One of the most important concepts I learned after reading Kelkar&Shah. My 22 year old brain thought - throw enough money at our development problems, it will solve itself. My 32 year old brain thought learn from the best, and the problems will solve itself. Had Kelkar& Shah not been there, it would have taken a solid 10 more years to understand processes matter more than inputs in government affairs. Enter invisible infrastructure- it's an important mental model.
Goes without saying, another illuminating episode. But miss the end of episode recommendations. I look forward to them. Also please get Ajay to write more books.
Recently, I was watching a video about text rendering, which reminded me of this vide. What struck me is the sheer amount of thought and effort that goes into text rendering, most of which goes unnoticed by the average person. For us, it’s something we take for granted because the libraries handle it seamlessly. This is similar situation the healthcare in France or Pensions in Sweden. For example, when we look at the healthcare system in France, we might think, "It would be great to have something like this in India." However, what we don’t see is the invisible infrastructure that supports such a system. It doesn’t exist here, making such a system challenging to implement. In the same way, if we take a TrueType font file and try to use it on a system that doesn’t support it, we won’t get the expected output. For the font to work, there needs to be a library inside the system that interacts with its hardware architecture-like little-endian or big-endian systems etc to render the text correctly. Everything is Everything. Coding Adventure: Rendering Text by Sebastian Lague is the video if you were wondering.
Excellent episode once again! This reminds me of Lant's The Seen and the Unseen episode, where he argues that practice should precede policy. We can copy the best policies that work reasonably well in another country, but if we overlook the years of self-correction and iterative approaches it took them to get there, we are setting ourselves up for failure-much like the current state of affairs in India (and Nepal, my home country). A thought for a future episode, Amit Bhai: could you explore the recent rise in misguided yet seemingly justice-filled policy advocacy in the West, often backed by zero understanding of fundamental economics? To be concrete, in the US, liberal Democrats and progressives often seem completely oblivious to even basic economic principles. They talk about "getting rid of billionaires" or targeting firms to the point of destruction. This growing apathy toward firms and smart thinkers-people who have created welfare, jobs, and improved living standards-deeply upsets me. It’s disheartening to see the US and other Western nations heading down this path, with college-educated, credentialed liberals leading the charge. I would greatly appreciate an episode diagnosing this trend. Thank you so much!
I admire you both Ajay & Amit and Thank you. I would like to have a great episodes on Rabindranath Tagore & Bhagavan Osho. Please see if you can accommodate both.
It is not hard to think. Just look at a Bengali intellectual sitting in coffee house. The hard thing is to think in coordination with real-life limitations with understanding of why the limitation is present at first place.
Does India have invisible infrastructure that is not apparent? I know we are missing a lot of it but was wondering if we have something that we don't know about.
I think the fundamental problem with isomorphic mimicry is an incentive problem; when you get the causality wrong, you create perverse incentives that reward mimicry. Whereas the core problem with premature load-bearing is an invisible infrastructure problem; you have got the causality right but the context wrong.
I’ve been incorrigibly consummate of your productions lately and I have a question which I feel is important. Shouldn’t you be trying to reach out to as much of the possible Indian elite as you can? I haven’t heard you saying in any of your podcasts that you don’t want to (Those I’ve heard). But Biswa talked about you wanting to stay small and 10k subscribers or so. I think that’s criminal. You need to reach out to as much of the intelligentsia as you can.
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One of the most important concepts I learned after reading Kelkar&Shah.
My 22 year old brain thought - throw enough money at our development problems, it will solve itself.
My 32 year old brain thought learn from the best, and the problems will solve itself.
Had Kelkar& Shah not been there, it would have taken a solid 10 more years to understand processes matter more than inputs in government affairs. Enter invisible infrastructure- it's an important mental model.
Dear Ajay and Amit; bhaiyon. Can't thank you enough for what you do. Hugs from afar.
Goes without saying, another illuminating episode. But miss the end of episode recommendations. I look forward to them. Also please get Ajay to write more books.
Recently, I was watching a video about text rendering, which reminded me of this vide. What struck me is the sheer amount of thought and effort that goes into text rendering, most of which goes unnoticed by the average person. For us, it’s something we take for granted because the libraries handle it seamlessly.
This is similar situation the healthcare in France or Pensions in Sweden. For example, when we look at the healthcare system in France, we might think, "It would be great to have something like this in India." However, what we don’t see is the invisible infrastructure that supports such a system. It doesn’t exist here, making such a system challenging to implement.
In the same way, if we take a TrueType font file and try to use it on a system that doesn’t support it, we won’t get the expected output. For the font to work, there needs to be a library inside the system that interacts with its hardware architecture-like little-endian or big-endian systems etc to render the text correctly.
Everything is Everything.
Coding Adventure: Rendering Text by Sebastian Lague is the video if you were wondering.
Excellent episode once again! This reminds me of Lant's The Seen and the Unseen episode, where he argues that practice should precede policy. We can copy the best policies that work reasonably well in another country, but if we overlook the years of self-correction and iterative approaches it took them to get there, we are setting ourselves up for failure-much like the current state of affairs in India (and Nepal, my home country).
A thought for a future episode, Amit Bhai: could you explore the recent rise in misguided yet seemingly justice-filled policy advocacy in the West, often backed by zero understanding of fundamental economics? To be concrete, in the US, liberal Democrats and progressives often seem completely oblivious to even basic economic principles. They talk about "getting rid of billionaires" or targeting firms to the point of destruction. This growing apathy toward firms and smart thinkers-people who have created welfare, jobs, and improved living standards-deeply upsets me. It’s disheartening to see the US and other Western nations heading down this path, with college-educated, credentialed liberals leading the charge. I would greatly appreciate an episode diagnosing this trend. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the kind words -- and I share your lament.
I just qouted invisible infrastructure to my friend this week. Can't wait to get into this episode later.
give you breadth and pathways to depth - I'm here for absolutely this
Wonderful perspective Ajay. Thanks a lot.
Another enlightening episode. Thanks so much, Amit and Ajay!
Thank You Biswa for bringing me here 😅
Us moment bro😂
❤ Ajay shah - Amit
Another one for the books
I admire you both Ajay & Amit and Thank you. I would like to have a great episodes on Rabindranath Tagore & Bhagavan Osho. Please see if you can accommodate both.
It is not hard to think. Just look at a Bengali intellectual sitting in coffee house. The hard thing is to think in coordination with real-life limitations with understanding of why the limitation is present at first place.
Does India have invisible infrastructure that is not apparent? I know we are missing a lot of it but was wondering if we have something that we don't know about.
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I think the fundamental problem with isomorphic mimicry is an incentive problem; when you get the causality wrong, you create perverse incentives that reward mimicry. Whereas the core problem with premature load-bearing is an invisible infrastructure problem; you have got the causality right but the context wrong.
Who is here cause of biswa?
No recommendations at the end????? Blasphemy!!!
Any paper from xkdr for the impact of lovely sister yojnas
Can freebies strengthen invisible infrastructure as a spillover effect?
can you elaborate how would that work?
Amit ji you don't reply to emails .I have sent you many emails but no reply...
I’ve been incorrigibly consummate of your productions lately and I have a question which I feel is important. Shouldn’t you be trying to reach out to as much of the possible Indian elite as you can? I haven’t heard you saying in any of your podcasts that you don’t want to (Those I’ve heard). But Biswa talked about you wanting to stay small and 10k subscribers or so. I think that’s criminal. You need to reach out to as much of the intelligentsia as you can.