Author: Shuvam

Everyone is talking about AI taking over first jobs, then the world. I read these, debated some of these things with friends, and worried some. But all this was stuff happening to “them”, not to “me”. My team in Remiges has begun using Cursor, Claude, and Lovable heavily, and the results are quite amazing. But…

Jo’burg I saw this article today: Welcome to Johannesburg. This is what it looks like when a city gives up. It’s painful to read about this beautiful city which I had visited about a decade ago. The city has given up. Every city has its problems, and struggles to fix them. But it’s rare to…

I watched a video several years ago, because my colleague Shraddha, who was doing a course organised by the Stanford SEED Programme, found it so relevant that I was given no choice. The video was a lecture by a professor of the Graduate Business School (GBS) of Stanford University, Prof Baba Shiv. Later I’ve seen…

We work with many large enterprise clients in the financial and capital markets sectors. Their information systems are broadly managed by two teams: the “application” and the “infra” teams. The application teams manage various business applications — there is often a sub-group for each major application. The infra team manages the physical servers, network components,…

I grew up in a social milieu where no one had any exposure to running a business. That world, full of hard-core salaried employees of modest means, considered “businessmen” a strange species. (When you have absolutely zero exposure to a species, you form opinions from movies and books. And Hindi movies in the 70s and…

WARNING: this post is not philosophy, or business, or management, or strategy. This is pure geek stuff. If this sort of thing is not your cup of coffee, skip now. Yes, it’s ok if no one in my circles finds this post the least bit useful. 😀 My laptop needs an upgrade I’ve been using…

WARNING: this post is not philosophy, or business, or management, or strategy. This is pure geek stuff. If this sort of thing is not your cup of coffee, skip now. Yes, it’s ok if no one in my circles finds this post the least bit useful. 😀 Video files and me I realised two decades…

I was asked to have an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session with a cohort of new recruits, all freshers. This is a recipe for unexpected questions. It’s great fun, beats speech-making any day. I refused to give textbook answers, and I refused to worry about whether my personal journey would have any relevance for someone…

I have for a long time been confused by the term “leadership qualities”. What are these qualities? When I look at leaders, I find that some leaders have an aloof personality, with steely glint in the eye and grim jawline. I think that’s a sign of leadership, but then I discover very popular leaders who…

The software services industry has always treated project management as an important role, and this has led a stream of senior programmers getting themselves certified as PMP (Project Management Professionals) from the PMI (Project Management Institute). This improves their employment opportunities, etc. After all, in India, the implicit expectation of almost all engineers is that…