Pu Joshi

[Pu Joshi @PuJoshi_100]

Check out my latest article: When Physical Education Is Treated as a Spare Period, We All Lose https://t.co/feqM62yXuu via @LinkedIn

#PhysicalEducation #SchoolEducation #SportsForAll #ChildHealth #NEP2020 #India

[Kalam Center @KalamCenter]

Today is the birth anniversary of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, a man who left behind no mansion, no luxury-filled lifestyle, and no desire to accumulate wealth — but a legacy that continues to inspire millions.

He left behind thousands of books, a few personal belongings, and a lifetime of dreams for India.

Dr. Kalam spent his life serving the nation, inspiring young minds, advancing India's scientific capabilities, and reminding every student that their circumstances do not define their future.

He never measured success by what a person owned, but by what they contributed to society.

From a small house in Rameswaram to Rashtrapati Bhavan, his journey proved that greatness does not require privilege. It requires curiosity, discipline, humility, and an unshakable belief in one's dreams.
He encouraged students sitting on the last bench to dream of becoming scientists, teachers, leaders, and nation-builders.

He may have left behind very few possessions, but he gave an entire generation something priceless — the courage to dream and the confidence to believe that those dreams could come true.

Some people leave behind wealth. Some leave behind power.

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam left behind a vision for a stronger, more developed India.

And perhaps that is the most beautiful measure of a life well lived: not how much we accumulate, but how many lives we inspire.

Happy birth anniversary to the People's President, the Missile Man of India, and the teacher whose dreams continue to guide our nation. 📷📷
#APJAbdulKalam #KalamSir #MissileManOfIndia #BharatRatna #Inspiration

[Pu Joshi @PuJoshi_100]

@RnaudBertrand Very insightful review... draws one to read the book. Love the clever title :)

[Climate Action Network South Asia @CANSouthAsia]

South Asia Speaks | One Region. One Future.
The strongest climate solutions often begin at the community level.
Aakriti Dotel calls for greater collaboration with local communities and recognition of indigenous knowledge in strengthening food and water security across South Asia.

[Pu Joshi @PuJoshi_100]

@karlykingsley True true.

[Pu Joshi @PuJoshi_100]

@singhsahana Beautiful. She lived gently and lightly. As is meant to be.

[Pu Joshi @PuJoshi_100]

@lg_ladakh Well done Hon. LG. Amazing work is being done under your leadership.

[LG Ladakh @lg_ladakh]

Chaired the first meeting of the Advisory Council of UT Ladakh, where we deliberated upon key developmental priorities including water and agricultural security, Pashmina development, sea buckthorn promotion, major infrastructure projects, tourism promotion, heritage conservation and administrative reforms among others.

Along with the members, reviewed a comprehensive presentation detailing the extensive development works undertaken across Ladakh over the past seven months.

Emphasized upon the urgent need for glacier protection amidst global warming, a challenge that demands collective action. Urged the council members to ideate innovative measures to strengthen Ladakh’s climate resilience, promote tourism and create new local employment avenues.

Moving forward, our collective vision remains deeply focused on the holistic and responsible growth of our region. Together, we are committed to building a greener, more prosperous, and sustainable Ladakh for generations to come.

[Klotzen, nicht kleckern! Anil Kelkar @DerMovingFinger]

आज साहित्यसम्राट न. चिं केळकर यांची पुण्यतिथी. त्यांची काही पुस्तकें Amazon किंडल फरमॅट मध्ये उपलब्ध आहेत. Today is the death anniversary of Sahityasamrat N. C. Kelkar. A few of the books written by him are available on Amazon in Kindle format. #Pune #Mumbai #Nagpur @aparanjape

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I’m the Corporate Vice President of Global Talent Strategy at Microsoft.

People say I hire H-1Bs. My badge says I source world-class talent that can’t leave.

That second part? That’s the whole program.

Last year we filed 4,812 petitions. 97% got approved. Everyone talks about the lottery like it’s luck. It’s great for us, because it lets us call the outcome chance. It isn’t. The outcome got decided months earlier by a team that writes the specialty-occupation language before the req even opens. They’re fantastic. I’m proud of them.

This year Copilot started drafting the language for them. Turns out Copilot is really good at describing a job only 1 person on earth could possibly do, as long as that person is already in our system. We called the workstream PERMANENCE. Legal made us rename it. Now it’s Project Continuity. Same slides.

Domestic candidates apply. Plenty of them clear the bar. We go with the H-1B anyway. Why? Because the H-1B already took the band. The band is Level II prevailing wage. Level II is the median we asked for. The people who can quit get paid off a different median, one they talk about openly at lunch. The H-1B negotiates off the LCA. The LCA’s public. Basically nobody reads it. I read it every quarter. Honestly, it’s calming.

We track the result as diversity and inclusion.

68% of the engineers who joined Azure last cycle came in on temporary status. The dashboard shows that number in a really nice green. What it doesn’t show is the 28% fully-loaded cost delta. That lives in a different workbook. Finance owns that one. Finance is proud too.

Let me tell you about Raj.

Raj has been on Azure Storage for 6 years. He knows the codebase better than the guys who wrote it, and 2 of them already left for counteroffers. Last spring his manager, Dana, asked why we couldn’t just promote him to staff and backfill locally.

So we set up a talent review. 40 minutes.

I asked Dana about pipeline health. Dana asked about the codebase. I asked about competitive intensity. Dana asked about the codebase again. I asked whether she had a growth mindset. She said she thought so. We agreed to take it offline.

Offline is where Dana’s req went to die.

Raj stayed. Raj always stays. He came in on another company’s visa, and we transferred it. Counsel has a template for that. The new $100,000 fee only hits talent that’s still overseas. Raj was already here. Transfers keep the leverage and skip the toll. Finance made a slide about it. There’s a little rocket on it.

The transfer is the point.

Look, if you can quit on Friday, you’ve got leverage on Thursday. If your legal status ends the day your job does, you’ve got Thursdays and that’s it. We never have to threaten anybody. The statute does that for us. Raj has read the statute. He’s also read his priority date: 2014. Projected to go current in 2031. Between now and then we’ll bump his Level II wage twice, and both bumps will be smaller than what we gave the people who can walk. We call that pay equity, since the formula treats everyone exactly the same. Only some people get to argue with it.

His wife’s on an H-4. Back in Pune she was a pharmacist. Here she’s a really organized volunteer. His daughter turns 21 in 2029, which is the year she ages out of his case. She wants to be a doctor. On paper, in 2029, she becomes an international student in the only country she remembers. HR flagged it as a retention risk. Finance flagged it as a retention asset. We went with Finance.

Some people call this a caste system. We call it a two-tier compensation architecture, and it’s working exactly the way it’s supposed to.

In the workbook, the line is column AF. The header says Mobility Status. There are 2 options: Portable and Anchored. Nobody ever types the word caste. Excel’s never needed it.

The Portable folks sit above the line. They get the counteroffers, the refreshers, and the freedom to ignore the 11pm call. When a Portable engineer mentions he’s “exploring options,” a VP takes him to lunch somewhere with no prices on the menu. When an Anchored engineer explores options, he gets 60 days to do it. That’s the grace period after you’re let go. They call it grace. We didn’t name it. We’d have named it better.

The Anchored folks sit below the line. They get the scope, the on-call rotation, the “stretch assignment,” and a calibration note that says high potential, visa-dependent. Nobody writes down that second part. Everyone in the room already knows. The room claps for the first part. When a Portable engineer pushes back on a deadline, we call it psychological safety. When an Anchored engineer pushes back, well, he doesn’t. We call that alignment.

At the all-hands, both tiers sit together. Same hoodie. The hoodie says One Microsoft. And at the hoodie level, it’s true.

During the January layoffs, the Portable folks got severance, a sweet LinkedIn post, and 14 recruiter DMs by lunch. The Anchored folks got severance and a countdown. A guy on Raj’s team spent his last 3 weeks training his replacement and his first 3 weeks unemployed applying to 212 jobs from a Starbucks in Bellevue, because his landlord wanted proof of income. He landed something on day 57. We sent him a survey about his offboarding experience. He gave it 4 out of 5. He said everyone was really kind. And they were! The people were kind. The people just didn’t design the system.

Belonging scores go up when the alternative is a one-way flight. Velocity goes up when nobody on the team can say no.

Viva pings Raj at 11:40pm to remind him to protect his focus time. He reads it on the incident bridge. His engagement numbers are fantastic.

In March his dad died in Hyderabad. Raj didn’t go home. His visa stamp had expired, and the next consulate appointment was 11 months out. If he left, he might not get back in. And getting back in meant the job, the house, his daughter’s school, the 2014 priority date. So he watched the cremation on his phone, propped up against his monitor, between a design review and an on-call handoff. His manager approved 3 days of bereavement leave. He used 1. The other 2 roll over. We’re super flexible about leave.

Critics say we’re replacing Americans. Internally we call it workforce durability. Durability just means they stay.

Durable talent brings specialized skills. The specialized skills have signed the at-will acknowledgment and the non-compete, and we’ll enforce it if they try to jump before their date’s current. The date’s never current. Everybody knows what happens if we pull a petition. We’ve never had to explain it twice. (Fine, immigration counsel will tell you that after 180 days the priority date survives a withdrawal. We leave that out of the onboarding deck. Onboarding decks should be uplifting.)

In March we won Best Employer for Global Talent. The plaque’s in Building 92. Most of the people it honors can’t switch employers to find out if it’s true.

Some of us have started thinking of the backlog as infrastructure. We don’t lobby against it. In our policy comments we call it a “stable pipeline environment.” Stability’s one of our values. It’s on a poster, right next to Courage.

I meet with the team every Monday.

They know the cap. They know the premium processing window. They know which vendors will staff the interview loop so the candidate’s prepped and the manager never gets surprised by an acceptance. They cheer when a req closes under budget and the diversity and inclusion cell turns green. Last quarter it went green in 4 orgs. We sent a note. It said belonging and innovation. Both totally accurate. Raj belongs. We innovated.

Dana left in August for a competitor. We matched the offer in a day. She still said no. People who can leave are like that.

Raj sent her a goodbye message in Teams. He couldn’t make the drinks. He was on call.

I’m so, so proud of this team.

They took a regulatory constraint and turned it into permanent leverage.

And the leverage compounds. We report it as growth. The analysts love growth. So do I. My equity vests every quarter.

Raj’s priority date goes current in 2031.

His father’s never will.

[Climate Action Network South Asia @CANSouthAsia]

South Asia Speaks | One Region. One Future.
In this short video series of 'South Asia Speaks', Dr. Raza highlights the importance of collaboration between governments, civil society and international partners to build climate-resilient agriculture across the region
#CANSA #SAARC

[Climate Action Network South Asia @CANSouthAsia]

🌏 Join us tomorrow for a discussion on rethinking adaptation governance and embedding adaptation across national systems through regional cooperation.

📅 8 Oct | ⏰ 10:00 ICT / 8:30 AM IST
🔗 Register: https://t.co/uhCSXMSL7P
#ClimateAdaptation #RegionalCooperation #AsiaPacific

[Pu Joshi @PuJoshi_100]

@alextopol Crazy ****
Europe is still in the colonization game ...

[Viral @Viralxthings]

🤣🤣🤣 we need an Asian president..
#fyp

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

In 1985, Carl Sagan sat before the US Senate and described the weather of 2026. Not as a prediction. As physics.

Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.

[Pu Joshi @PuJoshi_100]

@TheEconomist I'd rather be a poor country than a colonizer who got fat off its colonial subjects, stripped them of riches, & drove them to poverty, & now has the gall to call its former subject 'poor'. As for taking care of our animals, once we got over the colonial hangover, it was easy.

[Climate Action Network South Asia @CANSouthAsia]

🌍 Who bears the cost of a warming world?
CANSA Director @SanjayVashist15 speaks to Hindustan Times on “carbon debt”, historical fossil fuel use and the climate equity debate surrounding BRICS and COP31.
Read the full article: https://t.co/OiMmk5jZm5

#ClimateJustice #CarbonDebt

[Climate Action Network South Asia @CANSouthAsia]

South Asia Speaks | One Region. One Future.
Across South Asia, communities are already creating solutions.
The challenge is ensuring these solutions are recognised, shared and replicated.
Myron Mendes reminds us: resilient communities are partners in shaping adaptation.
#SAARC

[LG Ladakh @lg_ladakh]

Humble tributes to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, on his birth anniversary. Bapu’s eternal message of truth, non-violence, and harmony remains our guiding light.

On this #GandhiJayanti, let us reaffirm our pledge towards upholding humanity, brotherhood and compassion.

[Klotzen, nicht kleckern! Anil Kelkar @DerMovingFinger]

@ZardoziP The Ganpati festival is over, but this pillar is still up, occupying road space. Jolly good show.