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Summary of Atomic Habits

Summary of Make Time by Jake Knapp

Insightful Amazon Leadership Principles

We Should Have Hypervisor-Based Desktop and Mobile OSs

Summary of The Great CEO Within by Matt Mochary

Summary of Build by Tony Fadell

Work Lessons from Tennis

How to Ramp up as a Newly Hired CTO

Embrace Eustress, Reject Distress

Rethinking Expressways for the Future

Internet Speeds And the Scarcity Mindset

Summary of Sabotaging an Agile Transformation

Summary of The Software Architect Elevator

Why we're defensive when receiving feedback

Bringing about Organizational Change from The Software Architect Elevator

Responsibility vs Blame When Evaluating Decisions

Organizational Red Flags from The Software Architect Elevator

Effectiveness matters more than efficiency

Futurecam Was a Partial Success, Not a Failure

Five Don'ts Regarding Career Choices

Summary of The Secrets of Closing the Sale

How to Fail Forward

Factors to Consider When Making a Decision

Summary of Never Split The Difference

Why you shouldn't moonlight

Summary of Objections by Jeb Blount

Positive-, zero- and negative-sum companies

The TKI Conflict Style

What I Learnt about Making YouTube Videos for Mobile

High-reward Full-time Jobs for Ambitious Engineers

Big Companies Shouldn't Be Exempted from Spam Filters

Which Tech Giants Have Stopped Innovating?

Farewall to the Desktop As a Platform

Don't justify everything you say with reasons

How to build effective Async APIs by Terry Crowley

Notes from Terry Crowley on Layering

Managing at Scale by Terry Crowley

What does Agile Mean? by Terry Crowley

Notes from Terry Crowley on Caching

How to Build Responsive Touch Interfaces by Terry Crowley

Summary of Complexity and Strategy by Terry Crowley

How to Model Data for NoSQL

My Take On "The Hard Thing About Software Development"

Summary of Switch

Lessons from the BharatPe Fiasco

How I Negotiate

Apple Should've Enhanced Objective-C Instead of Building Swift

Semantic Formats, Presentation Formats and HTML

Why I Purchased Microsoft 365 and Not Google Workspace

Estimates Are Only Guesses

The Only Way to Ensure Work-life Balance in a Job

Differentiation Is Easier for People than for Companies

Summary of Getting To Yes

Languages Should Offer Servers as a Fundamental Abstraction

Accept Only What You've Understood

Summary of Work Rules

Stop Giving Performance Ratings like "Exceeds Expectations"

Summary of Made to Stick

What I'd Like From a Serialisation Protocol

Summary of No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks

How I Do Important / Urgent Prioritisation

What's Causing The Great Discontent

Too Much Skin in the Game Is as Bad as Too Little

Your Comfort Zone is Not Same as Your Safety Zone

Summary of The Mythical Man-Month

Interview Question: Find the Subarray with the Biggest Sum

Summary of The Innovator's Dilemma

Network APIs Shouldn't Force Standard Verbs

We need controlled chaos in our jobs

Statistically Accurate vs Individually Accurate Systems

Imagining a Future Where We Won’t Need Documents

High- and low-level Intuition in Engineering