I'm not here to tell you that you should be working for a monthly salary for the rest of your life. Also, it’s not about passive income or financial independence and definitely not a promoter of a hustle culture. That's not the main idea. The main idea is this: accept that you should do things that bring you joy AND...
I’ve been advocating for giving space to the people and creating an ownership culture in the team for a while. I’ve seen many managers fail in these and become micro-managers and get stuck in the same role, failing to grow as a leader, too. I had some concerns about creating this culture when I formed a new team...
Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom I admire for his ideas, talks about what binds a person. “Cultures create religions but not the religious man. The religious man comes into being only when the mind rejects culture, which is the background, and is, therefore, free to find out what is true. […] Such a person is not an...
We had a conversation with one of my designer friends, Maria, a while ago. We talked about the usefulness of engineers' feedback on designs and how to make it helpful. I pondered the topic after our discussion. My friend was doing user research and experimenting with different flows to design a new feature with the...
In a manager’s life, the manager tries to immerse themselves in deep work but fails to do so and ends up in shallow work due to many meetings they can’t avoid. In everything they do, they try to restore energy that was depleted in sudden bursts of shallow but demanding work. That’s, at best, inefficient and...
Nature heals all the pains, sufferings, struggles, and challenges. Watching the sunset makes you forget the daily concerns; watching sunrise can give you another perspective. Sitting idle on the beach adds no value to your life in terms of modern expectations; however, it’s one of the most valuable and precious...
The reason I’m sending these emails is that I’m challenging myself to write my thoughts to make sense of the world around me. Also, I know that some people have only discovered this road. But it doesn’t mean they share the same experience. Many people travel to the same places, but everyone sees things differently....
Recently, we were talking with a few friends about what we would do if we won the Euro Jackpot. With the same friends, we also talked about defining retirement, and in there, we tried to be specific with defining the goal for retirement to find out how much money would be needed. All we wanted to find out was how we...
A lot of events happen around us every day—at work, at home, in the city, the country, or the world. New movies come out, concerts are planned, and new books are launched day after day. We glance at them as we prepare our never-ending to-do list, which reaches an all-time high. We envy people who are lucky enough to...
Any leader in a mid-to-large-sized organization has to learn how to run a team or an organization with average talent. You can't always hire the best of the best. You can't scale a team at a good hiring pace when searching for the best engineers. Even if you try, you'll make mistakes and hire an average or...
There is no place or time in the education system for learning how to manage money. Nobody gives us this crucial education besides our families, so we have to take things into our own hands (as my family is not rich, I can tell they also don’t know how to manage money). So, it was time to get my hands dirty and...
Annie Dillard He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know. The things we read shape how we see the world. The books, articles, or newspapers we read are the words of others; they open someone else’s world. If we’re not careful of what...
