Shashank S

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@JioMart_Support @JioMart So I received an order with missing items and you just refused to refund the amount saying it can only be refunded to the "wallet"? What wallet? Why is your customer support so bad?

@IndiaToday @prateekchakra95 What the fuck is wrong with you? I just read the article on the crime in Buxar and you've released the names of the victim and his brother, while the woman who committed the crime is given anonymity? You're a horrible journalist, prateek.

@1mgOfficial @1mgOfficial my order is STILL not shipped. So much for the urgent delivery requests. Can it get any worse?

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@DhawleDhananjay Good, now try getting into the top 10% of grammar and language comprehension. That should pose a serious challenge to you based on what I see lol

Whatever I did, I tried to be in the top 1%. JEE - top 0.37% LEETCODE - top 0.7% CHESS - top 0.4% I wonder what I need to do to be in the top 1% of software developers. And how long it will take. My next goal, for sure.

@Captain_Mani72 @chetan_bhagat This is an absolutely brain dead take.

@chetan_bhagat Well said! More hours need not be good, worse it can lead to problems. But, I guess NRN meant dedicated and smart work for 70 hrs and not LBDN! Considering the pros and cons, we should leave it as an individual choice and not read more into it.

Hi all, “70-hour workweek? Stop counting hours and make the hours count,” my column in TOI today. Posting the text of column below for ease of reading. Infosys founder and philanthropist Narayana Murthy’s statement that Indian youngsters have a critical role in national development and should be prepared to work 70 hours a week has stirred a virtual hornet's nest. Like everything else on the internet, it divided opinion. Many people agreed with him and urged people to work even longer and harder. Others were outraged that a wealthy capitalist was encouraging workers to be corporate slaves (to make capitalists even wealthier). Creating a 70-hour workweek expectation was seen as normalising toxic work culture in Indian corporations. At the outset, I have huge respect for Narayana Murthy, his achievements and his general grace and poise. We are only discussing his statement, which he didn’t mean in a negative context. However, here’s the problem. It depends on who made this statement. If a sports team captain, an Olympic Gold medallist or a small social media influencer told people to work hard and grind for 70 hours a week, it would be totally fine and seen as inspiring. However, when a high-profile billionaire and (ex) promoter of one of India’s biggest companies says it, the context changes. No matter how well-meaning Murthy was in telling the youth to work harder for themselves and the nation, it will be perceived differently. It isn’t just about the message, it is as much about the messenger. Tomorrow, I imagine promoters all over India will address their employees in town hall meetings and ask for 70-hour workweeks. After all, what is so wrong in expecting my employees to do the same? What icons say, will build the nation. Suddenly, employees all around India will fall short on expectations for not working hard enough. If you aren’t at your desk until 10 pm, you are performing below expectations. And that, clearly, is toxic. An owner vs employee relationship is clearly not equal in terms of power. Therefore, if owners demand more work, to the point where work becomes the entire focus of an employee's life and this is celebrated and normalised, it is not fair to employees. Of course, I am 100% sure that Murthy did not intend for his statement to have this effect. However, coming from him, it does. Little surprise then that there was a massive pushback. Let us now dissect this statement at face value. Is it virtuous to do 70-hour weeks? I am not so sure. First, barring a few professions, more hours spent at work doesn’t always equate to working harder. I spent over a decade in banking. I knew plenty of people who spent very long hours in office, achieving little. Some (including yours truly) had perfected the art of LBDN. Don’t know what’s LBDN? Look busy, do nothing! (Learn it, it is useful in office.) Secondly, it is about making the hours count. I would say don’t work 70 hours a week. Work 35 hours a week, but make those 35 hours count. Be focused and truly apply yourself for several hours a day consistently, you will achieve wonders. Thirdly, working hard is important in life. However, that hard work should not only be solely devoted to your job, spending most of your life in some form of corporate slavery. Forget 70, work 100 hours a week, but include in that the time you spend on your health, fitness, diet, reading, spending time with friends and family and everything else that makes for a full life, but still requires work. For your career too, don't just mindlessly work long hours at the same job. Have a strategic plan for yourself. Are you going to study further? Change jobs? Change cities? Change countries? Open a business? Then spend your hours and work hard on building your entire life, not just grinding away in your cubicle. The latter won’t give you any return after a point, no matter the hours you put in. Not to mention that later in your corporate career, how hard you work or even how competent you are at your job can become totally irrelevant. At senior levels, career growth is almost solely about company politics, who sucks up to who and how you deal with the people that matter. You could be the hardest working person in the office, but if someone else sucks up to the boss better, sorry, no promotion for you. Unfair? Yes. Life is unfair. Over a decade ago, Tim Ferris wrote a book called ‘The 4-hour workweek,’ which became a global bestseller. Clearly, the world likes the idea of working less, just as much as plenty of people like the idea of working harder. What is the correct number of weekly working hours between 4 and 70? It’s hard to tell. However, here’s what one should aspire to. Find work that you love to do. It’s hard to get that, but once you do, spending the hours gets easy. The fact that you are counting, means maybe something needs to change about your work anyway. I have yet to meet someone who loves what they do ever count the number of hours they work in a week.

A very interesting talk on a subject that has been rampant in the chess world. I believe online chess, like most esports that I know of, is bound to be played from a physical location to both help prevent cheating and to mitigate the current climate of endless suspicion.

@TeamYouTube What's up with this? Apparently this is showing up for a lot of other people too

@the_stephanie_g @TeamYouTube @TeamYouTube Can confirm, I see the same things

@aviralbhat Nope. This is just a case of a country with bad governance vs a country with an even worse government.

India's GDP per capita was 70% of Pakistan's in 1992 In fact, the average Pakistani was richer than the Indian till 2004 Today, India's GDP per capita is 50% higher than Pakistan's Pakistan today has $3Bn of reserves India has $600Bn, India's GDP is 10x Good governance wins

@SusanPolgar @drrmthomas Sucks to be a young Chess player with ADHD then

@drrmthomas Forget opponents’ clock. They look around while their own clocks are ticking! 😡

I simply DO NOT understand some young (very talented) players. They sit at the boards looking at everyone walking by, neighbors’ boards, ceiling, etc. while their clocks continue to go down. Then they rush when down to seconds. Sometimes they pull it off, other times not 🤔🤷‍♀️

@juliaxrios I can't believe I keep doing this to myself

i dont 😈 followers friday: respond to this tweet and i'll give you a little roast

@nigelshortchess @olimpiuurcan Another day of Nigel's bad takes, smh.

Lim Kok Ann, a Singaporean doctor and organizer, was one of the three neutral members of a jury panel for the dramatic 1978 world chess championship match between Karpov and Korchnoi in the Philippines.

@chesscom Rg5+, not Rh5+

@chesscom Bh5 Qxh5, Bf6+ Kh7, Rc7+ Re7, Rxe7+ Bxe7, Rg7+ kh8, Rh5+and pick up the queen

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@LoganPaul r/iamverysmart

I figured out the universe

@bhattacharyas83 @unhappygh0st Ironic coming from someone who can't type a sentence without grammatical errors.

@unhappygh0st Tbh wherever you completes your education, do it perfectly. Rabindranath Tagore never went to a formal school still he was noble laureate. Srinivasa Ramanujam never went any school, still he was the greatest mathmetician in human history. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

(1/6) #FalseNews in Circulation!! Many of my contacts have been sharing it on their #whatsapp status instead of #Twitter / #instagram / #Facebook coz ur account doesn't get suspended on WP as easily and you get away by spreading the #fakenews! Lets check some data to validate!

@ShashiTharoor Ah yes we can always count on incompetent IT departments in the Indian government!

All of us Dakshin Bharatvasis would be grateful if the Hindi Rashtravadis running MyGov.in could kindly take the trouble to learn the names of our states. Please!?

@ffc_fastastic @CIA @NatReconOfc @NSAGov @CISAgov @ODNIgov @NGA_GEOINT If you cannot figure out how to open a desktop site on a phone with one click, then I don't think your chances with this puzzle are real. Hate to break it to ya 🥲👍

#CIA, @NatReconOfc, @NSAGov, @CISAGov, @ODNIgov, and @NGA_GEOINT joined forces to create an intelligence crossword puzzle. Solving the puzzle may require a little research on your part, but we think it's worth the effort. bit.ly/3D4IWCe #NationalPuzzleDay #WeAreTheIC

@jordanbpeterson I live in India and have never eaten steak. However, I'm a decent cook and let me just say.... What the fuck, man?

Freeze it then air fry at 450. Drain the fat. Add a little water and plenty of salt into the pot for au jus. Crispy on the outside and no more than medium internally.