Paarug Sethi
@paarugsethi
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swiss army knife • jiu jitsu nerd • celebrating @SuperteamIN • resident at @thenetworkstate
del | blr | ns
Joined June 2013
I went from being a non-tech college student with no work experience to working full time in web3 within 8 months.🌐. A laptop and an internet connection are all I had. Story time.🧵.
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rich guy in bangalore: has a 42-inch monitor & ergonomic chair, wears apple watch, oura ring, dinners at LUPA — makes ₹50 lakh/year. rich guy in delhi: owns 2 pairs of tshirt & shorts, goes to paharganj for work in a santro, enjoys halwai ke cholle bhature — makes ₹5cr/month.
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honestly, ritu phogat probably took the smartest path of all phogat sisters:. > left wrestling and nonsense of sports in india.> took up MMA.> competes in ONE championship, known worldwide.> lives & trains in singapore.> makes more money than all others.> can become coach later.
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coldplay concert did not happen in delhi because we have not had a sky full of stars in 15 years.
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I might be biased against beer biceps but what kind of a podcast interview is this?
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the only advice i would give to someone younger would be: have multitudes. do different things, play different sports, read different books. do kickboxing one day & learn about skin care the next day. learn cooking & physics & bouldering & more. be interested. be interesting.
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lex finding out huberman got 6 women at once while he has been looking for love for the last 30 years.
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Switzerland’s people have been a mystery to me:. - Don’t go to the gym.- Eat cheese and chocolates.- Drink a lot of alcohol.- Bread is a staple. And yet, I’ve not seen one fat person on the streets yet. What are we doing wrong?🤔.
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instagram and twitter people colliding on threads is literally barbie and oppenheimer audiences coming together.
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one of the best narrative shifts in recent times has been the habits of the “cool” person. cool in 2010s: goes to parties, drinks, smokes & other vices. cool today: lifts heavy weights, banger sleep scores, fixed routine, eats clean etc.
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I, a Delhiite, tried out Bangalore metro for the first time. You know what’s coming. You know it. I almost didn’t tweet this. But I have to. DELHI METRO IS BETTER.
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I’ve seen people throwing shade at Zomato, Blinkit, Swiggy etc for working extra on NYE. These are the same people who’ve ordered from the said apps themselves & never even tipped a waiter in their lives. Indian version of an American hating on capitalism using their iPhone.
Indian capitalist bros will ask employees (slaves?) to come to office on the eve of new year and act like they are in the middle of some kind of war zone.
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and good on vinesh phogat for retiring. idk what keeps non-cricket indian athletes going in the first place. you get no support but all the hate when you don’t perform. vinesh is 29, she can do what her sister did — take up MMA/jiu jitsu, become pro, exit this wretched system.
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my prediction is that india will produce MMA and jiu jitsu champions before it produces olympic gold medalists. simply because MMA and jiu jitsu are lucky to have 0 involvement of the govt. and brilliant people are moving things forward with incentives aligned.
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Blinkit's UI is at least 10 times better than Zepto's. Fits more things on one screen but feels so much cleaner. Zepto looks like the app itself was designed in 10 minutes.
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the greatest piece of audio content ever created in history. there is no comparison.
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@anmo7singh podcasts are conversations, not weird interrogations. i never commented anything about eating at all lol, I don’t mind that!.
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one major reason why indian podcasts are cringe to watch is all of them start working for clickbait and the algorithm — because all of them are by podcasters who only podcast for a living. meanwhile most globally successful podcasts are by people who have other things going on.
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Hot take: Bangalore eats SF for breakfast in the next 10 years. It’s already started.
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Used the Delhi Metro Airport line for the first time. - Check-in (luggage as well) at the metro station.- Airport station right at at the T-3 Departure terminal.- 19 minutes travel time from Central Delhi (Shivaji Stadium) to the airport. Which other city in the world has this?
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The biggest roadblock that web3 faces at the moment is college exams.
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“trump is my president 🇺🇸”. brother you live in ghaziabad relax and continue your gedi.
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i don’t think the indian @solana ecosystem has ever been this alive 🇮🇳. so many builders, so many new projects, and so much to build. if you’re a project/individual looking to grow and need any kind of help (tech or non-tech), send me a DM!.
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@keshavchan i am the CEO at swiggy and would love to hire you. i only want 10 lakh rupees for the first year. please check your DMs for bank account details and send asap.
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very happy personal update:. i have joined the incredible team at @SquadsProtocol this week. been a huge fan of the team and what they've built for a long time so when this opportunity came up, saying yes was an absolute no-brainer. big thanks to @SimkinStepan for giving me the.
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Delhi has an extremely underrated tech and startup culture. Ideas on how to bring it to everyone's attention (or Twitter timelines)?.
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They really thought @solana was dead 3 months ago. They made jokes, looked down on the community and spread FUD. But we're still here. Still building. Having more fun than we've ever had and Q1 has just started.
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fireside chat between @levelsio and @balajis on “how digital nomads enable network states” at @thenetworkstate conference. here are some sound bites (along with my thoughts on some):. • 100-200 million people are digital nomads today — these are all ideal candidates to join a
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Instagram young people and Twitter young people are two different sets of human beings.
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The @balajis thesis of Indians building global products that are not “Indian” by nature and rather globally competitive is being played out in front of us. Exhibit A being @UltrahumanHQ. Incredible product & tech, great communications and world class quality.
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won gold at the @ADCC_Federation india open yesterday.🥇. i talk a lot about jiu jitsu because it forces you to make decisions in a high stakes situation pretty much every time you do it. but a competition takes that pressure to the next level. every move, every breath, every
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officially moved to bangalore last week 🏡. i remember reading @akshaybd’s blog called “don’t focus” about 3 years ago when i was just checking out what @superteam was — he had mentioned 4 ways of finding your global maxima in professional/personal life: travel, working many
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Rumour has it that crypto tech bois have misheard 'Merge' as 'Merch' and are lining up outside Vitalik's house.
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I’m a cricket fan from India working in crypto right now. AMA.
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I repeat that “only possible on @solana” is not a meme, it is very much a matter of fact. No amount of 25 tweet long threads can change that. I also respect that most discussions I’ve seen till now have been civil and constructive which comes like a breath of fresh air. But.
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"what's up with @solana these days?". - @SuperteamDAO going global w/ @SuperteamDE, @SuperteamTR & @SuperteamVN (i'm based).- @jump_firedancer new validator client in the works.- the future of wallets @xNFT_Backpack led by @armaniferrante.- @solanamobile in 2023.
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“The Dormroom Founder is the Ascending World Founder”. Watched the recent @SuperteamDAO’s podcast with @balajis around 10 times and took some notes from the conversation.
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A surreal fanboy moment for me to catch the likes of @ggreenwald and @AshleyRindsberg at The Network State conf yesterday. @balajis has started a movement.🌐
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More @solana projects should write more about what they’re building & how it relates to the ecosystem. Every legit ETH project does this extremely well. Communication as a culture needs to be adopted not just at the fndn/individual level but also at the project level.
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the man, the myth, the legend. the greatest of all time. @Casey again with an all-time classic. what guy.
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This is how a peak male eats his lunch in 2023. Deal with it.
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you don’t know how dots would connect in retrospect, so increase your surface area of dots. if nothing works out, at least you become someone who can hold a conversation regardless of who you talk to, and that is a superpower no one talks about.
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@AgnosticRabbit a lot of them were in restaurants/cafés too having communal dinners and having a good time in general. very refreshing to see and for sure plays a part!.
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life update + looking for a flatmate 🏡. update: indiranagar is officially going to be my 2nd home. looking forward to spending a lot of time in BLR now & use my place to meet people, build cool things & have a lot of ghee podi masala dosas. and i’m looking for a 3rd flatmate!.
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Solana was at rock bottom at the start of the year. But the community stuck around. Four months into 2023 & @solana city is now growing faster than it has ever grown before. 🧵
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Multiverse creature spotted in the wild. Please make your presence felt if you’re seeing this.
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TLDR of Indian Crypto Twitter next week:. - Blr airport is very far.- Blr roads have potholes.- Blr traffic is worse than the bear market.- It’s impossible to find an Uber ride.- Whitefield sucks, it is not in blr and takes 2 business days to reach from the city.
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- @cloutdotme .- @tribedotrun .- @timedotfun .- @BagsApp .- @bangerdotlol . founders, apps, tokens. socialFi szn on @solana.
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siliconhalli cooked!. one of the best events i have ever been to — super interesting prompts, great people and insanely well done. big ups @10kdesigners, @spacekayak and @824club 🫡
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gave a talk about auroville at the network school:. - a social network.- a moral innovation .- a recognised founder.- collective consciousness .- archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories .- diplomatic recognition.- in-person civility . all points mentioned by @balajis in
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Was lucky to visit @itsarnavb’s lab, The Lagrange Point today. Inspiring to see the space him, @thel3l and the crew have built - experiments on how to solve liquid waste, software to read better, and so much more. 🇮🇳/acc at its peak. [4th picture was a banana & eggs once]
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Looking back at the last 2 weeks at the India startup village. We had two houses and I was the “chaperone” of a hostel with 26 guys who had mostly not met each other before. I, honestly had no idea going into this on what I’m going to do and how I’m going to rally this group
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Absolutely love the @SuperteamDAO. Hands down the best & the most talented people in web3. Very lucky I can call these guys my friends & can’t wait to see the things we’ll build together in the future.🤝. Ps: yes, we’ll post the same pictures again & again & you’re gonna watch.
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Nothing like learning by building.🏗️. Completed @_buildspace's GPT-3 build & I GTFOL!. 'write me an email' is a tool to help you write a complete email in just a couple of clicks using AI. Don't dread writing that email anymore. AI's got your back!.
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@VaibhavSisinty milk it more, as much as you can. FUD for engagement is a bullet-proof content strategy.
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well, that was fun. - got silver this time in my category🥈.- lost in the semis of the open-weight category .- 8 matches in total, won 5 of them.- took down heavyweights (lol). and i wasn’t on the couch. i was in the arena. having fun, trying, losing, learning.
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Coming to Vietnam has been a revelation. Makes me believe in @balajis’ thesis of the rising east even more. This is the ascending world. This is the future. 🇻🇳
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Offline exam on 11th May. Fly to blr on 12th. @solana hackerhouse till 15th. Fly back on 16th. Offline exam on 19th. Sounds like a plan?🤌🏽.
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i had never cooked anything in my life until last week. you can just do things.
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if you're a guy in your 20s, travel as much as you can. go into debt if you have to.
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@ybhrdwj you could argue that “india’s street culture” cannot be represented by a sneaker at all in the first place. india’s street footwear could instead be a kolapuri chappal or desi birkenstocks. adding devanagri to an adibas sneaker is lazy imo. but i also don’t know enough to.
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