Prashanth

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@phreakv6 I think the best of the best always obsess over their numbers. A way to keep score vs objectives / competition as well as you rightly put it, motivation. But if we are doing what we love doing (not for money or fame), I wonder if that changes our behavior to an extent

@Prashanth_Krish i like to believe i am the non-quantifying kind but i obsess over my 10k/5k times :-( if i dont, i cant seem to motivate myself to do it (no better motivator than getting better). at the same time, i strongly believe i have gotten nowhere on the guitar because i dont measure

Modern life is awash in statistics. We are surrounded by work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social metrics. At best, these numbers allow us to set better goals: : to increase our workplace efficiency, or to reduce our resting heart rate.

Debates about gig work in India are often devoid of nuance, context, and reality. In fact, most of the people arguing about gig work probably don’t understand much about the real India. Take it from somebody who comes from a part of India that would not even be considered rural. Where I come from, earning ₹150 an hour would be considered an enormous luxury. And this is pretty much the story of the vast majority of Indians. People would kill to make ₹150 an hour. Whenever people argue about the sad nature of gig work, the brutal working conditions, the lack of social safety nets, the tracking, and everything else, the problem is that these debates lose all nuance. Yes, there is truth to many of these criticisms. Yes, these are all important issues. But you also have to realize that India is fundamentally a poor country where there are absolutely no employment opportunities for the vast majority of Indians who come from the rural heartlands and hinterlands. For many of them, getting a gig job is akin to getting a software developer job. Remember, these are people who go through life bearing the enormous burdens of their social circumstances, life circumstances, and social realities. They have to put food on the table. They have to pay the medical bills of their loved ones. They have to send their kids to whatever school they can afford. They have to keep a roof over their heads. For most Indians, this is the very definition of luxury. This is not to excuse all the shenanigans pulled by gig companies. This is not an apology for the lack of social safety nets. None of that is what I’m saying. These are all important issues, and they are nightmarish issues. There are no easy answers. There is no black and white here. But to say that all gig jobs are bad, to scoff and sneer at gig work, and to take positions that are not rooted in lived realities without speaking to the people actually doing this work, always gets on my nerves. Whenever I speak to an Uber driver, or whenever I use services like Urban Company, the one thing I ask them is: how are the working conditions? And very rarely do I hear complaints from these people. Of course, I work in finance, and I know that the plural of anecdote is not data. There are people in the gig sector who work under brutal, punishing conditions for a pittance. But you also have to realize that a lot of these people don’t have any alternatives. Of course, we have to fight to ensure that their working conditions improve. We have to speak up for better protections, better pay, and better safety nets. But that is a continuous journey. So, to people in urban cities sitting under the comfortable breeze of your Daikin AC, typing on the latest iPhone, wearing your Birkenstock slippers, drinking your ₹300 matcha latte: go spend a day in the real India. Go speak to actual gig workers. Spend a day in their lives. Trust me, I’ve done it. I’ve done gig jobs. I come from a poor part of India. A lot of people from my town are employed as gig workers. So I speak from having been on both sides of this debate. The vast majority of these people would choose a gig job over being unemployed and unable to take care of their loved ones. That doesn’t make gig work perfect. It doesn’t make the exploitation acceptable. It doesn’t mean companies should get a free pass. But it does mean that if you want to have an honest debate about gig work in India, start with the lives of the people doing the work. Not with your ideological priors.

@jaganmsna all I was trying to do was to get to office in my SUV but got bogged down by all the other folks trying to get to their Office in their SUV's :)

EVs can fix these kind of problems

Indian governance “relies more on individual capability than established process. . A talented individual with political access reorganises a sclerotic apparatus, the apparatus produces useful data again but with no guarantees of longevity and continuity altermag.com/articles/the-m…

@b0red_historian FSI has been low for most cities in India. Most cities (save Mumbai) have grown horizontally vs vertically just because of FSI limits.

@Prashanth_Krish China built cities in a controlled and planned way, creating new CBDs, increasing FSI, planning public transport and roads. Indians simply created endless slums for votebank politics.

Mumbai's central planning error, repeated across half a century, was to believe that you could control how many people lived in a city by controlling how much could be built. You cannot. People who want to be in a city will come, and if you do not let them live legally,

@b0red_historian China is now removing the same. Cities concentrate, has been the trend worldwide. Either need to build new cities or the current ones will overflow.

@Prashanth_Krish You can, by having an internal passport system like China does, then incentivizing cities to expand vertically rather than horizontally. India's urban failures have translated into an incalculable loss in health, wealth and economic prosperity.

they will live illegally. Mumbai chose, for fifty years, to suppress its own legal housing supply in the name of decongestion, and spent fifty years filling up with slums in consequence. The arithmetic was always going to win. swarajyamag.com/infrastructure…

@v_kulasekhar my point was that if one was taking a break year, better to start something than spend money on travel. Kids with loans unfortunately can do neither and seek out whatever job they can get.

@Prashanth_Krish Who will take care of the education loan, sir? We also know about the high fees these days. Does entrepreneurship after college have a touch of reality?

Another day, another viral tweet with no touch of reality. I would rather argue that rather than taking a break year, one should go on the entrepreneurship journey for at least a year after college before deciding what to do next.

@tweet_prat Elonbucks Sir, Elonbucks is a massive attraction

@Prashanth_Krish These days on twitter,I m observing people trying to attract followers by posting such aspirational contents like FIRE,Holiday and adventure travel etc.The economics and geography will tell the reality.

@Prashanth_Krish How does one compare Europe and India?

@leading_nowhere the replies of your old tweet make for interesting read. Seems like the last good opportunity to sell came right after this tweet.

Another one bites the dust.

Fantastic Thread. Wish it was a Blogpost @SandeepParekh

@avataram that privilege (ability to take a Gap year and then join the workforce) is only due to you coming out of IIT. A student in a Tier 2 college these days barely get a job out of college and if they take a break year, his career will have to start with entrepreneurship :)

@anishteli would not have survived and more importantly thrived otherwise.

The ultimate trend follower.

@atulvora Companies did off-site in Thailand. That would reduce I think. Haven't been to Thailand, one day hopefully :)

@Prashanth_Krish Plus Thai baht id up considerably against Indian rupee. Thailand is no longer as cheap as perceived

60-day visa exemption is revoked for all 93 countries/territories, the 30-day visa exemption list is cut from 57 to 54, and the VoA list is reduced from 31 to 4.

@atulvora Agree.

@Prashanth_Krish For a family of four it adds up