Bhupesh

Updated my freelance work domains. Feel free to reach out or share with folks looking to hire a nerd with these three unique skill sets 🍞 bhupesh.me/hire/ Free treat for folks who RT the next time we meet IRL🏃🏼‍♀️

To celebrate the new edition of DDIA, revive my writing discipline and my resolve to read the whole damn thing this time, I share my first blog in years: LSM Trees from First Principles. ditsuke.com/lsm-trees

@ditsuke Pirated the old version, have gone through 50% of the book, favourite section so far has been "Truth is defined by the majority" each line in that section was fire. will re-read the whole thing again for notesmaxxing

Highly subjective experience but I haven't seen a single person with AI/ML career to speak against using GenAI in artistic work. Everyone is pretty quiet out there on LinkedIn 🤷🏾‍♂️

this tweet shows how out of touch people in tech are. the public barely knows about Stripe, Deel or Rippling. i spent my entire twenties being inspired by many tech billionaires and following their mental models and while career wise i’m glad i did, after the horrors i’ve witnessed in the past 2 years i’ve been truly distancing myself intellectually/spiritually/philosophically from the tech elite school of thought and questioning and redesigning my values and identity. i’ve completely changed social circles and broken friendships because of this and i think it’s important that more people in tech reflect on it. we entered tech to make the world a better place and to equalize opportunities globally. but which tech billionaire is talking about equalizing opportunities today? imo, the public is increasingly hating on tech because tech billionaires who were once inspiring nerds and only focused on building tech that made the world better, started talking about and influencing world affairs ideologically, and the more they did that the clearer it became that they have no understanding of anything outside of their companies, so they had to borrow agendas and views from their nearest smart-sounding and popular person in silicon valley that seemed to understand the world. they ended up adopting agendas that turned out to be alien from agendas of the public and in many cases anti public. this enabled the creation of companies and entire industries that are inherently evil in their use of technology but are suddenly normalized. there’s also an insane amount of hypocrisy, where some tech billionaires say they have value X but when it comes to upholding value X you can tell they clearly have incentives to speak sometimes and shut up some other times despite having all the resources in the world. it’s easier to respect a poor person who keeps silent in the face of injustice than an infinitely resourceful person who (regardless of their view) keeps silent. billionaires can influence government policy but don’t want to be held accountable? that’s a wild, destructive loophole in any political system. the public is smart (contrary to how tech elites often view it) and can respect success that’s result of skill and/or luck but doesn’t infinitely put up with BS

Highly recommend doing this, I think people are calling it a wisdom journal? I started this year, my notebook contains raw thoughts, ideas, learnings, I revisit old pages and check if anything has changed in my head. I avoid TODOs. Invest in a A6 notebook y'all.

@kinnytin daldo brother mereko bi

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Too many books??? I believe the phrase you’re looking for is not enough bookshelves

On that note :(

@hijunedkhatri It's emotionally draining for people who put all their hopes in these subjective skill tests, while businesses can always choose to put aside emotions and think in terms of market. Lack of empathy is one thing I have seen in organisations. Sorry for vent

@hijunedkhatri Agreed, a sustainable system is hard to achieve, but acknowledging failures of both parties is atleast a starting point. I have had cases from ghosting while being in that 10-12 candidate pipeline to offers being revoked for asking questions.

writing a few detailed guides from my experience to help candidates navigate this job market better. few topics that i've started working on: 1. switch from services to a product company 2. resume that works, busting a few ats score myths 3. job hunting the correct way 4. how to pitch yourself for a potential opportunity 5. navigating the layoff story 6. cold dming a recruiter or a hiring manager 7. who's the ideal person to reach out to for a role 8. handling 60 & 90 days notice periods ..and many more will execute this guides in a 10 day sprint fashion, 2 guides per week or 10 days. would love to hear your thoughts, can take up a few more topics if needed.

My interpretation of Bono's 6 thinking hats

@SubinSiby Manifesting a visit, North East states and Kerala are probably the only states I feel like going to will cover my understanding of the country from an emotional sense :)

My first time in Delhi in 2020, I went to the Shaheen Bagh protest place, I met a lorry driver there. Knowing that I was from Kerala, he said it's the best place he likes going to, pronounced Kozhikode in a particular way, bought us chai :)

"Just ship code, without identity stickers" comes from a position of power and elitist entitlement.

It’s kind of insane that we’re all lucky enough to live on this insignificant blue ball floating in an endless void that can somehow keep us alive indefinitely and yet a huge chunk of people want to ruin it forever in the name of an economic concept that we made up ourselves

Like the Ukranian flag banner when Russia invaded. DHH says "Just ship code without identity stickers" - There is no code when the maker is unable to produce it because of targeting by identity. Wouldn't you wanna support/help your friend in some manner? I see it like that

#India: We regret fast passage of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Bill, 2026, without adequate stakeholder consultation. The amendments risk setting back hard-won rights of transgender people, replacing self-identification with mandatory medical verification processes. India has been a pioneer for rights of transgender & gender-diverse people. This Bill will have far-reaching impacts on right to privacy & risk marginalisation of transgender people.

sorry for harping on this but the problem of “knowing what you want to say but not how to say it” often means you haven’t yet figured out what you want to say. if you turn to an LLM to help organize loose thoughts into prose, you’re outsourcing your cognition to a machine