Dharmik Parmar

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it’s a flex to think clearly, broadly and independently. The world feels led by those who would rather you didn't think very much at all.
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The Silicon Valley entrepreneur Patrick Collison said at the end of 2024 that he had read ten classic novels: Bronte, Dickens, Mann, Flaubert, Melville, Eliot, James, Conrad, Woolf, Grossman. Inspired by this, Matthew Yglesias started reading classic fiction too, finishing all of George Eliot’s novels in the first three months of 2025. Kyla Scanlon recently used The Screwtape Letters to analyse the economy.
Ignore the pessimists – we are living through a literary golden age - New Statesman
Steve took me aside and told me that any hot new technology I read about was actually two years old. "There is a lag time between when someting is invented, and when it is available to the public. If you want to make a difference in the world, you have to be ahead of that lag time. Come to Apple where you can invent the future and change millions of people's lives." Then he gave me a visual: "Think how fun it is to surf on the front edge of a wave, and how not-fun to dog paddle on the tail edge of the same wave."
Folklore.org: Joining Apple Computer
“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains it own fixity. In such perfect…
The Illustrated Word2vec – Jay Alammar – Visualizing machine learning one concept at a time.
Third, ideas do not belong in your head. They can’t help anyone in there. I sometimes see people become addicted to their good idea. They love it so much, they can’t bring themselves to expose it to the imperfection of reality. Stop waiting. Get the ideas out. You may fail, but while you fail, you will build new tools.
Commencement address by Hank Green | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We in India, at this fleeting moment, are the beneficiaries of an almost unbelievable opportunity – the United States of America, the world’s leading research funder, the gathering place for the world’s greatest scientific talent since the start of World War II, has decided to systematically reduce government funding for scientific R&D, and make it considerably harder for students, scholars, scientists, and technologists of all kinds to move there.
Overcoming India's technological cowardice
India is a vastly overregulated country
Overcoming India's technological cowardice
In the absence of Indian capital, the Indian government must make peace with the reality that these companies will be funded largely by foreign investors until internal demand builds in Indian capital markets. Pixxel Space, one of the poster children for India’s recent Space Tech boom, raised early funding in the single-digit millions of dollars from the homegrown Blume Ventures and the Indian arm of the global megafund Lightspeed, but subsequent $20+ million rounds were led by external investors, including the Canadian fund Radical Ventures, Google, and Glade Brook Capital, one of the largest…
Overcoming India's technological cowardice
Nandan Nilekani, the quintessential grandee of the Bangalore-Delhi corridor, pronouncing that we should “let the big boys in the Valley” build LLMs
Overcoming India's technological cowardice
We must look to export these products from day 1, and if we cannot, it is because they aren’t good enough, and we must make them better, not throw up trade barriers to sell something substandard to our own citizens.
Overcoming India's technological cowardice
We stand on the precipice of a massive disruption: the United States, long the world’s largest funder of R&D, is executing the sharpest pullback in funding to the sciences in the last half century, in particular biotech funding via the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and tightening immigration policies, including cancelling a large number of student visas. It is their sovereign right to make those decisions in their wisdom about what will be best for the US, but I believe it is our duty in India to seize this golden opportunity to massively scale up our R&D across many sectors, from mater…
Overcoming India's technological cowardice
In 1960, South Korea was at a GDP per capita of $100, not too far from India’s $82 at the same time. By 1980, they were at $1700, a vertiginous trajectory that became known as the Miracle on the Han River, while India was only at $270. This initial growth was driven by heavy industry, most prominently exporting ships and steel, but by the late 1980s, they had begun to invest heavily in R&D. By the late 1990s, they had begun to reach the technological frontier across a range of industries, and by the 2000s, they began to advance the frontier themselves.
Overcoming India's technological cowardice
No novel Indian-developed biomedicine, not even a vaccine, has ever been approved in the US
Overcoming India's technological cowardice