Mar 13Reflection On SVB: How to find your safe bank?Last few days left a big impression on me. Experiencing the history and watching it unfold in real time. It was a weird and eye opening experience. It kept me up at night and thinking, why is everything happening the way they are? Why does such a big bank could…3 min read3 min read
Jan 20Futurist ResourcesI recently got into futurist thinking and have found a list of wonderful resources that discusses this topic. Adding them here as bookmark Educause: Five Principles for Thinking Like a Futurist LinkedIN: The Future as a Way of Life: Alvin Toffler’s Unfinished Business Reasonable Essays: Hard Questions about the Future Box: Playbook for Strategic Foresight and Innovation SubReddit: Future(s) StudiesFuturist1 min readFuturist1 min read
Nov 19, 2022Paradigm Shift in Tech IndustryTo win the future means to rethink how to operate as we see new trends and take decisive actions to heavily exploit what is only possible in the new world. Based on the series of events happening since this decade, I’m seeing a paradigm shift in the technology industry. Globalization…Paradigm2 min readParadigm2 min read
Nov 7, 2022On Decision Making in Engineering Hiring PanelsI’ve been on two dozens of hiring panels lately and seen how decisions get made. These decisions are not always straight forward. So I want to use this space to consolidate some patterns of hiring decisions. There are easy hiring decisions. For example, Strong Yes collectively. Everyone loves the candidate…2 min read2 min read
Apr 5, 2022Reflections on A16Z’s piece — Emerging Modern Data StackData Architecture Revisited: The Platform Hypothesis This is an updated version of a post we originally published in 2020. You can read the original version here. The…future.a16z.com Observations: 1. Proliferation of technologies makes building modern data stack so easy right now. The trick is to understand the business need and match it up with the right solution for both short and long term business need.2 min read2 min read
Mar 30, 2022Generalizing LinkDB for public queryI had a lot of fun couple months ago building a talent insight newsletter: Talent Insight Newsletter The hottest gossip about Silicon Valley companies and talents. Click to read Talent Insight Newsletter, by Jerry, a…talented.substack.com Then I lost interest doing the same analysis on different companies. So I want to see how I can leverage the crowd intelligence by Exposing a UI for public access to the Database queries. (Think Dune Analytics for LinkDB)1 min read1 min read
Mar 28, 2022Data Ecosystem and Software As A CommodityIn economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them — Wikipedia 2021 has seen great investment activities in Data Startups. Poster…3 min read3 min read
Feb 26, 2022What DAO truly impliesI used to think that DAO is another medium that blockchain community invented to hype up the bubble, and believed that it will inevitably suffer from the tyranny of the majority or manipulation of the crooked leadership (like the ancient Athens). However, a recent conversation enabled me to truly appreciate…2 min read2 min read
Feb 11, 2022What NFT truly means?There has been lots of buzz around NFT. But what does it truly mean in layman terms? What is the core logic of NFT? The main problem NFT solves is digital ownership. In physical world, the ownership is easy to tell. I have the art work, therefore I’m the owner…2 min read2 min read
