Archive - system bashing

The templatised monetisation of "prep" years

TVF, Vidhu Vinod Chopra and the consumerism of turning "Exam Prep" nostalgia into a bankable bollywood genre.

Jan 27 •

July 2023

The Lifecycle of an Edtech Company - Part 1

After being inside 2 and closely knowing people in all the other ones... thought of writing this.

Jul 20, 2023 •

Optimising costs to enhancing UX - it is all engineering

When you are a tech company, the cloud costs and the user interface - threading the needle between them **is** what 'engineering' is. Trade offs.

Jul 18, 2023 •

Learnings from yet another 'blitzscaling' stage hiring excercise

My current 'fast' process of hiring senior engineers

Jul 1, 2023 •

June 2023

Navigating the Software Engineering career ladders

The next step from SDE2 need not be SDE3 - from size of company to type of role, there's a lot more you need to consider.

Jun 20, 2023 •

The unhindered growth of bad mobile app product management

There's an app for everything. Most likely a very poorly made one.

Jun 5, 2023 •

The Maslow's hierarchy of social media

Every audience has a level and you need to stoop to / rise to that, to make content for them.

Jun 4, 2023 •

December 2022

Companies still hiring software engineers in 2023

It is layoff and hiring freeze season, but behold the old-tech, aviation and trad-fi sectors that are still hiring software engineers by the horde!

Dec 13, 2022 •

A private space for us to converse and connect

Dec 13, 2022 •

November 2022

Vibes from San Francisco : 2022 Edition

Things I figured when talking to people in SF/Bay Area during a 20 day trip in October 2022

Nov 9, 2022 •

October 2022

The career progression ladder problem with choosing EM vs IC track in engineering

How the culture of perceived (and actual) growth opportunities in engineering management makes our tech industry lose great individual contributors

Oct 6, 2022 •

September 2022

Unpopular tech/software engineering opinions - 2022 edition

A thread of some of the likely most unpopular and unconventional hot takes on software and programming.

Sep 10, 2022 •

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