Prabodh Kumar Enumula

It has been a while. 2011 to be precise. I have stopped watching. It felt like giving up on religion for me. Initially it was hard to not follow the game, but over time i got used. But It is hard to ignore whats happening now. If you follow cricket, you know what i mean.…

You might be a sharp sniper or a super aggressive assault player but to win the game you need to know the map really well.Lot of the times, we focus too much on target practice, but miss out on knowing the map enough. It comes from jumping into battle field time and again, making notes…

I see people making tradeoffs every day at work – sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously. I believe it is so very critical that they need to lot more formally introduced at a younger age. It took a while for me to see this clearly, but once tradeoffs are understood they help a ton to get…

There is this talk by Harsha Bhogle which i had watched in 2007 (ya, that youtube video i linked is from 2014, but this talk was delivered in ~2005) which had pretty big impact on me. He talks about excellence a lot in that talk. One of thing which remained with me was this part…

Given comfort and truth, it is easy to choose comfort. It is easy to be surrounded by people who give only comfort. It is easy to like people who only say great things about you It is easier to make choices which will give that comfort. But that only ensures, you might be in an…

When i am building any product I keep asking some questions once in a while: Is the product i am building getting better over time, am i taking the help i needed or just building it all myself, are the customers finding the product reliable, in times of a bad day how is the product…

Tech debt is very widely understood term now a days, people understand how it can get accumulated over time and why we need to plan to address it regularly to make sure it is being maintained at an acceptable level. Similarly any individual’s performance in a team is sort of well understood, systems have evolved…

Often times when there is a critique of our work, our natural tendency is to defend it. Sometimes we go unreasonable in defending it, conversations become uncomfortable, discussions end up becoming arguments. Whether it is a developer getting code review comments, designer getting feedback on their designs or marketer getting feedback on a campaign. One…

From Sam Altman piece Compounding is magic. Look for it everywhere. Exponential curves are the key to wealth generation. This a great point. This theory applies for lot of things. Case in point: Hard Conversations Conversations are hard. Difficult conversations are harder. It is easy to procrastinate difficult conversations. Cost of delaying difficult conversations can be…