( ~2 years ago) Unusually, I got a call from my manager on my personal mobile phone. It was for an important reason - after about four years of working together, it was time for us to no longer continue at the same company; he quit. Little did I know what the consequences would be with the new manager. The discussions have become very ...

Maybe it's known to many already, but I observed that to move your quality of life from one level to another level you need money. This is known, but how much? Well precisely, how do you find that out? Let's break this down with cars. Transport is the core need. A Maruti Alto at ₹4.5L and a Mercedes S-Class at ₹2.5 Cr both solve your b...

Fundamentally, the marketing pages are designed reason with the website visitors. Best marketers weave their pen to put out their best variant to reason with the visitor. Usually to convince or convert. Developers don't scan the marketing pages purposefully. They come to your website, incase you offer a technical product, they look for...

Bed bugs are nasty. They start, and they never end. They keep growing; never die. We had to change the cot, bed, sofa and finally bring heaters and pesticides to make them fully go away after weeks of suffering. But today, I'm not here to write about Bud bugs. I'm here to write about small life. That's the one which is not happening, a...

I am joining the Scalekit team. Being User Zero in the room, allowing marketers, engineers, architects, product managers, and designers to bounce their thoughts off each other, is a luxury. Being able to share the risk of missing out on an opportunity or falling behind the competition is a luxury. Feeling unresolved after an unproducti...

As I walked through the entrance of the Chennai office on my last working day, the familiar aroma reminded me of how far I'd come in the ~5.5 years spent at my first company. The meeting rooms, walkways, and hanging out spots evoked a flood of cherished memories I had collected during my time here. I could spend hours at the corner of ...

A long drain of thoughts never let me write down this journal for a few months. To avoid revisiting them, I stopped at it for a long. Yet I chose to write this because it's the only way to unbottle my top of mind. I recently came across this label called - Quarter Life Crisis. It made me realize it's so common that there's also a label...

Parents are strange. Why do they grow to become kids again? But not as curious. They appear more intelligent at an age when we have to tilt our heads up and talk to them. Now, they've become wiser. They care too much about us compared to how much they care about themselves. We praise their attitude and behavior. We reward them so much ...

Salvi hosted a house party and all of us were in Bangalore. After a beautiful trip after all those gloomy years of COVID, this is the start we all want. A room full of yellow and orange lights, chatting with the cold breeze at the 8th-floor balcony. So, who's the first one to get married in the class? That's the million-dollar question...

Navigating the last six months has been challenging in many different ways. Constantly, ambiguity and hope come together to force me to pick a calm, stable path that carries no risk. Even months later, I'm bothered to tells me — maybe I'm not one of those who settles. I'm afraid of seeing a time when I might give up and not hustle in f...

There is something that I don’t want to remind myself of very often. Sometimes those flash in my head and take down my optimism to my knees. I guess that is a by-product of my nature being thoughtful most of the time. Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash 12 years ago I joined a school in my hometown. It was new and had a reputation. My fa...

I had some happy birthdays and some sad ones. Sometimes all my friends and family were there, while it was just me the rest of the time. It appears career is falling on track while, on the other hand, the crisis is all over. It felt like all of it is part of growing up, or nothing is in my control. Every other birthday, I see a differe...

Written on April 14, 2019 It's always fun to share what we learn from our experiences. People always take it and don't for various reasons depending on their beliefs and values. This article will be a perspective of my experience, which I already had in engineering, to my first Internship office experience. August 2018: My placement se...

(Satwik is that person with Orange Color T-Shirt) At 20 years old, I joined Satwik's team at Freshworks as the second developer advocate. We aimed to create a developer community, and ever since, we've made notable strides in defining the developer experience. As the saying goes, one's first manager often shapes their career outlook, a...

Once you join a DevRel team in an organization, the chances are that you realize the practices are less mature than you would typically expect. It's natural because the DX industry is very young compared to others. To better understand the context, it might be helpful to learn a little history. Who are generalist DevRel teams? A genera...

The evolving developer ecosystem convinced Satwik & Rohit that Freshworks needed a developer relations team. They set up one four years ago. Although they had no formal DevRel experience, they would figure things out independently. They took a leap of faith. One of the things that kept me excited about the fronting developer experience...

When I do not know the outcomes of my work (from the outside world), I see results through an optimistic lens. It would be the case for anyone in the first two years of their career. Eventually, as I climbed up to do the work above, my pay grade it's a circus. It's all Optics. It's been four years. I am proud of where I've come from as...

Student activities gave me more energy. It is satisfying to chase objectives with a bunch of friends working together as a team. In 2017-2018, Developer Student Clubs gave me an excuse to do more of it at my University. I took up the opportunity. Today, I run alongside a team to build an ecosystem of business developers because they de...

I will remember 2022 as one of those years that evolved who I am. I had lot of habits that carried on from last year. I wake up in the morning, book a rapido and go to office. The world was seeing light post covid and I'm getting back on a daily track. March challenged me like never before in life when it comes to emotional quotient. I...

About three months ago, I came to Hyderabad from Chennai. I met a friend a few months ago. She wanted to meet me because she wanted a bit of closure. I felt really weird because I do not understand what that exactly means to her. I met her at a Cafe. The conversation was one of the nicest I've had in a long time. I moved to Hyderabad f...

Nowadays, I find joy alone. I think it's part of growing up. I am starting to accept change is constant. I am learning not to distract from feelings but to walk through them. It will be the most significant transformation I will be proud of myself. I don't see a need for validation. I treat myself as someone I'm responsible for helping...

Elementary school, Middle school, High school, and College combined, we give at least 17 years (excluding early years) of our lives. But I will probably retire at 60; that's about 39 years to go. Today I became 24 years old (Happy Birthday to me!), leaving 36 years in my pocket. I may not know how to spend them yet, but it appears like...

When we look back on our childhood, most of us feel nostalgic. Why don't we feel similar to that — maybe last month? Do you think it should cost us years before we recognize what is happening today will be a memory someday? We end up reminiscing the golden days and missing them if that's a good memory, or have all the negative emotions...

I never developed a habit of sharing grief with people around me, although I fluently vision, plan, and strategy. I guess I got this habit from my dad. Like my manager says, I write what I think. He identified I express myself in writing before I am self-aware about it. I can't write about anything if I'm in. • Confusion • Grief Today ...

This month's completion makes me three years into my career. Let me be honest, and it wasn't a roller-coaster ride. It is was like most purposeful companies building some genuine software. It was my kind of routine. #1 - The career doesn't have to happen simply on its own So I joined Freshworks in Jan 2019. I got a fantastic manager wh...

2021 is primarily a year where I took action to improve my productivity. It has been a very tough job. I am still not perfect at it. But my efforts during this process have helped me do something which otherwise I would never even bother. In this Journal, I will write about a small story of me writing to an app on the Android App Store...

I stayed about ~ 4 months alone in a single flat in Chennai when the government imposed COVID travel restrictions. It was easy in the beginning until my first 45 days. Most of all, it helped me become a more independent thinker. Today, I wanted to talk about the last 45 days at home and my transition back to work from the office. Being...

A few months ago, I started reading a book — Tools and Weapons. I don't remember how I started reading this book. Brad Smith, Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft, wrote this book. Curious about our legal works in the tech industry, I started reading this book. I still haven't completed it. But this book has shaped a perspective that helpe...

By default, people often as us - What do you want to become when you grow up? Maybe that moment when we were a kid. The teacher comes in and asks us this question. I quickly said something I don't even clearly remember - an electrician? An engineer? The same question is in different ways as we grow. More general question one should ask...

Living hundreds of kilometers away from home is something I've gotten used to within a few months after moving to Chennai. Parents. They don't really get a chance to sit side by side in class to see me interacting with friends, classmates, or situations. The ones who raised me over two decades can only picture what day-to-day looks and...