Neil

Basedcon is back to BLR (3pm, 23.03). We have a theme this time — Working Theories on Institution Building. 🇮🇳 @SamrajSanjana on schooling @AdityaShetts on crypto /@superteam @the_jasonsamuel on small-town-tech @paraschopra on AI /@lossfunk @ravichandar on culture /@bicblr ⬇️

Solana fam: we've started planning for Breakpoint 2025. Breakpoint 2025 centers on two themes: Revenue and Returns. No vanity. We’re putting the mic in the hands of teams printing revenue or delivering alpha. Founders, investors and engineers helping them win. The trenches and…

Is the unfortunate end state of every top city that all the housing, facilities, and offices in and around the central business district are owned by private equity (offices, hotels, sports, renters-only housing), and all individual ownership is only suburban?

Useless TIL of the day: The German T20 cricket team has an opener named Shahid Afridi, batter named Sachin, and a captain called Rohit…

Any Indian cos that want to hire "American" [read: white] sales people? Just hire people in London: weak local job market, 30 to 50% discount on salaries vs SF/NYC, no 2mo eurosummer, high CoL, good work ethic, and a British accent that works with equally well with Americans.

Early stage startups can’t have a 50:50 sex ratio until theres consensus on the rules on how differently vs. equally you’re supposed to interact with the opposite sex…. which is something the zoomerslop tiktokified hype startups unironically have a chance of figuring out.

1) live in the same area as your work 2) change work if area is bad 2) avoid anything with a luma 3) anything called a hacker house isn’t one 4) keep ₹100 notes stack for autos rapido tips etc (h/t @itsarnavb) don’t bargain not worth it, apps are slow 5) use faff

🚨🚨🚨 Announcements 🚨🚨🚨 Here is the first list of speakers for the 2nd Libertarian Summit in Mumbai on 26th July 2025 1. Abhijit Iyer Mitra - @Iyervval 2. Shruthi Badri - @shruthibadri 3. Krishnakumar Devnally - linkedin.com/in/krishnakuma… 4. Pooja Arora - @LaulPatricia 5.…

my most irrational optimistic belief is that indian finance twitter, tech twitter and nationalist twitter if united, have the joint power to get at least 100 regulations repealed

Between the India's declining growth rate and Indians' unending faith in politicians, and the algo just crushing optimism everyday — we will soon see the blame start shifting to IAS officers and state bureaucrats. Expecting more outrage, suspension and hopefully even litigation.

annual mid-year india white-pill check: any tech/engg people who have moved back from the US to India in the last few months? voluntarily (to startup, explore), or involuntary (unlucky with H1B), either way, get in touch! happy to help, bootstrap your new social circle, etc.

Our last flight @litegrav with Fram 2 Mission operated by @SpaceX with @NASAGeneLab 🫡

This why from the very begining, the centre should have incentivized the states (who have the primary responsibility) to reform agriculture.....and rather than running a technocratic government in a democracy more ministers with political savy are needed.

The ideal way to do your job as is if you're always on notice period (fearlessly, with a free mind, feeling invincible knowing you can't get fired, and still caring deeply about every small detail & finishing every project because thats all you think they'll remember you by)

employment rule: if you're not convinced this job will be your last job ever, look for a new job right away hiring rule: if they're not delusional, convinced that this is the last job they'll ever do, don't hire them

It's great that @libertypartyind exists, and even better that it has real fans & so many haters. 20, 50, 100s of new parties should exist. You may not win right away (or maybe you can), but its ok, thats not the point. Big parties are old, fragile and live on 1000s of delicate…

any law or policy professionals in India (students also ok) up for a research & writing gig with @superteam focused on real world asset tokenization? get in touch 👋

Our work with Quest got covered by @astrokaran at Swarajya Magazine! The piece goes into detail about why @shruthibadri and I started working on Quest, and how we think about the problem

so you can trade public stocks on solana via xstocks you can soon IPO onchain with superstate and you can buy private shares of spacex (and other private companies) with republic internet capital markets on solana

TIL (from the gf): Just like Kash Patel and Zohran Mamdani, Charlie XCX also has a Ugandan-Indian Gujarati parent...this really is their year.

the worlds best global organised crime ring has to be countries randomly requiring an “international drivers permit”….which is a piece of government paper that says your other piece of a government paper is valid government paper