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kabir 🧩

2 years

it’s funny when freshmen say they don’t drink and 2 months later you see them climbing a telephone pole at 3 AM in the morning

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

8 months

what if learning about a topic was as braindead as scrolling tiktok? showed up to a hackathon 2 hours before submissions were due with no idea and no code furiously coded an app that spits out an engagement-maxxed tiktok feed for topics you want to learn about won + stole all

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

9 months

you’ve heard of chai tea, now get ready for…

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

astute professor points out that it's easier to get into classes at his $30bn hedge fund than at a public school with 5X the students and a quarter of the money

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2 years

Meanwhile at @Stanford , we just encourage all students to take as many CS courses as they would like …

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 months

any cs major born after 2003 can’t code… all they know is ChatGPT, charge their phone, prompt LLM, eat Huel and lie

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

silicon valley is for people who grow up wanting to be astronauts and end up in B2B SaaS

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

I literally cannot believe that Berkeley clubs run Facebook and Instagram ads to get people to join

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@KabirGoel

1 year

campus is empty because of valentine's day not the engineering library tho, we stay winning

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

indian parents all seem to think that the quality of a haircut increases linearly with the quantity of hair removed

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

indians need to make a movie where we break into the british museum and take back everything that’s ours

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

Indian kids go to college in America and forget the first 18 years of their lives

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

too lazy to start a dev server locally so i'm debugging my code by pushing to production and seeing if it crashes

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

6 months

Hot take but after spending a few years building for the web, I think it’s not worth it. The fact that things change so quickly make you think you’re learning a lot, even though most of it is just different tradeoffs on the same problem—the constraints of the web platform.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

What if building a web app was a much more live, interactive process? Here's Smoothie, my experiment in adapting notebooks to full-stack dev. It allows you to wire together inputs, buttons, Markdown, and "actions" (Python, JS, and LLM queries) to build apps. 🧋 (More below.)

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

Committed to UC Berkeley over Duke. Hardest decision of my life thus far. Here’s to hoping I get out of this alive (and with all my limbs intact). Go Bears! 🐻

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

you fall asleep at midnight. years pass. you settle into your new life: a house with a white fence, a yard, 3 kids, and a dog. routine, but comfortable. you wake up, expecting your children impatiently waiting by your bedside. instead it’s 1 AM and you are a uc berkeley student

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

@tszzl saudi arabia’s got bad history with capital sentences

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@KabirGoel

2 years

they saved rishi sunak for after the queen died because seeing a brown guy as pm would have put her directly in the grave

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

@ormanclark “made with <3 and coffee in sunny san francisco, ca”

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 months

@itsandrewgao Stanford kids using Berkeley humor is stolen valor

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

funny thing about FTX's berkeley consulting guy is he claims he graduated summa cum laude, but cal doesn't even have latin honors. probably got Highest Distinction and wanted to larp as an ivy grad. what puzzles me is why an indian boy would go out of his way to write "laude"

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

The first meal in India after spending a while in the States is like taking off a blindfold and seeing color all over again

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

Opening Twitter after a while, and I’m confused: why is the BJP obsessed with server-side rendering (SSR)?

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

eggs are the easiest to cook because no matter how you fuck them up there’s probably a name for what you just made

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

26 days

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

There aren’t any great resources for people building personal websites, so I made my own. Here’s Me, But Online, a collection of minimalist, original personal websites curated by me. Interviews with their creators + newsletter coming soon, sign up!

Me, But Online.

A collection of minimalist, original personal websites with great typography. Curated by Kabir Goel.

www.mebut.online

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

7 months

700 lines of Go into a CS project. Haven't run the program a single time. God save me.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

10 days

So pumped to share what we’ve been cooking at Cartesia 🧑‍🍳

Cartesia

@cartesia_ai

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Today, we’re excited to release the first step in our mission to build real time multimodal intelligence for every device: Sonic, a blazing fast (🚀 135ms model latency), lifelike generative voice model and API. Read and try Sonic

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

young followers of jainism? you mean jain-z?

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

Something surprising I’ve learned about America after moving for college: the Internet here sucks. I had very few internet issues in India, even on rural roads.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

instead of saying the taylor expansion of f(x) we should say f(x) (taylor's version)

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

@jenniferjyzhang they also judge you for saying washroom, life is truly quite hard for people from former british colonies

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

i don’t know how to tell high school entrepreneurs this but you can’t “found” an app

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

if you’re building something cool, bring it to berkeley demo day next sunday and share it with other tinkerers. :) doesn’t have to be tech, anything goes! more on the rsvp:

Berkeley Demo Day | Partiful

Pull up to Demo Day if you want to share a passion project with fellow creators at Berkeley! You'll get 1-2 minutes to present something, and there'll be a fair after the presentations to hang out...

partiful.com

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

The #1 thing I learned from the dozen-or-so hackathons I attended in HS was how to justify dumb features and design choices after I've already made them.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

With recruiting/college application season coming up, here's a sneak peek of a project I’ve been building in quarantine: save your application responses for later and use them to synthesize new responses (with GPT-3 magic)! A quick demo:

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

Someone should make a social network for interns and call it the Internnet

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

i might be comically late to this but… Spotify Desktop has a command bar??? (Cmd+K on Mac)

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

20-minute hack: converting images to ASCII art in Rust. Thought it’d be harder but I just replaced each 4x4 region with whatever character best matches its intensity. Works well for 16x16, 32x32, etc. as well.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

this week in exciting personal news: i have learned to flip a paratha

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 months

@itsamks gah it rubs me the wrong way when people operate as if others are meant to fall out of the womb knowing the answer to all the silly questions automatically particularly common on tpot

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

is fatigue from filling out when2meets a diagnosable condition

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

10 months

leetcode is rd sharma for software engineers

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

New @NotionHQ update’s got widgets, looking great on my home screen 🤩

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

just rebuilt something that previously required 1.2K lines of code in a single evening using @retool . why isn't everyone using this?

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

no one told me junior year comes with such a strong and sudden urge to embark on a noble quest involving friendship, courage, and sacrifice, traveling through treacherous lands and making friends and enemies along the way

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

Due to having failed my driving test I am now public transit’s biggest advocate

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

5 months

the @zomato folks might want to use a more... sophisticated text truncation method

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

With french toast coming out on top in my naming poll, I’m excited to release Svelte French Toast, the sexiest toast notification library for @sveltejs . It’s lightweight, customizable, and beautiful. If you’re unconvinced, here’s a demo I hacked together:

Svelte French Toast

Buttery smooth toast notifications for Svelte. Lightweight, customizable, and beautiful by default.

svelte-french-toast.com

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

Debugging with breakpoints is way too old school for me. I debug by going to office hours and pestering the TA to give me the answer

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

hey @GIGCarShare your app won’t let us cancel our reservation for this car, do you really want us to drive it?

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

if you’re ordering indian and all the 5 star reviews have names like nate and william you’re in for a bad time

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

who are these psychopaths that use the "take a picture" option when they're changing their profile pic, like where does this confidence come from

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

10 months

an undergrad is nowhere near enough time to explore all the areas you find interesting. finishing at berkeley with a profound feeling that there's much, much more to learn. hopefully i can learn almost as densely as i did in undergrad after i graduate.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 months

Bay Area earthquake! The earth made sure we didn’t feel left out 🫡

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

do you use windows and if so how do you sleep at night

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

i expected to be underwhelmed by the taj when i went, but as you get closer, you can’t help but be awed by its scale. strangely, it’s like going to nyc for the first time and looking up at the skyscrapers. touched a part of my brain that’s now reserved for balenciaga deepfakes.

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

@Noahpinion

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Sigh...FINE, fine, we'll do the joke.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

i’ve become much better at remembering to take my apple pencil to cs lectures, but mid-lecture i always realize i forgot my brain at home

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

Do any of you “conserve” your favorite new music so that your brain doesn’t get tired of it?

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

6 months

I'll believe it works when it's able to jump over the creek due to a protest blocking Sather Gate

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we have trained a humanoid transformer with large-scale reinforcement learning in simulation and deployed it to the real world zero-shot

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

Reddit CEO’s AMA is going just great

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

does anyone else close twitter go to their home screen and immediately open it up again

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

pleasantly surprised by the realization that homework can be fun when you don't start it the day of the deadline

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

guy who has kids because he needs beta testers for his app

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

few things reduce humans to their primal state. parking at a mall is one of them.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

currently getting a masterclass on crypto trading from my Lyft driver

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

who wants to make this happen at berkeley 😈

Jonathan Xu

@jonxuxu

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looks like the demo fair for passion projects might just happen every term 🤗

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

went to la note (french restaurant) for breakfast today and panicked when they gave me a grapefruit spoon because i had never seen one before, had to google “how to eat with triangular serrated spoon” frantically and ultimately brought home the grapefruit due to my shame

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

Slack is ridiculously well-designed.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

I don't know why I always use "we" when writing a proof. It's just me doing the proof. If there were others they would be very embarrassed by my work

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

somehow managed to forget how polluted Delhi is, went outside and was instantly reminded of what it means to have an AQI of 490

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@KabirGoel

2 years

i miss quizzes where the real game was sneaking your inappropriate team name past the announcer

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

I'm starting a biweekly newsletter called Great Stuff. Subscribe at —the first issue comes out this weekend! I'll be sharing insights from what I'm reading, listening to, and watching, and relating it to my personal experiences.

Kabir Talks About Stuff | Substack

I write about the little things that fascinate me, from human interactions, design, and productivity to programming, cognitive science, and life in general. Click to read Kabir Talks About Stuff, a...

kabirgoel.substack.com

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

devastated to have been laid off from spotify after years of groundbreaking work. i was the pm in charge of changing the ui every month so users don’t get too comfortable.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

finals are over and life feels filled with joy and optimism again

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

POV you are a green pig in Angry Birds

April Tweets

@AprilTweethound

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POV you are a small insect or other invertebrate

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

can’t get omicron because i’m too sigma

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@KabirGoel

1 year

gonna start calling india “the old country” to make people think i’m in the mafia

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

i hate kevin o’leary’s guts but shark tank ain’t shit without him

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

11 months

got my personal website design stolen for the first time 🥳 is this how i know i’ve made it?

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

has biden been… watching silicon valley???

President Biden

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I am sick and tired of trickle-down economics. It has never worked. We're building an economy from the bottom up and middle out.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

1 year

New weekend project: 🎩 Lipwig! Lipwig helps me draft and deliver my newsletter. ✨ Features - Write in a beautiful editor - Manage mailing list - Share drafts - Built on Next.js + Server Components, so most loads are instant Did I mention it’s FULLY BACKED BY AIRTABLE?!

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@KabirGoel

4 years

people with a Kennedy Space Center dp are a special sort

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

when I forget to decrement my counter variable and my program goes into an infinite loop

Donald J. Trump

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STOP THE COUNT!

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

I’d rather eat sand than try to understand daylight savings time. What is happening here? Am I waking up earlier or later now? Am I getting more sleep or less? Ah, daylight savings time, truly an enigma of our time.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

7 months

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of clubs at UC Berkeley until our college's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

Unslant, my browser extension to surface ideologically contrasting takes on the political news you’re reading, is live on @ProductHunt ! First product release ever, can’t wait to see where this goes 😃

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

work in progress: an ios app for personal microblogs. compose in the app and publish, and content magically appears on your personal website through a react integration. (video is a janky Figma prototype.)

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@KabirGoel

2 years

in las vegas and under 21; perhaps i should start trading options to get the full experience

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

How can he slap?

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

Dear god, just tried the Indian government's vaccine portal and it's infuriatingly bad. All the data goes stale within seconds, but the portal doesn't auto-refresh. I know 16 year olds that could have done a better job of making this work in real time.

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@KabirGoel

2 years

if you haven’t vibed to the soviet national anthem with friends, have you truly lived?

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@KabirGoel

4 years

i'm convinced discord and notion are the greatest things since sliced bread

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

4 years

remembering those “You wouldn’t steal a car” anti-piracy ads like maybe if cars were infinitely replicable at zero cost then I’d be inclined to

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@KabirGoel

2 years

there’s no higher praise in the mafia movie universe than “he’s a good kid”

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@KabirGoel

4 years

This was my HS and people’s “mental health initiatives” (i.e. Instagram pages)

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

3 years

The label on Spotify’s “Add Songs” button is off by one pixel on the vertical axis and it’s driving me crazy.

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

went on my yearly linkedin pilgrimage to confirm that the site is indeed still a wretched hive of scum and villainy

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kabir 🧩

@KabirGoel

2 years

Recalling the time I met Randall Munroe (xkcd guy) at SFO. He probably thought I was gonna rob him because I’d just come off an 18 hour journey totally disheveled and probably had a crazed glint in my eye. Not to mention that tape was the only thing holding my glasses together.

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@KabirGoel

2 years

Can we cancel fun facts as the standard icebreaker? I’m not here to have fun. Here for business purposes only

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