Published onJuly 12, 2024Turbocharge your career through team feedbackUnlock new levels using feedback from your peers & direct reports
Published onJuly 7, 202450 principles of navigating work and lifeLearnings that have helped me in my own life and career
Published onJune 20, 2024The importance of having skin in the gameCreating an environment of voluntary ownership
Published onJune 15, 2024How airport design mirrors software designA look into Tampa's approach to handling passenger volume
Published onMay 31, 2024The art of complaining effectivelyHow being solutions oriented is important for career and character
Published onMay 15, 2024Decoding the process of crafting new productsBuilding new things at warp speed with the right people
Published onMay 5, 2024End Meeting Madness And Reclaim ProductivityEscape the meeting treadmill and regain control of your time
Published onMay 1, 2024Simple wonders of RAG using Ollama, Langchain and ChromaDBHarness the powers of RAG to turbocharge your LLM experience
Published onApril 24, 2024The unsexy (but important) role played by middle managementWhat having killer managers can help you accomplish
Published onApril 17, 2024A dozen (or so) learnings from 15 years of software incident managementHow to get great at a solving a problem you never want to encounter
Published onApril 10, 2024Snacking: Navigating the Temptations of Instant GratificationMove the needle by focusing on the big tasks
Published onApril 3, 2024Unlocking Creativity Through Collaborative ConversationsHow to have effective generative discussions
Published onMarch 27, 2024Cracking the Code: Discovering Technical Skills for Commercial SaaS positionsHiring for a commercial role with technical skills
Published onMarch 20, 2024Highlights from Stripe annual 2023 letterLearnings from the world's largest financial payment processor
Published onMarch 13, 2024Using Ollama: Getting hands-on with local LLMs and building a chatbotBuild a ChatGPT clone in less than 50 lines of code
Published onMarch 8, 2024What are LLMs, Local LLMs and RAG?Learning the basics of Large Language Models
Published onMarch 6, 2024From a snowball to an avalanche: The power of small changes How to build momentum in bite-sized increments
Published onFebruary 28, 2024Building Silicon Juice - The application to scour for venture capital activityInner workings of the build process
Published onFebruary 26, 2024The Power of Unexpected Positivity: Amplify Your FeedbackInspiring people through unexpected positive feedback
Published onFebruary 23, 2024How I used the A-B-Z theory to be productiveLessons I learned when building Hourly
Published onFebruary 21, 2024Curling - An Engineering Management storyDrawing inspiration from an icy sport
Published onFebruary 19, 2024Hire the best, against all oddsThe key to hiring great talent at a small startup
Published onJanuary 23, 2023My Master’s Thesis: 12 years laterLooking back at my post graduate dissertation
Published onDecember 15, 2022Introducing HourlyKnowing when to do a task yourself vs delegating it to someone
Published onJanuary 15, 2022Tracking Feature adoptionKnowing how to track the success or failure of a software release
Published onJanuary 10, 2021arjunrao.co-v4 - Yet another website rebuildStrategizing another website redesign
Published onJuly 18, 2020Is it intimidating to work with people smarter than you?How to reframe feeling imposter syndrome
Published onJuly 3, 2020Cultivating a Relationship Between Collocated and Remote TeamsBuilding a high performance remote team that works well with your engineering teams
Published onJune 24, 2020Using Tiger Teams to Solve Problems and Create an Environment for LearningPutting together a dedicated group to successfully address a crucial problem
Published onMarch 29, 2020Things I learned while working from home for 2 weeksThoughts on remote work 2 weeks after the Covid-19 lockdown
Published onMarch 25, 2020The failure to finish & how to get better at completing projects that you startSeeing projects through to the end
Published onApril 9, 2019Observations and opinions on navigating work and lifePrinciples of my life (when I am 30'sh)
Published onDecember 26, 2018A day in the life of American - How to NOT treat your customersLearning from American's terrible customer experience
Published onNovember 9, 2018Six things that Sober October taught meLessons learned from a month of challenging myself to sober
Published onJuly 5, 2018How to battle the sands of timeTrying to keep track of events as time flies by
Published onNovember 16, 2017Why you need to sell yourselfThe importance of a personal brand and making sure you put yourself out there
Published onAugust 27, 2017Knowing who your bail friends are and why it is importantKeep your friends close and your best friends closer
Published onJuly 2, 2017Life and the Pursuit of HappinessLiving in a material world and making decisions about being content
Published onJune 9, 2017Why Are Millennials Creating All This Content?The ever increasing trend of content creation
Published onApril 29, 2017Coming to America - An Immigrant's PerspectiveWhy legal immigration to the United States sucks for Indians now
Published onJanuary 25, 2016The Quintessence of TravelHaving the right equipment to capture the important moments