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Asmita is Currently Reading

Asmita is currently reading

Slow Train to Switzerland: One Tour, Two Trips, 150 Years - and a World of Change Apart

by Diccon Bewes

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Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)

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Asmita’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change

The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change by Tanya Reilly

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I’ll unpack the staff engineer role by looking at what I think of as its three pillars: big-picture thinking, execution of projects, and leveling up the engineers you work with.

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Asmita’s Quotes

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

tags: data, deduction, information, mistake, theories, theory

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“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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