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by vmurthy 7y ago
From my personal experience, I feel that I lacked objectivity in looking at my successes and failures. I felt that the failures overshadowed the successes. I realised that it helped to keep track of successes (minor and major) and failures
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Heh! I am INTJ if that helps :-) . Agree on the rest of your comments.
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Having fixed bugs /coding for nearly a decade and now having more meetings & emails,I would argue that if anything meetings & emails drain _more_ energy because of the context switches. You are more likely to do deep work fixin
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by vmurthy 7y ago
True there are billions of concepts but if you think about it, a few concepts explain a ton of things. For e.g., incentives. A simple concept in theory but apply the right incentives if you are leading teams and you'll see a whole lot
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by vmurthy 7y ago
Considering PPP, 200k USD is equivalent to about 5 million INR. Software engineers in India with 10+ years of experience and working in companies like Amazon , Microsoft etc make that amount quite easily. Of course, the quality of living is
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by vmurthy 8y ago
1 makes most sense and doesn't require too many sacrifices :-) .It's amazing how well my mental wellbeing has improved after I stopped watching news and being on Social Networks.
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by vmurthy 8y ago
I've found that reading history gives me hope because at every point in mankind's past, so many people would have had the same fatalism that we have now.Things have turned out OK after all :-) Second, reading stoicism helps , too.
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by vmurthy 8y ago
If you're entering into senior roles, ask "What metrics are you using to measure success?". It's an open ended question but it'll give you tons of insights into how management thinks about business.