Ankur Bansal·May 21The 20-Minute Morning Practice That Teaches You to Stop Before You Destroy Your DayAncient Hindu wisdom, breath science, and a Mahabharata story — combined into a daily ritual for anyone trying to master their impulses.
Ankur Bansal·Oct 11, 2025The Ultimate Blueprint: Exceed Expectations in Your First 90 Days as an Engineering LeaderIntroduction
Ankur Bansal·Oct 5, 2025The Day I Automated Web Check-in: A Tale of Wonder and WorryWhen AI Makes Life Too Easy
Ankur Bansal·Oct 2, 2025Empowering Engineers: How to Remain Relevant as a Leader (Without Micromanaging)As engineering leaders, we’re often told to empower our teams, step back, and let others take ownership. But if you’ve managed technical…
Ankur Bansal·Oct 2, 2025Mastering Prompt Engineering: A Complete GuideCourse: ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers Source: DeepLearning.AI Course Instructors: Andrew Ng (DeepLearning.AI) & Isa Fulford…
Ankur Bansal·Sep 14, 2025Why AI Editors Are Still Junior Engineers: The SDE1 Ceiling ProblemThe conversation above reveals a critical truth about today’s AI coding assistants: they consistently perform like junior developers (SDE1…
Ankur Bansal·Sep 14, 2025The M-Strategy: Why Most Employee Motivation Programs Fail (And How to Build One That Works)“People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” — Simon Sinek
Ankur Bansal·Aug 31, 2025Amazon’s Day 1 and Day 2 Culture: Lessons from My ExperiencePurpose: This post highlights the things I liked/disliked about Amazon.
Ankur Bansal·Aug 2, 2025Design a Observability platform:Observability systems help engineering teams monitor, troubleshoot, and understand the behavior of their distributed applications…
Ankur Bansal·Jul 30, 2025Scaling to 250x Traffic: How We Took Our Amazon Locker Capacity Service from 2k to 500k QPSDisclaimer: This scaling journey was absolutely a team effort — none of this would have been possible without the incredible engineering…
