Everyone has their dark days. Here are the toughest situations I went through — the ones that shaped my life and taught me to face any challenge that comes my way.

The Fall

Second Class Graduate — I graduated second class in Engineering, and no employer would even consider me for an …

Canada beat South Africa 1-0 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on June 28, 2026, with a Stephen Eustáquio goal in the 92nd minute, advancing to the World Cup Round of 16 for the first time in the nation's history. The match stayed scoreless deep into stoppage time, a tight and …

For two decades, online shopping has asked us to do the work. We type queries, scroll grids, open ten tabs, compare sizing charts, abandon carts, and come back three days later when the algorithm finally serves the right ad. The store is a catalog and we are the search engine …

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Part-3 of the Knowledge Graph Series

What if your legacy COBOL codebase could explain itself — collaboratively, intelligently, and on demand?

For decades, COBOL systems have quietly powered banks, insurance firms, and governments. And for …

Choosing a graph backend is less about finding the "best" tool and more about matching the tool to your scale, query style, and deployment constraints. This is a survey of the main options across three tiers: in-process libraries, embedded file-based engines, and full graph database servers. Each entry below gives …

Most mainframe troubleshooting RAGs fail at the same place: retrieval. An abend code like S0C7 is a near-exact lookup, not a fuzzy semantic match — but vector search happily returns the S0C4 chunk because the embeddings sit close together. And job dependencies are graph-shaped: an abend in step 3 cascades to …

A startup employee equity cliff period is the minimum amount of time an employee must stay with the company before earning any ownership rights to their stock options or equity grants.

Typical Structure

4-Year Vesting with 1-Year Cliff The most common arrangement: equity vests over four years, with nothing earned …

Self-learning courses promise freedom — learn anytime, anywhere, at your own pace. But that same freedom is what kills most of them. The completion numbers tell the story: median completion rates for online courses sit around 12.6%, with the worst performers near 0.7% and even the best topping out …

In 2014, Masayoshi Son stood on a Tokyo stage and unveiled Pepper — a wide-eyed white humanoid he called the world's first robot that could read human emotions. He was not pitching a gadget. He was pitching a new era, one where SoftBank would lead the way as robots moved from …

In November 2017, a five-foot robot named Mitra greeted Ivanka Trump and chatted with Narendra Modi at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad. It was the kind of moment a founder cannot buy — national press, a viral clip, India's own humanoid robot sharing a stage with world leaders.

Nine years …