Lessons Learned

2023. A new chapter … It seemed a long time coming, still arrived earlier than expected. To me, the first quarter of 2022 felt like a lull; I was still feeling the COVID hangover but with a new variant hanging over my head, and life in masks paced forward as…

“We thought dating would be the obvious choice.” Said Steve Chen, one of the co-founders of YouTube during a conference. When the team that built YouTube (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim) first created the website, they had a vision of it being a dating platform where users could…

In the last 5 years I have given 20+ coding interviews. As a result my approach to prepare and give them has significantly changed. Reflecting on my mistakes, I have documented my learnings in 28 lessons that I wish I had known sooner. 🥲 These will help you in leveling…

Perhaps of the best capacity you can make is the capacity to become mindful of your own consideration level. Look at the degrees of knowledge scale, and check whether you can see your level at the present time. At social events, good communication is always more difficult because you have…

Turning Losses into Triumph: The Power of Embracing Failure with this Key Principle. — Product & Leadership Playbook Play 8/196 — Create a learning engine for yourself. Embarrassment is a feeling we’ve all experienced at some point in our lives. Whether releasing a giant bug to production, missing a legal requirement, saying the wrong thing in front of Stakeholders, or simply feeling self-conscious, these moments can leave a…

1. You must accept that you will be dumb in some subjects The size of current knowledge of humanity is unbearable. It’s so big that it is impossible for one human being to gather it all in one lifetime. Or even in dozens of lifetimes. Even if you will focus only one path let it be philosophy, medicine, programming there still will…

One of life’s most excellent instructors is travel. It forces you to leave your comfort zone and enter uncharted territory. It opens up a world of cultures and people for the reader to discover. And it aids in the development of qualities like humility and patience. …