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Punchline! It’s not just comedy anymore. It’s a movement. The world is in conflict. Not necessarily on the battlefield, but in our minds, in our interactions, in the ever-present animosity and passive-aggressive thoughts we hold towards one another. Why? It’s worse than ever. Is social media to blame? It’s more complicated than that. The problem is greed. Yes, greed drives our incentives, shaping...

Labels are meant for identification, but these days, they’re a form of masquerade—a double entendre, wolf in sheep’s clothing, smoke and mirrors, bait-and-switch switcheroo that can outdo Mata Hari herself. It’s a virtue-signalling false flag that captures your awareness and exploits your innocence. It’s a form of perception-hacking that burrows into your fears and influences your decisions for th...

It’s Season 3 of TechComedyLife. This is VIJEV, and we seek an emotional and spiritual understanding of our world to help us find our purpose. We don’t mean this in an abstract sense. Rather, we discuss practical methods to help you discover your purpose, even when you don’t know where to start. Did you know that if you ask people in careers or busy working lives what they would do if they had all...

What will it take for us to co-exist as a human species where we work together, celebrate our differences, and help humanity realize we are stronger when we leverage our asymmetrical cultures, views, skills, and methods to help build our society? When did it become about us vs them? How did we start separating our “humanness” with artificial values, borders, ideologies and heritage that our humans...

Are you ambitious? It's the dream we have of having a better more fulfilling life. The innate drive to create and do things beyond the norm. It pulls us out of our comfort complacent zone into a zone of achievement. It's also our collective drive to build and create new things that propel us due to necessity. We, unfortunately, took it too far. We did it to protect ourselves and were motivated by...

I'm a mind surfer. I ride the waves, exploring the vastness of the human universe, diving into the joy and sorrow each experience brings, uncovering hidden treasures sunk beneath my subconscious, ignored previously by my own choices in the pursuit of survival, false admiration, and shallow wealth. These experiences have moulded and directed me toward a newfound state of being. To delve within me,...

Before you chase me with your oil lamps, paraffin lighters, and acid from your backup batteries, hear me out. VIJEV here being a bit more serious for this piece. South Africa is a relatively young democracy having to create its own path and way while it was already on the back foot long before we had our general election. The ANC is known for their struggle in changing our landscape from the old t...

This is VIJEV and let’s talk about storytelling. I’ve been learning how to use AI for storytelling, including trying out ChatGPT and even Notion AI to assist with creative writing. I’ve created a story with my own plot, characters and twists. I then asked AI to help rewrite some of the sentences to be more coherent and of course with better grammar. I then took the story and fed it with ChatGPT ag...

It's VIJEV, and April has brought a refreshing coolness to the Southern Hemisphere. What better time to discuss self-reflection? Despite our relentless pursuit to uncover the world's mysteries, we often neglect the most crucial mystery of all – discovering ourselves. This unexplored territory holds the key to our identity. In this video, I speak to Deepak John and Naledi King about discovering our...

Start writing today. Use the button below to create your own Substack and connect your publication with TechComedyLife This is VIJEV and it’s time for another podcast. It’s our first, fashionably late one for 2023. We talk about the latest development in the world of AI. ChatGPT is all the rage. It has become a window into our souls. It’s the first time we can see a new form of AI, called AGI (Art...

It’s VIJEV here. In this podcast, I experiment with a mobile podcast style where I “walk and talk” outdoors at the beautiful Golden Harvest Park with my long-time friend Mongezi Mtati who is a content creator himself and also hosts his own amazing podcast called The Lead Creative . I recorded it with the Rode Wireless Go II microphones connected to a Zoom recorder. I realized it was picking up a b...

This is VIJEV. I spoke with my longtime friend Mina Demian , who, in his 40s, found his calling in the field of coding after experiencing a personal renaissance. We dig deep and talk about finding your passion or, in Mina's case, rediscovering the profession of coding that he once did when he was much younger. People who code are typically in their 20s and work in startups. Product development is...

We are in 2022! It’s a mixed masala as we discuss what to expect in the year. Well, mixed masala, because I watched Dune, a new movie based on the legendary Sci-Fi author, Frank Herbert, where a society fights over Spice, the universe’s most valuable resource and it’s the only time my mom agreed with any form of Sci-Fi plots. We rock into the year with a mindset change. A change that adapts our th...

It’s been a short while since we witnessed one of the worst cases of protesting and looting in our short democratic history of South Africa that took place in July of 2021. Our problems are only compounding with the gap between the rich and poor widening even more. We have a horrific statistic where our gap, based on the Gini coefficient, is the HIGHEST in the world. We love to blame in South Afri...

Hey look! The universe is aligning itself to mock us. Once upon a time, at a job interview many years ago, I was told I am not the “right fit” because I was not “desperate enough” for the job. Thank you for confirming that you prefer people to be in perpetual servitude instead of finding people who love what they do. That immediately revealed a system that wants you to have loans so you become ind...

In this episode, we ask what the future of entertainment will be now that cinemas are losing money and most people aren't going there like they used to. Sure, the pandemic caused a major problem but this was inevitable. Going to the movies these days will cost you a kindey if you decide to buy the tickets and popcorn. It's become a lot more convenient, fun, and personalized when you can experience...

Our first podcast in 2021. Yes, it has been a while since being in lockdown. We have been somewhat underground realigning ourselves and here we are rising again from our digital nether regions. A newer look but the same zany content. During the lockdown, I took some drawing lessons and then one thing led to another. A few months later, here we are, drawings of Boris living his life in Caldopia. Ye...

Artwork by Longquenchen Our trio are back and we discuss if emotions are even a thing once AI begin to operate with independence and, dare I say it, sentience? They become who we are and our actions are indeed their algorithms. Therefore we need to rectify ourselves in order to train AI to become what we want, an ally of human development and well being. We debate what all this means and discuss i...

We are getting honest about the startups industry with Sophy Mwale Onyango, founder and CEO of HR Startup, Emploi ( https://emploi.co/ ). We talk about a private club with elites that is not always open to everyone. An industry that forced Sophy to play a game in a different, more conforming character in order to please them who often never saw her perspective in building businesses. A game with u...

To follow-on our discussion about Black Lives Matter, let's chat about the often hidden and very subtle issue of racism that Indians/South East Asians are a part of and complicit in the way it permeates in our society. It's hidden but just as dangerous, when we see what happens right in front of our eyes but yet we choose to remain silent. It's time to call it out, discuss why it's still treated a...

Our guest chat is with Chika Umeadi, founding partner of Tiphub ( https://tiphub.vc/ ), a Nigerian American that is helping African startups navigate the US landscape and help bridge the gap between what African startups need as well as the expectations of the US Startup ecosystem. We delve deep into what African American as well as POC founders experience building companies in the USA. This leads...

We chat with an avid tech entrepreneur who managed to build his startup ideas while working at a bank! That explains why he's an experienced nihilistic driven entrepreneur! He has built two companies called Tribe Rewards ( https://triberewards.io ) and fikaTime ( https://fikatime.app ) and We chat how he was inspired to build these companies, choosing the right team, and executing it. And to round...

Vije does a one-on-one discussion with Naj (Najmuddin Jabalpurwala), a long-time friend of Vije who is the field of Analytics. We talk about the value of analytics in business and what you need to be successful in it. As it is the tradition of TechComedyLife, we throw in a spanner to find out if analytics could reveal the nature of sentience, and of course are there visa requirements to travel acr...

Something a little different this time. After the unjust death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter protests have highlighted the racial injustice the African Americans keep enduring and how it has taken the world by storm as it has also revealed the racial/colonial pasts in Europe as well. We wanted to ask ourselves why this is even still a thing? Why is there even a debate about racial justic...

Vije has a one-on-one chat this time, with businessman and dad of 3 daughters, Alec Candiotes. He runs an accounting Business Intelligence startup (MyBI) and has a home fitness company (Cactic Fitness) . He gives us essential advice on how to manage your company during tough times and not to mention juggling family and business life. Did we say he has 3 daughters? And of course I can vouch for his...