New Releases

The Software Engineering industry often evaluates engineers based on how many lines of code they write, how many years of experience they have, or how many features they ship. But I think a more powerful metric is the number of bugs they encountered, reproduced, traced to their root cause and fixed. Those experiences shape an engineer far more than raw output or time served in my opinion, let me elaborate. Bugs hinder the stability of software, which affects the user experience.

A Platform Mindset is a leadership book that shows how organizations can unlock scale and innovation by combining long-term platform investments with a culture of collaboration, trust, and shared purpose. Marcus Fontoura's career, and indeed this book, has largely been about the ethos needed to build powerful platforms. A tech platform is a reusable system that implements a core piece of functionality, such as identity. In this case, an identity platform provides a solution for users to log-in to multiple services.

Himalayan Compute argues Nepal can become a global AI infrastructure powerhouse by converting its vast hydropower potential into exportable compute. As AI demand explodes, electricity, cooling, and data centers become the new strategic bottleneck—making cheap, renewable baseload power a national advantage. The book presents a 10-year roadmap to scale from Phase 1 clusters to multi-gigawatt AI campuses and trillion-dollar valuation territory. It emphasizes this must be a private, Silicon Valley-style startup, with Nepal’s government enabling speed through a One Desk Policy.