Life Hacks
How to survive, and honestly thrive in, the modern office. Real, usable, slightly cheeky Life Hacks from the Nandoo crew.
Caution people to develop a "modular architecture" ... doesn't matter if modular architecture reminds you of building life size legos. Also doesn't matter if the conversation is about your previous su
Read the full storyAsk confidently "Can we get our bots to do it?" Doesn't matter if they are literally talking about your job OR that your bots are so inefficient that they have hired other bots to do their jobs, never
Read the full storyTell them to "let's just put it in the Cloud" ... doesn't matter how much you know about it or you think of it as Vico Vajradanti (tell me one thing Vico cannot solve, from brushing to shaving to show
Read the full storyTell everyone to implement AGILE vs. WATERFALL .... doesn't matter if you think the former is what you become if you do yoga and latter reminds you of the scene from Chennai Express wherein Meenama me
Read the full storyEver been in one of those meetings where no one, including the presenter, has no clue what the topic is and more importantly, WHY the meeting has been scheduled in the first place? Yeah, we thought so
Read the full storyThe fundamentals of attending a meeting (even if you don't want to) is to act as if you are listening and paying attention. However, if you are one of those ballsy ones and want to see how far you can
Read the full storyAnytime, anyone mentions any metrics/numbers/stats, just repeat it with a 'Oh wow'. For example: 57% of members do not like our app, "Oh wow, 57% of our members do not like our app!" 1 in 5 people lov
Read the full storyDoesn't matter if the Devs are talking about changing the entire codebase from Java to Ruby on Rails. Also doesn't matter that you think one is a form of coffee while the other is literally "rubies on
Read the full storyNext time you are in a meeting and the presenter asks "Any questions" ask them to pull up slide #2, you clearly don't know what's on slide 2, the audience DEFINITELY does not know what was on slide #2
Read the full storyThe trick to looking super smart in a meeting is to appear as if you are a visionary. And nothing screams visionary than a person writing super fluffy/ stand alone meaningless words on the whiteboard.
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