Luthfur Chowdhury
@luthfurc
Engineering Leader, previously LinkedIn. Writings about leadership and management at http://makingsmallercircles.com
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Latest post on how you can improve your meetings with lessons from Pixar: makingsmallercircles.com/articles/the-c…
Returning to X after a hiatus to share the incredible experience of taking @shreyas’ Product Sense course. It’s a candid, no holds barred, highly interactive experience that transforms how you think about product development! maven.com/shreyas-doshi/…
Releasing to 100% globally, eyes closed, that too on a Friday. WTF....
Oh wow - sounds like there are global outages across airlines globally (from LAX to BER), TV & radio stations from the UK to Australia and supermarkets in Australia thanks to the “Windows blue screen of death” for companies running Crowdstrike? This kind of impact is wild.
Reminds me of RIM, when they released the Blackberry Storm in response to the iPhone. Rushed, half baked and lacking in polish.
Google Search is Google’s flagship product and cash cow. It’s the one property Google needs to keep relevant/trustworthy/useful. And yet, examples on how AI overviews are turning Google search into garbage are all over my timeline. A few examples:
New post today: makingsmallercircles.com/articles/debug…
New post on how how to deal with working on legacy systems: makingsmallercircles.com/articles/how-t…
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How to Work on Legacy Systems - Making Smaller Circles
The first system I worked on, at my first job out of college, was a legacy PHP application. The code was like a piled up plate of spaghetti.
I realized chess pieces can be redesigned to be purely geometric attack directions
New post: makingsmallercircles.com/articles/top-n…
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Top non-technical skills for Senior Engineers and Technical Leaders - Making Smaller Circles
As you progress in your engineering career, non-technical leadership skills become crucial.
When “culture” devours strategy for breakfast, lunch and dinner…
move over roman empire, we're thinking about the fourth industrial revolution for work fortune.com/2023/10/05/sla…
New article up. Some advice for folks interviewing for their next Engineering Manager role. makingsmallercircles.com/articles/avoid…
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Avoid these Interview Mistakes for your next Engineering Manager Role - Making Smaller Circles
I recently hired a new Engineering Manager to take over one of my teams. During the hiring process we received almost 200 applications. The overall
Hoping to get back into writing more. I have been collecting some observations on habits that contribute to effective software engineering. Collated a list of 7 habits (Stephen Covey style) : makingsmallercircles.com/articles/7-hab…
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Software Engineers - Making Smaller Circles
Stephen Covey's 7 Habits for Highly Effective People is a business book classic. What if we took the idea of 7 Effective Habits and applied it to Software
You're not using the Notes app on your iPhone to its full potential. 8 features you might not know about:
seeing a lot of confusion around why layoffs are happening at companies with a lot of cash on the balance sheet. at the risk of getting roasted... here's a TLDR, for both public and private companies
World Cup final to penalties. One hopes the ghost of Baggio doesn’t pay a visit tonight.
You can rake up the Champions League trophies but, today proves that the World Cup continues to be the toughest test in world football.
It's orders of magnitude easier to teach a user something new vs overwrite an existing impression they might have. e.g., I tried Apple Maps yrs ago. It sucked. It's gotten WAY better, even excellent. But try telling my brain that. As far as it's concerned, it still sucks.
Epic.
Lee Wasserman’s advice to a young Brian Grazer. Create something and own it.
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