29. Demystifying HR

Human Resource Management (HR) is an integral part of an organization. In this episode, we trace its history, talk about focus areas like Performance Management and how one can pursue a career in HR.

We talk to Sudipta Das - Associate Director-Performance Management, Flipkart. Sudipta has worked across multiple industries - Manufacturing, IT and Product. He is passionate about helping people as they reflect on their career and growth.

Episode length: 28 min | Listen on: Spotify | Google | Apple | More options

Mentioned in this episode

1. Industrial Relations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_relations

2. Sudipta's Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudiptadashr/

28. The transformative power of Deep Work

What is Deep Work and what are its benefits? How can modern software companies organize themselves to enable employees to work in such a mode? And how does a culture of written communication fit into this?​

Swanand Pagnis, CTO of CoLearn, explores different facets of this topic in a wide ranging conversation. Swanand has put Cal Newport's principles of deep work into practice over his many years of technical work. Swanand has worked as a Director of Engineering at Deserve and as a Principal Engineer at First.io. He conducts a workshop on PostgreSQL and runs the Ruby on Rails and PapersWeLove meetup groups in Bangalore.​

Episode length: 35 min | Listen on: Spotify | Google | Apple | More options

Mentioned in this episode

1. CoLearn - https://colearn.id/

2. Deep Work by Cal Newport - https://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/

3. Tiny Habits - https://tinyhabits.com/

4. Atomic Habits - https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits

5. Getting Things Done - https://gettingthingsdone.com

6. Loom: Video messaging for Work - https://www.loom.com/

7. Tuple: Pair programming app - https://tuple.app/

8. Rescue Time - https://www.rescuetime.com/

9. Papers We Love Blr - https://twitter.com/papersweloveblr

10. Bangalore Ruby Users Group - https://www.meetup.com/Bangalore-Ruby-Users-Group/

11. Swanand's LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pagnis/

12. Swanand's website - https://info.pagnis.in/

13. Swanand's Twitter - https://twitter.com/_swanand

14. Swanand's PostgreSQL Workshop - https://postgres-workshop.com/

15. Swanand's SQL Workshop - https://queries.fun/

27. Entrepreneur: To be or not to be?

Becoming an entrepreneur is a difficult choice, one that opens the door to many opportunities as well as risks. Have you wondered about the thought process that drives one to be a founder and the trade offs involved? To share his exciting journey, we have with us Rajan Bala, a senior manager at Amazon in Toronto and the founder of Aravanai, a non profit organization helping entrepreneurs in underprivileged communities. Previously, he was the Co-founder of Hiku labs, a Silicon Valley startup which made shopping frictionless.

Podcast Show Notes

Aravanai: https://www.aravanai.org/become-a-mentor

Hiku Labs: https://www.cnet.com/reviews/hiku-labs-hiku-review/2/

Rajan Bala: https://unitelsoft.wordpress.com/about/

Rajan’s Story on Yarl Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8-mEWLFbN

Episode length: 26 min | Listen on: Spotify | Google | Apple | More options