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The Unseen Boardroom: Chinaware, Managers, and the Future of Expertise
3–4 minutesToday’s thoughts are mostly rhetorical. I had both a productive and a well-rested Sunday, and my mind is wandering between the past and the future. People become parents without prior training. People become managers without prior training. Parenting is a phase. Leadership is a phase. People need to evolve. It’s a strange paradox. We demand Read more
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Cheap is the New Expensive
1–2 minutesWe have all fallen for the trap. You buy the €20 boots instead of the €150 pair. Two months later, the soles detach. You buy another cheap pair. Repeat. By the end of the year, you have spent €150, but you still have wet feet and bad shoes. This economic reality applies to more than Read more
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Stop Treating Your Platform Like a Utility: Transforming Internal Platform Management
3–4 minutesToday’s post is a follow up from yesterday’s post – Why Internal Teams Need Product Thinking. Today I will cover what it looks like when you apply product thinking pillars to platform teams. 1. Developer Experience (DevEx) = Customer Experience (CX) In the external product world, friction kills conversion rates. In the internal platform world, friction Read more
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Why Internal Teams Need Product Thinking
1–2 minutesThere is a deeply engrained, often painful dynamic in many engineering organizations. On one side, you have the Feature Teams where the application developers racing to ship value to end-users. On the other side, you have the Platform Teams comprising of the Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, and Internal API groups building the foundation beneath them. In Read more
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The Trap of the Fast Opinion: How I Evolved as a First-Time EM
2–3 minutesEarly in my management career, I fell into the trap of forming opinions too quickly, often treating symptoms rather than causes. The game changer was shifting to a Systems Thinking mindset, looking at the setup, not just the people. As my scope grew, I learned that you can’t analyze everything; you have to balance deep Read more
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How Small Habits Lead to Big Wins
2–3 minutesMy writing journey has been far more transformative than I ever imagined. It wasn’t about writing a novel in 100 days, or even a series of viral blog posts. It was about showing up, consistently, day after day. It was about building a habit, one small step at a time. Last week, I hit an Read more
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Princiya Sequeira 