Niranjan Paranjape

After becoming a dad, there's two kinds of people that my respect for has increased by a staggering amount: 1. parents of twins/triplets 2. single pasrents I'm embarrassed by how poorly I'd understood the physical, emotional and financial pressures involved.

foundations/axioms/principles about production support in my team

if a test is hard to read the first time, rewrite it! There should be zero ambiguity in what it does, first time! not second, and definitely not third or more.

I recently left Stripe after 4.5 formative and magical years. Some reflections on what made working at Stripe feel different than working other places: 1/Turpentine 2/Writing 3/Meticulousness 4/Principled decision-making 5/Ambition 6/Talking up 7/The API metaphor

This game changed life! We bonded, we went crazy! People are friends, friends are everywhere! Most importantly - I got to meet my wife!https://twitter.com/pungoyal/status/1178901495363715072 …

Every blog post / book on business processes — OKRs, hiring, PRDs, launching, etc., etc., almost need a label to describe the stage of co the ideas are for. The workflows that are effective in the big co stages are simply not appropriate for early stage startups with <10 ppl

I wish I'd been taught growing up that deciding what I want to do and doing what I decide to do are two of the most crucial and hardest life skills to master.

Human wireless chargers were a big hit. People loved them. The need to sleep was gone! But soon they found them installed mostly behind cash registers. Under office chairs. And they realized the dreams were gone, too.

The Dumb Idea Paradox. Why great ideas often start out by sounding dumb. Thread

OH (from an awesome Lyft driver): “Today has been great. I’ve been blessed by the algorithm.” Immediately had an eerie feeling that this could become an increasingly common way to describe a day.