Postcards from a recent trip

Tenkasi District, Tamil Nadu. Magnificent western ghats Church on a Hill Two bulbul chicks in our garden.

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Internet connectivity through satellites 🛰. Is it needed?

I'm blessed with a good group of friends to have lunch with everyday at work, in all the companies I've worked in. We all come from different backgrounds and so we end up talking about interesting subjects with different point of views. I'm planning to file these under 'Lunch Table'. What I write under these …

Splash of Yellow

As I turned a corner in my apartment complex, on my quick walk to car to get to work, a splash of yellow caught my eye. In an unassuming place where someone's dripping AC water had watered an orphaned pot, there bloomed this beautiful yellow bouquet. I forgot the 'busyness' at that time, stood there …

Things I learnt about AC maintenance

Last week my AC went kaput. Cant blame it, this Chennai heat! Started spewing out water from the internal unit. I called my trusted AC guy and he came home after a day. I trust him because he also teaches a few things about AC while he is fixing it. Here are some things I …

Fish as pets. 🙄 🐠

What's the deal with that?! I just don't get it. I know a couple who are crazy about pet fish, I think they have close to 30 of them. Different kinds - guppies, fighter, angel and what not. They like them too, not in a yummy way but like liking a pet. And the effort …

Who goes to a bank anymore?

Recently I read a post on linkedin by a colleague, asking fellow IT peers why Remote work hasn't been adopted by the Indian IT companies. She also went on to ask if it is the lack of trust in employees. I think it is also because sometimes the work is hard to quantify. If one …

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Scope = pain points + more value 👍

I've written here about the process of product management, where I emphasized on understanding the user's problem. Recently I was made aware of something deeper and helpful. Yes, understanding the pain points are important but when we start solutioning, we should consider the scope of the product that is larger than the pain point. Scope …

Sharing Knowledge / Gossip🤫

When you become the person who knows things, then you get a certain amount of Klout. But the problem is others should know that you knew it first. So you end up sharing news to others even when it is not published yet. My question today was, 'is that gossip'? Looks like there is a …