Jaiprakash
A passionate techie
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About Me
A Computer Science graduate from IIT Delhi, I am passionate about leading teams in designing and developing technical systems that impact people.
An avid reader, endurance athlete and a firm believer of multi-disciplinary learning.
My Philosophy
Actions define outcome
People are not born great, passion and hard work make them.
My Articles
Tech
Log Structured Merge (LSM) Trees
Mutual Exclusion
Hash Table in Distributed System
Solid : Design Principles - 3
Design Principles - 2
Design Principles - 1
Leadership
Cricket And Leadership
Management, Prisoners Dilemma and the Tragedy of commons
Leaders and constructive critisicm
Rivigo,Leadership Principles and Choices
Leadership in Engineering
Process
Dream and Development Process
Delivery and Estimation
Agile and Project Management
Books in short
Running and The Body
Belief and you
Health
Start your health journey
Psychology
Willpower vs Strategy: My story from couch potato to half marathon
Illusion and Interviews
Rivigo
Glimpse of the problem being solved at Rivigo
Generic
Book recommendation from 2022
Book recommendation from 2021
Book recommendation from 2020
Staying at home and bachelors
Observations of the Mind
Future of remote work
My Recommended Reads
Tech
Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman
Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms by Tanenbum & Van Steen
Leadership
Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
Organizational Behavior by Stephens P.Robbins, Timothy A.Judge, Neharika Vohra
The Coaching Habit Say Less, Ask More & Change the way you lead forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
The Dichotomy of Leadership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People by Harvard Business School Press
History
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Back Stage by Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Collapse : How societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
Hinduism by Ashok Mishra
Pshychology
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Influence : The Pshychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
Behave : The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Black Swan : The impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Biggest Bluff : How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
The Biology of Belief by Bruce H. Lipton
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature Matt Ridley
The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi
Health
How Not to Die by Michael Greger
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Don't loose your mind, loose your weight by Rujuta Diwekar
Poetry
Rashmirathi by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Science
A breif history of time by Hawking Stephen
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Algorithms to Live By by Brain Christian
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene
Running
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson
Running & Being: The Total Experience by George Sheehan
Generic Non Fiction
Poor Charlie's Almanac by Charles T. Munger
India's Most Fearless by Shiv Aroor
Tools of Titans by Ferris Timothy
Philosophy
Complete work of Swami Vivekananda by Swami Vivekananda
Adiyogi : The Source of Yoga by Sadhguru
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Siddhartha : An Indian Tale by Hermann Hesse
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Biography/Autobiography
Finding Ultra by Rich Roll
Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
Fiction
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
Foundation (series) by Isaac Asimov
My Recommended Courses
Professional development: Improve yourself, always
Strategic Management
Endurance
Runs
Half Marathon
Kicksal Gurugram Marathon : 08/02/23 : 2:02:11
Cycling
BRM
BRM 200 : 06/11/22 : 11:09:00
Last updated at 11-January-2023