The origin of this blog I have been aware of the term burnout for a while. In fact, in the first weeks of COVID I had written of burnout from my experiences with WFH. As time progressed, I thought I had identified the issues and started to act on it. I took a couple of…
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Why I left a job in 3 months?
I recently left a job in about 3 months. My intention with this blog is to highlight some of the important things to consider when you take on that next role or how to know when you are done with a role. So just backing up a little: Not that long ago, I took up…
Continue ReadingMy experiences with failure (2020 edition)
2020 2020 has been a challenging year for most people. Almost no one could have planned for what happened this year. Goals have not been met. Jobs no longer exist. Loved ones have been lost. That has led to suffering, pain, anguish, despair among many other feelings.
Continue ReadingDigital Minimalism
Background This is the COVID world. Staying at home, staying away from people, working at home, attending zoom calls all day long are part of the new normal for a lot of people. In the last 6 months, I had started feeling that I am online (or in front of a screen) more and more….
Continue ReadingBurnout: The point at which you don’t care
In these strange and uncertain times, people in Tech have had it relatively better than those working on the front-lines or in jobs that cannot be done from home. We can work from the comfort of our homes and stay safe and get our essentials online. Given the time-savings of commute, the reduced in-person distractions…
Continue ReadingWhy Tokyo?
Why Tokyo? This exact line has been the response of me telling people I am leaving Amazon and moving to Tokyo. It has been a very interesting question because no one asked me why Seattle when I left Bangalore. In fact I have been pondering over this quite a bit and I don’t think I…
Continue ReadingLast Day, First Job
I started my work career by doing an Intern at IBM. I definitely learned a lot on that role but that wasn’t really my first job. It was always going to be a short role with a fixed end date, so it always felt incomplete, like I didn’t belong. The first company where I joined…
Continue ReadingLeaving Amazon (kind of), Embracing Change
At first I felt this title might be catchy like a clickbait. But then on pondering about it for a few minutes I realized that it is more truthful than catchy. The idea of leaving amazon is almost like the idea of embracing change. It makes me think about the transitions we make which are…
Continue ReadingEmpathy and Efficiency: Thoughts about a workplace
There has been lot of talk lately around Empathy. Most of it has been in context of a workplace. I work at a workplace and have done so for a few years now. It is not easy to understand empathy even though it is primitively simple in definition. Empathy means the ability to understand and…
Continue ReadingAmazon Interview Experiences
I have been asked the Amazon story too often, so here goes. ( I have added the interview questions at the end ). It started with one lazy friday evening. I was busy with work ( including 3 chat windows over Facebook and Gmail ). I got a call from some consultancy services asking whether…
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