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Gaurav Sabnis

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Dec 24

Today for lunch, I'm making this ridiculously simple dish from Peshawar's Namak Mandi market called Charsi Chicken Karhai.

Very few ingredients - chicken, oil/ghee, tomato, ginger, green chilies.

You just cook it all together in a karhai for a while and it's done!

There are a couple of key "meta recipe" tips I got from a Pakistani chef in the Bay area where I first had this.

Start off by frying just the chicken in the fat for about 10-12 minutes to get it brown on the outside. This step adds the extra Maillard flavor.

Next you add a bunch of tomatoes. No need to dice. Big pieces are cool.

Cook all this at high heat as the tomatoes start breaking down. Another 10 minutes or so.

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Gaurav Sabnis

@gauravsabnis

Dec 24

https://twitter.com/MasalaBai/status/1606566562072530946

Somewhat and I have a theory based in very basic design & UI principles that one of those people he randomly fired would have pointed out.

Our repetitive physical actions are muscle memory based. We don't actively seek out the RT/like button. We just intuit it in autopilot.

https://twitter.com/MasalaBai/status/1606566562072530946

Also, most of us, especially on Twitter, come from cultures where we perceive things on a screen left to right by default.

So when you click like on something, your brain starts from the Left and you finger taps at where the like button generally is, without any cognitive effort

But genius Clyde put this view count on the very left. And when told the problem, turned it into a red pill poll.

What's happening is simple.

RT/likes are declining cos muscle memory isn't used to the slightly right shifted buttons. Many people don't make second attempts.

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Gaurav Sabnis

@gauravsabnis

Dec 24

"Can you please explain your never-shorting investment philosophy? What is wrong with shorts? Seems like an efficient mechanism."

Oh I'm not saying there's anything "wrong" with shorts. They do serve an important function.

They just don't gel with my own specific strategy.

Shorts are a great way to grow your wealth in the short to medium term.

But I don't invest to grow my wealth. I invest to protect it. I just want enough money in my name at age 65 to not worry about dying a penniless geriatric.

I have no college funds to save up or mortgage.

Wife & I, for about 5 years now, have been consistently earning more than we spend.

Not a LOT more. But comfortably more.

And we are both in our 40s in stable careers the we will most likely be in till we retire, at these income levels.

No kids, no mortgage.

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Gaurav Sabnis

@gauravsabnis

Dec 24

The most America thing about America is that Glengarry Glen Ross is freely quoted by sales trainers, motivational speakers, startup gurus etc, when it is actually a biting complex satire on a skewed system & kinda foreshadows the core causes of the 2008 market crash.

The thing is, GGR tho popularly known as a movie, especially that Alec Baldwin scene, was first a play. A Mamet play.

It's really absorbing and multi layered as a satire or critique of the greed based rat race. But it's not a potboiler entertainer iykwim.

What does that mean?

That means the archetypal sales guy is unlikely to have watched the whole movie and actually pondered the real message of the story. Good people made to commit evil acts just cos rich people want to get richer and want you to sell more houses to whoever you can find.

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Gaurav Sabnis

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Dec 24

Vachan jaaye par prawn na jaaye 😋

Cast iron makes this LITERALLY the fastest meal I cook. Get the cast iron super hot. Add oil. A minute later, add dry rubbed prawns one by one in an order you remember. 60-90 seconds later, flip them over in the same order. 60-90s later, remove.

Fast!

<5 min after pan is hot.

Because cast iron gets to very high temperatures, with a high smoking point oil, prawns cook really fast, like on a charcoal grill. So much that you can err on the side of undercooking. They also don't stick, so no batter needed.

It practically tastes like grilled.

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Gaurav Sabnis

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Dec 23

Heh, squeamish centrist Paneer Butter Masala has periodic urge, like all soft sanghi centrists do, of dedicating a column to throw sly mark antony style shade at RaGa rather than look at how govt of 8 years is looting India.

PBM is always either too salty or outright bland.

I mean Pratap Bhanu Mehta of course.

His writing just has that absolutely mediocre universality of a generic Paneer Butter Masala.

Sometimes I'll eat a Paneer Butter Masala and think wow, this is exquisite! But mostly when I eat a Paneer Butter Masala, I'm like mehhh.

Same with PBM columns. There's like one really good one sometimes. But mostly, predictable mehh centricity.

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