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100 percent! Our only way to harness demographic dividend

@GabbbarSingh What a flawed logic 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

The root of the issue is number of govt medical seats available vs the number of people applying. 64K vs 20L. It’s this proportion which create everything - Cutthroat Desperation among aspirants to do well at any cost. Any failure results in extreme steps. Suicides. - This acute supply-demand gap, drives up prices & incentives for any bad actor to game the system. If you are getting 1 crore for copying a paper, you will go to any extent - People are ready to pay any amount for a leaked paper, coz they know their kids can’t compete. Corruption follows. - Being a doctor is more prestigious in our society than an Engineer. Even rich well off families want that status tag. - NEET being the only single window entry to become a doctor in India, converges all the above points, to test its systems & resilience. And it crumbles. Ultimately the supply-demand gap is the core issue. Increase seats. Release the pressure.

@soham_btw 😂😂

HOW THE FUCK IS GOOGLE A TRILLION DOLLAR COMPANY AND THEY DONT HAVE LOG OUT EMAIL BUTTON??? YOU HAVE TO SIGN OUT ALL EMAILS EVEN IF YOU WANT TO JUST LOG OUT ONE EMAIL

When I become Prime Minister, I'll make it mandatory for every central and state government neta to educate their children in government schools and colleges, using the very system and infrastructure they've created. Nothing will improve faster than that.

There is something innately beautiful about sports.. something which can make you digest Bangalore Tuesday traffic. What an incredible match. @FIFAWorldCup ⚽️

Your margin is my opportunity! And loved the copy - makes you pause and smile.

@ponnappa True for majority of PMs too who got promoted during that time..

tl;dr spicy take: most late zirp/COVID vintage junior programmers are mediocre, and will remain so because they are "soft" - and computers otoh are unfeeling and unforgiving, and therefore programming is exacting. this seems to be disproportionately the 2018-2024 cohort (v broadly). not those from before, and not those after (though it's still early for the latter). I'm increasingly convinced this cohort is soft. soft and delulu. computers are not soft. production is unforgiving. good tech leads are tough bosses. there are exceptions of course and these exceptions are self evidently so, demonstrated by their code in prod. but the vast majority all behave like they and their mid skills and mid code make them the same as the elite of their cohort. long take: programming is hard because computers demand (literally) perfect articulation of a plan of execution in (literally) unambiguous grammar. inconsistencies are relentlessly rejected by the machine. consistent but wrong plans will be faithfully executed to a T, and will fail consequently. a programmer's life is one of overcoming endless, continuous failure and rejection in the face of something that you can't externalize your failures onto. the machine never fails. only the programmer does. leading teams of programmers consequently presents rather unique challenges. the craft is exacting and unforgiving. and so the leader has to be also. of course, competent 1st degree leaders of programming teams are hard to mint. and the huge explosion of entrants into the field during zirp has worsened the problem enormously, because the likelihood that a new professional programmer has worked under a competent lead is vanishingly small and dropping each year. agents make this worse - but that's a problem for next year. I'm now seeing early signs (becase I currently operate at a tiny scale) that the vast majority of today's junior programmers are mediocre at best _because_ they have never worked with competent seniors, and especially, competent leads who own the bar on the craft for their team. the ones who demand taste, discipline and ownership. and equally, for some strange reason, this cohort expects their leads to be soft and cuddly? and when they run into a competent lead who holds them accountable, the reaction is to say "nobody understands me. nobody appreciates what I bring to the table. boo hoo". and these are self evidently not 99.99th percentile devs. not even 99.5th. I mean isn't it obvious that if one were that good one would be in Stanford or MIT or core conrtib on Linux/eqiv or on a hardcore GOOG/OpenAI/Anthropic team. I don't think this will end well for this cohort. I hope I'm wrong. I don't think I am.

@therealjpk Frido backrest..lifesaver !

Those who commute 2+ hours by car in Bangalore daily, what made the biggest difference to comfort? PS: Not commuting is not an option.

there were the exact pain points for which I would pay 79/- per month…what amazing customer insights by Meta PMs @WhatsApp @Meta 🍻

@MurraySuggests 😂😂😂

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

@GabbbarSingh 🤦‍♂️

India’s fertility rate has gone below replacement. Two people aren’t producing two people to replace them. Most metro couples are opting for just one kid. Not coz of a lifestyle choice, but sheer affordability. Such is the school fees that having two kids is like having two home loans. The EMI for which will keep increasing. The love of the sibling is being replaced by a dog or the Internet. We are going to be old as a nation, before we get rich. Tough.

@aviralbhat This time, it’s different.

Deep fear and pessimism about India right now, although the only real change is the energy shock The AI risk to India is overblown, and we will be net beneficiaries over 10 years History tells us that none of this is structural, if anything we will find our way out

@aditya_kondawar JioMart: 15L orders/day

Amazon Quick Commerce Scales up! Daily orders at 4.5-5L via 500+ dark Stores Here's how the sector stacks up - Blinkit - 30L orders/day , 2243 dark stores Zepto - 24/25L orders/day, 1100+ dark stores Instamart - 12.5L orders/day, 1143 dark stores Big Basket - 5.6L orders/day, 700+ dark stores i also tried Amazon Now recently and it was quite good! no stock reco

@GabbbarSingh poor ending…

@dharmeshba Bang on !! And with scan bottom coming as a sticky footer and this new biometric verification thing… it’s hardly a 10 sec interaction per payment cycle.

I open my UPI app approximately ten times a day. I have not bought insurance through it. Nobody in the industry can explain this, so they blame the creative. Better targeting, they say. Better placement. A/B test the CTA. The click-through rate will improve. They are solving the wrong problem. For many a UPI app does not live in their head as a financial services platform. It lives there as a verb. They usually don't say "I'll use PhonePe." They will say "I'll scan and pay." Many people I've interviewed don't even say that - they just hold up their phone. The app has become so indispensable for one thing that it has essentially disappeared. It is infrastructure now. This is the great delusion of platform thinking: that if you achieve daily habit, cross-sell becomes easy. That share of attention translates to share of wallet. That being trusted for the small thing means being trusted for the large thing. It doesn't. Trust is rebuilt from scratch in every new category, every single time. When I open PhonePe to split a dinner bill, my brain is in a completely different mode than when I am contemplating what happens to my family if I die. One requires two seconds of attention and zero vulnerability. The other requires me to confront my own mortality, assess the credibility of an institution with my family's future, and hand over money I will never personally see returned. The psychological distance between those two acts is not bridged by a banner ad. The banks and platforms that will win in insurance and wealth are not the ones with the most daily active users. They are the ones willing to do the slow, unglamorous work of earning trust in a new category - which means starting again, with different conversations, different proof points, different emotional register entirely. Being everywhere is not the same as being trusted.

@Pluxee_india pls pls simplify ur consumer app.. how do we navigate across meal card, meal wallet, benefits card, celebrations virtual? And then there are nested cards under each categories. And so much passwords for every payment. I just want to pay 50/- for my meal & move on 😕

So IT services are back in business!

@thekaipullai True for Bangalore too… no? Most of the cooks easily make north of 35-40K.. nannys make ~25K

It is sad that 70 years after independence, we have not created a real wealth creation city in India other than Mumbai. Like it or not, the opportunities that this city gives, to people who are nobodies, know nobody and even for someone who knows nothing, is unparalleled All it requires is hard work and if you may not succeed, you will survive I have a guy who washes my car everyday. He is 12th pass, maybe not even that He charges me 600 bucks a month. He washes about 30 cars in my society That nets him 18k a month Once his job is done by 10 am, he goes to a nearby bus booking centre where they need people to load and unload intercity tourist buses. There he earns 250 to 500 bucks a day. That nets him another 12500 bucks a month In addition he also brings passengers to buses and earns about 100 bucks per passenger That nets him another 10k a month He is done by 3 PM there. Goes home, eats lunch, takes a nap Then in the evening, if he feels like, he goes as a helper to a Pav Bhaji Place in my locality. They pay him 500 bucks and give him dinner too. That's another 10k In total, every month he earns 50k. And he can always increase it by taking other odd jobs. He stays in Dharavi, has put his children in an English Medium private school and told me he has built a house in his native village. For a twelfth pass guy it is an amazing achievement. And this was made possible by the tremendous earning potential that Mumbai gave him This kind of economic opportunity is not available anywhere else in India. No other city comes remotely close to this. That's why people flock to Mumbai. They know if they work hard, they will at least survive.

@thekaipullai The Amul ice cream range is superb…. Q-commerce has further strengthened their position

Unilever partnered with Kwality in India to Launch Kwality Walls Ice cream in 1995. Amul launched their own Ice Cream line in 1996. Amul, true its nature of putting quality first used Milk Fat in their Ice creams. Milk Fat is expensive, gives higher quality but reduces margins. But Amul didn't care. Unilever in true British tradition, put profits over people's welfare, gave two hoots about the health of Indians and prioritized shareholder wealth over product quality. They thought they could get away selling low quality ice cream at higher prices to uneducated natives and laugh all the way to the bank, like their predecessors East India company did for 150 years. Unfortunately for them, things changed in 2011, when people finally understood the difference between Ice Cream and Frozen Desert. They realized one was bad, and the other was good. And Kwality walls fell on the bad side of the equation. Their sales fell off a cliff. They tried legal challenges, aggressive marketing campaigns, hiring extensive manpower, hired celebrities, increased retailer margins, doled out incentives, gave away free stuff like Freezers and kept throwing money at the problem. They tried everything. But they still couldn't defeat Amul in the field. Finally Unilever realized they couldn't carry Kwality walls and decided to throw in the towel. They spun off their Ice cream division as a separate company. And now in a final twist, the same Kwality Walls who once tried to convince Indians that their Vegetable fat filled Frozen Dessert was actually Ice cream and good for them, have now converted to milk fat-based Ice cream themselves. They are now advertising Goodness of Milk and all. The exact same thing they have denied for 30 years. Meanwhile, Amul keeps going from strength to strength. When your competitor decides to emulate you, that is the final concession that you have won. This whole episode also reinforces the age-old adage that a quality product always wins. Kwality Walls had higher budgets, their salespeople were paid more, they gave freezers out like candy, their margins were higher, incentives were better, packaging was more expensive, the number of people on the street selling walls were larger than the army of a small nation, the marketing budget was higher than turnovers of many companies, they hired celebrities, did all sorts of new age marketing and followed all the marketing principles laid out by all the marketing gurus in the world. But they had a bad product. All Amul had was a good product. Amul won. Kwality walls lost. Good Product always wins in the end.

@RajanAnandan @ModiNeehar @sachinjparikh @AnviShah17 @thehyugalife @_surgeahead Healthkart of 2026, is it 🤔

India is getting healthier and needs a platform where everything is...well, healthy and 100% certain to be good for you. Congrats to @ModiNeehar @sachinjparikh @AnviShah17 and the @thehyugalife team on their Series A 🚀 Great to see our company from the 7th cohort of @_surgeahead building a "healthy in every way" ecom platform! yes, even healthy CM2 😃