Not all knowledge or certification is going to be good for you. You need to sometimes make yourself ineligible for jobs you don’t want to do. Be bad at them on purpose.
Amassing certifications and varied skills increases our likelihood of us landing a job, but it can also reduces our chances of landing the one we want.
Tweets are a system of records of a person’s opinion. Twitter is more valuable because it does not have edit.
You cannot and should not build every feature that is there in your backlog. One way many companies, especially startups, gauge the need of a specific feature is via a Fake door test. What is a Fake door test To put it simply, instead of building the feature your product simply pretends to have that
Listened to a great talk on product strategy by Marty Cagan, author or Inspired . Here is a summary, you can also listen to the talk embedded below
Structuring your thought process and ideas can help you focus your energy and prevent you from getting overwhelmed
I had tweeted this a while ago, reproducing it here Your first company is super important for your career. Mine was Infosys where I learnt a lot of important lessons that still guide me.. for eg — Madhur Chadha (@madhurchadha) April 25, 2019 Your first company is super important for your career. Mine was Infosys
Some unpopular opinions I hold (Subject to change, of course) -Tech Corporate world Presentations are mostly useless. They waste time, encourage intellectual laziness, are manipulative by nature, and lead to bad decisions. Open offices are bad for both productivity and collaboration. They mostly increase distractions., and any gains in collaboration are small in comparison to
An attempt to re popularize Kabir Das Ke dohe . I record the dohas and talk about their meaning ऐसी वाणी बोलिए मन का आप खोये | औरन को शीतल करे, आपहुं शीतल होए This one is ” Aise Bani Boliye” a doha about the virtue of speech. Do you have a favorite doha by Kabir
Youtube recently changed its Partner program guidelines under which you can only monetize your videos if you meet these two conditions You have 1000 subscribers You have at least 4000 hrs of viewing time in past 12 months I find both these rules unfortunate and detrimental to a lot of creators (including myself) . For
Heard this? “The Tarot card reader was able to pin point the exact reason for my suffering” Or “I know homoeopathy does not work, BUT my uncle was cured of chronic headaches when he started taking those medicines” Or “I was able to pass the exam after the holy man blessed me” Are you
Few housekeeping things that many people get confused with…But it pays to have some clarity You have Freedom of speech , NOT the Right to be taken seriously You have Freedom of having an opinion , NOT the Freedom from criticism that comes with holding it, and saying it out loud I may respect
From Chadda to Mathur to NSFW …I never knew my Name was tough
Kankar pathar jod ke, Masjid laye banay
Taa chadh mulla baang de, kya behra hua khudaey
Loose translation: You collected pebbles and stones and made a masjid out of it. Then you got your priest to go on top of it and shout . Has God gone deaf?
Minimal Viable Product: One of the most used and abused buzzwords of the startup ecosystem. Ability to define an MVP also happens to be one of the key criteria for hiring Product Managers. One of the most common follies that many potential product manager hopefuls make is, focusing only on the “Minimal” aspect and forgetting
YOLO :(You only Live once) a common phrase that precedes most stupid, idiotic and sometimes fun plans people have. People use it to justify doing anything that does not fit the traditional way of the world, for doing things that are unexpected of them, for breaking the “rule”, for nor having any “regrets”. But what regrets? Isn’t
Wait and watch they said, Hunger helplessness and death, Demonetisation is How many deaths , How many ruins is ok, In Demonetisation They don’t cry for none, Cause it’s not their kin that’s dead, the “Indians” here How many deaths , How many ruins is ok, In Demonetisation Read: Demonetization was planned
Who said demonetisation was not planned?..all the people losing jobs, people dying in queues, elderly and sick waiting in lines for days without money, existential crisis for daily wagerers ,was all planned…. They knew how much money could be printed They knew the ATM density They knew how many people do not have access to
A chat bot here , a chat bot there . Even God does not know what chatbots cannot do. Your next wave of Chat bots would be boring and possibly annoying like an IVRS
Suppose I organize a 10hr marathon for charity and name it ‘demonetization’ , in which everyone in my org has to run irrespective of age, gender , health else they lose their jobs. 1 hour after the start, a few people start fainting and I realize , I did not account for water. I
Black white and the grays in between : Overall it is a very well balanced book. Considering that it is Abhishek’s first book only , I can only imagine what the expectations from his next books would be. He has set high benchmarks for himself :).
How I beat my procrastination and finally released an first android app over a weekend ..the Sloth way
DO NOT read this book before going to bed DO NOT read this book if you are very happy with your career DO NOT read this book if you are trying to relax It is a good idea to read a book before going to bed but NOT if it is Elon Musk’s Biography. With
K An acknowledgement . Ohk. A conversation ender Ok A troll plug. okkkk a question. Okay It’s going to be alright Okay?
Not the best science fiction book I have read but neither the worst. Dark Space is good attempt . The story has potential , though a bit cliche . Pros The story sure is very racy in the latter half. The writing style is captivating enough with enough twists and turns. I read this over a period
let us play the drums, cause the idiots have come, oh look they have drums.
I have a use case, It is a good use case ,Huge, Zero users though There are a lot of interesting use cases you can solve. Stop any person in your company and ask them , do you have a use case to solve? The answer invariably would be Yes(If it is NO often ,
Find the place not where the users are, but where they make decisions.
The cursor on my writing app blinks thinking I will have something to say . Appear ,disappear,appear ,disappear , once per second ever so patient ever so diligent ever to expectant. Why do we write anyways? Seems like a rhetorical question . Because we love to write? Or something else. Many people say that we
If unrepaid will haunt the tech debt has to be paid circle of PM life Moral of the story: Pay your tech debts. Features can wait sometimes, you can have released where you have nothing to show. Absolutely 0 visual progress. Your product update would be ” Fixed some bugs” or “better logging”…do it and
Pitchfork in hand I stand Cut the feature cut it out ahh that’s my real life
The design is sleek The Product is awesome but data does not admit
A rant about some badly written “recruitment” emails I received and how it can be improved
कुछ दी पहले में छुट्टी बिताने एक नदी के किनारे गया. ऐसा लगा की कुछ अलग सा है. सोचा .. कैसे लोग हो गये हैं ना हम कि नदी में पावं डुबोना भी अब अंजाना सा लगता है और जाते जाते फिर नदी के बहते पानी की कल कल सुनने गया ताकि शहेर की आवाज़
Reading the Biography of the most fascinating man on this planet right now : Elon Musk . Two Amazing nuggets that stood out till now(yes still reading) He initially thought of making video games but then realized it would not have much impact on the world, hence dropped the idea.Shows how he is driven by
YOUR values? YOUR definition of nations? YOUR plans for other’s lives? YOUR imaginary friends? on this tiny inconsequential spec of dirt Guardians of what?
“You won’t believe what X did” , “This actor just cheated on his wife, click to know the name” ,”5 ways to XYZ”
But before you do that , think why?
Content Virality sites can do much more , help obscure content, help spread of ideas and initiate conversations on uncomfortable topics or just be click baits. The former needs more courage, the latter not so much , just be clear which one you are .
Click baiting . Think hard because in the long run you need to be OK using your intellect for whatever path you chose.
Recently a few students of Aligarh Muslim university approached me to record a poetry for their seniors to be played on last day of college. This poetry was a gift from the current batch to passing away batch on their farewell.
I have been wondering, what is motivation and how do you get it?. There are many theories and many ways people tend to describe it It is when you cannot sleep to achieve your goals It is when you do not mind stressing out for a better tomorrow or sometimes just because But then ,
The Aamir Khan’s detractors argument is : If you are not happy with the state of the country you should leave, well that includes all politicians and all their supporters too no?
A man burned my house, killed my wife and maimed my son
I ran to the neighbours to beg for help, food for my son and roof to sleep
Only to be labelled as the man who burned my house, killed my wife and maimed my son
Read disagree attack
Just abuse, no logic or thought
generation dumbing down complete
Religion of peace ,
mine is religion of peace ,
and pressed the trigger
#ParisAttacks
BJP won general elections..when people criticized their leaders and track record, many people went on rant of “respect the mandate” ..stop criticizing them
If Nirbhaya happened now , there would be another protest, against protesters. The times so twisted, Question is not why the protest but, What right to protest.
Rain ,a cup of tea Some soul music to go with Life, I have arrived
One wild theory about Quantum Mechanics is : An electron can exist in multiple states at the same time(Schrodingers cat) ,a photon takes every possible route between two points some less and some more probable(Double slit)…how is this happening?How can all states exist simultaneously? This is also the key of quantum computing : Many processes
When you say why did the #AwardWapsi not happen in 1984, why do we miss speaking about 2002 as well? That part of history does not exist for many
Glad to see many Indians Talking about anti-sikh riots that happened in 1984. It was a tragic time and a history lesson on what happens when the people with power abuse it…it happened before many of us were born ..but still many know about it…read about it on how senseless the killings were, how houses
About 1 year ago I saw an NGO(Help Us to Help the Child (H.U.H.C.) copying my blog article on their home page without permission or attribution . Since it was an NGO I decided to be patient . If they had shown the basic courtesy of asking for permission, I would have given it but since
How will the future of work look like? And is the future already here?