Underappreciated Things in Life

To all IT professionals working within rigid pyramid structures, where growth is linear and competition is often the currency of progress

Forgive the competition. Celebrate your life. There are countless underappreciated silent heroes in this sector.

• Saying yes to align with the team, even when your views differ

• Doing your work diligently without seeking recognition or visibility

• Choosing forgiveness when you could easily call out someone's mistakes

• Solving problems quietly, even when there's no direct reward or acknowledgment

• Staying away from visibility politics, yet remaining silent and dignified

• Taking time to learn deeply, rather than rushing to compete

• Balancing your own views while adapting to collective patterns

• Being patient enough to accommodate, even when others are agenda-driven rather than value-based

• Sensing narratives and intent clearly, yet stepping away gracefully once you’ve connected the dots

Keep Going. Your quiet strength matters. 🙏

Memorization vs Generalization

Memorization vs Generalization

When you develop #GenAI apps, After a certain stage, When things work fine, The immediate next question is

• Model is memorizing or Learning patterns
• Test with variations / Analyze on patterns of responses

I don't want my life to be memorization - Company1 - Company2 ..., Exploring out of comfort zones provides diverse perspectives.

Earlier I had time to regret, Now I don't have time to think about anything. A long day of managing and solving different problems and different lenses of execution. Sometimes some experiences don't fill your pocket but fill your soul. In the end, I want to smile at death, I have tried all my wishlists.

Keep Exploring!!!

Learning is Non-Linear

Some days are Sigmoid. Some days are Relu. Novelty is not inventing new stuff but stitching the right techniques in the right proportion.

A few more I relate to my work style :)

• Persist until you figure things out, digging deeper and deeper into unfamiliar systems until it finally clicks, and you understand how they work.
• Have a broad understanding and creative use of Algos, SQL, LLMs, etc. Teach until you get first principles right
• Have the intellectual curiosity to learn about the many new areas you’ll be taken into. Failures today are arsenal for tomorrow.
• Have a willingness to lean into uncertainty. It's okay if a bad day happens.
• Magnitude improvements and novel capabilities. Keep collecting perspectives.
• You will face unique engineering and AI challenges that will make a meaningful impact. To be authentic, you have to have a lot of scars.
• A focus on outcomes, not time-tracking. Yeah, sometimes easy looks complex, complex looks easy.
• The database is always important. Are not afraid of legacy justice systems and would rather make them work than give up.

Keep Going!!!

Build your circle carefully

Some projects will transform you from a caterpillar to a butterfly
Some projects will transform you from a butterfly to a caterpillar
Some managers will transform you from a caterpillar to a butterfly
Some managers will transform you from a butterfly to a caterpillar
Some friends will transform you from a caterpillar to a butterfly
Some well-wishers will transform you from butterfly to caterpillar

Choose your environment

Keep Thinking!!!

Life is the choices you make.

Lovely Words

Lately, life has presented me with different fights I was glad to pick. And now, every day, I'm enjoying my current challenges.

I just wanted to share this story because I see many people struggling with things they don't need to. My learning is the following:

You always have two options when something disturbs you:

• You either remove yourself from it, or you make peace with it.
• Take action and move on.

Keep Exploring!!!

When to Retire

In the next few years, the goal would be to

• Focus on small saas based offering's
• Build out of box products
• Decent recurring revenue, Upgrade and run 
• Teach, Code, Travel, Retire
• Let the next 20 years be more of experiments than repeating past 20 years

Keep Thinking!!!