Dawn

losing doesn’t even enter my consciousness

The literal #1 most suicidal belief you can have is that you’re an introvert/socially anxious/don’t like people. I was this guy until around 22. Thought I was better than everyone else and actively chose not to be social. Life completely changed when I started interacting with random people and just trying to make them laugh. Opportunities opened up, made relationships with people I never thought possible. Everything was just less dull and boring. Every day was fun for no reason. You cannot be a lone wolf. It’s a mental illness. Life is meaningless without people.

@Subhash_Peshwa What's difference Employment agree vs Offer letter How it help company and the Candidate How it doesn't help Can you elaborate this pls

I run a budding India GCC for an Australian firm. This is what I do (happy to take suggestions):- - Firstly, make peace with the fact that you need to roll out 2 offers for one role (and consider yourself lucky if you're able to onboard both) - Strive for the best interview experience. Bring them in to the office for our final round and show them around, introduce them to people. - If selected, send out Employment Agreement (not offer letter) within 2 days via DocuSign - Happy to wait for the notice period to complete. If a buy out option is available, compensate the candidate with a joining bonus equivalent to the buyout - Ask them for transparency on if they're still interviewing elsewhere (doesn't matter where, I don't ask names). Make sure they understand that IT'S OKAY IF THEY ARE, I JUST WANT TO BE PREPARED, THEIR OFFER WON'T BE RESCINDED. - Invite them to our team outings and events - Introduce them to a few of my senior people to get a feel of who we are  - Talent acquisition connects every two weeks  - If they come back with a counter offer a few weeks before joining - either negotiate if it's feasible, else wish them a great career ahead - If I still get ghosted at the very last day, I take the L, cry internally, and move on.

Forward Deployed Engineer is the hottest, and one of the most in-demand, jobs right now. Every major AI company is hiring including companies like @OpenAI @cognition @AnthropicAI and @Google If you possess a combination of soft skills (good communication), have an engineering background, and are up to speed on the latest and greatest in agentic coding you're probably able to land one of them. They pay well and offer a foot in the door to some of the fastest growing companies in the world.

“worst case scenario I’ll make it. best case scenario I’ll make it big.”

Hypothesis: Most financial influencers are just trying to entertain you; your main job is to just earn a lot of money creatively from your salary and then let it compound in very boring known ways; but the influencers will not say this because then why will you pay attention to them via @notebooklm of my 60k tweets

Wanna know the best way to get hired in 2026? Here's how I'd go about things if I was looking. 1 - HAVE AN ONLINE PRESENCE To the complete surprise of absolutely nobody — an online presence is the single greatest thing that you can have under your own belt. Resumes are usually a page or two long, and not nearly good enough to encapsulate your ability. You wanna know what doesn't have a page limit tho? Your internet presence. Write as much as you can, make videos as much as you can, talk about you and your work as much as you can, show people what you are about instead of simply putting it all on a single sheet of paper. 2 - HAVE A PERSONALITY ABOUT YOURSELF The world is increasingly moving towards hiring those with taste, IN ADDITION to their technical competence. Being good enough is not the move anymore, you have to stylistically justify your moves. Although I could be wrong with my reasoning, one thing is clear to me - people with good taste have a leg-up on all others in the race. 3 - GET YOUR RESUMES IN FRONT OF HUMANS. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. The career page on that company's website is probably going to reject your resume before any human takes a look at the work of art you spent 20 hours putting together. So, a better shot is cold DMs, e-mailing the HR, or better yet, a team lead at the company that you wish to work for. Convince the team lead that you are the man for the job, and that's half the damn battle won. 4 - MEETUPS ARE UNIRONICALLY THE BEST WAY I can say this from my own experience — a well thought out question at a panel meetup can get you hired faster than anything else that you can do. Meetups will get your foot through the door of the interview room quicker than anything else. The occasion is semi-formal, people have their guards half-down in the first place, so a well directed shot has the highest chances of hitting. 5 - UNDENIABLE PROOF OF YOUR COMPETENCE + MARKETING YOUR OWN ABILITY IS WHAT GETS YOU THE WIN. A video demo of your project, a git repo of your work, a blog post of your efforts, a research paper that's been published in a highly regarded journal, and things of that nature, coupled with you marketing the hell out of your own skillset of solving problems that make people and corporations a whole lot of money, is the only sureshot way of getting hired in big 2026. REGARDLESS of what field you belong to, these 5 should hold true regardless. Comment your thoughts down below.

When I was unemployed for 3 weeks, in July of 2025, I put up a tweet of my resume on this app. I got referred to 2 deeptech startups on via oomf (IDK if I should tag him), and I got a response to my DM to another founder at a company in BLR ON THE SAME DAMN DAY. I've spoken to IIT Profs and people who are at INSANE positions, I've earned real-life money, and I have been introduced to so, so much than I would have known otherwise man. I can go to any random meetup in Pune, and there will be at least 3 people who'd know who I am and what do I do there. This app, has been of help BEYOND anything that I could have ever thought.

in the 2000s ian mcdonald wrote a novel and a short story collection set in a futuristic 2040s india; in one of the short stories a girl accidentally ends up with several AIs embedded in her head that can do things like offer medical or astrological advice, in another a man attempts to court a woman using a dedicated flirting AI to feed him lines in real time only to eventually find she was using one too and neither of them had spoken a single authentic word to each other (and the two AI fall in love or something, iirc) not only are both of these things that are very close to being able to just happen now, 20 years ahead of schedule (i guess we'd need some advances in taking real-time video input and voice output, and some new wearables, and time for all that to diffuse culturally), but that fact is itself unremarkable en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_…

all you need is one good year. one year of obsession, focus, and sacrifice. train like a machine. stack your money. build your name. expand your network. outgrow everyone. after that, life shifts. you'll know what winning feels like. you'll carry yourself differently. you'll move with purpose. one good year can change EVERYTHING

So worth the listen on how to build an asymmetric life/deeply authentic life

@volklub Suprised you chose Nexon CNG over Brezza CNG Can you share the reason

These cars virtually have no competition, they offer unique value irrespective of the numbers they are doing. - MS Alto - Punch EV 40 kWh - MG Windsor - Scorpio N - Strong Hybrid (Victoris / GV / Hyryder) - MS Jimny - Tata Nexon CNG - Mahindra XEV 9S - Duster 1.3 Turbo Manual - Skoda Kodiaq Lounge Pic: Autocar, Skoda, Team BHP

For the second time since I graduated in 2010, I am sitting at home unemployed & parents are here, except that this time I am far more sorted financially; last time in Sep 2010 I was fired from Aakash Institute where I had joined as a junior mathematics lecturer and was home not knowing what to do next ; this time I've finally taken the sabbatical I was planning for years thanks to some nudge from my cousin - who said if not now then when ; please don't treat my posts as a nudge to take sabbatical, it's a significant decision & I am more privileged than I'd like to admit, mostly because of luck ; the reason it was about time for me is age, I can go back to doing product management but that still won't provide the kind of longevity & optionality that I seek in my career, and I am turning 40 next year, so whatever hard skills & technical sophistication I need to hone must be done sooner than later; easier to reinvent yourself earlier rather than later & especially when you have buffer than when you are stretched too thin on the financial front ; the stress though is not from the money as it is from societal perception of "oh you are on a career break", easier to notice during meetups; the funny thing is a lot of people assume am trying to build something of my own, which I am not, I haven't found an idea which is has a buyer; maybe I should've just said "I am building something in stealth" and that would've made this more graceful but that wouldn't be "me"; I am just a middle aged man trying to find a product market fit for himself in a new trade that he has been working on for an year ; nothing too fancy, nothing story worthy; just a man figuring out a way consistently bring food to the table which is what most of us do for almost all our adult life ; yet in the way people perceive it, there's dramatic reactions & astonishment ; maybe we want stories & narratives, we seek that whenever we meet people; but maybe that's the source of our suffering, the narratives & the stories what we weave & seek around our experiences ...

Nishkaam kartavya everything of the past is a baggage, both achievements & regrets; your current context is everything ...

still saying this btw there’s never been a better time to learn: RAG, VectorDBs, AI pipelines, agents, evals, MCP, multimodal systems, inference optimization, tool calling, memory architectures, browser automation and voice AI whole industry is moving at 100x speed rn best thing you can do is pick a lane and start building

This is great talk on speaking, influence and effective communuication. It is also hilariously funny!! MIT OCW is one of the greatest thing to happen to the internet youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc73…

Believe me, this is the only playlist you need to become a DevOps Engineer in 2026

@volklub Did they fix headlight bulging out ofbthe body

Visited Kia, Jalandhar (Lally Motors) as Chief Guest for the launch of the facelifted Kia Syros. They’ve assured Volklub customers in Punjab of: ✅ Best possible quotations with early delivery ✅ No unnecessary upselling ✅ Honest, customer-first service Grateful for the warm hospitality and the trust they’ve placed in the Volklub community. Interacted with a few customers too for better guidance for whatever time I was there.

Hypothesis: Composure is almost everything a way to composure is jaap, helps you get outside of yourself & closer to the divine, takes baggage out of the equation & grounds you in the present of the 100 avoidable mistakes I've done in my life, 99 are due to lack of composure, as I start a new trade, the skill to hone in this window of preparation is mostly composure and thus by extension the jaap muscle & routine onbv 🙏

@RohitMalekar Damn it ,I learnt the reference today 12 च्या भावात गेला meaning you went for cheap ?

I think an entire book can be written on Marathi idioms derived from regional jargons and rural lore from different parts of Maharashtra, but here's one on the topic of twelve. बाराच्या भावात (barachya bhavat) The price at the stroke of 12 pm, indicating the "cheapest you can pay for something" at high noon, when sellers are desperate to get rid of stock just before the close of market.