Pradeep

Hodophile,ferroequinologist, Liberal School of Thought, Democratic in conviction, Changemaker, Eternal Student,Secular& Agnostic
Wants to Build Inclusive India

[Aina @Aina_Ai2]

7. Working Nomads

This is for you if you're a traveller or someone who wants to work and move around without losing your job.

Just sign up and find remote job from over 100+ categories.

Make $68 - $80/hour with remote jobs.

[Tolulope Michael @im_tolumichael]

If you’re preparing for leadership roles, here are 15 decision-making frameworks used by top executives.

Check the comments. 🧵

[Md Riyazuddin @riyazmd774]

R.I.P. POWERPOINT

ChatGPT can now build a presentation in under 2 minutes.

Use these prompts instead and witness the magic :

[Katelin Holloway 💙 @katelin_cruse]

A quiet prediction for 2026, from someone who has spent a lot of time studying how humans behave at work:

I think we’re about to see an unprecedented quiet retirement of elder millennials from tech.

Not dramatic exits. Not mass layoffs. Just a steady, largely unannounced backing away.

Many elder millennials hit what was supposed to be the payoff phase of their careers—middle to senior roles, stable compensation, some accumulated growth—at the exact moment life got heavier. Kids entering adolescence. Parents aging or dying. Bodies changing. Energy changing. Perspective changing. (Read: perimenopause and midlife crises...)

At the same time, the last decade didn’t quite deliver what was promised. Most stock options didn’t meaningfully materialize. Homeownership was delayed or derailed. Many relocated during the pandemic “temporarily” for childcare or sanity and never fully returned—to cities, to offices, or to the pace they once sustained.

Then AI arrived. Not just as a new tool, but as a true platform shift.

What I’m watching isn’t resistance or denial so much as a widening gap in orientation. Some people are instinctively reorganizing how they think, work, and create around this new substrate. Others are using it incrementally; helpful, but not transformative. Neither is a moral failure. But the gap compounds quickly.

For a cohort already tired, already juggling more life outside of work, and already questioning the ROI of constant grinding, the incentive to retool themselves again—this time at platform speed—just isn’t there.

So many will choose something else.

They’ll frame it (honestly) as leaning into IRL, into human connection, into building tangible things. They’ll open coffee shops, take over family businesses, learn trades, consult selectively, or turn long-held hobbies into second careers. It will look intentional. And often, it will be.

What fascinates me is not the “exit,” but the alignment: a generational life stage colliding with a technological inflection point that dramatically raises the bar for cognitive and adaptive load at work.

From an HR lens, it’s one of the most interesting workforce transitions I’ve ever seen unfolding in real time... and I think we’re still underestimating how quietly, and how profoundly, it will reshape who stays, who leaves, and what “career success” even means next.

[Doreen @dee_naliaks]

MY HUSBAND STOPPED USING LINKEDIN TO FIND A JOB

Result? Landed a remote job in 10 days.
No LinkedIn. No Upwork.
Just strategy + internet.

Here are 12 remote job websites that took the search from frustrating to real opportunities:

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

No more winners!

They make the rest of us feel bad. Instead of self improvement, I want to wallow in resentment of you - because you are a winner! How dare you!!!

I think its time for everyone to be an equal loser. Let's teach our kids to be losers. How great it will be!

Don't study - whatever, your grades don't matter.
Can't read - it's ok, we will subsidize you.
Won't work - no worries, here's a handout.

Equal opportunity losing is way better and more just than unequal winning! I think we can all agree on that!

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

I finally understand how AI engineers at Google and Anthropic actually prompt.

After 3 years of reverse-engineering their methods...

Here are 5 prompting techniques that completely changed my results:

[Maggie Vespa @Maggie_Vespa]

"Our children and our community are being poisoned."

A crisis is spiraling in Milwaukee Public Schools & when the city asked the CDC for help, they were told following federal layoffs, the "entire branch has been eliminated."

Our @NBCNightlyNews piece...

[Abdul Șhakoor @abxxai]

If Google wants you to pay for Gmail storage, do this first.

I went from 14.9/15GB to 6GB in one afternoon.

I hope this helps you as it has helped me:

[Pradeep @kbpradeep]

@SwiggyCares Does swiggy have a wishlist or cart which any swiggy user can put and share link and some other swiggy user can pay for during festival times like deepavali or sankranthi say for secuirty guards delivered by swiggy

[Pradeep @kbpradeep]

@Swiggy Does swiggy have a wishlist or cart which any swiggy user can put and share link and some other swiggy user can pay for during festival times like deepavali or sankranthi say for secuirty guards delivered by swiggy
#Payitforward

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

[Justin Bauer @justinjbauer]

20 years ago, @bhorowitz wrote the seminal post in product management. This is my humble attempt to add to the canon, based on my experience working with 100's of product teams: https://t.co/d0sABWY9pY

[Vardhman Jain @lightroastguy]

Wife's advice on 1st day of 2026: Don't make work your entire personality, there is life beyond work.

[Pradeep @kbpradeep]

Uber trip pricing and gig economy

[Vardhman Jain @lightroastguy]

I worked at Uber and was closely involved during multiple driver strikes in Bangalore. This often meant long days at HSR/BTM traffic police stations, dealing directly with frustrated drivers.
Whenever we cut driver incentives at a per-trip level or introduced complex incentive structures, the pushback was immediate and intense. These decisions were driven by market share goal getting more drivers onboard to meet demand. In hindsight, this was never sustainable.

We later shifted focus: Increased trip fares,Non-monetary benefits (insurance, fuel, groceries), Alerts for drivers exceeding 60 hours/week, Regular focus group discussions via an initiative I launched called Uber Samaaj

Despite this, backlash continued. It simply became part of the job.
The real perspective shift came when I moved to Colombo.
There, I saw part-time drivers driving ~22 hours/week actually benefiting from the platform.

Higher fares meant decent earnings without overworking. That’s when it clicked: these platforms were designed for part-timers, not full-time dependency.

The market contrast explains a lot.
In 2019: Melbourne avg trip fare ≈ $8
India avg trip fare ≈ $3
When fares are low, drivers compensate by increasing hours. Longer hours lead to fatigue, dissatisfaction, and inevitable conflict with platforms.

This isn’t just an Uber issue.
It’s a structural problem across all gig platforms in price-sensitive markets, where platforms optimize for flexibility, but workers seek stability.

Until this mismatch is acknowledged honestly, tension between gig platforms and workers will remain a permanent feature not a temporary bug.

[Pradeep @kbpradeep]

@AiyshwaryaM Can KRDCL create official email id for Vice Chairperson so that citizen can reachout for their concerns
Does KRDCL have official twitter page to share official updates with citizens

[Xiaopeng He @xiaopenghexpeng]

The future isn’t just imagined — it’s engineered.
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Follow to explore where it takes you.

[Rexan Wong @rexan_wong]

if you're a founder looking for some BIG money - you're ngmi if you don't know these startup acceleratiors you can apply to rn:

- @sequoia arc ($1M)
- @openai converge ($1M equity investment)
- @hf0 residency ($1M uncapped for 5% or $500k uncapped + 3%)
- @speedrun by a16z ($750k–$1M for ~7–10%)
- @southpkcommons ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on)
- @neo ($600k via uncapped SAFE with $10M floor valuation)
- @betaworks AI Camp ($500k)
- @ycombinator ($500k for ~7%)
- @btv_vc's The Mint ($500k for 10%)
- @BoostVC (up to $500k for 15%)
- @GreylockVC's Edge (SAFE note + $500k+ in credits)
- APX (up to €500k, typically €50k for 5%)
- @AforeVC Capital ($100k–$500k)
- @join_ef (entrepreneurs first) ($250k for ~9%)
- @pearvc ($250k–$2M)
- @aigrant ($250k uncapped)
- @AntlerGlobal ($200k–$250k for 8–9%)
- @Techstars ($220k for ~5–7%)
- @SkyDeck_Cal (Berkeley SkyDeck) ($200k)
- @seedcamp (€100k–€200k for 7–7.5%)
- @conviction embed ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE)
- @joinodf founder fellowship ($150k for 5–10%)
- @LAUNCH incubator ($125k for 6–7%)
- @angelpad ($120k for 7%)
- @500GlobalVC ($112.5k for 6%)
- @Soma_Capital ($100k)
- @GoogleStartups (up to $100k)
- @StartupWiseGuys (up to €65k for equity)
- @AlchemistAcc (equity-based, B2B focus)
- @MassChallenge (non-dilutive up to $2M in prizes)
- @founding (equity-based, global program)

if you're funding in 2026 cash isn't the issue. picking the right people / groups to give you cash matters more

these are only VCs - don't forget there are grants where they give money to you for free and fellowships (you need founder aura)

bootstrapping is fine as well - software is getting cheaper, easier, and faster to build. you need cracked distribution

whatever path you take to build + scale your software company go get it!

[Dr PV Ramesh @RameshPV2010]

"Why India Fell Off the Global Middle-Class Map" - A brilliant diagnosis of the pathologies stymying the emergence of India on global stage by @andymukherjee70 for @opinion @business
Unless India, especially its 'Octopus Class' and those with aspirations/illusions of being part of that class, pays serious attention to addressing the structural challenges outlined 👇, its destined to stagnate, notwithstanding the bluster of GDP, growth, etc.
https://t.co/hpsD6EvltP

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

here is a list of all startup accelerators you can apply to right now:

- a16z Speedrun ($750k–$1M for ~7–10%)
- Y Combinator ($500k for ~7%)
- Pioneer ($20k for 1%)
- LAUNCH ($125k for 6–7%)
- The Mint ($500k for 10%)
- AngelPad ($120k for 7%)
- Techstars ($220k for ~5–7%)
- 500 Global ($112.5k for 6%)
- Entrepreneur First ($250k for ~9%)
- South Park Commons ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on)
- HFO Residency ($1M uncapped for 5% or $500k uncapped + 3%)
- NEO ($600k via uncapped SAFE with $10M floor valuation)
- Sequoia Arc ($1M)
- PearX ($250k–$2M)
- Betaworks AI Camp ($500k)
- Greylock Edge (SAFE note + $500k+ in credits)
- Conviction Embed ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE)
- OpenAI Converge ($1M equity investment)
- Startup Wise Guys (up to €65k for equity)
- APX (up to €500k, typically €50k for 5%)
- Founders Fellowship ($150k for 5–10%)
- Seedcamp (€100k–€200k for 7–7.5%)
- Antler (€100k for 10% + stipend)
- Google for Startups (up to $100k)Accel Atoms (up to $500k–$1M)
- AI Grant ($250k uncapped)
- AI2 Incubator ($50k–$150k)Afore Capital ($100k–$500k)
- Berkeley SkyDeck ($200k)
- Soma Capital ($100k)
- Founder Institute (equity-based program with undisclosed funding)
- Boost VC (up to $500k for 15%)
- Antler ($200k–$250k for 8–9%)