This is one of the toughest parts of the interview process for most companies to figure out, and also where we get the most pushback from clients when we tell them, you only need to evaluate for 4 things in the Middle of the Funnel. Key Points Here: Hiring is NOT a Democracy, it … | Continue reading
What would a 3-star candidate experience look like at your company? What about a 5-star experience? Now think about a 6,7,8-star experience. “If you want to build something that’s truly viral you have to create a total mind f**k experience that you tell everyone about. | Continue reading
Every single startup I've spoken with has said that their issue in hiring engineers is the "Top of Funnel" - meaning, pipeline and having people in process for your organization. What's interesting (And this goes back to the 12:1 onsite to hire industry average) is that when you … | Continue reading
This article looks at how blockchain can be used for identity management acting as a repository of identity which is regulated by user/owner. Identity verification overview Conventional practices involve attestation on identity information involving but not limited to Name Gover … | Continue reading
You should really get more sleep. I know, you've heard it before. | Continue reading
Through my career writing software and observing people in companies large and small I have come to recognize a myth shared by many software engineers and managers; the Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer. This myth is a misguided belief that engineers are like Laplace’s Demo … | Continue reading
In product management, it's simple and straight forward. There are two distinct roles: a product manager (PM) and a product owner (PO). | Continue reading
Through my career writing software and observing people in companies large and small I have come to recognize a myth shared by many software engineers and managers; the Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer. This myth is a misguided belief that engineers are like Laplace’s Demo … | Continue reading
How did the Outlook email breach happen? According to Microsoft, one of its support agent's credentials were apparently compromised, allowing individuals to gain unauthorized access to Microsoft email accounts. Initially, Microsoft said the breach may have allowed unauthorized pa … | Continue reading
In a recent happy hour with an ex-colleague, we chatted about our decade-long careers as Product Managers (PM), how the PM role varied from one company to another and what it meant to be successful as a PM. That last question lingered in my mind for a while and I am blogging abou … | Continue reading
Introduction: Freelancing is not completely different from Entrepreneurship. In fact, I would say freelancing is a mini version of Entrepreneurship. | Continue reading
I recently had the opportunity to mentor at a coding workshop hosted by Canada Learning Code — a nonprofit organization that teaches people basic coding skills necessary to thrive in a digital world. The workshop itself was fairly simple and walked students through building their … | Continue reading
April 13, 2019: Bilal Tahir posted on LinkedIn | Continue reading
Tailoring your message and method of communicating it can significantly improve the quality of the response you receive while also reducing the time you wait to receive it. Top 12 best practices Be sure to explain why it is needed in addition to what is needed. | Continue reading
Originally published on the Venture For America Blog. Do you remember your first coding class? Mine was entirely unplanned. | Continue reading
Champions of learning When Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1400s, he understood that it would lead to an information revolution. For the first time, people outside the cultural elite could easily and cheaply access information for themselves. | Continue reading
April 5, 2019: Carlos Eduardo Seo posted an article on LinkedIn | Continue reading
Summary I was fortunate enough to be raised in a middle-class family by parents who took good care of me, to go to good public schools, and to come into a job market that offered me equal opportunity. I was raised with the belief that having equal opportunity to have basic care, … | Continue reading
Note: This is the transcript of my talk at CyberCentral Summit on 5th of April, 2019. It was roughly written while my memory is still fresh about what content was presented yesterday but it's not going to be 100% the same from my original talk. | Continue reading
The 2019 LinkedIn Top Companies list reveals the 50 companies where Americans want to work — and stick around once they’re in — now. Every year, our editors and data scientists parse billions of actions taken by LinkedIn members around the world to uncover the companies that are … | Continue reading
So this is the start of a shorter (medium?) version of Wise Wednesdays while I test if some of the writing momentum can be put into the book. It’s officially three years since I took a career leap into the unknown: beyond a structured, institutional career into entrepreneurialism … | Continue reading
Summary I was fortunate enough to be raised in a middle-class family by parents who took good care of me, to go to good public schools, and to come into a job market that offered me equal opportunity. I was raised with the belief that having equal opportunity to have basic care, … | Continue reading
Summary I was fortunate enough to be raised in a middle-class family by parents who took good care of me, to go to good public schools, and to come into a job market that offered me equal opportunity. I was raised with the belief that having equal opportunity to have basic care, … | Continue reading
What’s the most common answer to the question, ‘What’s your biggest weakness?’ Of course, it’s, ‘I’m a bit of a perfectionist.’ For many of us, perfectionism is a humble brag. | Continue reading
After seven years, I’ve decided to pursue my next chapter and will be moving on from Blue Apron this May. This has been the most profound experience of my career and this decision was not an easy one. | Continue reading
Back in November 2016 our family decided to move from Gilbert, Arizona, to Gig Harbor, Washington. The driving desire was to be closer to our 3 older children and in the very near future our grandchildren; while living in a place that we were familiar with and had family. | Continue reading
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the AI and Data Science in Trading event in NYC and saw an awesome lineup of speakers. It was a very productive conference making new connections at funds and with trading firms, as well as meeting up with old friends in the space. | Continue reading
Hold Up. Do We Need Architects? A system has an architecture. | Continue reading
A couple years ago my wife and I visited the beautiful Spanish city of Segovia located in the center of Spain about an hour northwest of Madrid. At the heart of the city, nestled close to its historic shopping district, are the iconic aqueducts built during the Roman Empire nearl … | Continue reading
I joined Sonder last May, excited to build a next-generation hospitality platform, by bringing together the best of what hotels and homeshares can offer. I joined a nascent, but hungry and wildly bright team of engineers with the same goal. | Continue reading
There are numerous new programming languages today vying for attention. Here is a short list: Ballerina (2017), Ceylon (2011), Clojure (2007), Cobra (2006), Crystal (2014), Dart (2011), Elixir (2011), F# (2005), Haskell (1990), Haxe (2005), Idris (2017), Julia (2012), Luna (2016) … | Continue reading
I always had great admiration and compassion for entrepreneurs that dare to change, challenge status quo, question, and are curiosity-driven individuals that disrupt, optimize, or bring refreshing perspectives to everyday state of affairs. After raising our first 500K$ for Wonder … | Continue reading
March 16, 2019: Abhi Gupta posted an article on LinkedIn | Continue reading
The Utopian Vision of AI In the late 1800s, in what's known as the Second Industrial Revolution, multiple major new technologies initiated an era marked by even more rapid transformation than the century that preceded it — especially in the United States. Electrification, railroa … | Continue reading
March 21, 2019: TheRoad. posted on LinkedIn | Continue reading
March 15, 2019: University of Oxford posted images on LinkedIn | Continue reading
As the close of Q1 approaches, ambi just completed our first Executive Quarterly Planning Off-Site. I’m thrilled and humbled by what we’ve done to transform the student learning experience in such a short time. | Continue reading
I contributed this article on NetworkComputing. I am re-publishing it here. | Continue reading
February 7, 2019: Fleury Keigni, CISSP posted on LinkedIn | Continue reading
There has been a lot of speculation on who Alphabet will buy to accelerate their growth in enterprise cloud. Red Hat was one of the top names mentioned in 2018 as a logical Alphabet target. | Continue reading
When I started programming, I was told to ensure that there were no bugs in the code. Testing was rigorous and any bug caught would result in a reward for the tester and be a cause for embarrassment for programmers. | Continue reading
The Two Economies: The Top 40% and the Bottom 60% To understand what’s going on in “the economy,” it is a serious mistake to look at average statistics. This is because the wealth and income skews are so great that average statistics no longer reflect the conditions of the averag … | Continue reading
I didn’t realise how difficult life would be, after 10 years of working at Google, till someone at my new job asked me, “Do you know Docker?” I shrugged. “What’s that?” I added. | Continue reading
Now I’ve been vaguely uncomfortable about blockchain for some time but never sat down to think about it – until now. What is blockchain, anyway? It’s a specific example of a more general concept, the distributed ledger. | Continue reading
They dumped a lot of money into India. Microsoft's CEO now is Indian from India. | Continue reading
Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with saying, “The only constant is change” around 500 BC. This idea rings true today. | Continue reading
Like many CTOs my career too is split in two parts. One was the part where I myself transitioned from a budding developer to a full-stack technology architect. | Continue reading