Business Standard: “To beat slow growth, India needs to create better-paying jobs at scale…The combination of slower productivity and a shrinking formal sector has substantially restrained wage growth, undermining both worker income and domestic demand.”
[Via Atoms vs Bits]: Tips on throwing a party: “Advertise your start time as a quarter-to the hour. If you start an event at 2:00, people won’t arrive till 2:30; if you make it 1:45, people will arrive at 2:00…Invite a few close friends to come 30-60 mins earlier to set up / eat dinner with you / hang out / whatever, so that when the start time approaches you’re already having fun instead of stressing that nobody will come… If someone arrives at your party and doesn’t know anybody, welcome them and then place them with another group or person. Ideally you can pick someone they’d specifically get along well with, at second-best just someone who’s friendly and easy to talk to, but ultimately you can just insert them in any group that’s nearby and open…To leave a group conversation, just slowly step back and then step away. Don’t draw attention to your leaving or you’ll be pulled back in. It feels mildly weird to do this but it’s worth it.”
ICONIQ State of Software 2025 Report. “AI no longer appears to be just a product feature – it could reshape the entire operating model of modern software companies. From product development to team structure to value creation, AI is influencing every layer of the business stack. It’s not just about smarter tools; it’s about a fundamentally different way of building and scaling software companies. AI-native companies are setting a new bar for performance. The data shows these companies are scaling faster, more efficiently, and with fewer resources than their traditional SaaS counterparts. They’re growing 2-3x faster than top-quartile SaaS benchmarks, converting users to paying customers at significantly higher rates, and delivering stronger performance across critical efficiency metrics such as net magic number and burn multiple.”
WSJ: “Similar to the way workers who once depended on employers to oversee their retirement pensions were handed the reins with 401(k) plans, patients are shouldering responsibility for diagnosing their own symptoms, tracking their own medical data and even ordering their own lab tests. The challenges aren’t unlike those of managing one’s own financial portfolio: vetting sources of information, evaluating new products and making informed decisions about complex topics. In today’s fast-evolving healthcare landscape, AI and other new technologies and services are emerging to help patients find and act on medical information.”
