Slow Is Smooth, Smooth Is Fast: Thinking Clearly When the Clock Is Loud
A few weeks before IMTEX, under real delivery pressure, three books help me stay calm and keep asking the right questions.
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Engineer, technology leader, and writer.
Chief Technology Officer at Ace Designers Limited in Bengaluru. 25+ years of turnkey engineering and new product development, from pharmaceuticals to breweries. Here I write about what I learn along the way.
- 25+ Years in engineering
- 18+ Years leading engineering, R&D and new products
- Six Sigma Certified Black Belt
- CTO Ace Micromatic Group
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- Good Reads I read a book every two to three weeks and share what stuck. 33 posts
- Productivity The tools and habits I use to get more done, with quick tips. 45 posts
- Programming Know-how from garage projects in PHP, Laravel, JavaScript, Python, R and Node.js. 5 posts
- Technology Everything from genomics to space, as long as it is interesting. 39 posts
About
Engineering, leadership, and a habit of writing it down.
I'm Chief Technology Officer at Ace Designers Limited in Bengaluru. Over 25 years I've led turnkey engineering projects and new product development across industries, from pharmaceutical processing equipment to breweries.
This blog is where I share what I have learned along the way, in the hope of building a community that shares a passion for learning and innovation.
Bookshelf
Read in 2026
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
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Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)
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The Art of Inquiry: Meditations on Living Wisdom (Philosophical Meditations Book 1)
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Heretics of Dune (Dune #5)
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God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)
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The Shortest History of Germany
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Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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Seeing What Others Don't: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights
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They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45
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The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism
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Hidden In Plain Sight: The simple link between relativity and quantum mechanics