I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
Why the best products are built from simple systems – Gall’s Law “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system” Oft, …
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“This is the problem with living in the 21st century. … We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered. No one I knew in the 1600s wanted to find their inner billionaire. They just …
‘Ajay had expanded upon his charter to take up a new area. The new team was still in its formation and there were a number of challenges he could immediately see. Including lack of processes and clear scope. He worked with his teams to identify the gaps and requirements. He knew what would work based …
‘Can we build moral machines’? In an experiment, Alan Winfield showed “how a blue robot saved a red robot from walking into a “danger zone” by (gently) colliding with it. In another, two red robots were heading for danger zones and the blue robot can only save one—an ethical dilemma that endearingly caused it to …
Have you read Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot? It references Earth’s appearance from space taken by Voyager in 1990 “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate …
Look what arrived in mail! Half way through LinkedIn‘s #LICreatorAccelerator program’s India CAP cohort, I couldn’t be happier about being a part of this. Beyond being able to hear directly from content creators across the globe, it has forced me to think about the niche I am passionate about. I am honored to have had the opportunity to …
“Why women are so hard on themselves”- How to stop ‘shoulding’ oneself I was chatting with this young girl I mentor. She mentioned a relatively common phenomenon – Being hard and judging herself poorly. She felt she wasn’t doing her best at her role – Which was understandable given she was new at it. Maybe …
I was close to burning out a few months ago with all the things I wanted to do and the finite time we have. Here is a tip that helped take a step back and evaluate. You don’t land your next role by doing more of what you are already doing. Scaling requires very different …
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We have been in scenarios where the Dev teams take actions to expedite delivery – prioritising for speed over perfect code. That is what is called “Tech Debt” While this oft could happen – making this a practise is what kills good teams. In the book, Superthinking, one of the mental models the authors talk …
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Books of 2022 Here are my books from the first half of 2022 and 5 reflections on reading #1 This year I decided not to force myself to read books towards ‘being better’ and read ‘to enjoy’ – yet I gravitated towards ones I feel I derive most ‘value’ from. #2 Experimentation – I switched …