Tweets and further reading

This is the collection of some of the best tweets I’ve posted and read, and some of the best articles I’ve read on the internet that I’ve bookrmarked.

The word ‘best’ is perhaps too feeble a term to encapsulate the breadth of ideas the contents of the below links sometimes touch. But it’s usually a mix of wit, wisdom, and the unbridled exuberance of 3 A.M.

TitleURLTagsContent type
How to use Twitterhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1776960432693039369observationmy-tweet
All creative people should get a websitehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1696012954058338695?s=20observationmy-tweet
The amount of human history living inside our geneshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1740232597215821836?s=20observationmy-tweet
A common nature of many things in lifehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1572194097481543683?s=20observationmy-tweet
Today's attention span is more about your nutrition and well-being, rather than last day's screentimehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1742527430630252605?s=20observationmy-tweet
Growing thread of things to be grateful for on a global levelhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1746206626930217180?s=20observationmy-tweet
People getting very good at one or many things is (mostly not an anomaly)https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1606655105763540992?s=20observationmy-tweet
How I visualize new ideas (the creative process)https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1603252015001325569?s=20observationmy-tweet
Mentally visualizing talents as a symphonyhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1595410337016135680?s=20observationmy-tweet
Advice on improving writinghttps://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1570242973107101697observationmy-tweet
Best way to learn a musical instrument is by learning how to play your favourite songhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1585840016781344769?s=20observationmy-tweet
Being in the middle-class with some drip is a great platformhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1759449891896492338observationmy-tweet
Most people don’t ever get to sing and play a musical instrument.https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1754073259098734616?s=20observationmy-tweet
A glorious memory of waking up from a fever as a childhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1734472368209134019?s=20observationmy-tweet
My dream as a piano playerhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1569207075397406720?s=20observationmy-tweet
I'm an 'internet explorer’https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1705045453283459490?s=20observationmy-tweet
My random and stinging urge to write an autobiographyhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1480853809068843014?s=20observationmy-tweet
On moving closer to workhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1747626584138240511observationmy-tweet
Attention span is proportional to your well-being, not your screen-timehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1742527430630252605observation, technologymy-tweet
Knowing programming in this era of software has good leveragehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1786291592564797654technologymy-tweet
All social media websites and internet cultures are sort of rabbit holeshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1755226502395040047technologymy-tweet
What running Arch Linux (Operating System) is likehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1594716643996868609?s=20technologymy-tweet
Programming and automation haven't really come down to peoplehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1734804951941927112?s=20technologymy-tweet
I look forward to the convergence of AI and hardwarehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1749305864073392639?s=20technologymy-tweet
On GitHub Copilot — the experiencehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1715349143940411726technologymy-tweet
Thread about my phone - Pixel 8 Prohttps://x.com/visakanv/status/1769814366210150488?s=20technologymy-tweet
Internet has silos, social media apps especiallyhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1755226502395040047?s=20technologymy-tweet
What openwrt lets you to do to routers:https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1561936757066567680?s=20technologymy-tweet
Thread about the UX and general personalities of major AI chat modelshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1687075579781328896technologymy-tweet
On Open Source Projects that has special cultures and toolshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1695338821171196203?s=20technologymy-tweet
About being online in the 2010shttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1773603432680567257technologymy-tweet
Electric scooters lie in the antipodal point of where classical motorcycles liehttps://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1724029407025848527technologymy-tweet
MacBook Pro Spirit/Deityhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1782008556323287220observation, technologymy-tweet
My lifestyle is 'vibes-based (?)https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1759947037305372788experiences, observationmy-tweet
Reflections from 2021: Contains wishful thinking and subtly motivating words. Feels cringe nowhttps://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1476787793552568322experiencesmy-tweet
Tweets from Israelhttps://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1546076212350828544?experiencesmy-tweet
Descriptions about Chalakudy — my homehttps://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1485095590744977408?experiencesmy-tweet
December 9 2023's Thindi (Food) Walk with Thindi Capital:https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1733831897237823763?s=20experiencesmy-tweet
There was a time I thought the Police was the best band in the world, butttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1601573269122883584musicmy-tweet
Praise for the Indian rock band - F16shttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1775835453632950274musicmy-tweet
istening and reviewing [Iyer's Filter Coffee](https://x.com/iyersfilterkapi)https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1695384844061253657musicmy-tweet
Listening to the Legendary playlist on Spotifyttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1684125584551723009musicmy-tweet
The dexterity of the guitarttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1776132450768302215musicmy-tweet
On Mark Zuckerburghttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1655593123211513857?s=20funnymy-tweet
The degree of dependence on romantic crusheshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1758014342061252744?s=20funnymy-tweet
In Bengaluru, people come meetup, sit in circles, and Tweethttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1744333630103568878funnymy-tweet
About terraces being a place with privacy for (Indian) kidshttps://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1632786947423997957funnymy-tweet
About roomates who set alarms and doesn't turn it off themselveshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1466625073654030336?s=20funnymy-tweet
What North Indians think about South Indian languageshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1645835344565379075?s=20funnymy-tweet
How good I am in programming – on a scale of 10https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1709776724224069740funnymy-tweet
About women with nose ringshttps://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1683868810821124097funnymy-tweet
What Malayali driving instructors need to dohttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1609901261507432449?s=20funnymy-tweet
Why I write beautiful e-mails at workhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1720025292985503815?s=20funnymy-tweet
My workplace is too good, now I need a nemesis to spice things uphttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1689300221120180224funnymy-tweet
Aesthetics about the South Indian culture that I love:https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1577221715330945025?culturemy-tweet
On Mani Ratnam's romantic movieshttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1643809875833798659?s=20culturemy-tweet
My favourite bad-ass imperial moments from world historyhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1749718645478129920?s=20)culturemy-tweet
On Lijo Jose Pellisseryhttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1753248414425616544?s=20culturemy-tweet
In your 20s, a mere 4 year gap with someone can feel likehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1775509535110697255my-tweet
I have a vibes-based lifestylehttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1759947037305372788observationmy-tweet
You need to wait to build a relationship with a software use it for thoughthttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1787438940678394204observationmy-tweet
On the line of 'do 100 things, get out, and do things'https://x.com/SP1NS1R/status/1707595027680317694?s=20others-tweet
Master boring fundamentals; Play infinite gameshttps://x.com/nearcyan/status/1770005990479716488others-tweet
A huge part of success is connectionshttps://x.com/emollick/status/1768304847055417431others-tweet
Knowing the word for a thing doesn't mean you know the thinghttps://x.com/nosilverv/status/1750451126359503267?s=20others-tweet
Experts are fake, smart generalists rule the worldhttps://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1577059345883283456others-tweet
If you're not annoying someone, you're not doing anything interestinghttps://x.com/sashachapin/status/1753489473604915206?s=20others-tweet
'I can author my life'https://x.com/mbateman/status/1683487890905481218?s=20others-tweet
The light bulb saved the whale and cities preserve forestshttps://x.com/moultano/status/1785332914416488484others-tweet
Visakan Veerasamy's thread on random historical eventshttps://x.com/visakanv/status/1113165222871674880?s=20others-tweet
Why some things don't existhttps://x.com/naslouki/status/1747688262532026610?s=20others-tweet
Intellectual capacity != mental richnesshttps://x.com/octopichael/status/1701474167609033031others-tweet
Good generalists ask 'what is nobody else doing?' (Related to: what is worth doing?)https://twitter.com/pronounced_kyle/status/1696939771111813169others-tweet
All advice is context dependenthttps://x.com/visakanv/status/1090128599603044352?s=20others-tweet
What people want: automation, plants, sunlight, familyhttps://twitter.com/__drewface/status/1473684287648055309?s=20&t=z1wRwdmlyNf3owPQcj1KNQothers-tweet
'Things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen'https://twitter.com/collision/status/1529452415346302976?t=oTqPyZ_Eabytnd-gw0opywothers-tweet
'the more you build, the more you have to pay to maintain'https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1731765206265864689others-tweet
The mood for e/acc (effective accelerationism)https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1694852280481194232?s=20others-tweet
'building trust requires risky micro-movements be made and reciprocated by all parties in order to progress'https://twitter.com/mollyfmielke/status/1529490158214647813others-tweet
Thiel's Closing Thoughts (CS183: Startup): 'There is something importantly singular about each new thing in the world. There is a mini singularity whenever you start a company or make a key life decision. In a very real sense, the life of every person is a singularity.'https://x.com/BrianJJi/status/1710468010337550792?s=20others-tweet
Summary of David Deutsch's book – The Beginning of Infinityhttps://x.com/blisstweeting/status/1421947182341570562?s=20others-tweet
Sam Altman: 'Generally the highest ROI comes from getting even better in areas where you're already strong, not improving in areas where you're weak.'https://twitter.com/then_there_was/status/1723564875664994330others-tweet
'if I don’t know something I can put a box there that says “there is a thing here but it is ambiguous and I dont know the answer yet”'https://x.com/christineist/status/1637278683995201539?s=20others-tweet
“you simply have to go out and make your own opportunities. but once you do, the world really is open to you”https://x.com/DanielleFong/status/1809660986812674124others-tweet
As you become an adult, you realize people put things there. People made them happen. The world is a museum of passion projects.https://x.com/collision/status/1529452415346302976others-tweet
Jeff Bezos on writing wellhttps://x.com/nurijanian/status/1794420863992725972others-tweet
Intuition is simply reading a lothttps://x.com/zaoyang/status/940409514875961344?s=20others-tweet
'if you're precise about what you mean, and choose your words carefully, you end up improving language just by speaking and writing'https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1515773253901746176others-tweet
Pick a business, deeply understand the workflows, and solve ithttps://x.com/levie/status/1699780631151169778?s=20others-tweet
The best writers, programmers and artists don't do it because they have tohttps://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1742947798696272207?s=20others-tweet
Specialization is for insectshttps://x.com/sophianegativa/status/1719791332376350774?s=20others-tweet
'Avoid snacking' and seek better and bigger projectshttps://x.com/tao_lin/status/1732826295514636516?s=20others-tweet
Agency is realizing that you can 'just do things'https://x.com/shaiyanhkhan/status/1754197898814689379?s=20others-tweet
To expand my sense of agency is to pretend I have permissionhttps://x.com/goblinodds/status/1594830397606699011?s=20others-tweet
Applying high agencyhttps://x.com/blader/status/1731570133095924074?s=20others-tweet
Build first, optimize laterhttps://x.com/octopichael/status/1759356567147938195?s=20others-tweet
Sam Altman on 'bending the world at our will'https://x.com/danallison/status/1731070496299692335?s=20others-tweet
A collection of Steve Jobs' quoteshttps://x.com/visakanv/status/1074945441958027264?s=20others-tweet
On making friendshttps://x.com/kasratweets/status/1707221378854695405?s=20others-tweet
Rozzi Roomian’s depiction of a spiritual experiencehttps://x.com/sashachapin/status/1800973437634216201others-tweet
Civilisations are built by societies. Societies are built by families.https://x.com/TariqMK_/status/1809974087592063091others-tweet
Let the feelings flowhttps://x.com/VividVoid_/status/1812865909817753746others-tweet
Milan Cvitkovic – Things you're allowed to do (and can do in life)https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/lifearticle
Alexey Guzey – On (email) follow upshttps://guzey.com/follow-up/lifearticle
Stepan Parunashvili – What Artists Noticehttps://stopa.io/post/294artarticle
tegowerk – Serendipityhttps://tegowerk.eu/posts/serendipity/lifearticle
Steve Jobs: Sculley's Disease – 'An idea changes and grows. Most work is in craftmanship'https://martinklepsch.org/posts/sculleys-disease.html https://x.com/keshavchan/status/1793286299392328026life, technologyarticle
James Hush – 'poke around, find something, redefine yourself'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32921256lifearticle
Paul Graham – Life is Shorthttp://paulgraham.com/vb.htmllifearticle
Paul Graham – Superlinear Returnshttp://paulgraham.com/superlinear.htmllife, technologyarticle
Dan Luu – 95%-ile isn't that goodhttps://danluu.com/p95-skill/life, technologyarticle
A meme about life and the importance to move (simply get out and do things)https://x.com/inflammateomnia/status/1749589692960428049?s=20funnyarticle
brycedotvc - Most people won'thttps://bryce.vc/post/64889707700/most-people-wontlifearticle
Ben Kuhn – You don’t need to work on hard problemshttps://www.benkuhn.net/hard/life, technologyarticle
Wikipedia - The purpose of a system is what it doeshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_doeslife, technologyarticle
Moxie Marlinkspike (Founder of Signal) – Career Advicehttps://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.htmllifearticle
Alexey Guzey – What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advicehttps://guzey.com/personal/what-should-you-do-with-your-life/#cold-emails-and-twitterlifearticle
Steve Jobs - Most people do not act. They don't pick the phone up and askhttps://youtu.be/zkTf0LmDqKI?t=69lifearticle