Every engineer has two journeys:
One is the work we ship.
The other is the growth we quietly build behind the scenes.

The Engineer’s Logs is my attempt to capture that second journey.

These notes and logs are rough and candid, meant for me to revisit over time. But I figured—why not share them here too!

🔎 This Week’s (Tech and other) Musings

🎧 What I Consumed

This Week In Tech brought up something interesting about Mark - Is Zuckerberg bitter about Instagram’s success over Facebook, his own product?
Is Google going to lose Chrome… to OpenAI??
Do we really need a foldable iPhone? My battery still hasn’t forgiven Apple for killing the audio jack.
Eyeball scanning tech - are we really ready for this from a privacy standpoint? Not exactly fun to risk my biometric data ending up on the Dark Web.
Ben Kuhn from Anthropic talks about intentional high Agency and good Taste, and how these two superpowers combined produce a big impact-per-hour multiplier.
Jean Lee, Whatsapp’s 19th engineer talks about likeability and credibility being two underrated assets that can go a long way together. She also talks about finding fulfilment at work. Kinda boils down to understanding why you do what you do everyday.
Bye bye, GPT-4. You had a good run.

Started understanding more about AWS cloud (coming from an Azure background).
Started with Alex Chiou’s talks on maximising your productivity as a software engineer on Taro.
- Learnt a lot of interesting things that I can practically use in my day to day work planning and prioritisation. One of the things he introduced is the Impact Time matrix where you assign the highest points to the work with the highest impact and the lowest time.
- The other thing he mentioned is surrounding yourself with people that you do not want to let down. Essentially, he highlights the effectiveness of social pressure over work pressure. I am a huge believer in this and want to surround myself with good people that I enjoy working with. He also brought up going into office and virtual co-working as being effective methods of daily motivation and accountability.