Danial Kalbasi

Notes on engineering leadership, building products, and figuring out what matters.

Are AI chatboxes faster than UI? Feb 2026
Value of building a roadmap Feb 2026
Money & time in companies Feb 2026
Shared pains build empathy Feb 2026
Writing is the new building Feb 2026
Point of experimentation Feb 2026
Amazon layoffs Jan 2026
Product validation Jan 2026
Bad common hiring advice Dec 2025
Startups get more from AI than large companies Dec 2025
Small freedoms in life Dec 2025
Do nothing when there is nothing to do Dec 2025
Staff engineer Nov 2025
AI and code ownership Nov 2025
Procrastination in teams Nov 2025
Technical debt Nov 2025
Team motivation Nov 2025
Team feedback vs. individual feedback Oct 2025
People skills are not intelligence Oct 2025
Thinking and exploration time Jan 2022
Feeling of starting a business Jul 2020
Thoughts on delayed software project Apr 2020
Develop from scratch or using third-party software? Mar 2019
A day trip to Zaanse Schans Feb 2019
Is Masterclass worth it? Nov 2017
The new version of Sitecore Marketing Automation has been released with Sitecore 9.0. Oct 2017
Are you making these two mistakes in your A/B testing? Sep 2017
Add GSAP animation library to Angular 2 Application Mar 2017
12 common questions when you start ReactJS Sep 2016
Token and role based authentication in Slim 3 Aug 2016
Start your morning with these eight tips Aug 2016
3 Things you need to do when a hiring manager asks you for a reference Jul 2016
10 tactics to create better personas Dec 2015
Understanding mental shortcuts and how they increase user engagement Oct 2015