Vikram RamakrishnanArticles Iโm reading.
An Engineering team where everyone is a leader โ A very well written piece with practical tips for managers and leaders on how to build a team where each engineer is empowered to make decisions and leads from the front.
Videos I watched
Why No One Can Agree Whatโs REALLY the Tallest Mountain โ Did you know that the longest mountain range in earth is under sea and the tallest peak isn’t necessarily the Everest? There’s never a time when I have come out of a video from this channel without learning something new and also wondering how some of the simplest things we assume from our schooling can actually be very complex.
Books Iโm (re) Reading
Reread my notes from the bookย Nudge after listening to the recent episode of Hidden Brain on “How to see yourself clearly“. The concept of choice architecture and its influence on people as described in Nudge made me think about comment from the podcast โ โWe often make important decisions in our life and love for reasons we don’t even realizeโ
Tech Readingsย
Firefox and its sad decline… โ I love Firefox, but this is an example what happens to a product when there’s mis-timing, lack of customer focus and market understanding issues coupled with bad decisions. It’s sad to see Firefox fall from over 34% browser market share in 2010 to less than 3.5% currently.
Quote I’m thinking about
Every time someone does the right thing, the world becomes a better place to live in…
Anon
