SaaS is 1992 - a short story. In 1992, while doing general timepass with a bunch of friends, one of them said that he's won a cleaning contract of a certain soap factory. Each evening after the shift work is done, he goes there with his crew to clean up the factory floor.

Should we feel proud that Tata worked so hard and invested so much in a watch making factory in 1984, instead of doing something revolutionary and investing in semiconductors? They had the capital, the govt backing and countries like Japan could have helped if we had asked them nicely. But They decided to play it safe and launch watches instead, a tech that has been around forever? Considering that TSMC was founded in 1987 and Koreans too were taking baby steps, it is a nice what if scenario, where our semiconductor future could have been very different had Tata decided to take that direction instead of making watches.

If, when you say regulation, you mean the dead and clammy hand of the commissar—the gentleman who has never in his life built a single thing, drafting rules to govern a thing he cannot define, to be enforced by men who cannot read them; if you mean the form in triplicate, the impact assessment upon the impact assessment, the compliance officer who breeds, in the warm dark of the org chart, further compliance officers unto the third and fourth generation; if you mean the moat—the deep cold moat that the giant digs around his own castle and christens, with a perfectly straight face, public safety—the drawbridge he hauls up behind himself the very instant he is across, lest any hungrier and hungrier man should follow; if you mean the precautionary principle, which, had it governed our grandfathers, would have banned the wheel pending further study of the hill, and left us yet shivering and raw in the mouth of the cave, blessing its excellent ventilation; if you mean the European disease—that magnificent open-air museum of a continent, which produces in our time precisely two things in great abundance, and they are regulation, and the eloquent and well-footnoted regret of cultivated men explaining at length why they have produced nothing else; if you mean the license required to think, the permission slip for honest arithmetic, the king’s wax stamp pressed upon the forehead of every new idea before it may draw its first breath; if you mean the agency dispatched, with trumpets, to slay a single dragon, which arrives at the cave, surveys the accommodations, and moves in—and spends the ensuing century laying eggs and devouring the very villagers it was sworn to defend; if you mean the startup that perishes not of the market’s honest verdict but of the filing fee, the genius decamping by the next tide to a freer and warmer shore; if you mean the law that arrives, faithful as the swallows, exactly one whole epoch too late—helmeted, plumed, and magnificently armed—to regulate the stagecoach—then certainly, my friends, I am against it. But—but, my friends—if, when you say regulation, you mean instead the humble steel guardrail upon the mountain road at midnight, the very thing you curse on the easy days and bless on your knees the one night the fog comes down; if you mean the brakes—for it is the brakes, and not the engine alone, that permit a sane man to drive fast and yet arrive alive—and the buttress, without which no cathedral was ever flung so high, but only in spite of which, but because of which; if you mean the meat inspector, who is the single homely reason a man may eat a sausage in this republic without first composing his last will and testament; if you mean the firebreak cut clean through the forest before the dry season of the burning, the smallpox cordon, the buoy that marks the channel, the rule of the road that lets ten thousand strangers hurtle past one another in the dark at fearful speed and arrive, by its quiet grace, every one of them home; if you mean the honest scale and the true weight, the reason a pound is a pound and a dollar a dollar from Natchez to Nome; if you mean the firm and decent wall between the counterfeit voice and the widow’s bank account, between the deepfaked candidate and the ballot box on the eve of the vote, between the loosed and loveless machine and the schoolyard it neither knows nor pities; if you mean the simple plank of law that says the strong shall not, in the gray dawn, feed the weak quietly into the furnace and sell the rising smoke as progress; if you mean, in the end, the one slender thread of trust without which no citizen will ever dare to use the marvelous thing at all—for where there is no rule there is no trust, and where there is no trust there is no commerce, and a miracle that no man dares to touch is no miracle, but only a handsome and expensive ghost—then certainly I am for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise one inch of it.

PSA: Do not open your windows in Waymos. I was assaulted and robbed in a Waymo in the Mission District. I was punched three times in the face and head. Waymo treats criminals as pedestrians and stops moving, leaving you vulnerable. They gave me 5 free rides tho

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🔸Announcement and unveiling the logo of 'Mumbai Tech Week 2026' by CM Devendra Fadnavis. Co-Chair of the Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM) Governing Council, Aakrit Vaish and Harsh Jain, Head of Marketing for the TEAM Governing Council, Naiyya Saggi and other dignitaries were present. 🔸 मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस यांच्यातर्फे 'मुंबई टेक वीक 2026'च्या लोगोचे अनावरण व घोषणा. यावेळी टेक आंत्रप्रेन्योर्स असोसिएशन ऑफ मुंबई (TEAM) गव्हर्निंग कौन्सिलचे सह-अध्यक्ष आक्रित वैश आणि हर्ष जैन, 'TEAM' गव्हर्निंग कौन्सिलच्या हेड ऑफ मार्केटिंग नैय्या सग्गी व इतर मान्यवर उपस्थित होते. 🔸 मुख्यमंत्री देवेंद्र फडणवीस इनके द्वारा 'मुंबई टेक वीक 2026' के लोगो का अनावरण एवं घोषणा। इस अवसर पर टेक आंत्रप्रेन्योर्स असोसिएशन ऑफ मुंबई (TEAM) के सह-अध्यक्ष आक्रित वैश और हर्ष जैन, 'TEAM' गवर्निंग काउंसिल की हेड ऑफ मार्केटिंग नैय्या सग्गी एवं अन्य मान्यवर उपस्थित थे। 🕧 12.15pm | 22-5-2026📍Sahyadri Guest House, Mumbai | दु. १२.१५ वा. | २२-५-२०२६📍सह्याद्री अतिथीगृह, मुंबई. @Dev_Fadnavis @aakrit @harshjain85 @mumbai_tech_ #Maharashtra #DevendraFadnavis #MumbaiTechWeek

India makes more milk than any country on Earth. Italy has 400 cheeses. India has roughly zero aged ones. Ever wondered why?