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phenomenon··on Building Trust
A short post emphasizing the significance of establishing and sustaining trust. I strongly believe this is what makes or breaks a team.

I hope you guys find this useful and I would love to hear your thoughts!

phenomenon··on Graceful Disagreements
In this week's edition of The Manager's Prism - “Graceful Disagreements”, I share my observations on disagreements and a few things we could do to find common ground.

This is something that I often see people battle with in their own ways. My hope here is to give everyone a structure to their thoughts when dealing with disagreements.

phenomenon··on The Manager’s Prism
Hi there, I would like to welcome you to The Manager’s Prism. My newsletter, focused on management and leadership, all thanks to the opportunity I have had over the last decade to manage and build high output teams. I started out writing in January and I post once a week. I enjoy this process of writing and sharing insights from my personal experience and also from the several books, podcasts, interviews that I have read and heard.

A few my articles I think you may like:

If Not Now, Then When? https://www.themanagersprism.com/p/if-not-now-then-when

A Leader’s Subtle Power of Insignificance https://www.themanagersprism.com/p/a-leaders-subtle-power-of...

3 Key Habits Of Successful Leaders https://www.themanagersprism.com/p/3-key-habits-of-successfu...

I believe this newsletter is especially helpful to leaders, managers or aspiring managers of the fast paced startup world. I hope you check it out and also find it useful. Please drop in a comment and let me know in case you have any feedback.

Thank you!

phenomenon··on Coursify: A Free Open-Source Online Course Platform
Really neat! online courses are on the rise and having such a platform just makes it easy to start one.

Just found a typo -

"That means you'll get the best developers from all over the world, working hard to make Courify an excellent platform for you to sell your online course."

I see "Courify".

phenomenon··on Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies
This is brilliant. Loved the entire experience. Well done.

For Netflix I have built, www.flicksery.com to solve my own problem of searching for good movies. Unfortunately the API is going to shut down soon. :(

phenomenon··on Hadoop Screencasts
This is an attempt to build a series of screen casts on Apache Hadoop and its various components. I am doing this to keep myself updated and to also share whatever I learn. Your comments are most welcome.
phenomenon··on Ask HN: Learning by doing : Hadoop
Thanks, that does sound like something I can start with.
phenomenon··on Interactive Guide to Blog Typography
I just started working on side project for a better blogging platform for myself and this information will really help be have some good defaults for the app. Thanks for this very informative and very well done demo.
phenomenon··on Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)
Thanks cheae !
phenomenon··on Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)
I too had the same problem, but off and on I did find movies that were really good but were hidden somewhere. The only way I could explore it was by building something of my own. After writing this app I have been able to discover some really awesome stuff on Netflix. Really glad that you liked it. Thanks.
phenomenon··on Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)
Clickable links: Flicksery - http://www.flicksery.com Blog Post - http://tmblr.co/ZemAIvYPpv2C
phenomenon··on Show HN : Flicksery - A Netflix Search Engine (my side project)
This is just a side project which I basically did to find better movies in Netflix. I did not like the

This is built on Ruby On Rails and MySql as the database. I use Sunspot Solr for Rails for better text search.

phenomenon··on RenDir - Bulk Directory Renaming [Windows]
A very simple app that I built to rename the huge list of folders that I had.