Sitemap - 2023 - Kartick Vaddadi: Tech Advisor to CXOs

Tips about Sorting Your House and Throwing out Old Stuff

How Teaching and Selling Are Similar yet Different

How Is Teaching Different from Marketing?

What's the value of an online teacher?

Income tax formula for use in spreadsheets

Analysing Jeff Bezos's 1994 job posting

An alternative platform to the Wild West

AirPods Pro (1st Gen) Audio Quality Comparison

We All Use American Apps

Mistakes of Commission and Omission

Two Schools of Thought on Dealing with Mistakes

What Burnout is and how to recover

Summary of The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

Summary of Steve Jobs' talk in 1992 at MIT

What's a tech company?

Summary of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

What you should charge for vs. delegate

What Makes a Startup's Mission Appealing?

Think of your career like a mutual fund

How to use Apple Photos effectively

The free version of Youtube is more premium than Premium

How to improve your sleep

Don't worry about haters

What I Learnt about Managing Finances as a Micropreneur

What I Learnt About Selling Consulting

How to stay technically up-to-date in ways other than coding

How a "Not Now" List De-stressed Me

SaaS costs are out of control

The 11-inch iPad is the right size

Calendly alternatives are not as good

Do you want to work in wartime or peacetime?

How to prevent leads from wasting your time by Kent Summers

What I learnt starting Futurecam

Have slack in your work life

Positive-, zero- and negative-sum jobs

Can filesystems adopt zero-overhead abstractions?

Is consulting / freelancing right for you?

Try out different career options

Work at a scaled and prestigious company

What I learnt about people management

The counter-intuitive thing about money

If you've failed a few times, do something that will succeed

Explore vs Exploit

Freedom Is Inversely Proportional To Company Size

Don't work in a pressure cooker environment

Don't define yourself by technology

Don't count on your company to take care of you

What to do if you're put on a PIP

CV and Linkedin Review

Don't blame yourself for lessons learnt late

Summary of B2B Sales for Startups by Kent Summers

Before accepting a job, talk to them about your requirements

Don't let any company discharge your emotional battery

Don't let repeated stress response kill you

Don't trust HR

You're hired for outcomes, not skills

The Comfort Zone and the Discomfort Zone

How to record the screen on the Mac

Consult as an on-ramp to full-time

Seeking out too much feedback drowns out your inner voice

How to record good audio

Did you experience a micro-shock this month?

iOS and macOS should offer higher opt-in security

The Macbook Pro (Mini LED) is an excellent laptop

Don't ignore delayed rewards when choosing a job

Wrong Mental Models College Leaves Us With

In the future, more people will commute by air

Notes From Cloud Strategy by Gregor Hohpe

Notes from Deep Work by Cal Newport