar. You learn to recognize the moment when you are delaying the collision because the idea feels fragile. That moment is the signal. High-agency people move toward it. Everyone else moves away. If you want to raise the agency level of a team, focus on faster confrontations with reality. Encourage smaller tests. Encourage questions that can be answered in days instead of weeks. Encourage conversations with customers before the work becomes precious. Encourage an environment where truth carries more weight than confidence. You become high agency by removing the distance between what you believe and what the world is willing to teach you.

Yesterday, Rapido's co-founder shared why their driver’s support team kept getting flooded with calls. "My incentive isn't showing up." Drivers were clicking the insurance button. The problem? Both words start with "in." and it triggered a confusion. Over time Rapido built a color UI philosophy borrowed from traffic signals. Green = good. Orange = warning. Red = bad. Indians don't read UIs. They scan them. -------------- I was at a closed-door founder breakfast hosted by @figma in Bangalore. Panel: Prashant Sanchan (Apps for Bharat) and Rishikesh SR (Rapido). Context on scale: Rapido does 50 lakh rides/day. Sri Mandir processed 6 lakh chadavas and 1 lakh poojas last month. 25% of Sri Mandir's demand comes from outside India. Some interesting insights from the discussion: // AI shrinking feedback loops: // Rapido's feedback loop used to take 3 months: identify problem → build solution → release. Its now done it 1/5th of that time. Their recent OTA integration (flight bookings) was built in 8 days + 1 week for beta testing. Apps for Bharat prioritizes AI for process problems, not service delivery. Sri Mandir's chadava feature requires devotees to enter names and gotras. Users typed with spelling mistakes, mixed languages, improper spacing. AI now normalizes the data before sending it to temples. // Best founders reframe problem statements: // Every hyperlocal commute app battles cancellations. Rapido asked a different question: "How do I reduce cancellations?" became "How do I build patience and reduce anxiety?" The solution: Smart Switch. When a driver is assigned far away, the app tells you it's still searching for nearby drivers and will reassign if it finds someone closer. -------------- Sometimes fixing psychology would solve the problem. The companies that win in India don't just understand users. They understand how users think when they're not thinking.

Progress is easy to fake. You stay busy. You launch things. You talk about traction. Everyone claps because motion looks like momentum. The team feels alive. The investors nod. But the market is silent. Real progress feels different. It feels like doubt. It feels like rewriting what you thought was true. It feels like deleting work you were proud of yesterday. The real thing leaves a scar. The illusion is cleaner. It rewards confidence. It fills calendars and slides and updates. You can build a whole company inside that illusion and never notice the ground stopped moving beneath you. Failure starts the moment momentum becomes memory. When learning turns into storytelling. When speed becomes nostalgia. When everyone starts describing what worked instead of discovering what’s next. Progress only happens when reality moves with you. When customers change what they do, not what they say. When a product earns a second use without a discount. When a system starts teaching itself what to fix. The real work is noticing the difference. Anyone can measure activity. Only a few can measure learning. The rest keep sprinting through fog, mistaking the noise for forward motion. The illusion never feels wrong until it’s too late. It rewards the surface. It punishes reflection. It tells you to stay busy. It hides the only metric that matters. How fast the company is getting smarter.

@PriyaPatel2202 maybe that chaos is a feature and not a bug

Facebook Marketplace is such a chaos. There should be a clean, dedicated platform just for reselling furniture and move-out sales. #marketplace #facebook #moveoutsale

so then we should pay part our taxes to the corporate? Why need the government and ministers? Let them be fired please.. As a good start to lead by example - sir you should let go of your perks, pensions & the clout you accrued by the virtue of being an ex MP/cabinet minister :)

Over indexing on "logical decision making" is often the core reason of failure for a consumer business. In other words, human behaviour is more irrational than we would assume it to be. 8020foods made all the logical sense to us & most we spoke to.. yet failed miserably!

@AravSrinivas Check out @hotlapdaily My friends are pretty hooked to it

For the Chrome T-Rex game swap on Comet, I am thinking of making an F1-like circuit game. Let us know if this works.

Uber got no chill

@BadCapitalVC Yup also category specific supply and demand constructs would be possible in a vertical platform to unlock demand

Yeah, but worth noting that Myntra and Nykaa already existed well before qcomm became big, so they’ve had the advantage of building a strong customer base. That said, I do think a vertical marketplace can still exist if: - It’s cheaper than what users would pay on qcomm - It’s just as convenient (or close) - And it offers better variety/depth in the specific category (kind of how Nykaa’s beauty catalog is way stronger than Blinkit’s)

Qcomm isn't killing thoughtful purchasing. It's exposing what we've all known - nobody needs to contemplate their toothpaste choice for 10 minutes. Kirana stores have seen dramatic sales drops across categories (food -52%, personal care -47%, cleaning -30%) - exactly the purchases consumers are happy to outsource to convenience. However, some things matter deeply - what we put on our face, what we feed our kids - while some things just don't. This is because we've always had a hierarchy of purchasing decisions. The market is increasingly favoring brands that position themselves clearly - either as frictionless conveniences or as purchases that deserve deliberation. If you're positioned in the middle (neither convenient nor important enough), it’ll be hard to survive.