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zdosbon A visual summary of the 5 prerequisites for improvement

I’ve been collecting mental models that help me debug organizational and personal growth. This one is based on Roy Rapoport’s framework.

It treats improvement as a funnel: Awareness → Desire → Self-Awareness → Capability → Execution. I've found it particularly useful for diagnosing why a team member (or myself) is stuck despite "trying" to change.

zdosbon Hostage to the Process

Not anti-process. Just noticing how easily it turns into ritual when judgment is missing. Curious where others have seen this happen.

zdosbon Hostage to the Process

When process becomes the goal instead of the tool, it can lead to... consequences. A look at how that happens in engineering management and what it costs.

zdosbon Mean Time to Isolate (MTTI): the missing incident-response metric

We measure MTTD and MTTR, but most outages are really blown up by the time spent figuring out what’s actually broken. We should track Mean Time to Isolate (MTTI) as well. Curious how other teams track this (if at all).

zdosbon Calibrations Have a Context-Collapse Problem

Cannot agree more. And it's also surprising how much of this information about the calibration process in its own is unknown to people in the org.

zdosbon Calibrations Have a Context-Collapse Problem

“Don’t blame the players, change the game.”

zdosbon Built a tool with 500 questions to have better conversations in 1-on-1s

Hey HN,

It’s a clean, fast site with 500+ curated questions across categories like career growth, feedback, team dynamics, and more. No signups, no fluff, just questions that you can actually use.

If you run 1-on-1s (or dread them), maybe it’ll help. Would love feedback or ideas—especially from folks who lead teams or are building tools in the people/leadership space.

zdosbon Resourcefulness Is Earned

For mid-level engineers leveling up in mid to large orgs to senior engineers.

zdosbon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)

Since the original link is 404'ing, here's the working one: https://jobs.lever.co/cardless/ad23717d-3ae1-4887-8549-b9652...

zdosbon One on One Question Guide/Generator

This tool offers a variety of questions tailored to guide meaningful conversations with team members.

zdosbon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

Location: India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Android, Java, Python, Kotlin, React Native, MySQL, AWS

Résumé/CV: On request.

Email: arjitsrivastava13[at]gmail[dot]com

Engineering Manager / Team Lead looking to help grow the engineering culture of a young / mid-sized organisation.