Akshay Julka

Jack of all trades, on a look out to master one. Strat Consultant with interests in #AI #Tech #Travel #Politics #Sports #Design #Entrepreneurship

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Anyone who claims that their political party does no wrong and the other party does no right is either a liar, a fool or both.

[Akshay Julka @JulkaAkshay]

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[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Shah abusing Chandrababu Naidu. Calling him the greatest opportunist in Indian history! Says that NDA’s doors are closed for him forever!
Will Naidu agree to Modi/Shah after such humiliation?

[Akshay Julka @JulkaAkshay]

Let’s circle back on this 😁

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

No need to panic. We just overturned a panic-inducing decision we took 7 years ago and took yet another panic-inducing decision making everyone once again scramble to exchange their own hard-earned money else lose it.

But please don’t panic.

Love you,

Your Baadshaah-e-Panic.

[Akshay Julka @JulkaAkshay]

Der aye durust aye 🙌

[Days Since Kohli Scored a Century @Kohli100Tracker]

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[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

Thank you to everyone who voted for me in this campaign.

I’ve said throughout that the Conservatives are one family.

It’s right we now unite behind the new PM, Liz Truss, as she steers the country through difficult times.

[Akshay Julka @JulkaAkshay]

Thread.

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

Elon Musk is a big believer in First Principles Thinking.

Not just Musk — Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Feynman too.

Here's what it is, how to use it, and become better at it:

[Shruti Sonal @shrutisonal26]

Few things seemingly excite Niti Aayog as much as EVs and clean energy. It publishes a slew of reports, peppered with bullish numbers. But things get interesting when you realize over 70% of these reports have been co-authored by one particular US think tank: RMI. A thread 🧵

[Walter Isaacson @WalterIsaacson]

Late last night, after winning his battle for Twitter, @elonmusk was in Boca Chica and held his regular 10 pm meeting on Raptor engine design, where he spent more than an hour working on valve leak solutions. No one mentioned Twitter. He can multitask.

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

When do Indians celebrate their New Year?

[Arun Mukherjee @Arunstockguru]

Stock market is the only place where people leave when there's massive discount sale happening.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

To all those people who (quite rightly) said don’t demonise all Muslims after 9/11…I hope they are saying the same thing about Russian people. Russia and the Russians aren’t the problem. Its leader is.
#Xenophobia

[Akshay Julka @JulkaAkshay]

What an interesting perspective!

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

Content creation isn't a sprint, it isn't even a marathon, it is like doing a PhD.

What topic do you start with? Ask yourself what can you talk about for 3 hours and then still have the energy to talk for 6 more. What will you be excited to do even 1 year from now?

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

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[Mausumi,মৌচুমী... @DasKhaund]

Indeed…

[Azmi Shabana @AzmiShabana]

“ Dont raise your voice, improve your argument” Desmond Tutu RIP

[Khalsa Aid India @khalsaaid_india]

@khalsaaid_india has not left the protest sites yet!

Our teams called in 10 JCB’s to get the protest sites cleaned.

Thank you for your support!
#farmersprotest #khalsaaid #khalsaaidindia

[Saul Goodman ⚖ @itsSaulGoodman]

Better Call Saul Season 6 coming soon.

[Akshay Julka @JulkaAkshay]

Evening run views, total Rocky feels 😀