About the 9 to 5

It makes sense to start with Product Management as this is my current job. Let me make a typical start with why's and what's and so on, for the lack of having a better way to start. What is Product Management? A few words here wont do justice to this question. This probably deserves another blog post altogether and even that would not be doing justice. But let me make an attempt to get things started at least. To draw an analogy with an train, engineers (software engineers in my job) are the firemen of the train, powering the train in the direction it is going, along with identifying any technical difficulties in the train. Business strategy makers are the people who decide the end station where the train is supposed to go and how much money it should make and coal it should consume going there. Product managers are the people who design everything (ok not everything, but most things) in between like - which would be the best path to get to the end station, which intermed...

This blog is about my meditations on work and work related stuff. I think it would be a good idea to write about work as the writing will make me stop and think about the work, which i rarely do in the regular course of life. I tend to get caught up much in the day to day activities of my work to think about: how well do i understand my field of work and what i am doing? how can i get better at my work? where do i want to get to in the long term? where else can i explore options to work that would be more fulfilling? So this blog will hopefully make me think about those things and also document all the thoughts at once place along with potential opportunities, contacts etc, which is always helpful. To put in other words, i am trying to understand or to establish a context and perspective for what i do as a 9 to 5 job and maybe get a feeling of how and where it is evolving.  Apart from these things, what i am hoping from this blog is for some interesting 'To Do's...