community Animal Crossing & Community meetups.. In these times, when everyone is concerned about social distancing, dev communities are trying to figure out new ways to interact online. I was pleasantly, surprised when I came across a DevOps meetup which is organized on Animal Crossing.
startup (1.01)^365 and research papers.. While entrepreneurs don't have the luxury to engage in deep research, they could learn a lot just by grokking through the research papers and understanding the basic concepts. And then let the human mind do its magic 🦄
remote work Zoom Ops & Remote work monitoring Remote Tools monitoring is very similar to how you monitor an app or service. These tools like Zoom, VPNs, etc. are providing a service. How do we figure out if they are working well for the employees?
mental-models The story we tell ourselves.. Many times we tell ourselves why something is not possible, why we can't do it. But the fact is that unless we are dead, we can always do something. anything. Its all about the story we tell ourselves.
remote work Remote Icebreaker sessions.. A remote only world is creating new platforms and formats of interaction. It is also making the world flatter. Since, there are no local meetups now, I can now attend any virtual meetup, webinar happening around the world.
developer Developer advocates, and why understanding the user is everything... Developers smell any marketing or selling from far. You just can't "sell" to them. Period. They will only use your product, if it makes life easier for them, saves time or peaks their curiosity.
monitoring Who moved my cheese, and other monitoring questions.. The underlying constructs which we use in software monitoring are more universal and applicable in many other domains than we realize. It's just that these techniques are first being applied on softwares
startup The Effectual Ask The Effectual Ask makes the barrier to making an ask very low. You just have to go to the other person, tell them what you want and just ask them what would it take for them? You don't have to figure out the right quid pro quo. You don't have to make a pleading request.
books Notes from Walden - A book by Henry Thoreau Walden is a book by Henry D. Thoreau which gives a vivid account of the time that he lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond
software Writing good software is a craft Building a great software is a craft : you get better at it as you spend more time with it. It is the ultimate expression of human mind!
startup Effectuation The primary idea of effectuation is that the future is not something which is to be searched. Future is made. It is made by human actions.
tools RSS Feeds : Still the best way to control the content you consume I encountered RSS because I was searching solutions for a specific use case I had. To keep up with the pace of development in Application Monitoring space and generate insights, I wanted to monitor different forums where people are talking about topics relevant to our business.
economics Few notes on reading Economics I recently came across an old AMA by Sridhar Vembu, where he talks about his interests in economics, and how it helps him put things in perspective. In his words:
choice On trusting ourselves Trusting yourself enough to give yourself this chance is hard. And the world doesn't fail to tell you what could go wrong if you deviate from the known path.
philosophy On the virtue of getting bored We are addicted to continuous stimulation. Be it an Instagram post, a funny tweet or a WhatsApp forward. Though this prevents us from getting bored, it also prevents us from coming up with something new.
Politics Why the worst get on top? I used to always question why in many domains, especially politics & governance the worst come out on the top. When many of us agreed that a particular candidate was absolute crass - why does he rise to power? Why don't more educated and intellectual people rose to power?
economics Boom 💥 or Bust : Both are equally good & bad. Here's why? But if you look from a more objective long term perspective, the world operates in cycles. Period of booming growths have seeds for recession in them, and period of recessions have seeds of coming growth.
startup The Cockrach-y startup Don't think of yourself as a startup. Think of yourself as a business. A "dhandha" business. And the first objective of any business is to survive. You can do anything, have any impact, only if you survive.
fear On Fear What is fear? It is the evolutionary response built into our brain when we are about to do something new or we are in a new situation.
positioning B2B Product Positioning I was reading about product positioning today and found this amazing book by April Dunford. Here are some of my notes from the book.
compute Do we have enough cloud compute infra for a remote-first world? There was nothing wrong with my subscription or account. It was just that I was using free Azure credits for my account and Azure was just not allowing free credit users to create VMs.
money Should money be an exclusive domain of the government? While a big portion of our life is governed by money, it's surprising how little we know about how it really works? A huge chunk of our life is spent either trying to earn more of it or spend it in the most virtuous fashion, yet we hardly ever question what money is.
choice Regret & Choice Are you evaluating ALL the choices you have? Many a times we severely limit the choices we consider by considering how difficult they would be or how improbable. However difficult or improbable, they are still a choice.
health Intermittent Fasting & Work from Home You are at home. You are focusing on work. Isn't it good to take a few breaks in between? It helps you get your focus back. And then you see boxes of cookies or some namkeen lying around - and unmindful you pick some of it. Before you realise, you would have had few such servings.
Politics Can politicians seek a 16-year term extension? I found that Putin was planning to make some fundamental changes in the constitution which would give him power till 2036. Can politicians really do such things? Pass a law which keeps you president for 16 more years, when you have already served 4 terms as president?
