Amit Saxena

Breathes Technology. Builder. Eager to learn. Low tolerance to corporate BS. Founder @bill_baba.

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

“Most complexity is unnecessary, but we manage it instead of removing it because deletion requires courage that addition doesn't.”

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

@h6165 NarayanMurthy should look into sharing the pie with a much larger percentage of employees at Infosys before suggesting 70 hour work weeks to them. @Infosys seemingly isn’t great at it.

https://t.co/Jl7Ndp3BMa

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

@h6165 I think the bigger flaw is that the suggestion tries to put all employees at par with a founder/CEO in terms of effort despite the fact that there is an exponential mismatch between potential upside in case of success.
#NarayanaMurthy

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

This is potentially one of the worst sign up/onboarding flow I have ever seen. They don't let you experience the product at all without the intervention of a sales person. Very strange! It would have been much better if that button didn't say "Free trial".

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

@troyhunt your @InvictiSecurity endorsement is no longer true. They force you to book a meeting with a Salesperson to move forward with a trial and don't let you skip it. So no longer "on-demand" or "do it yourself". Why do we always need a sales person as companies grow bigger🤔

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

“The trouble is that most people want to be right. The very best people, however, want to know if they're right.”

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Go hug someone

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

"Asking for feedback creates a critic. Asking for advice creates a partner."

[Ranjeet Pratap Singh @ThEbmr]

#KoshishJaariHaai

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

On bended knee is no way to be free!

[Steve Kamb @SteveKamb]

I stumbled across the BEST biohack for optimal human performance.

It's tricky, but here's what to do:

Lie in bed with your eyes closed, for like, 7-9 hours.

If you can actually pull this off, productivity for the next 16 hours will be INSANE.

I call it "Macrodozing."

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

To all the story point lovers out there😂

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

"If you win, no one can hurt you. If you're losing, no one can help you."

- Frank Slootman

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

Agile has mostly been a scam since it was commercialized. The original manifesto was more of common sense, which doesn't need $XXX certifications for you to understand.
https://t.co/lFDA7CrNMp

[Ben Johnson @benbjohnson]

My rule of thumb is that you’ll probably spend at least $1M to move to Kubernetes. That’s new ops hires, training, initial productivity loss, etc.

If you don’t have a $1M problem that Kubernetes is solving then I don’t think you should even consider it.

[Amit Saxena @amitsxena]

Well, that’s a dumb idea!
https://t.co/bvVifQxDGS

[Josh Kopelman @joshk]

"Principles are only principles if you’d hold them even when they are costly."

Great quote from @reidhoffman

[Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins]

In 1665 Cambridge University closed because of plague. Isaac Newton retreated to rural Lincolnshire. During his 2 years in lockdown he worked out calculus, the true meaning of colour, gravitation, planetary orbits & the 3 Laws of Motion. Will 2020 be someone’s Annus Mirabilis?