Mayank Yadav

A productive interaction with @Aadit_Palicha, Co-founder & CEO of @ZeptoNow. Our conversation focused on strengthening skilling initiatives for our youth and leveraging innovation-led entrepreneurship to build globally competitive enterprises. Deliberated on the deeper integration of farmers into modern supply chains to enhance market access and value realisation.

Ayush Mhatre. The U19 winning captain. Behind every such prodigy is an irrational parent. A misfit. One who’d take asymmetric bets. In an academics obsessed country, a parent traveling 30 kms everyday to take their 6 yr old to an academy is whimsical. 👏

I left EM (engineering Manager) path years ago. Someone recently reach out to me to mentor him for EM. He is an amazing engineer and got this role and really wanted to learn (generally engineers are not keen to pursue EM path). I just told him a few things: 1. You cannot learn EM from books. So, don't bother to spend a single penny on any book. 2. Code is easy, but managing humans is tough. 3. Have balance between being "good manager" and a "manager" 4. Organization, and communication is the core of this role. 5. It is a thankless job. So, don't even think that someone pat your back and will say - Great work!!

This was an eye opener from Jensen Huang When asked whether he would rather relive his 20s or be 20 years old today, this is what he had to say: "I thought our 20s were happier than these 20s. I think everyone deserves some time to be oblivious, and not wear all of the world's problems on their shoulders on Day 1 We are raising a generation that is very cynical and too informed They are cynical, not because they are inherently cynical. They are cynical because they see so much stuff. It is too much stuff You have to build up some internal reserve of optimism. You have to build up some reserve of goodness."

Last one on this topic, and I have been holding this in myself for a while. For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt. The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale. Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general. This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less. We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal. Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”). And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility. Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income. And then what happens? The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated. The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door. Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark.

@tuktuukk Hey @tuktuukk , need some info on the issue you are facing.

if this zepto app crashes one more time i’m going to uninstall it 100%

Make her famous. It is our duty to stand by the rare officers who dare to do their job fearlessly. She has put her future on the line for us. Let us reciprocate by standing with her!! 🫡🙏🙌🏽🙌🏽

Check out this interesting tech blog on how @ZeptoNow delivers new mobile app updates to the majority of its users within 24 hours - blog.zeptonow.com/why-we-built-o… #ZeptoTechXpress #TechAtZepto #OpenSource

@ZeptoNow ordered medicines from Zepto. Seamless experience.

make Kohli practice here before the England tests

@18o2005 @aadit_palicha DMed you.

So, I was enjoying my free Zepto cash 💸, feeling rich… Until I hit a time loop ⏳. One screen kept reopening, and now back feels like a game 🎮. BTW, Zepto’s Prayagraj launch is on fire—my university can’t stop ordering! @aadit_palicha, just a heads-up 🔥.

I must have seen this movie a dozen times, and this moment gets me every single time. Absolute perfection.

Best tax joke I've heard today

Good day to bring this video back on TL. In 1990 at Lord's, India needed 24 runs to avoid follow on with only one wicket remaining. Kapil Dev saved it with 4 consecutive sixes off Eddie Hemmings. Hirwani was out on the first ball of the next over.

kl rahul parting ways with lucknow due to personal and professional reasons whereas lucknow parting ways strictly due to cricketing reasons

@hvpandya @iamnishitraj Worth a read. you're lucky to work with the wise man.

✨ new essay ✨ Having elevated talented folks into design management roles, I’ve observed a few things they can benefit from when they take on this new responsibility. “Hardik, what should I keep in mind as I take on the role of a design manager? Some advice please?” 👇

fuck it, FULL Deadpool & Wolverine movie

The SKY catch should be on Porn Hub!

There was a Gavaskar to compare with Sachin, And a Tendulkar to compare Virat with. Bumrah can’t be compared to anyone. Unparalleled greatest of all time.