Category: Work

As soon as I activated LinkedIn, I saw a barrage of folks sharing this HBR article from 2018. And of course, the title is catchy enough so I gave it a read. The article provides excellent insight on why it’s important for leaders (I would argue for managers at all levels) to keep their ego…

Wife asked the other day what’s the major difference I observed between working at Ginger/HH than the previous companies. I have been fortunate to work with companies that had a culture and history of 150+ years with 100,000 employees, companies that were 20-year-old startups, and then a real start-up that was going through a major…

The last few months have been tumultuous, both personally and professionally. Needed to sign a new lease for the house. Wanted to travel to India, but couldn’t. Had to miss a number of important weddings. Ginger merged with Headspace bringing more responsibilities than the usual Dec break. and so on… Through all of this, like…

I recently watched this talk by Shreyas Doshi on Product Management. I have no plans to move to PM but the following Shreyas holds on Twitter and the threads of wisdom on his timeline made me follow him and watch the video. The entire video was pretty relevant to any career path, be it PM,…

Back in 2019, I was preparing my resume for a full-time job and was thinking of ways to stand out. I went through all the checklist items – good GPA, difficult courses, nice capstone project, good internships, a bunch of security certifications, etc. But something was amiss. So I decided to include a section called…