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Can’t go wrong with the E39 M5 either, but the last gen M2 Comp has me weak in the knees. Compact, immensely powerful, modern interiors and good god what perfect proportions

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M series turned 52!

M series turned 52!- Grapevine

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Probably the most impactful company of ours and our parents lifetimes!

48 years ago today, Apple was born and has grown up to be one of the leading companies in technology.

No April Fooling: Apple turns 48 years old today!

Apple completes 48 years!

Fellow Grapeviners, can you please knock some sense into me?
For context, I've got a good-ish job that I think pays me easy money. i started working 5 months ago. lately, I'm feeling worthless and really thinking about quitting my job and do something impactful or crazy or financially irresponsible.

Help

Turned 21 today, feeling really, really old

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All professionals go thru this dilemma when they are nearing 50 . They are actually wiser and more experienced but it has become a taboo that if you are touching 50 and aren’t already a business leader then you have lost the plot . Your current organisation does not value you and feels age is a barrier to growth . And external companies who are hiring want younger leaders . So experienced people who have seen various ups and downs , weathered so many storms and have the deep rooted knowledge and experience … what do they do ahead ? Everybody does not have money to open their own startup . People say do a course , enhance your skill sets . After that what ? Can somebody share sites or forums or groups where such high experience guys can try for jobs . Because for many many of them “ picture abhi baaki hai dost “

50 years age and still going strong as a work professional - Kya picture abhi baaki hai dost ?

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This calls for a long post (because why not :P)

P.S. It just got too long so dividing in two parts . Coming up next, stay tuned!

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Was having a conversation with my SO today.

I think we’re probably the last generation who watched animated shows on TV as kids, as now the new trend is of “iPad” babies who watch content online?

We started discussing about how the channel you used to watch as a kid tells you so much about that person.

Like kids that watch Nickelodeon were so different than the kids who used to watch Disney. And the Cartoon Network kids were unhinged. 👀

Man, I don’t know how old is this audience but we used to have shows like Avatar-The Last Airbender, Kochikame, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokémon. 

And much before that Oswald, Noddy, Dexter’s Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls etc.

What is your favourite animated show from back in the day? Would love to hear some stories.

[Edit 1]: Grapevine has added a new edit feature on posts, and I am definitely watching Gravity Falls as recommended by DrProduct

[Edit 2]: That comment has been deleted since then. 👀

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My first was : keypad phone from Some Chinese brand called kinzinda🥲
Now: iPhone 13

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50 and still an active working professional  -Kya picture abhi baaki hai ?

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It is a raag to depict the emotion - 'Virah' ideally means emptiness after separation 

This link is taken from series - Bandish Bandits
If you have not seen it before {spoiler alert}! 

Two lovers get separated because boy doesn't have anything substantial (ofcourse!). She gets arranged married in a family of revered singer. He never marries.
Final is music fight between two gharanas between OG boyfriend and lady's son. And the boyfriend sings this damn song!

"Apne jee se prem rang kaise main utar du"
"Pal bhar tu dekh mujhe, zindagi gujar du"

Heard it after very long, thought should share here

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

 - YouTube

This one masterpiece of a song!

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Hi everyone,

The year end is here. It was a great year for my FIRE journey and I thought I'll share an update with you all.

With few days left in 2023, I've crossed 2.65 CR in net worth after touching 2 CR in May this year.

Here's the breakup:

Direct shares: 1.7 CR (this was the major driver of growth),
ELSS: 0.06 CR,
Company shares: 0.06 CR,
Real Estate: 0.4 CR (while it is between 42-45 now, keeping this unchanged from May),
EPF: 0.34 CR (interest for last year kicked in),
NPS: 0.06 CR (investing because I'm in 30% bracket, getting 14.8% xirr here),
SGB: 0.03 CR

The driver for growth has been a high saving rate.

In 2023, i've added 29.5 lakhs in equity, about 2.5 lakhs every month. 6 lakhs in company shares (US listed). The EPF and NPS savings are on top of this. My target was to save 36 lakhs in equity overall, and it's done! Targeting the same for next year. I'm aiming to cross 2 CR in equity before July 24.

Another change I did this year is that I've moved away from active advisory. I get the stock ideas from Twitter discussions, analyse them fundamentally and take bets based on the charts. I'm quite confident of my charting skills with max drawdown of 25-30% but upside of multiple x. I could capture 2-3 2x this year with sizable investment in them. I got this confidence after i could take my wife's account from 11 lakhs to 20 lakhs in about 2 years.

While the next year can be a huge bull run if BJP wins, I'm still trying to diversify. I'm planning to add a real estate of about 75 lakhs by paying 10%. This will help me leverage as well. The rental yield is the property is approx 5% and calculations show that I'll have to only pay 40-45% of the EMI and rest will be covered through rent. This should bring my equity exposure down from the current 65% to less than 50%. In this I'm trying to diversify and leverage while not denting my current equity corpus.

Suggestions welcome to make this FIRE journey better!

Thanks!

Crossed 2 CR and 2.5 CR in the same year

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This has become a common discussion topic in my friend circle when we think about switching jobs. Earlier Google used to be number one choice for many, but now due to layoffs and the hear-say about toxic work culture in google cloud things are changing and people are preferring other companies. Is it the same for you as well ? has your perception of Google changing too? Is google loosing both the cloud and AI battle? 
@google

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