Are we predicting ourselves into extinction? All this rush to feed only AI/ML/Data-Driven predictions to people, whether it's news feeds or retail product offerings/stocking decisions, it encourages perfecting the alignment of what comes next with past observed happenings. And as such, wouldn't what naturally random occurrences of out-of-normness disappear from what appear in front of … Continue reading →

Demos are easy, products are not

I resonated with the short blog post, This Feature Should Be Easy, by Brent Simmons, where he wrote: The main function of a feature … is often the easiest part. It’s everything around the feature that makes it harder: UI design, localization, refactoring, accessibility, state restoration, getting new artwork (for a toolbar button, for instance), dealing … Continue reading Demos are easy, products are not →

2019 – My Year of Change

2019 has been a big year for me. Many things changed in significant ways… I changed my job in January. At the beginning of the year, I left my consulting agency, where I was leading large distributed engineering teams, to join a global Fortune 500 corporate as an individual contributor in a newly created Chief Architect … Continue reading 2019 – My Year of Change →

On B2B SaaS Provider Viability

I have evaluated many vendors offering solutions to help with different areas of needs in business. (There seems to be an interesting correlation between the pace of business transformation and the pace of evaluating new B2B SaaS solutions to fill various business operations needs.) Over time, I've come to place a lot of importance on … Continue reading On B2B SaaS Provider Viability →

Self Analytics

So I have been tracking the books I read or listened to this year. This simple tracking effort proved not wasted, because when I did a quick review of my log recently, there were a few interesting revelations immediately about me and my book reading (habits, interests, etc.), which I could also use to correlate … Continue reading Self Analytics →

I’m Rooting For You

Sometimes it's the little things that make the biggest difference in people's lives. I changed jobs recently. The little things that had gone by seemingly unnoticed over the last few years all seemed to bubble up into well-wishes and personal reflections, as my everyday interactions and relationships were about to shift dramatically. It's nothing glamorous. … Continue reading I’m Rooting For You →