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I recently came across this Twitter thread, where @samuelstancl listed tips for writing cleaner code in Laravel, as well as some general Laravel coding advice. These are a great starting point to develop a sense for what’s good code and what’s bad code - so I collated them below (with...

Dear fellow startup founder, the worst part of the Covid-19 crisis isn't just that previously-profitable businesses have touched zero revenues - it is that there is no visibility on a timeline for a return to normalcy or even an end in sight. This isn’t the first time we have seen...

India is a growing market for food consumption. Uber Eats has significantly ramped up, with engaging ad campaigns having leading celebrities. Uber Eats does 1/3rd of Swiggy orders, yet the company is being sold for 1/10th of Swiggy's valuation. Why would Uber sell Eats cheaply after a significant long-term investment...

When Love finds you, it's seldom at your best. Rather, it happens upon you at your worst - when you've lost all faith in yourself and your confidence lies tattered in a thousand scraps. It finds you to patiently put those pieces back, one after the other, painstakingly. It finds...

Come the last few weeks of December every year and we are faced with a deluge of “new year resolutions” - promises to keep and targets to attain in the upcoming three hundred and sixty five days or so. The utility or veracity of such resolutions is often questioned, especially...