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Sachin Gupta
Personal blog · sachingupta.cocareerculture
Sachin Gupta's personal blog at sachingupta.co covers career and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “You Can Only Do So Much”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for an open letter to IIT graduates about brain drain and the advantages of premier-institute degrees. One commenter quotes the author's other post on needing to work harder without a prestigious degree.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- You Can Only Do So Much2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-03-10
What Hacker News says?
The author has another blog post [0] where he writes and I quote If you are not from a premier institute and you have to work three times harder to prove yourself, but if you have that prestigious degree you are welcome aboard even if you don't have it in you. Inadvertently, he has pointed out the actual problem. Sure the graduates from IIT's are sucked into "brain drain" but what about the rest large chunk of popul…
Comment linking /2013/01/you-aint-from-iit-you-aint-good-enough.html
on “An open letter to the IIT Graduates”Submitted An open letter to the IIT Graduates as a story · 56 points
HN discussionSubmitted So you are a rockstar programmer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can only do as much as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter to IIT graduates as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I am the CEO Bitch as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted No, don't say it to her as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Can Only Do So Much as a story · 1 points
HN discussion