“Those YouTube videos showing a luxurious day in the life of a techie? That’s just the honeymoon period. The real struggle begins after the first year.” – Priyansh Agarwal, Google Engineer For years, YouTube has been flooded with glossy “day in the life” videos featuring young software engineers sipping lattes...
Welcome to the modern job market—a tragicomedy where applicants use AI to write cover letters, HR departments use AI to screen them, and somewhere in the middle, both sides wonder why unemployment graphs look like a tech startup’s hockey stick. It’s poetic, really. Young graduates, tired of typing “Dear Sir/Madam”...
In Coimbatore, a company has just rewritten the playbook of employee appreciation. Kovai.co, a bootstrapped SaaS company founded by Saravana Kumar, has rewarded 140 employees with a total of ₹14.5 crore in bonuses under its “Together We Grow” initiative. This isn’t a headline about flashy IPO wealth or stock options...
The billionaire scoreboard just flipped. For the first time ever, Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, is now the world’s richest person, overtaking Elon Musk after Oracle’s stock exploded in a historic rally. His net worth jumped by a mind-bending $101 billion in a single day — the largest one-day surge...
Let’s not sugarcoat it. Bengaluru has been India’s Silicon Valley—but today it feels more like India’s Silicon Traffic Jam. Founders spend half their time in cabs, the other half convincing investors their burn isn’t a bonfire. Meanwhile, Kerala—Trivandrum and Kochi—are building an ecosystem quietly, cheaply, and sustainably. Here’s the real...
It should have been another Coldplay night. Music, lights, crowd ecstasy. Instead, it became the night two executives turned into the world’s newest chew toy. When the jumbotron caught Kristin Cabot, an HR queen with a corner office, and her boss Andy Byron, the CEO, the universe handed us a...
Recently, a 30-year-old tech professional from Bengaluru triggered a heated online debate. The question: Should he buy a ₹2.7 crore 3BHK in JP Nagar, South Bengaluru—funded largely through a ₹1.8 crore home loan? Let’s break this down ruthlessly, because real estate decisions in 2025 are no longer about “settling down.”...
Success is often painted as a straight road lined with hard work, sleepless nights, and shiny paychecks. But sometimes, that very road ends too soon. The recent death of Pratik Pandey, a 35-year-old Microsoft engineer in Silicon Valley, is one such heartbreaking reminder. It tells us, bluntly and without apology:...
When Elon Musk tweets, the internet listens. Recently, someone asked him a simple but powerful question: “When robots replace working people, how will those who become unemployed sustain their lives?” Musk’s reply was short, bold, and almost utopian: 👉 “There will be universal high income (not merely basic income). Everyone...
Walk into any metro station at peak hours, and you’ll see it—people rushing, eyes blank, feet moving faster than hearts can keep up. Replace their faces with rats, and the picture doesn’t change much. That’s the brutal truth: most of us are trapped in a cheap rat race that promises...
