Growing up one of the remarkable lines I heard was, "The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again." The true path to learning something and getting better at it is admitting that I suck at it. There is a real temptation to act

Kamaal ke admi ho yaar 2 roti ke liye database banane jaate ho.

This was in 2017 when I was sitting for campus placements. Interviewing for Directi, the former parent company of Codechef. Gaurav Sen used to work there & he too came to our college. The company had a reputation of hiring competitive programmers & being heavy DSA based. The

3 years back, I was searching something about the Python GIL on Google. Suddenly the browser displayed the following message: "You are speaking our language" I was invited to solve Google's secret Foobar challenge. I never took it. I was waiting for the perfect preparation

What people who don’t drink and smoke do to cope.

Since you seem to have 16 seconds to watch this video 8 times, at least spend 5 seconds to name your variables.

If they wanted to, they would. Friends smoked all those consensus algorithms.

I have seen this so often. Recruiters trying to pitch jobs with mismatched salary brackets. No, I will not interview for a job of a Lead Cloud Architect at the salary of a SDE 2. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Fun thing about distributed systems is that it never spares anyone. While you pander about AI engineering, don’t neglect distributed systems.

Been talking to a design doc like it was a real engineer. Fully backed my deep contextual knowledge of the codebase. Work feels like the entire ancestors of staff engineers watching your back. 🥵

This entire post can be a very high signal book and should be distributed in colleges and schools. Absolutely gold for anyone who is trying to learn a hard skill.

Oh man! Working with 2 monitors has ruined me. My 16 inch MacBook feels like a phone.

Global config change is like the TOP cause of the outages.

One moment you are excited other you are dreading. Duality of advancement.

Personally I feel, Google is emerging as AWS for AI.

Counting 4 years of RSU together & labelling it as Lakhs per Annum? Is this the norm? Have seen this so often. Anyway congratulations to her :)

Antigravity is crazy good. It looks at works like magic.

I've been thinking a lot about how to close open loops & manage my time efficiently. Been talking to a lot of old timers at Google about it. If you are juggling multiple priorities at a time, you absolutely need a system to schedule work for you. Something that can answer

Another actionable post by the thought leader.

Thanks for the reminder. Kindness is underrated. It ripples across generations.