Adil Siddiqui retweeted
everyone complains about indiranagar footpaths. almost nobody knows you can fix it in an hour.
i tested the system today and im proud to say that it works! a small tale:
i hate that indiranagar isn’t walkable. street vendors are back, cars on the footpath, trash piles appearing again, dangling wires, broken tiles. there’s almost always a car parked on the footpath outside Chianti on 12th main. it chokes that footpath.
so i asked the officer at the 12th main 100ft signal how to file it. he walked me through the whole thing. ticket and official assigned under a minute. i send him proof images. within minutes i receive a notification that the owner’s been fined.
car doesn’t move. i call the official and he’s there in under 20 minutes. gets it removed, warns the owner and the restaurant staff who park there too.
tells me to keep reporting. i offered to buy him coffee. he declined and went straight to his next case. then the command centre calls me for feedback. we talk 10 minutes.
from my limited experience, the traffic police genuinely want to do the work. they want civic sense to win.
if you love this city -> call 112, or whatsapp violations + location to 9480801800 when you see it.
fantastic job channakeshava sir 🫡 @blrcitytraffic @Jointcptraffic
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
I’m seeing people from the tech/startup/design circles being quiet about the protests and continuing to post about their work, etc. Being apolitical is a choice. And it’ll be remembered.
Take a stand — for or against. Get blocked and unfollowed. ATP, being apolitical is worse.
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
Things I could say more that would guarantee bangers and are 100% not true
- my agents self-run 24/7
- I don’t look at my code
- I’m cancelling [product X]
- [product Y] just changed EVERYTHING
- [product Z] runs my whole life
- INSANE
- LITERALLY
- it’s so over
- we’re so back
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
Gokul's best career advice: stay long enough to have an impact.
"I've been seeing people who stay at a job for 12 to 18 months and then they move to the next job and then the next job.
That is one of the biggest red flags as a hiring manager because you can't achieve anything of value. It takes minimum three to four years to have impact at a company.
So my top advice is stay long enough to have an impact. Build a network, have fun and don't be thinking about what my next job is.
If I'm seeing two or three jobs, back to back, immediate red flag. People want people who stick around and build. Who's going to hire you if they see that's your behavior. It's very short term thinking."
.@gokulr is one of the most prolific product builders and investors of the last 20 years.
He helped build the core ads and product businesses at Google, Facebook, Square, and DoorDash, working directly with many of this generation's best founders and CEOs. He's also invested in more than 700 companies giving him an unusually broad view into how products are built and scaled.
Gokul has an incredible ability to give precise and prescriptive advice on how to build products, particularly in AI, and he explains his thinking so clearly that you come away knowing exactly how to apply it.
We talk about why judgment is the only thing he believes is truly AI-proof, why Zendesk and Slack are more exposed than Salesforce and NetSuite, and what AI-native startups must do to move customers and their data off legacy systems.
We cover everything he's learned from building the most important ads businesses, including the only three ways an ad business can make money, and why ChatGPT may be even more powerful than Google or Facebook for highly targeted ads.
He also shares inside stories from Larry and Sergey, Zuck, Jack Dorsey, and Tony Xu, about how each of them approaches product, design, and communication.
Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:35 The Changing Nature of Product Development 4:09 The Merger of Product and Design
4:54 Managing Non-Deterministic Software
9:06 Judgment: The Future-Proof Human Skill
10:41 Building Durable AI Applications
16:43 The Risk to Legacy Software Companies
21:20 Sources of Stickiness in the Age of AI
23:43 Leadership Lessons from Google
27:41 Learning from Mark Zuckerberg
31:16 Jack Dorsey and the Philosophy of Great Design
35:48 The Product Manager as Editor
40:44 Three Pillars of a Successful Ads Business
49:03 Selecting North Star and Check Metrics
56:04 Hiring Functional Experts for the AI Era
1:00:06 Advice for Managing a Career
1:01:33 Evaluating Founder Authenticity
1:05:20 Best Practices for Board Management
1:11:15 The Kindest Thing
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
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Adil Siddiqui retweeted
this is a bit urgent.
i’m looking for a private cabin office space for a 5-member team in HSR, bangalore.
i’ve been searching for almost a month now, but haven’t been able to close anything yet either the vibe doesn’t feel right, it’s too far, or there are no proper private cabins available.
if anyone has leads, recommendations, or knows a place that might work, i’d really appreciate it.
thanks a lot :))
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
If you're aware that the term "permanent underclass" even exists then it's clear you'll never be a part of it. No shot. On this app all day exposing yourself to every opinion about what the future might look like
You've gotten to a point where you've essentially become an expert in predicting exactly how you might be cooked. With that level of critical thinking there's just no reality where you'll ever allow it to happen to you. Even seeing this on your feed is already proof of that
Seriously though you have to give yourself some more credit. You're not some useless sack of flesh and you never were. The fact that this stuff is even on your mind means you care enough about your life to never give up
Keep moving forward and trust in your ability to adapt to whatever life throws at you. No need to overly fear because you'll always be able to figure it out. Impossible not to figure out out being surrounded by so many bright minds. Believe it or not you're one of them
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
🚨 Breaking :
World No 2 and four times world champion Anders Antonsen has pulled out of the INDIA OPEN 2026 in New Delhi because of High AQI and pollution.
He said it is not suitable to host a Badminton tournament.
He has been fined $5000 for it hut is ready to accept that.
If this doesn’t shame Indian and wake our conscience, nothing will.
Utterly shameful and embarrassing.
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
Aap bigotry ka level samajh rahay ho kitna ghusa hua hai ki aapke town mai medical college band hone pe aap khush rahay ho. Kyonki waha musalman ke bachhay zyada padhnay aatay thay.
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
Let me understand this. The Right keeps saying Muslims must educate themselves. In this case on merit 42 Muslims get admission in a MBBS course with 50 seats. The lynch mob says how dare they and how can less Hindus get admission than Muslims. ON MERIT. They create a furore. The MBBS course itself is cancelled. This is called integration, the J & K model.
NEWS FLASH
In the thick of a controversy in Jammu and Kashmir over the admission of 42 Muslim students for 50 MBBS seats in the first batch on the basis of the NEET merit selection, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has cancelled the recognition of Jammu's Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College. Approval for the MBBS course has been withdrawn with immediate effect.
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
withdrawing a medical college’s recognition because muslim students were admitted exposes how far the state will go to police muslim presence in education. the sachar report warned of this marginalisation years ago. today policy is proving it right and deepening it
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
From bulldozing Muslim properties, boycotting Muslim run businesses to shutting down colleges because of high Muslim student enrollment. A nationwide project ongoing to curb any space for Muslim mobility and then run commentaries about Muslims being ‘uneducated and backward’
How derecognition of a medical college and cancellation of recruitment exam led to celebrations in India!
First video is of members of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Sangharsh samiti dancing and distributing sweets after recognition of a medical college in Jammu was withdrawn amid protest over admission to Muslim students.
Second video is of jubilant aspirants who can be seen distributing sweets after assistant professor recruitment exam in Uttar Pradesh was cancelled. They had been protesting against paper leak and irregularities in conducting of the exam in 2025.
India's future is the only casuality in both the cases.
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
Nothing much, just a bunch of BJP-RSS folks dancing and distributing sweets because a J&K medical college lost its recognition after their protest.
The reason for the protest? Muslim students secured most of the seats on merit.
New India, 2026.
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
India in a nutshell:
Cancelled the medical college because more Muslim students secured seats on merit.
Is there any country in the world where the ruling ideology campaigns for cancelling educational institutes?
NEWS FLASH
In the thick of a controversy in Jammu and Kashmir over the admission of 42 Muslim students for 50 MBBS seats in the first batch on the basis of the NEET merit selection, the National Medical Commission (NMC) has cancelled the recognition of Jammu's Mata Vaishno Devi Medical College. Approval for the MBBS course has been withdrawn with immediate effect.
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
A medical college in their state shutting down should be a matter of concern. But they are celebrating because the Muslim students will no longer be able to study.
The singular achievement of the Modi regime
Adil Siddiqui retweeted
the harm they do on this earth is beyond comprehension.
