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Devmani Jaitly retweeted
This new year, America’s 250th, a beautiful excerpt courtesy @dsallentess from a 1758 Boston almanack essay:
“O! Ye unborn Inhabitants of America! Should this Page escape its destin’d Conflagration at the Year’s End, and these Alphabetical Letters remain legible, —when your Eyes behold the Sun after he has rolled the Seasons round for two or three Centuries more, you will know that in Anno Domini 1758, we dream’d of your Times.”
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@realDonaldTrump we love you what you doing for the country 🇺🇸 for the world and for the #Humanity. ❤️
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What did the Founding Fathers mean by "the pursuit of happiness"? And what can they teach us about "Full Stack Human" learning in the age of AI?
A personal essay - inspired by @KenBurns, shared in the midst of America's 250th year, and on the eve of 2026 - in which I reflect on my mission in recent years, and the promise of centering lifelong learning as a sacred American ideal.
"Life, Liberty, and Lifelong Learning" -> startingpoints.us/p/life-lib…
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Thinking of, praying for and grieving Robert F. Kennedy’s words and wisdom from April 4, 1968 😔
“In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in….
We can move in great polarization… filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend… with an effort to understand with compassion and love.
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: ‘In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.’
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.”
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Windows, Before Mirrors: What if Extrospection, not Introspection, is the Political Superpower of the Future? My Latest in Starting Points. startingpoints.us/p/windows-…
Devmani Jaitly retweeted
A poem for New Year’s Eve, courtesy @jeffreywetzler, who asks:
“Has this year changed you?”
“Questions Before Dark”
by Jeanne Lohmann
Day ends, and before sleep
when the sky dies down, consider
your altered state: has this day
changed you? Are the corners
sharper or rounded off? Did you
live with death? Make decisions
that quieted? Find one clear word
that fit? At the sun’s midpoint
did you notice a pitch of absence,
bewilderment that invites
the possible? What did you learn
from things you dropped and picked up
and dropped again? Did you set a straw
parallel to the river, let the flow
carry you downstream?
Devmani Jaitly retweeted
From 2018: “The 39th president of the United States lives modestly, a sharp contrast to his successors, who have left the White House to embrace power of another kind: wealth.”
Such a beautiful piece, including the photography. Thank you President Carter for embodying almost-unimaginable humility in our self-centered age. washingtonpost.com/news/nati…
Devmani Jaitly retweeted
I appreciate this, Vivek.
Born in New York, I primarily grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, in a wholly Caucasian environment as the son of Indian-immigrant physicians.
I attended Princeton, served as a Trustee there, and have had leadership roles at Google, Twitter and OpenAI, alongside some entrepreneur-ing and public service as well.
Growing up, I leaned the value of good grades - yes. But I also learned to embrace, even if subconsciously, the Judeo-Christian values that undergird our nation: generosity, graciousness and almost a God-inspired calling to unlock the singular light inside ourselves, and others. The fuzzy felt just as important as the techie.
Said another way, it’s not merely “excellence” that’s shaped any success I’ve had, but also something ethereal - a kind of ethereal, as you often so beautifully remind us Vivek, only known in America: a culture that prides itself on authenticity and agency over acquiescence and acceptance.
And in this AI-ascendant era, with more automation looming, it may just be *this* - a way of life in which, yes, the prose of American achievement matters but so does the poetry of American authenticity - that ensures our continued individual and national ascent.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Devmani Jaitly retweeted
What a deep and powerful reflection, Rishi. Please let me know when you are visiting your alna mater.
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Last week, I shared an essay in which I wondered, "Is there still room to fearlessly wonder inside today's Democratic Party?"
Today, I wonder, with respect, will some of its movement's most influential minds have the courage to ask questions, before questioning the askers?
The Wonder Years: I Was an Early Fundraiser for Kamala Harris. Barack Obama Changed My Life. I’ve Helped Launch and Lead Liberal-leaning Institutions. Why Do I Find Myself Politically Adrift? thestartingpoint.substack.co…
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Couldn’t have had a better man sign us off. The way it should be #WCBS880
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From social enterprise to big tech, from founding to funding nonprofits, from VC to...the world's most important company in its biggest market--I continue to be in awe of @jaitly's career. Holy moly!
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Some tech leaders are acknowledging the “techtopia” we dreamed of hasn’t come to fruition.
A Virginia Tech professor believes humanities are a “path to a healthier civic life," and strated a fellowship to bring humanities to tech leadership.
cardinalnews.org/2023/11/27/…
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Can we connect the dots looking forward? A reflection on Steve Jobs and lifelong commitments to the liberal arts and humanities. open.substack.com/pub/meetin…
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“We took a road. To the left, it looked shiny and gold. But to the right, it looked happier to us.” A marvelous obituary by @JamesRHagerty for a magnanimous person in Dr. Brescia. My parents were lucky to work with him, and I was honored to have known him. wsj.com/articles/michael-bre…
Devmani Jaitly retweeted
The humanities, and the sense of awe & wonder in the other that they cultivate, have long been a training ground for distinguished leadership.
Honored to help rising leaders from across the tech landscape evolve skills & sensibilities of sensitivity, storytelling & stewardship!
Through courses and a community built around the humanities, #VirginiaTech's Institute for Leadership in Technology will offer rising technology leaders from across the globe the opportunity to complete an executive education program. 🙌
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Through courses and a community built around the humanities, #VirginiaTech's Institute for Leadership in Technology will offer rising technology leaders from across the globe the opportunity to complete an executive education program. 🙌
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Led by @rsjaitly and @syljohns, the humanities-based institute is designed for rising technology leaders from around the world. 🌏
#VirginiaTech #leadership #humanities
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