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Yes, if they bring insights. Not merely facts or data. Matt Levine, Farnam Street, James Clear - they add value in their own ways. I dont read every issue though.

Wayfair, Qurate, SAIC, Insight Enterprises, DXC ... Fortune 500 companies that have billions in annual revenues.

A philosophical approach may help. Change is the only constant expectation that I have. All of my past work over 25+ years is now deprecated, obsolete, tech-debt, or irrelevant. It…

Had a torture filled 4 years in my undergraduate degree. Mostly poor grades throughout. But I aced the 2 internships as part of the degree program. Several profs told me that had t…

Elephants have gratitude, can sense human death, and can mourn their human protector and friend. That is spiritual in a way. Or more spiritual than many humans. Sources: 1: https:/…

The idea of leaving behind a lasting legacy of work is vanity squared. The ones who do selfless work for open-source do not necessarily do it for a place in history. The point of c…

Nice tips, but context specific. In my observation and experience, no rules apply when power dynamics and culture specific nuances are in play. Examples: A setting where the group …

Greybeard with 26 years in the industry. Sorted in decreasing order of impact: [1] Back in 2006, created a web scraper with .Net framework and C# that helped my wife run a home-bas…

Am one of the black sheep of my Electrical Engineering batch who moved to software. Why? The steep learning curve that involved loads of memorization of long formulae and static va…

1995 India - Had a paid internship (Rs 2500 per month or ~ USD 80 back then) with a small software company that worked on FoxPro + dBase. A very diverse team (gender ratio), the hi…

Mid-2001 - the dot-com I worked for folded. Switched to an enterprise (B2B) company that wanted to bring their legacy systems to the web. Win-win. Pay was conservative but the stab…

One cant do much. I have had a couple of terrible experiences. Its amazing what power does to some technical managers and senior HR. Its their karma and they are going in the right…

- Product Market Fit - find that before continuing to perfect the product. - Market size and especially addressable market size. We learnt it the hard way with children's apps. - T…

How many domain names did you park for startup ideas in the future? ... and what have you spent on renewing those domains over the years / decades? I will start - I have had up to …

- Minimal sugar or sweet stuff. 5 grams sugar a day, max. - 250 grams to 350 grams of food per major meal. - Lots of water through the day - Small, healthy snacks of 50 to 100 gram…

Mobile apps startup almost a decade ago, for 2 years. Failed. Joined a FAANG company, initial months were depressing - narrow scope, cog in the wheel, shoddy culture. On the plus s…

Footstool. Pen and paper for long form note taking. A marker for whiteboarding. That's it.

New hires across roles and seniority levels jump ship after a month, since offers just keep pouring in. Very hard to hire DevOps folks. Roadmaps are heavier than ever and fewer fol…

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Excel - a) Rows limited at a million since 2007. b) SQL querying capabilities, especially when large datasets (1M+ rows) are queried in-file.

a) Their work load - whether they will burn out or become a lazy bum. Neither extreme is good. b) What the next job level entails and how to get there. Whether to take the career p…

Failure taught me one thing. My self-attested labels of being creative, a builder, risk taker ... were more likely rose tinted glasses. They were the fuel and the motivation of my …

Ageism. 40+? Good luck finding that fitment with younger decision makers. Biases. Started startups and failed? Too risky for the banks or old-school software companies. Industry. W…

Yes, FaaS is a good choice for early stage products, where the traction cannot be predicted, or the user volumes would be predictably low. Combine Lambda (execution) with other fre…

Comparing AWS EC2 pricing [1] and AWS Lambda [2]. Assumption: Let's say you run an application / function with 5 qps traffic, needing 256 MB RAM max, 50ms execution time. EC2: t2.m…