I resigned from my last job after a location change. The culture in the new office was significantly more emotional and less goal-oriented. Implementing simple closed feedback loops with accountability was perceived as a questioning of trust. My squad lead observed in a one-on-one that culture is hard to fix and that an open-loop approach of not providing any feedback at all would be more effective. "People may or may not take corrective feedback well, but they will always re

Following a rather grueling period at work in 2024, when I was on a customer site and under a lot of pressure to deliver results, I realized a major shortfall in my ways - I didn't know how to learn. Years of moving through the Indian education system made me believe that degrees were indicators of my worth in society. Turns out, nothing could be further from the truth. They barely turned out to be an indicator of competence and distracted me from mastering the things that we