Wish I had this advice a year ago... 90% of my portfolio in a single holding (that had 20x'd) ...and then watched it go down 98% before selling out at a 50% capital loss. Holding then went bankrupt. Max pain. Learn from cartoons on the internet. Avoid max pain.

Do acquisitions ever not drop eng standards? Baffling what some at the W2 say is a "good idea"? Like no dude, we're not going to go back to 1990s waterfall dev quarterly deploys just because you're from a tier 3 city, we just acquired you, and you don't know how to ship fast.

In many cases this is the sign of an arrogant blowhard, not a humble, 10x engineer. Any manager from the past 70 years of tech companies will say given any other person’s code, most engineers default assessment is: Rewrite. Reading and maintaining takes effort. Writing is fun.

India. Lower travel costs for party staff.

Not too many tears shed here since these jobs had already been offshored years ago, but this will be the W2 meta. Your employer will track everything you do, train AI on it, and replace larger and larger tranches of the workforce as fast as they can. Plan your escape.