Thoughts on recruiting, technology, and building great teams
Some weeks ago, I reluctantly bought a Cursor subscription. Reluctantly because it was quite obvious that emacs was dead and was nowhere in the AI coding game. So Cursor it was and what an apt name it has - each time I used it, I cursed. It came...
The Great Rebundling: Why AI is Setting You Free I love how every time a new model drops, everyone on twitter loses their shit. It's an understandable reaction tbh. You're sitting there watching GitHub Copilot complete entire functions. ChatGPT is...
The history of the world is replete with languages that no longer exist. 90% of Native American tongues have no living speakers. The rest are all moribund. In our lifetimes we will see the end of Provençal and perhaps Basque. No one mourns these...
The irony of me advising anyone on how to craft a CV is not lost on me, but in my defence it was a different time. Startup land hadn't been over run by suits and HR and PMs. And also, this isn't advice as much as it is an observation on how your...
As all of India and Indians everywhere head into Diwali, I'd like to take a moment to talk about Laxmi, the Goddess of Wealth - who is celebrated on the day of Lakshmi Puja. Prosperity seems to be the theme of Diwali as we also celebrate...
Everytime I talk about 'digital presence' on Twitter, I get a whole lot of pushback from people saying 'no one will read it', 'do I need a lot of followers' and so on. In this post I will clarify the why and what of maintaining a professional...
The older I get, the more I understand that all the good things in my career have happened because of people - someone somewhere wanted me to win and felt like they'd won when I won. For this I will be eternally grateful to the Ruby community,...
Hello, A few days ago my friend Arnav @championswimmer on X dropped an amazing thread on how to get better so you can be given more responsibility at work, score promotions and grow in your career. It's too long to post here, and it'll...
Over the last few months, I have been meeting so many programmers who said that they got into programming because of video games. So I decided to ask about this on twitter and frankly, the responses kind of blew me away. The Tweet You can read the...
One of the most overloaded terms in our industry is the term Engineering Manager. We have applied this term to anyone who leads others and is responsible for their output. Many engineers have mixed feelings about becoming EMs. Of course there is...