Naveen Akunuri

Counting Crow

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Dammit! Did The Simpsons predict this moment as well??!

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Book cover titled “Everything is Obvious” by Duncan J. Watts

Everything is Obvious by Duncan J. Watts

What if my previous conversations are all frivolous and now I am asking a serious question? Am I doomed?

Common Side Effects is the best show that I hear too little about. Animated show on Max by Mike Judge and the folks behind Scavenger’s Reign (another banger.) It’s hilarious, surprising, moving and profoundly relevant. Full recommendation.

I’ve been a subscriber of @wired.com for a while but it was due to their tech articles. But off late, they are turning out be a great news org. Kudos!

Placard at Costco saying “Due to limited supply please: Limit 3 Eggs”

At Costco. I was too embarrassed to ask if it is literally 3 eggs or 3 cartons of eggs.

I got 4/6. I am not sure if I am breaking any etiquette of wordle but I’m guessing your 2/6 is synonymous with house?

Just rewatched Interstellar. So in the movie, people on earth want to find a different planet because of dust storms that is destroying crops on earth. Doesn’t Mars have planetary scale dust storms?

Wash from Firefly

Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring.

Saw at least 7 “drones” last night flying in my neighborhood in NJ. Never thought that “Close encounters of the third kind” would turn out to be a documentary. Practicing my tunes now.

A founder of a series A company, that found product-market fit and has 6 engineers so far, asked me who would I hire next. To his surprise and mine, I immediately said “QA automation engineer”.

Because as feature requests pile up, nothing kills dev velocity faster than slow bug-fixing loops.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poetry

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Primary reason why I am moving to learning more about poetry and literature from software dev. Gotta prepare for the end times.

And here I thought something was wrong with my phone today 🤦🏽‍♂️

Trying to see if this works in bluesky

@skyview.social unroll

Indians never forgot that golden rule!

The best part is the you can keep running mental simulations even after you finish the book. What if Gandalf never came back? What is the impact on the story then? Why didn’t the eagles just fly Frodo and Sam to Mt. Doom in the first place? Again, something great software architects always do.

My opinion is that immersing in great literature which has many characters and plots augments a software developer’s skills significantly. Btw, I think the book should be big like LOTR, or The Mahabharatha or the Iliad. Because you have to keep so much of it in your head.

LOTR had many plot lines going on at the same time - Frodo’s journey, Aragorn’s path, Gandalf’s adventures. However, all of them converging to the same goal. How would multiple teams in a company working on different parts of the systems converge to common outcomes?

When Frodo felt that Bilbo should have killed Gollum, he (and we as readers) didn’t know the critical role Gollum would play in the story. Sometimes the smallest things influence the system in unexpected ways.

You thought you had a great partner who you can rely on? Boom, Saruman just imprisoned you. What contingencies have you put in place in case your trusted API partner turns malicious or gets hacked?

Let’s take the LOTR example. Lots of characters, locations, moments - big and small, multiple plot lines, choices made by these characters. I see a lot of parallels between understanding complex software architectures and reading epic stories.

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Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

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I am often stunned when I hear software engineers say that they don’t like read to fictional novels but would like to better use that time to learn architecture and system design. Do you even know the level of systems thinking you can achieve when you read books like The Lord of the Rings?
#fiction

A bookshelf showing an eclectic collection of book titles

Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

It changed my mindset significantly.

Finally made the move from Twitter to here. Hello everyone!

Anyway to import the list of people I am following there and see if I can find them and add them here automatically?