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Look, I'll be straight with you. I bombed my first startup back in 2012.

Now that the new year has started, you probably have written down some New Year's resolutions and promised yourself to lose weight, write that book, travel more, etc.

At its core, Software Engineering has to do with crafting and building things. We are all craftsmen.

This is something I have been thinking a lot lately. Whenever I start working on a new side project, the first thing I do (after coming up with an available domain name) is to setup the landing page...

I was sitting in my car alone, furious and angry. The car was like a shark cage protecting me.

Taking notes is something we all do (or did). Whether you are in high school, college, or running your own business note-taking can be a vital skill to have.

Pre Script: I began writing this post on April 4th. But procrastinated finishing it and publishing it.

Building and running a company is hard. But running a company that was built to sell is even harder, especially if you run a consulting/services business.

It's time for a new challenge. If you have read my previous blog posts, you would've known that I do like to take up new challenges like "only cold showers" or "speaking to at least one stranger...

With all the startups I have worked with, I have noticed one mistake that every founder keeps making when they are starting off with the product.

Whenever I go out to meetups and conferences, fresh out of college graduates and entry-level engineers always have a few questions to ask me.

It has been more than a year since I posted here and it is already the end of 2018.

Whenever I meet people in conferences or meetups, I experiment with how I introduce myself.

This is the last dysfunction that is discussed in the book "Five Dysfunctions of a Team".

For the past 3 days, I have been writing about the book Five Dysfunctions of a team.

This week I am writing about the book Five Dysfunctions of a Team which is about a fictional company whose executive team is highly dysfunctional and how the new CEO brings them all together to...

In yesterday's post, I was explaining about the latest book that I was finished reading: Five Dysfunctions of a team and the first dysfunction - the absence of trust.

Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a book I started reading recently and I think is one book that everyone who is working together with a team needs to read.

On 14 November, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox called Quantum, which is literally a quantum leap in performance over the previous versions.

I am a regular podcast listener even before the recent upsurge of numerous podcast shows that has cropped up in recent times.

When writing copy for a product's homepage, one mistake I see everyone doing is they keep talking about all the features that their product has.

In yesterday's article, I explained 6 different ideas to read your customer's mind and use the language/words that they use.

The landing page for your product is the single most important page on your entire website and it is important that you communicate well on that page to connect with your customers.

Gone are the days when people used to pay and get software installed on each computer.

Many companies today uses Google Suite for their Email and everyone has gotten used to the Gmail interface.

I get ideas and topics to write in my blog during unusual time and places and I wanted to have an easy way to track them.

I have been using Pinboard for nearly an year and it has been a great replacement for Delicious, except for one minor gripe: It doesn't have a good app for iPhone.

Today on my twitter feed, I came across a new startup Buttalks - an underwear subscription service for men, first of its kind in India.

I am a fan of James Altucher's writing and he is one big proponent of the practice of "writing 10 ideas everyday".

Whenever you design a product, there are two important things that one needs to remember to get the user experience right.

If you are developing a product and working with a team of engineers writing code, you would have definitely faced the horror of reading someone else's code.

Yesterday I talked about why criticism is important in the success of any company and how to accept feedback about your work.

Few months back listening to one of Noah Kagan's podcast episode, (the one where he talks about his conversation with Jonathan Coon of WikiBuy.com) he mentions something called the Michael Jackson...

In any business organization, there are two types of sub-units or teams.

In my November month challenge, I mentioned that I will be writing one article every day.

We humans are creatures of habit. We always want to do things which are good for our lives.

It is the first of November, which means end of the October Challenge. As mentioned last month, I decided to have a conversation with a stranger every day of October.

Have you felt proud of yourself because you could multi-task two or more things?

Few years back, I heard a quote which made me rethink about personal growth.

One of my favourite podcast in recent times is Noah Kagen Presents and I have been devouring each episode back-to-back.

Lets say you are building a Social Media marketing automation product, where you allow the users to schedule multiple posts to different social media platforms.

When you design a product, be a website, SaaS Application or a mobile app, usability testing is one important iterative process that needs to be done before shipping the product.

When you run a company or manage a team big enough to not fit in a room, one problem you are going to face is interpersonal conflicts.

DevOpsDays is a technical conferences covering topics of software development, IT infrastructure operations, and the intersection between them.

Everyone has numerous reasons NOT to use an issue tracker. Few reasons that the old style management people say are:

Few months back there was a lot of activity on twitter and medium about conference proposals and how so many people had to face lot more rejections than acceptances.

All the individual day's posts have been collected into this single post.

Yesterday I wrote about how to use a very simple timing context manager to measure how much time your python code/functions take.

There are many times when you would want to see how much time your program takes to execute.

If you had a facebook account, you would have seen at least 1 friend who had posted something like this sometime in the past 2 days.

Some smart guy once said “_What isn’t measured doesn’t get improved._” As I grow older, I seem to understand this a lot.

Today I was in the mood for some ice cream and got a stick of one popular/expensive brand.

I use zsh as my primary shell and have Oh My Zsh which has lot of helpful plugins, themes and functions which make using the terminal easy.

I started blogging back in 2004 on LiveJournal (it was Medium of those days, if you kids don’t know).

I have a few bank accounts and there is this particular local bank called City Union Bank, that is more than hundred years old.

Technical Debt is a term that most developers have heard of. Even if you haven’t heard of the term, I am pretty sure you would have done something in your programming career that is a technical debt.

Disclaimer: Persons/organisations mentioned in this story are based on real-life.

The other day I was consolidating all my ideas in my Evernote and I found that I have noted down a lot of projects/ideas for products.

Here’s a crazy simple idea that someone can build over a weekend.

They say change is the only constant in life. May be that’s why I keep changing my blog host and the software.

For a long time all my personal stuff were posted on my livejournal, blogger or posterousblogs.