Leadership insights, thoughts from lived experiences and readings
Here are main points of The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz. 1. Be impeccable with your word Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. 2. Don’t take… Continue reading The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
What about starting the weekend in a light mode? How busy our techies in bay area are in their day to day work? Here is a sample.
Last week I finished reading Patrick Lencioni's wonderful book The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. When I started the book, I couldn't leave it and finished in a single day (as an audiobook). It's short and captivating all throughout. Update: I finished it for a second time in July ahead of a management book club discussion in… Continue reading The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
I am glad I stumbled upon An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson last week while listening to a podcast. I immediately took audible monthly subscription to read it. While listening to the book, I felt as if Will Larson has been talking to me over a fireside chat and sharing his… Continue reading An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
This weekend I finished a fantastic Udemy course on Strategy by Executive Coach Ron Carucci. All Marqetans get free Udemy for Business account, so I didn't have to pay for this. Here is the link if you want to consider taking this course. I am also putting my notes and learnings from this course below.… Continue reading Being Strategic: Thinking and Acting with Impact
A lively engineers' meetup with nearly 60 attendees including engineers from Bay Area software companies was held at Marqeta's Oakland Headquarter on the evening of January 29. Cockroach Labs Solution Engineer Roko Kruze gave an engineering talk on how CockroachDB delivers resilient, consistent, cloud native, distributed SQL at scale. He described how CockroachDB lets developers… Continue reading Marqeta Hosts Cockroach Labs at First #eng-meetup
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