Choose your starting line
Pick the lane that matters right now.
You do not need the whole library right this second. You need the lane that matches the mess sitting on your chest.
Starting line28 episodes
Get hired
Interviews, recruiter playbooks, layoffs, internships, career fairs, networking, and breaking into a specific role. If the center of gravity is hiring tactics, start here.
Moves worth stealing
- Get Hired For Agentic AI Big Tech Roles in 2026 (Amazon Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Surya
- Surya Kari works on Amazon's generative AI team, so this conversation gets into what actually matters now: customer judgment, data science fundamentals, model evaluation, and the proof that tells a hiring team you can ship inside a real business.
- Get Hired for Applied AI Roles in Fortune 500 Companies (Target Sr Data Scientist POV) - w/ Sowmya
- Sowmya Podila, a senior data scientist at Target, walks through how Fortune 500 AI work actually gets staffed, what hiring teams look for, and how to build a story that sounds useful instead of buzzword-heavy.
- If you want an AI role without pretending the path is obvious, start here.
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Move countries
H-1B, O-1, OPT, study abroad admissions, country alternatives, reverse culture shock, and the paperwork/identity math of starting somewhere else.
Moves worth stealing
- Get a UK Work Visa With No Lottery (H-1B Lottery Reject POV) - w/ Hari
- They scramble for a second master's, beg their company for an internal transfer, or start mentally preparing to go back home.
- Engineer Your Path to an O-1 Visa - w/ Harsh
- Building a Strong Profile for O1
- THRIVE As An International Student (Grades Don't Matter) - w/ Bhushan
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Build and ship
Audience growth, products, ventures, apps, podcasts, books, films, coaching practices, events, and anything where the work has to leave your head and meet the world.
Moves worth stealing
- Make $80K on Upwork (From a Top 3% Freelancer) - w/ Anas
- Starting on Upwork Before Feeling Fully Ready
- Vibe-Code 20 Production Apps in 13 Days - w/ Avi
- If you've been told "AI is making it easier to build" but you still freeze at "what should I build, how do I ship it, who's going to use it?" — this episode unjams the whole pipeline.
- Publish 100 Podcast Episodes (10 Lessons I Wish I Knew on Day 1)
Starting line18 episodes
Pivot careers
Function switches, industry switches, AI-disruption pivots, and non-standard career paths where the move itself is the story.
Moves worth stealing
- Build a Global Health Career (Public Health Master’s, Oxford & WHO Africa) - w/ Dyuti
- In this episode, I sit down with Dyuti Sen to talk about what a public health career actually looks like when you do not start as a doctor, do not have a linear plan, and refuse to pretend the journey was smooth.
- Future-Proof Your Tech Career in the Age of AI Agents (3x UiPath MVP POV) - w/ Naveen
- Building a Career in RPA
- starts taking action? UiPath company itself has evolved from RPA to agentic AI. AI. In this episode, I'm joined by...
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Make the weird bet
Art, DJing, spiritual leadership, social ventures, comedy, Bollywood singing, health, finance, travel, and life-as-experiment pursuits that refuse the standard box.
Moves worth stealing
- Help Rag-Picker Children in Kolkata Escape Poverty thru Education & Empowerment - w/ Shafkat
- Gen Z Reality Check: Shafkat offers sobering advice to young people wasting their prime years chasing government jobs that may never come. His message? Get focused. Get skills. Get moving.
- Stick To Culture-Centered Nutrition (& Why It Matters for NRIs) - w/ Neha
- Sourcing Secrets: How to find authentic, chemical-free Indian ingredients in the US (beyond just the local Patel Brothers).
- Millions of Indians move abroad and immediately switch to a diet of salads, cold sandwiches, and protein bars, thinking they are making better choices.
