Index of Thinking Through

Categorized list of blog posts

Hi,

Welcome to ThinkingThrough. My name is Mayank and I write on topics of personal development, software engineering, people management, and everything in between.

Below you will find a list of blogs post on those topics. Feel free to explore, leave comments, share and subscribe if you haven’t.

Happy Exploring and Learning :). I hope you find this content useful.

Thanks

Mayank Verma (@MayankV_Tweets)

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• Individual Productivity

  • How to Hack Parkinson's Law and Get 20% Time Back Every Workweek

  • The Fastest Way to Get Into the State of Flow

  • Eisenhower 2x2 Metrics: Focus On High Impact Work While Eliminating Busywork From Your Life

  • 4 Ways to Outsmart the Smart Devices and Take Charge of Your Focus Time!

  • Repetitive Tasks Got You Down: Use This Simple Framework so You May Not Have to Do Them Again!

  • Throughput Vs. Productivity: What should you focus on?

  • Stop Swiss Cheesing your calendar

  • Context switching costs more than we give it credit for.

• Team Productivity

  • Everyone hates surprises in the workplace

  • Assumptions are dangerous; Validate them.

  • Participate in team OKRs.

• Decision Making

  • How to make better decisions by running small experiments.

• Engineering Interviews

• For New Engineers

  • Skills to develop after an engineering internship

• Team Meetings

  • Dos and Don’ts from Death By Meetings

  • Do's and Don'ts When Attending Meetings

• Software and OpenSource

  • Things to keep in mind when migrating big distributed systems

  • Software needs an expiry date

  • Do we need a new open-source license? Amazon Vs. Elastic: Part I

  • Do we need a new open-source license? Amazon Vs. Elastic: Part II

• Personal Development

  • Creativity

    • What can we learn from Hackathons about shipping creative work

  • Mindset

    • What to Do When You Get Butterflies In Your Stomach

    • Lessons learned from running 4 half marathons and 1 full marathon in 6 weeks

    • Taming the monkey mind

    • Finding your blindspots and helping others do too.

• Diversity in Software

  • Holi and diversity in software

• Miscellaneous

  • /r/wallstreetbets vs. WallStreet: It's not about the money anymore!!

  • Mental Model for clickbait detection.