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Used to wish I was a footballer or a metal-band drummer or a physicist. Now I wish software was more glamorous! Leading Engg @ Freshworks Developer Platform

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Ethnical diversity is good for your team. Ethical diversity is best avoided. #leadership #culture

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Finally, when you do get to do something creative, do it in the open, have an iterative plan that can be interrupted by priority distractions, and make it count so you are trusted with future opportunities to scratch more of these shared itches.

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How do you scratch a personal itch that also happens to be something that itches your team or org at large?
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Sometimes, you may be ready, but the system and the environment around you isn't, and you must wait for the problem to become relevant or for a "better together" combo to arise.

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Can we break free of these temporal and spatial constraints and find a way toward a more sustained and a more accessible form of innovation culture in the engineering organization?

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How does innovation look like within in a typical organization?
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On the other hand, some initiatives end up becoming elite clubs that managers must fight to get their wards access to as a privilege, leaving everyone else to yearn for the same tomorrow while they continue to believe their current experience is a grind to seek freedom from.

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All things being equal, where most of us are building web applications, what does innovation look like? What is the incremental improvement we could bring to our work and leave the rest behind?

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What can we learn about innovation from the story of two engineers who competed to build the next best thing in printing back in the 19th century? https://t.co/no4vfFRJRb

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We often mistake invention for innovation. Innovation is in fact the act of bringing ideas to life in the form of a practical implementation. Innovation is where you have something to show for all your efforts.

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When it comes to deriving best practices for async communication, can information theory guide us? Do those obscure classes we were forced to sit through during our engineering days have any application IRL? Why don't we pretend they do? 😄
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What thumb rules would you share from your chat messaging experience?

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What might be alternative ways of conducting healthy and productive chat conversations, when we overload our sync selves onto this async medium?
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Don't leave any room to read between the lines, be explicit where possible, and overcommunicate if necessary, leaving nothing to convenient assumptions that come back to haunt us.