How being a mom makes me a better manager

Despite of all the pandemic going around, this past year has been going very well for me at work. On the team front, I have: started my own team run a daily standup meeting and scrum process new hire onboarded very well and already became go-to person across teams built a reputation of an effective/efficient team team seems happy and productive influenced beyond my team and attracted talents to contribute to my team On the technical front, I have [Read More]

Rasing a Child During a Pandemic

It’s been a difficult few months. Covid has hit the US hard, and things are getting worse and we keep hearing “it’s going to get worse before it gets better”, and that “better” part still hasn’t happened yet. Since the last time I posted, so much have changed in our lives, and it’s now in a weird state where we feel stable and content, but am also just living one day/week at a time. [Read More]

On Sleep Training

All I can suggest is: Just do it!

Disclaimer: I’m not a baby whisperer - I’m actually far from it. I’m more of a hacker, as is the title of this blog. So please don’t use this article as your sleep training bible! I initially started writing this post in January and never finished it. Thank you Alexis for nudging me for this one! Newborns cry… wanting something. Sometimes they know what they want, but most of the time they don’t know what they want, and neither do we know what they want. [Read More]