This is my blog, Writes. I write about tech, data and the few things in the middle.
On Jan 22, 3:25pm PST, my Twitter/X account was hacked in a Turkish phishing attack. The hacker had control of my account for about ~5hrs before X suspended my account. On Jan 28, 6:43PM, a whole 6 days later, I finally got my account back. I’ve been posting on X every day for nearly 5 years, so I’d be lying if I said the experience didn’t jolt me. I’m extremely thankful for my friends who…
Anmol and Anshul’s recent viral post on “BARBIEs” (Bachelors Abroad Returning to Build in the Indian Ecosystem) pointed out that Indians who do their undergrads abroad and return to India start unicorn companies at very high rates. Unsurprisingly, many read their post and said what the OPs said themselves: “Yes, it’s cause they’re rich and privileged!” This is a common belief in India, who think…
Twitter/X is the de facto outlet for my thoughts. Facebook is dead. Instagram is for pictures. TikTok is for video. Youtube is high-effort. Reddit opinions aren’t backed by legitmacy. Blogs are too long. Unfortunately, Twitter is ephemeral and doesn’t allow users to capture all their best hits over time. I used their API (and now their archive downloader) to mine a list offline. I tweet about…
Elon Musk and I have interacted twenty two times on X: on the scale of AI’s token generation compared to all of humanity (Nov 9, 2025) on Bytedance revenue surpassing Meta (Aug 28, 2025) on OpenAI GPT-5’s misleading SWE-Bench score (Aug 8, 2025) on tiny hierarchical reasoning models outperforming LLMs on some domains (Aug 3, 2025) on the remarkable capabilities of Grok 4 (Jul 10, 2025) on the…