I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
Why invest in an Equitable world – Introducing our new #RISE weekend mentoring series Vignesh Kumar and I recently spent our time talking in a panel about AI to fresh-faced college students at IIM – Shillong. That evening during dinner at our hotel – this fancy place we stayed in – we met this young …
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πͺπ΅π π¬πΌπ π‘π²π²π± π ππΉππΆπ½πΉπ² π π²π»ππΌπΏπ: π§π΅π² π£πΌππ²πΏ πΌπ³ ππΆππ²πΏππ² π£π²πΏππ½π²π°ππΆππ²π Growing up with parents who came from a non-tech background, I oft turned to books for answers to life’s gnarly problems. And then to mentors – finding your curated set of people, or board of advisors to look up is immensely powerful. Here are a …
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How dual-career couples can make it work? A few weeks ago I met this person who worked on an extended team during a team lunch. During the chat he called out how his previous role was as an acting CTO. Mildly surprised, I prodded him further to ask why he then chose the current career …
5 questions to evaluate the culture of an org during your interview process. While we evaluate offers based on factors from compensation to titles, here are some red flags to look out for and points to assess before you take the call! 1οΈβ£ Are the recruiters supporting you through the hiring process : Great orgs …
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πββοΈπββοΈ 7 harsh truths as a working women and a parent. Vignesh Kumar and I mentor this young girl. Two years into her first job, she was contemplating her next career move – should she look at doing a MS in US or move into data sciences? As Vignesh prodded her more about her why, …
How do you find leaders you want to work with? A rule of thumb a mentor once told me – ‘Would they treat you the same based irrespective of where you sit in the hierarchy?’ If your title dictates whether you get heard, or not, then that can be a red flag. You can say …
Keeping up with AI, Red Queen and the Illusion of progress The faster you run, the more the world moves with you and the less you make progress. This is an increasingly influential idea in evolution, one that recurs across this bookΒ Red Queen : Sex and the evolution of Human Nature And I have been …
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Career pivots and How to make them happen? We oft get questions around how to make career transitions From a program to a product manager. Or a software engineer to a data scientist. A long while ago, a technical engineer reached out expressing his interest in becoming a data scientist. Long story short, after 8 …
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The Axelrod Tournament and the strategy used to win Prisoner’s Dilemma games For the uninitiated – here is a summary of Prisoner’s dilemma – Two prisoners are accused of a crime. If one confesses and the other does not, the one who confesses will be released immediately and the other will spend 20 years in …
A long time ago, one of the teams I worked with, presented a kickass proposal to leadership They had done all the due diligence, had data to back it up and had a clear strategy and roadmap. Yet, it did not fly (or land?) One of the key reasons, that was later uncovered, was not …