The Engineer Who Owns Nothing: A Cautionary Tale
I'm going to tell you about an engineer I worked with. Call him Mark. Mark was talented, well-liked, and utterly ineffective. Here's what I learned fr…
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How We Handled Our First Major Outage (And Survived)
Three years ago we had our first real outage. Six hours of downtime. Thousands of angry users. Multiple executives on the call. Here's what we did rig…
Building Trust with Product Teams as an SRE
SRE teams that fight with product teams don't get things done. SRE teams that get along with product teams get surprising amounts of reliability work …
Senior developer" after 3 years is title laundering
Startups hand out senior titles like candy. The industry pays the price. I have been doing interviews for about a year now, and I cannot escape this p…
Reading Log #9 — Aoashi The Tacit Dimension Thinking, Fast and Slow
Putting everything into words isn't honesty. Pride and awe dwell in the realm that can't be told. 1. The dimension of verbalization is different In Ao…
When Vulnerability Becomes Machine-Readable
There is a particular kind of person who treats vulnerability like exposed infrastructure. Not empathy. Not understanding. Not even cruelty in the tra…
The Perimeter Economy
Across the technology sector, disputes involving trade secrets, employee mobility, proprietary tooling, side projects, and independently developed sys…
Beyond Words: The Hidden Messages in Non-Verbal Communication
In the boardroom, your words might seal the deal, but it’s often your body language that opens the door. Research suggests that up to 93% of communica…
My Experience Working at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University, Mumbai
I want to share my experience working at Dr. Homi Bhabha State University (HBSU), Mumbai. For more than a year, I worked extensively on building and i…
JTC Office Culture: Why "Kuuki wo Yomu" Is Not Telepathy — A Guide to High-Context Communication and Social Signal Processing
For foreign engineers in Japan, the phrase "Kuuki wo Yomu" (Reading the Air) often feels like unscientific telepathy—an invisible social contract with…