“Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make you soul grow”. Sigh. The realisation that while you can find meaning in work, there’s so much more to life… and so easy to fritter it away one day at a time. Yeah, bit of a funky mood this morning.

7 years ago Kishore Nallan started building an open-source search engine in C++ while having a full-time job. Today @typsense is a worthy competitor in a tough space. He's a real inspiration... you don't want to miss this talk - happening online tomorrow. meetup.com/devday_bangalo…

This is such a breath of fresh-air... just showed up everyday and put in that hour or two of work. It's surprising what can be built with small steps over long periods of time.

I'm repeatedly surprised by how profound Kent Beck 🌻's XP Explained 1st Ed was. No other book describes the "conversation with the machine" better. Sad how after 20 yrs developers have largely forgotten it even though everyone seems to practice "Agile" 🙄. This thread hits home.

This is a must-watch. Lots of insights... diving deep, focusing on fundamental ideas, and characterizing systems so that behaviour can be predicted. Thanks Amod Malviya for your generosity and Arnav Gupta for being a great host. You've set the benchmark for "talk geeky to me"😄.

As @Segment grew from 0 to >$200M ARR, I had three health scares. Each scare made me realize that good physical health is *required* to push hard and win as a founder, and you have to own your own healthcare. The medical system simply won’t do it for you. /1

Scheduling your team at 100% capacity is a great way to ensure that nothing will be delivered on time.

This visual trick from Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. has changed my life in the simplest and subtlest way:

Great content at #AirflowSummit and some amazing in person conversations with Apache Airflow contributors in our India offices!

Generating tickets for tambola — or bingo, or housie, or whatever (by Sudarsan Balaji) journal.artfuldev.com/generating-tic…

If you're interested in autonomous agents join us at our Koramangala office on Wed, 15th Jun to hear Dr. Arjun Jain talk about perception, localization, prediction, planning and control for autonomous driving and flying. meetup.com/devday_bangalo…

“The Offer” is a beautiful tribute to one of the greatest movies made. Watch the show if you loved The Godfather. It’s on Voot in India. m.imdb.com/title/tt131110…

Given a complex problem: “Imagine two people: - Person A acknowledges the complex problem, and focuses - Person B doesn’t see the complex problem, and simplifies. Who is more likely to make progress? My money is on A.” - John Cutler Brilliant. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-2852-fir…

In other words… Identify and focus on the few major factors that affect a problem… and ignore the minor factors. In most cases only few things are disproportionately important. Ignoring this leads to sloppy thinking.

A simple way is to do pairwise comparison across all factors you've identified and give one vote to the more important one in each comparison. By the end of this process the ones with the most votes should make it clear which are important - and there usually are only a few.