90,000 Hours

You’ll spend 90,000 hours at work in your lifetime. How do you make that time count?90,000 Hours is a weekly podcast from the newsroom of The Ken that helps you navigate today’s changing world of work, where the traditional 40-year career is gone, entry-level jobs are being replaced by artificial intelligence, and staying relevant means constantly reinventing yourself.Hosted by Rahel Philipose and Vidhatri Rao, the show features conversations with the people creating, breaking, and rewriting the way we work.

90,000 Hours is a business podcast hosted by The Ken, with 9 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

The Ken hosts 90,000 Hours, a business show with 9 episodes published.

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  Episode #15

  Bangalore is unsustainable. Here is how founders are building in smaller tech cities

  Jan 19, 202622 minS0

  <p>Being an employee in corporate urban India is living in a perpetual state of frustration. Long hours, followed by longer commutes. Add infrastructural issues to the mix. </p><p><br></p><p>It is a nightmare. But people stay on for opportunities and growth. </p><p><br></p><p>That script is now flipping. Smaller cities in India are attracting talent, GCCs, and investments. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we tell you the stories of three cities: Mangalore, Vizag and Nagpur.  In Mangalore, we talk to a founder looking to make the region the “silicon beach of Ind...

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  Episode #12

  Career forecast 2026: Pyramid collapse, hiring woes, and being human in an AI world

  Dec 22, 202529 minS0

  <p>We started 90,000 Hours because we believe careers are at an inflection point. Nothing seems to be certain anymore as old rules are actively being thrown out of the window. As we wrap up five months of this podcast, our reporting and stories reflected just that. </p><p> </p><p>We have covered everything from how the American dream has shifted to how traditional networking has upended. </p><p>Across all these episodes, some themes showed up time and again. And before heading into 2026, we ask: </p><p><br>— What will replace the pyramid structure in organisations? </p><p>— What will the...

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  Episode #11

  In a sea of sameness, one skill stands out

  Dec 8, 202539 minS0

  <p>Generative AI has made it easy to churn out decent design, copy, code in seconds. But in this flood of outputs, who decides what’s actually good?</p><p>This episode looks at taste. Not the elite kind shaped in galleries or runway shows, but the kind that helps you make better calls at work. The kind that separates polished from passable, thoughtful from just fine.</p><p>You will hear from:</p>Professor Bernd Schmitt, who teaches marketing at Columbia and has spent years studying brand experience and aesthetics.Sunit Singh, co-founder of Design Capital, on how designers bu...

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  Episode #10

  Young, skilled and floundering: Overcoming the hope gap in careers today

  Nov 24, 202535 minS0

  <p>Every generation has a way of thinking their problems are unique and that they have somehow been handed the wrong end of the stick. Most times, it is a cliche. But sometimes, it captures a rare moment that we are only beginning to understand.</p><p>Ask a young software engineer at an IT services firm today, this reality hits deep. The thing is there is a general sense of dread in the air. Only compounded by the constant noise about automation and AI taking away entry-level jobs. Add tariff uncertainties and clients tightening budgets... You get an industry...

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  Episode #9

  'I automated 20 hours of my work': What AI really does to your job

  Nov 10, 202522 minS0

  <p>We ran a survey last month asking professionals whether AI tools had saved them time at work. About 200 of you wrote in. We heard from consultants, lawyers, product managers, software developers — even a yoga instructor. There were early-career professionals, mid-level managers, and senior leaders.</p><p>Almost all of them said AI had saved them time — meaning it had managed to reduce the amount of time they would otherwise spend doing certain tasks at work. Most also saw an increase in productivity. They were getting more work done.</p><p>In this episode, we tell you the story of AI a...

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