“All models are wrong, some are useful.” George Box
My name is Vamsi, I am a Principal Architect at Google working with customers in South East Asia that are building for the Next Billion Users. When I am not working too hard at building the future, you can find me hoarding threads on Twitter, highlighting my Kindle books obsessively. I'd like to think I'm a devoted father, a bathroom-singer extraordinaire. Optimistic contrarianism, is a guiding light in my life.
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Sir_Tim_Berners-Lee_(cropped).jpg" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Sir_Tim_Berners-Lee_(cropped).jpg" width="40px" /> Tim Berners-Lee | HTTP Server | Client-Server
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.gif/440px-JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.gif" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.gif/440px-JohnvonNeumann-LosAlamos.gif" width="40px" /> John von Neumann | Game Theory | merge-sort
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width="40px" /> Ada Lovelace | Bernoulli Numbers Algorithm
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Vannevar_Bush_portrait.jpg/220px-Vannevar_Bush_portrait.jpg" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Vannevar_Bush_portrait.jpg/220px-Vannevar_Bush_portrait.jpg" width="40px" /> Vannevar Bush | NDRC / DARPA
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Douglas_Engelbart_in_2008.jpg/220px-Douglas_Engelbart_in_2008.jpg" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Douglas_Engelbart_in_2008.jpg/220px-Douglas_Engelbart_in_2008.jpg" width="40px" /> Douglas Engelbart | Mother of All Demos
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Robert_Bosch%2C_1925.jpg/440px-Robert_Bosch%2C_1925.jpg" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Robert_Bosch%2C_1925.jpg/440px-Robert_Bosch%2C_1925.jpg" width="40px" /> Robert Bosch | Magneto | Spark Plug
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ken-Thompson-2019.png" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ken-Thompson-2019.png" width="40px" /> Ken Thompson | Unix Philosphy
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg/220px-Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg/220px-Tesla_circa_1890.jpeg" width="40px" /> Nikola Tesla | Alternating Current & Induction Motor
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Naval_Ravikant.jpg" alt="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Naval_Ravikant.jpg" width="40px" /> Naval Ravikant | Wealth | Post-economic
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<img src="https://cdn.britannica.com/58/181058-050-9CC9F60F/Marcus-Tullius-Cicero-detail-marble-bust-Capitoline.jpg" alt="https://cdn.britannica.com/58/181058-050-9CC9F60F/Marcus-Tullius-Cicero-detail-marble-bust-Capitoline.jpg" width="40px" /> Zeno | Stoicism
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<aside> ⏱️ Time is a scarce resource, and I wish to spend mine and other's with a level of respect that befits it.
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<aside> 💋 From Jeff Bezos' annual shareholder letter : Even well-intentioned gatekeepers stifle innovation. #KISS vs #KICKME - keep it complex to keep me employed
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<aside> 🔕 Be humble or be proud, never deploy humbragging as a tool to establish credibility.
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<aside> 🏗️ Working hard matters, insofar as one's ability to pick who and what they work with. - inspired by Naval
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<aside> 📈 A personal metric for success - what percentage of my work is due to my interest rather than the result of an obligation
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<aside> 💈 You think you are successful because of your style. You aren’t. You are successful in spite of it. Sheryl Sandberg to Andrew Bosworth
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<aside> ☠️ Beware of the malaise of inane value addition ; The incomprehensible need to recommend small changes because one is asked for advise.
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<aside> ⏳ Refrain the urge to even subtly discredit someone i'm envious of as undeserving.
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<aside> 🔥 Strong opinions - have the courage to hold opinions, own them, yet be humble enough to update those beliefs when confronted with evidence. Let those strong opinions be gently held.
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<aside> 🎁 Give people the gift of concise plain spoken clarity.
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<aside> 🌝 We choose to go to the moon. Not because it's easy, because it's hard.
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<aside> 💡 A cop asks an inebriated man looking for his wallet under a streetlight, Is this where you lost your wallet?" Drunkard: No, I lost it in the park, but this is where the light is. The streetlight effect: Only looking for answers where it is easy to look.
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