# Sanket Saurav

> Personal website of Sanket Saurav, engineer, designer, and founder of DeepSource. Essays on startups, engineering, design, and life.

## Writing

- [Supply Chain Security](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/supply-chain-security)
- [Working in serial](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/working-in-serial)
- [Better cold emails](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/better-cold-emails): Three principles that help me write cold emails that convert.
- [Vulnerability](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/vulnerability)
- [Ship faster](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/ship-faster)
- [Finality](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/finality): How to seek excellence when working in a team.
- [How to build magical products](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/magical-products): A guide to delightful product design with magic tricks.
- [“Why haven’t you hired more people in 2 years?”](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/hiring-principles): What making a ton of bad hiring mistakes has taught me about building teams.
- [Dissecting GitHub Free](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/github-free): A story of how GitHub embraced the free tier and feature gating, and how everyone else might need to do the same.
- [2019: In Review](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/2019-in-review): Looking for the truth, and finding it.
- [The Messiah Hire Fallacy](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/messiah-hire-fallacy): Falling in love hardly ever saves a company.
- [The refreshing power of balance](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/balance): How breaking away from extremities opens up immense possibilities.
- [And now for something new...](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/something-new): I have a life update.
- [A blissful dullness](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/blissful-dullness)
- [What are the engineers building?](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/what-are-the-engineers-building): A high-order metric for measuring startup success.
- [What is it that you *really* want to do?](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/what-do-you-really-want-to-do)
- [Everybody needs someone.](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/everybody-needs-someone): It doesn’t have to be someone else though.
- [I’ve always wondered about the Writers.](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/writers)
- [Death to the Résumé](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/death-to-the-resume): It’s time we get rid of the floppy disk of hiring.
- [Refuge](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/refuge): Where do you go when there’s nowhere else to go?
- [Startups and Existentialism](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/existentialism): How an early 20th-century French philosopher’s ideas can help us build better businesses.
- [Loving like a Stoic](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/loving-like-a-stoic)
- [Why I read fiction](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/why-i-read-fiction): And how it helps me with what I do.
- [Startups are about people](https://sanketsaurav.com/writing/startups-are-about-people)

## Pages

- [About](https://sanketsaurav.com/about): Background and bio
- [Photography](https://sanketsaurav.com/photography): Photos taken over the years

## Feeds

- [RSS](https://sanketsaurav.com/rss.xml): Full-content feed of all writing