“I itch to do something new”, this is how a PM I’m mentoring explained why she is considering new opportunities. “I really didn’t like the people I talked with, and the business is not going to grow further” mentioned a good friend of mine about his recent experience interviewing at a company. Changing jobs… Read More »
I often wonder what makes some team more effective than other. Why I felt more empowered in some team compared to some others. The simplistic reasons that pops to mind are about the quality of the leadership and the joy experimented at work. The People Operation team at Google shared interesting conclusions from a study… Read More »
This book from Chris Hadfield was really fun to read, the first half of the book is about lessons he learned, as the title suggest, while the other part of the book is more a biographical stories about his time in preparing and staying in space. Notes Below are some quotes, that I have generalized… Read More »
“Zero to ONE: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future” is a great book by Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal and Palantir) about how to build the next Microsoft or Google. He has a pretty unique perspective on market and competition that are worth reading and knowing about. The book could be… Read More »
In September 2012, I joined the Bing Ads team, working on the delivery engine, where I had a blast! Working on an online system, with such a massive scale (Bing is now serving 20% of all US search queries) and with so high expectation (latency, availability, …) really made the journey a thrill. I learned a… Read More »
Short before the holiday break, I watched a video titled “happiness as a competitive advantage” where Shawn Achor talk about happiness and how it can help to be more successful at work. I obviously like being happy and I have a pretty competitive mindset, so I really enjoyed the talk. Something really struck me, he… Read More »
We all experienced change in our life. Whether small, like moving to a new home, or larger, like changing job or moving to a new country, it always comes with a fair amount of stress. I believe that the stress associated with change is coming from all the uncertainty that change triggers (I’m not a… Read More »
I loved this book, career superpowers: succeeding on purpose by James Whittaker. It is refreshing to strategically think about your career and to feel in control. The author breaks down the career superpowers in 8 attributes: ambition, passion, specialization, storytelling, imitation, derivation, creativity, and leadership. Ambition Ambition sets the bar for you career, you increase… Read More »