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Managing Your Career Without a Manager

When I unexpectedly found myself without a manager, I knew I needed to really take charge of my own career growth. Here’s what I learned…

Jul 5, 2022

Managing Your Career Without a Manager

Jul 5, 2022

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UX Collective

Naomi Osaka and the cost of over-communication

It’s been a month since Naomi Osaka withdrew from Roland Garros to take care of her mental health. This incident affected me enough, for…

Jul 14, 2021

A women with a finger on her lips showing silence

Jul 14, 2021

Saswati Saha Mitra

Free Advice anyone?

Today I thought of sharing a few thoughts about the declining quality of mentorship in the age of LinkedIn and why I engage with very few…

Jun 13, 2020

Free Advice anyone?

Jun 13, 2020

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UX Collective

Undemocratising user research

Last week, one of my ex-colleagues from Uber, Eduardo Gomez Ruiz wrote a thought provoking piece on Training an Army of (Non) Researchers…

Apr 21, 2020

Undemocratising user research

Apr 21, 2020

Saswati Saha Mitra

Coronavirus: When Technology and Communities must come Together

It has been two days since I started helping my community (Lambeth and Stockwell) self-organise itself to prepare for COVID-19 in London…

Mar 15, 2020

Coronavirus: When Technology and Communities must come Together

Mar 15, 2020

Saswati Saha Mitra

Sexual harassment when it is least expected

Today I had my first encounter with workplace sexual harassment. I am in my late 30s and when you encounter it for yourself for the first…

Feb 26, 2020

Sexual harassment when it is least expected

Feb 26, 2020

Saswati Saha Mitra

Learning through Questions: South Africa Edition Part 2

Recap: Nehal Shah and I got carried away with our discussion so we had to split it in two parts. Here’s part one if you missed it. Today…

Sep 10, 2019

Learning through Questions: South Africa Edition Part 2

Sep 10, 2019

Saswati Saha Mitra

Learn by Asking: South Africa Edition

Saswati: Nehal Shah was the first hire of my career. She set the bar very high for all those who followed. The one thing I still remember…

Sep 3, 2019

Learn by Asking: South Africa Edition

Sep 3, 2019

Saswati Saha Mitra

What austerity management can teach us about resource management?

Last month, I read The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu. It left a strong impression on me. In the…

Aug 27, 2019

What austerity management can teach us about resource management?

Aug 27, 2019

Saswati Saha Mitra

Researchers as Contrarians

Every day I walk past the above image on my way to work. It reminds me of one of my favorite topics and a recurring challenge that comes…

Mar 23, 2019

Researchers as Contrarians

Mar 23, 2019

Saswati Saha Mitra

Saswati Saha Mitra

Research Director at @WhatsApp. Past life Googler and Uberite. Scope and scale of global tech innovation excites me.

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