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Gourav’s Odyssey #1
This is an edition type of The Curious Soul’s Corner newsletter where I share my free flowing thoughts and curations.
👋 Hey there, I am Gourav. I write about Engineering, Productivity, Thought Leadership, and the Mysteries of the mind!
Starting this week, I’m experimenting releasing a curated article format once a month. If the feedback is positive, it might become a permanent feature in the newsletter.
Best Software Engineers do this
I experienced this for a long time..
Whenever I’d explain a concept, an issue, or a bug to a fellow engineer...
I felt an ‘aha’ moment. Suddenly, I knew the root cause of what happened.
Merely by explaining what I know, I find out what I didn’t know before.
I was fascinated by this and did some digging on this concept and found...
It’s a very simple but particularly useful technique used by some of the best software engineers for finding the cause of a problem by simply explaining it to someone else.
It’s called “Rubber Ducking”. This article explains it well.
The best thing about this technique is that you don’t even need a real human to listen to you.
If you are creative, it could be just a toy or... a ‘rubber duck’ to which you will be speaking out loud.
That’s how its name originated!
3-2-1
3 ‘Resources’ to Crack Tech Interviews
- shared resources he used to crack multiple Big Tech Interviews
Tips that I shared to become 10x better in Tech Interviews in
’s newsletter.- shared 3-Step Framework to never get down-leveled in Behavioural Interviews in ’s newsletter
2 ‘Pics’ of Life outside work
These two pictures shows growth progression and how we enjoy different phases of our lives outside the typical software engineering hustles.
Sept, 2024
My family and I attended a life-transformational spiritual retreat in Dallas, offering a break from the daily grind to reflect and reconnect with our purpose.
My toddler kept us busy, but that's how they start learning life’s key lessons early. They grow up so fast!
May, 2021
This 3 years old picture shows us as a carefree couple. No kids, No big house, No Car, just worries of weekend travel and material fun. We have ‘put up’ since then.
1 ‘Book’ I am reading
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity is telling me astonishing facts about the latest scientific research on extending both lifespan and healthspan.
This Week’s Praise
: He’s fellow Staff engineer at Meta and writes a newsletter called Techlead Mentor to help you grow in your software journey. With generosity, he offered invaluable feedback on my writing when I was just starting out. I learnt from him the value of genuinely helping strangers on social media. That’s why he has earned a loyal following among new content creators on LinkedIn & Substack.
More praises in next editions.
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Gourav Khanijoe
Explaining something, even just writing it, helps to cover the gaps in thinking.
I just had the same realization when I wrote my last article about writing for software engineers
Thanks for the mention Gourav!
I listened to Outlive on Audible few months back, it's amazing.