A couple of months ago, Jensen Harris wrote a twitter thread about how remote work is not the same as distributed work. Jensen makes the case that distributed work is more inclusive than remote work. It creates a more equitable and fair working environment. To summarize the terminology: Distributed Companies…

Building teams is hard. Building engineering teams is harder. Building engineering teams for a startup is the hardest. There are many pieces to this puzzle of building engineering teams. I hope to cover some of these in the upcoming months. This post is about one of the many pieces —…

I joined Quizizz a couple of weeks ago and wrote about it here. I have also been working closely with the team over the last few months. …

Empower Every Teacher to Motivate Every Learner I’m bullish on web3 and what it will do to computing going forward. While I’m super excited about how early we are in web3 and how much more there is to be done, we are pretty early in the web2 journey as well. …

Make sum of parts greater than the whole. Andy Grove famously said in his book, High Output Management — “The output of a manager is the sum of the output of the team(s) under her influence”. Being successful as managers is about choosing to perform tasks that have high leverage…

What does doing well mean for engineers at startups or otherwise? Most startup leaders dismiss codifying competencies as a frowned upon big company practice, while operating with similar models informally in their heads. While I agree that it may be an overkill when you are pre product-market-fit (PMF), it becomes…

Guidelines for creating a code review experience that enables learning for your teams Why do Code Reviews? One of the common reasons cited by teams not incorporating the practice of code reviews is that it slows down development. While it is true that cycles may be added to the current feature, code reviews speeds…

This post is a thread I posted on twitter about making a build vs buy decision for software. This question has likely come up for discussion at every organization, be it a startup or a big company. If you are a startup, the answer should be ‘buy’ by default. A…

Lending protocol on Solana Blockchain Over the last few months, just like many others I’ve gone down the web3 rabbit hole. Having explored a few of the blockchains in Ethereum, Avalanche, Cardano, and others, I’m most excited by Solana. If you don’t know what Solana is, Packy’s deep-dive is the…