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January 2, 2022

Learning Blockhain : Week 1

Recently in the past few years, blockchain has created a new world to be explored in the technology field. I am still not sure how it will hold up but it is very exciting to see it grow and take shape. Anyway, I thought this will be good time to start diving headfirst into learning…

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May 30, 2021

Hooked by Nir Eyal: 10 Lessons

Humans are creature of habits. Our daily lives and behaviours throughout the day are governed by habitual behaviours more than we would like to admit. But the more important point is that that behaviours can be manipulated, to an extent that it a makes you question your “free will”. There is a whole class of…

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December 28, 2020

Thinking in Systems By Donella Meadows : Reading Notes

Introduction Systems thinking transcends disciplines and cultures and when it is done right, it overarches history as well. “If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced…

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October 2, 2020

Hackathon At UrbanCompany: Building a Chat Bot for UC Professionals

At UrbanCompany we keep organising internal hackathons every once in a while. It’s fun as engineers take out some time to work on the craziest ideas possible and some of them actually do make it into production 💥 This time the hackathon was particularly interesting as the backend engineers were expected to build Android Apps,…

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February 27, 2020

Reading Notes: The Mental Game of Poker

I recently read the book “The Mental Game of Poker” by Jared Tendler. How I stumbled onto this book and decided to pick is also interesting, but lets skip that part for now. Here are some of my reading notes and notable learnings from the book. Some general points Mental training is an integral part…

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December 22, 2019

Year End Decompress: 2019

Time is a strange concept. At times it seems unidirectional, flowing like a river. Paying no heed to the ones who can’t keep up with the pace. Eroding everything on the way. Tossing away what once claimed to be forever, like a tumbleweed. Obversely, its cyclical nature blows my mind. Everything that time serves you…

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December 22, 2018

Why systems fail and what can be done about it?

A recent team meeting at Squad touched the topic of “system robustness”. Clients and business operations want their systems to work, which is a very reasonable expectation. That’s what we engineers are paid for after all. Everybody gave their input over what a robust system means to them. The responses made two points very clear:1.…

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May 5, 2018

Organization Archetypes And The Concept Of Market-Oriented “Solver Teams”

Organizations which designs systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structure of the organization. In other words, how we organize our teams has a powerful effect on the software we produce, as well as our resulting architectural and production outcomes. Thus, in order to get a fast flow of work from…

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April 29, 2018

Devops and The Principle Of Flow

In the technology value stream, work typically flows from Development to Operations, steps consisting of functional areas between our business and our customers. As stated in the lean principles developed by Toyota, we should optimize to get a single-piece fast and smooth flow for our releases. We increase flow by: Making work visible, Reducing batch…

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April 23, 2018

7 Tips On Making Your Engineering Workflow Faster

One of the most important thing that I like about pair programming with other awesome engineers is you get to see their workflows. How they get things done? How they get find and make their way around tools, terminal, and editors? After witnessing and getting awestruck by many such experiences I realized that having an…

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