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How AI Gave Leaders Back Their Ability to Build For a long time, leading teams came with silent tradeoffs. As scope grows, your calendar fills up. As responsibility increases, hands-on building quietly drops. I moved from doing to reviewing. From shipping to unblocking. From writing code to designing. There are few people I came across that have accepted this as a cost of leadership. Personally I like building stuff. Always tried to take time out and build something independently. And that came with a lot of cognitive load. Until recently that was the case. ...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 : 𝗱𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿 I was reading about leadership where I came across different leadership styles. I got to know the nomenclature for leaders I worked with and the kind of leadership style I am following. 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 are the one who provide clear direction and instructions for execution. This style is particularly effective when leading teams that are new to the domain. ...

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽: 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 It’s human nature to get scared when there is change in the way we work. Be it the first day of school, first day in a new job, even when you get married, there’s always fear about how things will turn out in this new environment. So this fear comes when you are willing to do something which you wanted to do. Now let’s think what if we are forced to change. Now there will be more frustration than fear as change is imposed on us and we are not in control. ...

In the 90s we had the dot-com bubble. It was caused by the indefinite optimistic approach of the investors. They saw the internet as the future and invested in every other company which had dotcom in their name. Lot of them failed as they didn’t have any valuable product and they were just using dotcom movement to their advantage. Then came the cleantech bubble around 2008. Government announced heavy subsidies on companies which work towards green energy. Investors again became indefinitely optimistic and invested heavily on a lot of cleantech companies. Most companies were just selling different versions of the same core product like solar panels. There were few exceptions like Tesla which actually built real cleantech products and succeeded. ...

There are only 2 ways to make money. Increase your income or reduce your expense. Its true for inidividual as well as organizations. In my current organization we were facing huge challenge of unncessary cost being spent on AWS. We were paying huge chunk of our income to AWS. In this post I am going to disect some critical problems and optimizations done to reduce the cost of the AWS. ...

When you go to higher level in your respective field, you loose touch with core things which you enjoyed the most. For me it is Coding. After becoming a tech lead it was more about focusing on the design system and my team writing most of the code. It doesn’t mean I didn’t write any. I used to find some tasks which I can work on independently as I didn’t want to lose touch and I like to write code. But since then I never had a long uninterrupted streak of writing code. ...

The Story: Client reported that one of the reports which was getting generated in 15-20 mins is now taking hours. We tried analysing the RDS performance insight and came to know IO:DataFileRead is taking time. Recently we upgraded the Postgres version from 12 to 15 on two of our projects. We had two possible causes(still a theory) Recently we upgraded the Postgres version from 12 to 15 on two of our projects. It can be the root cause. ...