Abhi Mitra

We live in an age of shortcuts. But the greatest waste of time isn't laziness — it's chasing the illusion that wealth comes fast and value comes free.  Every day, millions of people open their phones and scroll through ads promising financial freedom in 30 days. Crypto signals. Day-trading courses. Dropshipping blueprints. Passive income "systems." The dream is always the same: make money without really working for it.And every day, those same people are quietly wasting something far more valuable than money — their time, their attention, and their potential. The Pursuit of Quick Money Is a Detour, Not a Shortcut Here's the brutal paradox: the people spending hours chasing "quick money" schemes are often working harder than those building real, sustainable income. They're researching, buying courses, testing strategies, losing money, and starting over — all while convincing themselves they're close to a breakthrough. Morgan Housel, in his landmar...

Good. Now Is the Worst — and Best — Time to Start. The CS job market is contracting. AI is reshaping software. And yet, game development may be the most human-proof career in tech. If you've been watching the tech industry for the past two years, you've seen the headlines. Mass layoffs at major studios. Junior developer roles evaporating as AI code generation matures. Computer science graduates struggling to find entry-level positions that barely existed a few years ago. It's a sobering landscape — especially if you're considering a career in game development, which sits right at the intersection of "creative field" and "software engineering." So is it still worth it? I'd argue yes — but with clear eyes about what that actually means. The honest picture The CS market contraction is real and it disproportionately affects roles that are purely functional — CRUD apps, boilerplate backends, routine front-end work. These are exactly the tasks AI handl...

After months of muscle memory — opening a new tab, typing into that familiar white box — I finally did it. I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription. Not out of frustration, not because of some dramatic failure, but simply because something better came along. That something is Claude. The switch wasn't impulsive. I'd been using Claude on the side for a while, curious but not fully committed. Then, slowly, I noticed something: I was ending up on Claude more and more for the things that actually mattered to me — long pieces of writing, nuanced discussions, tasks that needed careful thinking rather than fast answers. 

When nations race to own the future, can an ancient Indian idea be the missing framework? A few weeks ago I was debugging a smart contract late at night — the kind of session where you forget time exists. But something kept nagging at me beyond the code. The news feed was full of stories about semiconductor export bans, AI chip restrictions, undersea cable disputes, and countries racing to wall off their digital borders. And here I was, building on a blockchain network that by design belongs to no one and everyone. The contrast hit hard. The technology we build is increasingly borderless. The politics governing it is increasingly territorial. And somewhere in that gap lives one of the most important questions of our generation: who owns the future, and who gets left out? Vasudeva Kutumbakam - a Sanskrit phrase from the Maha Upanishad - translates as "the world is one family." It is not a soft platitude. It is a philosophical assertion that the boundaries we draw between us an...