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.
Title | URL | Tags | Content type |
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How to use Twitter | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1776960432693039369 | observation | my-tweet |
All creative people should get a website | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1696012954058338695?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
The amount of human history living inside our genes | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1740232597215821836?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
A common nature of many things in life | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1572194097481543683?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
Today's attention span is more about your nutrition and well-being, rather than last day's screentime | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1742527430630252605?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
Growing thread of things to be grateful for on a global level | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1746206626930217180?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
People getting very good at one or many things is (mostly not an anomaly) | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1606655105763540992?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
How I visualize new ideas (the creative process) | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1603252015001325569?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
Mentally visualizing talents as a symphony | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1595410337016135680?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
Advice on improving writing | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1570242973107101697 | observation | my-tweet |
Best way to learn a musical instrument is by learning how to play your favourite song | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1585840016781344769?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
Being in the middle-class with some drip is a great platform | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1759449891896492338 | observation | my-tweet |
Most people don’t ever get to sing and play a musical instrument. | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1754073259098734616?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
A glorious memory of waking up from a fever as a child | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1734472368209134019?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
My dream as a piano player | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1569207075397406720?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
I'm an 'internet explorer’ | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1705045453283459490?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
My random and stinging urge to write an autobiography | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1480853809068843014?s=20 | observation | my-tweet |
On moving closer to work | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1747626584138240511 | observation | my-tweet |
Attention span is proportional to your well-being, not your screen-time | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1742527430630252605 | observation, technology | my-tweet |
Knowing programming in this era of software has good leverage | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1786291592564797654 | technology | my-tweet |
All social media websites and internet cultures are sort of rabbit holes | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1755226502395040047 | technology | my-tweet |
What running Arch Linux (Operating System) is like | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1594716643996868609?s=20 | technology | my-tweet |
Programming and automation haven't really come down to people | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1734804951941927112?s=20 | technology | my-tweet |
I look forward to the convergence of AI and hardware | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1749305864073392639?s=20 | technology | my-tweet |
On GitHub Copilot — the experience | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1715349143940411726 | technology | my-tweet |
Thread about my phone - Pixel 8 Pro | https://x.com/visakanv/status/1769814366210150488?s=20 | technology | my-tweet |
Internet has silos, social media apps especially | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1755226502395040047?s=20 | technology | my-tweet |
What openwrt lets you to do to routers: | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1561936757066567680?s=20 | technology | my-tweet |
Thread about the UX and general personalities of major AI chat models | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1687075579781328896 | technology | my-tweet |
On Open Source Projects that has special cultures and tools | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1695338821171196203?s=20 | technology | my-tweet |
About being online in the 2010s | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1773603432680567257 | technology | my-tweet |
Electric scooters lie in the antipodal point of where classical motorcycles lie | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1724029407025848527 | technology | my-tweet |
MacBook Pro Spirit/Deity | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1782008556323287220 | observation, technology | my-tweet |
My lifestyle is 'vibes-based (?) | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1759947037305372788 | experiences, observation | my-tweet |
Reflections from 2021: Contains wishful thinking and subtly motivating words. Feels cringe now | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1476787793552568322 | experiences | my-tweet |
Tweets from Israel | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1546076212350828544? | experiences | my-tweet |
Descriptions about Chalakudy — my home | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1485095590744977408? | experiences | my-tweet |
December 9 2023's Thindi (Food) Walk with Thindi Capital: | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1733831897237823763?s=20 | experiences | my-tweet |
There was a time I thought the Police was the best band in the world, but | ttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1601573269122883584 | music | my-tweet |
Praise for the Indian rock band - F16s | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1775835453632950274 | music | my-tweet |
istening and reviewing [Iyer's Filter Coffee](https://x.com/iyersfilterkapi) | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1695384844061253657 | music | my-tweet |
Listening to the Legendary playlist on Spotify | ttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1684125584551723009 | music | my-tweet |
The dexterity of the guitar | ttps://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1776132450768302215 | music | my-tweet |
On Mark Zuckerburg | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1655593123211513857?s=20 | funny | my-tweet |
The degree of dependence on romantic crushes | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1758014342061252744?s=20 | funny | my-tweet |
In Bengaluru, people come meetup, sit in circles, and Tweet | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1744333630103568878 | funny | my-tweet |
About terraces being a place with privacy for (Indian) kids | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1632786947423997957 | funny | my-tweet |
About roomates who set alarms and doesn't turn it off themselves | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1466625073654030336?s=20 | funny | my-tweet |
What North Indians think about South Indian languages | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1645835344565379075?s=20 | funny | my-tweet |
How good I am in programming – on a scale of 10 | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1709776724224069740 | funny | my-tweet |
About women with nose rings | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1683868810821124097 | funny | my-tweet |
What Malayali driving instructors need to do | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1609901261507432449?s=20 | funny | my-tweet |
Why I write beautiful e-mails at work | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1720025292985503815?s=20 | funny | my-tweet |
My workplace is too good, now I need a nemesis to spice things up | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1689300221120180224 | funny | my-tweet |
Aesthetics about the South Indian culture that I love: | https://twitter.com/chandanaveli/status/1577221715330945025? | culture | my-tweet |
On Mani Ratnam's romantic movies | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1643809875833798659?s=20 | culture | my-tweet |
My favourite bad-ass imperial moments from world history | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1749718645478129920?s=20) | culture | my-tweet |
On Lijo Jose Pellissery | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1753248414425616544?s=20 | culture | my-tweet |
In your 20s, a mere 4 year gap with someone can feel like | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1775509535110697255 | my-tweet | |
I have a vibes-based lifestyle | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1759947037305372788 | observation | my-tweet |
You need to wait to build a relationship with a software use it for thought | https://x.com/chandanaveli/status/1787438940678394204 | observation | my-tweet |
On the line of 'do 100 things, get out, and do things' | https://x.com/SP1NS1R/status/1707595027680317694?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Master boring fundamentals; Play infinite games | https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1770005990479716488 | others-tweet | |
A huge part of success is connections | https://x.com/emollick/status/1768304847055417431 | others-tweet | |
Knowing the word for a thing doesn't mean you know the thing | https://x.com/nosilverv/status/1750451126359503267?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Experts are fake, smart generalists rule the world | https://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1577059345883283456 | others-tweet | |
If you're not annoying someone, you're not doing anything interesting | https://x.com/sashachapin/status/1753489473604915206?s=20 | others-tweet | |
'I can author my life' | https://x.com/mbateman/status/1683487890905481218?s=20 | others-tweet | |
The light bulb saved the whale and cities preserve forests | https://x.com/moultano/status/1785332914416488484 | others-tweet | |
Visakan Veerasamy's thread on random historical events | https://x.com/visakanv/status/1113165222871674880?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Why some things don't exist | https://x.com/naslouki/status/1747688262532026610?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Intellectual capacity != mental richness | https://x.com/octopichael/status/1701474167609033031 | others-tweet | |
Good generalists ask 'what is nobody else doing?' (Related to: what is worth doing?) | https://twitter.com/pronounced_kyle/status/1696939771111813169 | others-tweet | |
All advice is context dependent | https://x.com/visakanv/status/1090128599603044352?s=20 | others-tweet | |
What people want: automation, plants, sunlight, family | https://twitter.com/__drewface/status/1473684287648055309?s=20&t=z1wRwdmlyNf3owPQcj1KNQ | others-tweet | |
'Things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen' | https://twitter.com/collision/status/1529452415346302976?t=oTqPyZ_Eabytnd-gw0opyw | others-tweet | |
'the more you build, the more you have to pay to maintain' | https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1731765206265864689 | others-tweet | |
The mood for e/acc (effective accelerationism) | https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1694852280481194232?s=20 | others-tweet | |
'building trust requires risky micro-movements be made and reciprocated by all parties in order to progress' | https://twitter.com/mollyfmielke/status/1529490158214647813 | others-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=20 | others-tweet | |
Summary of David Deutsch's book – The Beginning of Infinity | https://x.com/blisstweeting/status/1421947182341570562?s=20 | others-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/1723564875664994330 | others-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=20 | others-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/1809660986812674124 | others-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/1529452415346302976 | others-tweet | |
Jeff Bezos on writing well | https://x.com/nurijanian/status/1794420863992725972 | others-tweet | |
Intuition is simply reading a lot | https://x.com/zaoyang/status/940409514875961344?s=20 | others-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/1515773253901746176 | others-tweet | |
Pick a business, deeply understand the workflows, and solve it | https://x.com/levie/status/1699780631151169778?s=20 | others-tweet | |
The best writers, programmers and artists don't do it because they have to | https://x.com/yacineMTB/status/1742947798696272207?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Specialization is for insects | https://x.com/sophianegativa/status/1719791332376350774?s=20 | others-tweet | |
'Avoid snacking' and seek better and bigger projects | https://x.com/tao_lin/status/1732826295514636516?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Agency is realizing that you can 'just do things' | https://x.com/shaiyanhkhan/status/1754197898814689379?s=20 | others-tweet | |
To expand my sense of agency is to pretend I have permission | https://x.com/goblinodds/status/1594830397606699011?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Applying high agency | https://x.com/blader/status/1731570133095924074?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Build first, optimize later | https://x.com/octopichael/status/1759356567147938195?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Sam Altman on 'bending the world at our will' | https://x.com/danallison/status/1731070496299692335?s=20 | others-tweet | |
A collection of Steve Jobs' quotes | https://x.com/visakanv/status/1074945441958027264?s=20 | others-tweet | |
On making friends | https://x.com/kasratweets/status/1707221378854695405?s=20 | others-tweet | |
Rozzi Roomian’s depiction of a spiritual experience | https://x.com/sashachapin/status/1800973437634216201 | others-tweet | |
Civilisations are built by societies. Societies are built by families. | https://x.com/TariqMK_/status/1809974087592063091 | others-tweet | |
Let the feelings flow | https://x.com/VividVoid_/status/1812865909817753746 | others-tweet | |
Milan Cvitkovic – Things you're allowed to do (and can do in life) | https://milan.cvitkovic.net/writing/things_youre_allowed_to_do/ | life | article |
Alexey Guzey – On (email) follow ups | https://guzey.com/follow-up/ | life | article |
Stepan Parunashvili – What Artists Notice | https://stopa.io/post/294 | art | article |
tegowerk – Serendipity | https://tegowerk.eu/posts/serendipity/ | life | article |
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/1793286299392328026 | life, technology | article |
James Hush – 'poke around, find something, redefine yourself' | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32921256 | life | article |
Paul Graham – Life is Short | http://paulgraham.com/vb.html | life | article |
Paul Graham – Superlinear Returns | http://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html | life, technology | article |
Dan Luu – 95%-ile isn't that good | https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ | life, technology | article |
A meme about life and the importance to move (simply get out and do things) | https://x.com/inflammateomnia/status/1749589692960428049?s=20 | funny | article |
brycedotvc - Most people won't | https://bryce.vc/post/64889707700/most-people-wont | life | article |
Ben Kuhn – You don’t need to work on hard problems | https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/ | life, technology | article |
Wikipedia - The purpose of a system is what it does | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/the_purpose_of_a_system_is_what_it_does | life, technology | article |
Moxie Marlinkspike (Founder of Signal) – Career Advice | https://moxie.org/2013/01/07/career-advice.html | life | article |
Alexey Guzey – What Should You Do with Your Life? Directions and Advice | https://guzey.com/personal/what-should-you-do-with-your-life/#cold-emails-and-twitter | life | article |
Steve Jobs - Most people do not act. They don't pick the phone up and ask | https://youtu.be/zkTf0LmDqKI?t=69 | life | article |