Secure your house from COVID-19: Lessons from IT Security

Sunday, 2020 Apr 19

My family lives in New Jersey, just a river across from Manhattan, the epicenter of the New York epidemic. We have been isolating ourselves from the outside world for more than a month now. In this article, I will attempt to explain how we managed to defend ourselves everything so far, using concepts from IT Security.

Positive Transfer Of Control At Work

Saturday, 2019 Dec 14

Positive Transfer of Control is an aviation procedure used to guarantee that at any point in time, all pilots in the cockpit know who is in control of the plane. The procedure, as described by the FAA Training Material, is as follows:

How to implement "Unlimited Leave"

Tuesday, 2019 Nov 12

More and more tech companies are offering “Unlimited Leave”. While such a policy allows employees to determine how they want to structure their time off from work, it also introduces uncertainties, both on the side of the manager and the employee. Common questions from employees range from the optimistic “Can I take every Friday off now?” to the pessimistic “If everyone else doesn’t take leave but I do, will I be judged unfairly?”.