Tushar Mehta
@tushaarmehtaa
just killing time till AGI shows up | meanwhile, writing a newsletter: http://tushaarmehtaa.substack.com
it's been an entire year in bangalore as of yesterday! last year, i badly wanted to step out of my bubble and do great work with great people. did exactly that, grew a lot, and of course, enjoyed every bit of it. this is your sign to move to blr if you're anywhere else!
yes, jiu jitsu is risky for your neck. running is risky for your knees. striking is risky for your brain. lifting is risky for your back. cycling is risky for your spine. climbing is risky for your fingers.
everyone lives 2 professional lives: the first: you think networking matters - social media, events, parties, conferences, panels. the second: you realize you can just do great work and everything else is bullshit.
apparently there’s a name for people like me the ones who maintain a list for everything. it’s called a list keeper. – best north indian places to eat – top hangout hubs – cafes where i do my best work – drinks i enjoy the most – top personal websites and it goes on
AI won’t take content marketers’ jobs. but it will make them quit. founders will hop on a call and say “just leverage AI” then hand you 10 company accounts to manage.
Sydney Sweeney just joined the Ethereum Foundation to take crypto mainstream.
write it down and cross it off nothing beats that dopamine.
everyone wants top-athlete diagnostics and personalized AI plans. nobody wants to: – train like them – eat 2.2g/kg protein – sleep 8 hours – hit fiber goals – quit smoking and drinking you can’t out-tech the basics.
“here’s how to hit your protein goals with just your ghar ki roti” …proceeds to add 2 scoops of whey, ruining both the roti and the protein
be so good the founder writes a blog post just to explain why they hired you.
8 hours of sleep + 1 big glass of cold brew = god tier output. that’s it. that’s the formula.
for anyone out here wondering what life’s even for it’s the slow, stubborn quest to shrink the gap between what you have to do and what you want to do until one day, it’s just: i want to.
for anyone creating anything the only real measure of improvement is how much you’re able to shrink the gap between your taste and what you’re actually putting out into the world.
when you tag 5 accounts in your tweet and still can’t get 5 likes bro just log out. touch some grass. maybe pick up a hobby. it’s not the algorithm. it’s you.
if you removed: “dark reality of…” “ exposed” “10x your income” “secrets revealed” “this is why you’re ” “become a billionaire” from Indian podcast titles, 90% would choke to death on the spot.
We’ve raised $100 million that we will put to work for creators and their audiences. Ownership for creators. Agency for audiences. Substack is a network built in service of people who care about culture. I’m pumped for this. Now we go big.
You are not a generalist. You just leave things when the depth and details go beyond your interest and IQ.
gemini gave it to all college kids perplexity gave it to every airtel subscriber just waiting for sam altman to call mota bhai and end this madness once and for all.
i instantly cringe when i see more than one tag in a bio.