Open in app
Home
Notifications
Lists
Stories

Write
Amarinder Sidhu
Amarinder Sidhu

Home

Pinned

Digital Systems for Health: Inventing on Principle

Human Health is a complex phenomena. Software is a human designed artifact. Digital Health has struggled because we don’t adapt our software for that complexity. The dominant design approach for modern software is to centralize decisions in algorithms. To say the least, it is efficient. Future often looks like the…

Digital Health Technology

7 min read


Oct 14, 2020

On Being Agile

You have to be be Agile in principle, for Agile to work for you in method. The principle is about accelerating value for users — through fast and efficient value attempts. It is about finding the most efficient way to execute the discovery-design-create cycle in the smallest possible batch. It…

Agile Development

2 min read

On Being Agile
On Being Agile

Sep 20, 2020

Don’t Build. Create.

Software development is creative work. Outside of physical and metaphorical Silicon Valley, it is regarded as build work, focused on replicating discovered value. Doing yearly budgeting cycles, gathering extensive requirements before project starts, working in big batches and delivering in infrequent releases are telltale signs of build work. This build…

3 min read

Don’t Build. Create
Don’t Build. Create

Aug 31, 2020

The Art of “Incomplete” Design

A map as detailed as the territory it represents is of no use. Maps become useful when they leave details out. Jorge Luis Borges’ 146 word story, On Exactitude in Science, illustrates this beautifully. A kingdom creates a perfect map “which coincided point for point”. “Following generations”, which didn’t love…

Software Engineering

5 min read

The Art of “Incomplete” Design
The Art of “Incomplete” Design

Aug 9, 2020

Don’t ask the Horse. Focus on Alpha.

I read an old Zen story about a man riding a horse once. The horse was galloping fast, and it appeared this man is going someplace important. Another person standing along the road asked, “where are you going?” The rider yelled back, “I don’t know. Ask the horse.” I believe…

Software Development

5 min read

Don’t ask the Horse. Focus on Alpha.
Don’t ask the Horse. Focus on Alpha.

Jul 26, 2020

Magic, Silver Bullets & Value of True Engineering

Marc Andreessen from a16z wrote, or rather proclaimed, in 2011: “Software is eating the world.” The proclamation was fairly prescient for the world of consumer software at least. There are very few aspects of digital consumer’s life left untouched by the magic of software. You can almost feel it: when…

Digital Transformation

4 min read

#1 Magic, Silver Bullets & Value of True Engineering
#1 Magic, Silver Bullets & Value of True Engineering
Amarinder Sidhu

Amarinder Sidhu

Inventing on Principle. Writing to Learn. Rough Drafts @ https://twitter.com/amarsidhu

Following
  • Nir Eyal

    Nir Eyal

  • Hunter Walk

    Hunter Walk

  • Scott Galloway

    Scott Galloway

  • Halle Tecco

    Halle Tecco

  • John Maeda

    John Maeda

See all (121)

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Knowable