Riding the most complex machinery
corpminion What is the most complex machinery you have operated? Seems like a trick interview question, but it is not. If you are like me and have listened to Sadhguru, you…
March 2023
Why does your team exist?
I have run into many Software Development leaders who cannot crisply articulate why their team exists. They will tell me about the work they are doing and the services they…
What the heck is a Fungible Engineer?
There has been a lot of hype about Non Fungible Tokens (NFT) in the crypto space. Conceptually, fungibility applies to software engineering skills as well– I will explain that soon,…
Financial Freedom
What is Financial Freedom? I believe it is one’s ability to lead the live they want without worrying about how they will pay for their families basic needs– food, clothing,…
Which Path to Choose – Consultant or Employee?
There are many career paths that people take post education. I personally did not think deeply about this when I graduated and took the first job I got. My degree…
If you cannot convince, confuse
There is a rumor that is a Harry Truman quote. The first I heard the quote was from my manager in my first job out of college. Once upon a…
What does Ownership mean?
There are companies that espouse “Ownership” as a core value or as a leadership principle (e.g. Amazon). What does it really mean though? As per the Amazon Leadership Principles “Leaders…
Asymmetric Bets
What are Asymmetric bets? They are bets where the potential upside is much higher than the potential downside. For example, if you invest $1000 with a potential return of $10,000…
What is Leverage?
Wikipedia defines Leverage as “In finance, leverage is any technique involving borrowing funds to buy things, hoping that future profits will be many times more than the cost of borrowing”.…
Complaining Productively
It is common for people to “complain” and play “victim”. It can range from how your son did not pitch in his baseball game due to coach’s bias or it…