I pen down my thoughts here whenever I have the privilege of calmness within me. Between order and chaos, logic and creativity, breaking things and buildi...
Why Do People Seek Validation Through Big Companies? One thing I’ve never fully understood is why so many people seek validation by working at large companies like Apple, Google etc. It makes sense if the goal is to work on meaningful problems or be surrounded by people who are at or above your level. That’s a solid reason. But for most, that’s not the driver. The goal is the brand. The validation…
The Intelligence to Dream, the Power to Build In the shadows of Manhattan’s ever-rising skyline, where steam once hissed from iron grates and fibre-optic cables now hum with light, a new kind of monument is taking shape. Not one of stone or steel, but of thought. Intelligence, our most treasured human asset, is no longer scarce. The machines we once confined to the pages of myth and science…
I think most of software engineering today has been reduced to building it brick by brick like how a mason would build walls. In the name of MVPs, we have probably lost the art of building good software. It's kind of sad to see software engineering being reduced to this MVP Mania. Software MVPs have been reduced to templates with a vendor for auth, one for db, one for caching. We're not talking…