In Pursuit of Wisdom

  Finished reading the newly published   No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention   by Netflix Co-founder   Reed Hastings   and Professor   Erin Meyer  (the author of   The Culture Map ) yesterday. I pre-ordered this book last month in anticipation and started listening as soon as it was available in Audible. This book narrates a fascinating view of the Silicon Valley giant Netflix's radical corporate psychology and culture. I got my share of shocks when I first read   Netflix Culture Deck   a few years ago for the first time, the document that was claimed by Facebook COO   Sheryl Sandberg   as   probably the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley . Before being hired by an ex-Netflix leader at Marqeta (Manish Pandit), I worked at Roku for one and half years which was a spin-off from Netflix. There a big chunk of my team-mates I worked day-to-day were from Netflix including my hiring manag...

Like many of you, I am looking forward to a better 2021. So happy new year! But I want to also acknowledge that 2020 brought some good things to me despite the Corona Pandemic across the world. While we are safe, many of our friends and relatives lost their near and dears during this pandemic. We are still in lockdown and counting days to get over this pandemic in the new year. I, along with my wife, son and daughter came back from 3 weeks of Bangladesh trip in the first week of January 2020. I am glad we could go for the trip in as the Coronavirus pandemic and eventual lockdown started within a few weeks of our return from Bangladesh.  It was so refreshing to see my parents, brothers and their families, and my in-laws along with my school/college/university/chess friends back home.   I successfully hosted an engineering meetup at Marqeta that many bay area engineers attended; it was a lively tech talk from  Roko Ruze on Cockroach DB  at our Oakland office.  Shu...