Debate ideas, not the person. Difficult, but can be done with effort. Social media debates tend to go towards the latter ignoring the former.

With recommendations getting better day by day, in the future, would everyone have a narrow band when it comes to tastes?

Low investment, high ROI distributed tracing. https://abhyrama.com/2019/07/12/distributed-tracing/

• New hires, especially senior ones, should be asked to take it easy during the initial couple of months. When you are new, there is so much pressure to prove yourself that one ends up optimising for the short term which is detrimental to an organisation.
• This may not apply to startups which are still trying to figure out their core strategy.

Apparently people are shying away from debt funds. A few bad apples have brought disrepute to the entire eco-system thus taking down the ethical funds too. This is why you should have a vested interest in keeping the eco-system that you are part of sane and healthy.

How do you arrive at your acceptable tail latency? Based on the cost you are ready to bear to take it from x to y.

For example, if your current 99.9 %tile latency is 500ms and to take it to 99.999 %tile you have to spend a million dollars, it might not be worth it.

Finding a pair of simple denim without artificial fade, whiskers, holes at inappropriate places and random embroidery is a challenge these days.

At one point, growth hacking was all the rage in the startup world. What a lot of the startups missed is that for growth hacking to be successful, you had to have a great product and experience or a product that solved an acute problem. Otherwise it is just a house of cards.

Design interviews are a trade off between depth and breadth. As an interviewer, you need to actively guide candidates on this giving them hints to go deep or gloss over details.

They key to a successful internship program is to figure out independent units of work which need minimal domain knowledge for execution, for example, internal tools.

Irrespective of what anyone says, WeWork made co-working space vogue which is a big boon to small businesses. Setting up an office is an extremely time consuming and draining activity and a complete diversion of time, energy and resources during the early days of a business.

AI abuse has moved over from startup pitches to consumer electronics. Saw a TV with AI sound, AI picture, AI etc.

Quality control of sellers is a big challenge for Platform businesses. Bad service of individual sellers gets associated with the Platform thus tarnishing the image of the Platform.

Balancing between being a producer and a consumer is a tightrope walk.

When someone tells you their problems, try to figure out whether they seek solutions from you or are they after a sympathetic ear to listen to their woes.