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Meta skills
Meta skills are those which don’t fall into the category of skills but enable those both hard and soft skills. They make one effective at multiple levels and sort of set a context in which the person operates. I kind of had a gut feeling about this but lately only I have been able to […]
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Acquiring wisdom, acquiring knowledge
I read a lot, at least I try to. It involves books, blogs, articles, magazine features, social media posts and everything about and between. These are not random but aligned to a eclectic range of interests. But the underlying theme is to know more, understand more, realize the underlying patterns, finding the connections between multiple […]
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Crafts and craftsmanship
Good craftsmanship delights me to no end. It could be divine and it could be orgasmic, depending on who believes what. Be it some intricate woodcarving, or some refined piece of cutlery, a souvenir at a touristy place, or some well made lampshade, it could be anything from anywhere. I want to own it, I […]
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Continuous Monitoring Notes
I was reading an article here on what all the Continuous Monitoring should cover. Here are a few things to start with: The Importance of Continuous Monitoring in a DevOps Application Monitoring: performance and availability of application services. Configuration Monitoring: application and environment-specific configurations for specific app/environment version. Database Monitoring: database connection time and locks, […]
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HBR Jan 19 – Platforms Strategy notes
This is age of platforms. Major companies have won over by having Platforms instead of products.There is a difference between Alibaba, Facebook and AirBnb vs Uber, Didi and Meitvan. Interplay between Platform and Network it orchestrates is critical. Long term success of a Product or Service depends heavily on health, defensibility and dominance of ecosystem […]