In March 2021, I took up a new role as Director of Engineering at a (then) small startup called fabric. Almost 1 year later, I decided to leave this role and take a few months off. It’s been an eventful year with so many changes including a country move and various life events. Like any…
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What are people for? (A manager’s view)
I have now been managing teams for almost 6 years now and it’s been an interesting journey. From where I started out, I have now changed drastically in how I view management roles in tech and what my focus areas are. One of the key things I have been thinking about lately is how one…
Continue ReadingThe lack of slack
Reading books is one of my favorite stress-busters. I feel like I can escape the world for a while when I read a book. And so a lot of what I write is motivated by my learnings from various books. Some of us are familiar with slack, the messaging tool. But the word slack I…
Continue ReadingMy experiences with failure (2020 edition)
2020 2020 has been a challenging year for most people. Almost no one could have planned for what happened this year. Goals have not been met. Jobs no longer exist. Loved ones have been lost. That has led to suffering, pain, anguish, despair among many other feelings.
Continue ReadingBurnout: The point at which you don’t care
In these strange and uncertain times, people in Tech have had it relatively better than those working on the front-lines or in jobs that cannot be done from home. We can work from the comfort of our homes and stay safe and get our essentials online. Given the time-savings of commute, the reduced in-person distractions…
Continue ReadingEmpathy and Efficiency: Thoughts about a workplace
There has been lot of talk lately around Empathy. Most of it has been in context of a workplace. I work at a workplace and have done so for a few years now. It is not easy to understand empathy even though it is primitively simple in definition. Empathy means the ability to understand and…
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