What is your definition of a Nerd?

I'm bored at work, not in the mindspace to do any work.... But....I'm in the mood to roast strangers. Tell me something about you in 280 characters or less and I'll roast you to the best of my ability. Feel free to roast me too: I'm a geek and love coffee, hate apple, love android, and HATE cringfluencers on LinkedIn Love creating drama. Think of me as a walking-talking biggboss 😏

I’ll go first. To me, it’s all about access. Access to authentic ideas. The best search result you get on Google is high SEO but low authenticity. On LinkedIn, there are so many people but everyone is shilling a course or 1:1 resume reviews. Mostly it has become a place which started as vanity signalling Like ( I have started a new role…, I have been accepted at …, I have received offers from F, A, N and G and I’m joining G.) And now people pushing mindless content with “Agree?” or “Comment Interested”. Somehow, everyone is truly inauthentic to please a wider audience and say the exact same generic gyaan to maximise engagement. For now, Grapevine is where people are genuinely themselves and I get to hear interesting things that you get to hear near the coffee machine. Kinda feels like we’re all a big community where we all contribute and learn new things about the professional landscape around us. Godspeed Grapevine. 🚀

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This is a reminder to yourself. I'll start: 1. Maybe a good painter/reading books/comics 2. A good athletic/fitness freak 3. An alpha character/quick finisher/a role model 4. I'd help more/photographer/method actor/racing Help yourself in answering them amidst this busy schedule :) P.S: I saved this picture long back but barely answered myself. Today I took 30+ minutes alone.

Educated Illiterate....

The current startup tech employees and founders are filled with so much junkies who do not care about the product at all. The culture is set when the startup is founded,when the first set of employees arrive. These folks are some of the most driven and talented and that's fine, it's how it should be. But the problem begins when these folks do not find their own hiring strategy and copy the hiring strategy of other companies. Instead of analysing what works best for them they justify their hiring means by saying this is what other have done. The result is you get a bunch of leetcode warriors who are always wanting to jump ships when given opportunity, never forming deep knowledge about their industry and their product. I work in one of the legacy tech companies, sure we do not hire the best people but we nurture them and that earns loyalty and long careers in our company. Even the employees have a very 360 degree view wrt product. We always deeply care about our product. Tbh I love seeing the stupidity of the market and it makes me happy that more confident that these people are wrong and always will be. Even the Indian startups are unoriginal and copied from the west then how do you expect the hiring to be unique. We are all living in the circus where jokers are supporting each other in making the circus bigger.

Don't give office machinery as answer, something that is important to you & may or may not be important to others