Personal Thoughts, Tech and More
(on why your best people are hiding their AI use) The primary obstacle to AI adoption isn’t technology or culture, but rather a misalignment in incentives. Currently your top performers are using AI to compress an 8-hour workday into 4 (and often significantly fewer hours) but they would not tell you. They know that in […]
Reminiscing on the 90’s and early 2000’s lately, I spent my weekend thinking about “Desktop Buddies” like Neko, Shimeji and the infamous Clippy. It got me wondering, with today’s AI stack these companions can finally do more than just wander aimlessly or just annoy you in Microsoft Word. So I worked on Loomi, a hobby […]
True progress requires both strategy and planning working in an iterative cycle. Strategy acts as the “compass” to ensure you are doing the right things by choosing the right mountain to climb. Planning acts as the “map” to ensure you are doing things right by organizing resources and schedules to reach the summit.
I spent a lot of my free time in 2025 learning about management through books, treating it as a skill not a title. The books that I read are on leadership, motivation, feedback and communication. The biggest surprise for me was learning that good managers are not born leaders, they are built through practice, mistakes […]
The best investment you can make if you have just been promoted to manager is picking up “The Making of a Manager” by Julie Zhuo. That book scarily highlights a mistake I went through (forcing myself to continue individual contributor work long past the point of sustainability). For awhile, as with many new managers, I […]
“You do not have worth if you don’t understand impact.” that statement, which I heard in a recent meeting (not directed to me) kept me thinking all weekend. For years as with most developers, we were focused on technical expertise thinking our design patterns, our quality of code, our PR, our commits are the single […]
Sometimes perhaps, the thing that is holding us back is our memories of a certain place/location and maybe moving away from it would break free from the chain of certainty that we had grew accustomed to. The only consolation to all this, is that I will still see a group of familiar faces; Just a […]
We take peace for granted, it is quite obvious that we do; In our rush to archive something in life or to do multiple things at the same time to maximize the time spent we had neglected the serenity and the simplicity on taking one things at a time at a peaceful pace. Perhaps one […]
I would like to believe that I am a decent landscape photographer (am terrible at portraiture really), but there is this certain sense of self while taking landscape pictures that I rarely get from portraiture or street photography. For example on the above picture ( unedited jpg straight from the camera [so forgive the sensor dust […]
It’s been awhile since I had injured this badly, last serious bike accident was probably in 2007 when I skidded down and another bike hit the back of my bike and slide through above me; which luckily I was only ended up in minor scratch and bruises. Not this time Similar condition, it was raining […]