Naveen Akunuri

@akunuri.bsky.social

Always learning. Ever curious.

Common Side Effects is the best show that I hear too little about. Animated show on Max by Mike Judge and the folks behind Scavenger’s Reign (another banger.) It’s hilarious, surprising, moving and profoundly relevant. Full recommendation.

Just rewatched Interstellar. So in the movie, people on earth want to find a different planet because of dust storms that is destroying crops on earth. Doesn’t Mars have planetary scale dust storms?

Saw at least 7 “drones” last night flying in my neighborhood in NJ. Never thought that “Close encounters of the third kind” would turn out to be a documentary. Practicing my tunes now.

A founder of a series A company, that found product-market fit and has 6 engineers so far, asked me who would I hire next. To his surprise and mine, I immediately said “QA automation engineer”. Because as feature requests pile up, nothing kills dev velocity faster than slow bug-fixing loops.

I am often stunned when I hear software engineers say that they don’t like read to fictional novels but would like to better use that time to learn architecture and system design. Do you even know the level of systems thinking you can achieve when you read books like The Lord of the Rings? #fiction

Finally made the move from Twitter to here. Hello everyone! Anyway to import the list of people I am following there and see if I can find them and add them here automatically?