We talk about great teams and great companies as if their excellence is something you inherit by joining them. As if the quality lives out there and all you need to do is step in for you to become excellent. Read more →
In large organizations, work often arrives already shaped in the form of a ticket, a feature spec or a defined task. Each team owns a slice: product defines, engineering builds, analysts measure, ML tunes. It keeps things moving, but it also narro... Read more →
Shalom Auslander’s Feh is a masterpiece of wit, despair, and, surprisingly, hope. It stands out as one of the most impactful books I’ve read in recent memory. Read more →
“I’ve got to be honest, you probably won’t get batting.” That was my first introduction to Lions. I was filling in an empty spot in the 11 just before the day of the game. Read more →
This week I decided to delete Linkedin. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now, but haven’t had the courage to do it. Nothing changed as such except me deciding to bite the bullet. Read more →
I think blockchains are a really important technology and are going to change the way applications are built. A lot of people have been trying to understand what they mean and whether they are missing out on all the cryptocoin boom. This meant I’v... Read more →
I wanted to do this mid-year but couldn’t get around to this till now. Seeing as to how my initial plans aren’t going as I planned, I felt this is a good time to reiew and revise this year’s plans. Read more →
This week the United State Congress voted to let ISPs sell their consumers’ browsing history. This is a change that nobody asked for and is a clear selling out to the lobbying efforts of cable companies. Read more →
I’ve recently come across a Hindi translation of the poem so you want to be a writer? by Charles Bukowski. The translation is done by Varun Grover. I felt like sharing the original piece in its entirety as I struggle to turn my own thoughts into w... Read more →
I wrote this email to the author Han Kang afer reading her book The Vegetarian. Unfortunately the email address listed on her website is not functioning, so I’m posting my email to her here. The Vegetarian is a beautiful and book and do read it if... Read more →
If any of you have in the recent past seen my Twitter timeline @arelangi and are wondering what all the tweets are about, this post is for you. Read more →
A lot of application development these days has to do with connecting to APIs. This means however different the underlying service we all end up implementing the same authentication mechanisms over and over, which is why I decided to go ahead and ... Read more →
Coomi Kapoor’s book The Emergency is something that I came across when I saw her interview with Madhu Trehan on Newslaundry. It was launched around the anniversary of the emergency. Let’s get the first things out of the way. This is a memoir. The ... Read more →
The word semantics from the ancient greek is the meaning or the interpretation of a word, sentence, or other language form. It is important how we define events, the words we choose to portray things that effect our lives. The fact that we as a so... Read more →
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s letter to his fifteen year old son in the wake of acquittal of Michael Brown’s murderers is a masterpiece. This is by far the best book I read this year and I doubt if any other books I might read this year might beat it. I do n... Read more →
I’ve never written anyone obituaries. Haven’t read many either. I do not know what the format is, if there is any. Should one be close to a person to write an obit? Should one know them intimately? Shared a coffee, had a conversation? I do not kno... Read more →
Every human being has a right to privacy, given that we spend most of our lives online, maintaining that privacy in the digital world becomes even more important. The argument that one has to choose between privacy and security in a free world is ... Read more →
The Golden Son is the second book of The Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown. This book takes off two years after the end of events in Red Rising. I read this book immediately after finishing Red Rising. The Golden Son is a good sequel to Red Risin... Read more →
The second book I read this year after Martian is also set on Mars. Haha.. Talk about variety. This book though is a sci-fi set in the dystopian future when man has conquered all of the solar system and is colonising different planets. I’ve enjoye... Read more →
Wow, what a book! Amazing. Loved it all the way through. The pace never slackened, the plot never boring. Andy Weir pulled off a stunner. This book had me at Mars and it had me again at stranded alone on Mars. Read more →
Welcome to yet another year. 2014 was transformative for me. I’m hoping to continue what I started in 2014, the groundwork has been laid, now I just need to stick to the plan and execute it. Read more →
I’ve started so many blogs, so many times that I’ve lost count. Most of it might be because I was still trying to find myself. At this point, I think I am able to find myself, slowly, in bits and pieces. However long, slow and uneventful this has... Read more →