Observations from my Frame of Reference

      I work in the Seller Growth team in Flipkart. We help them improve their business by showing them different metrics and recommendations based on their and their peers’ performance on our platform. Some days back, our product-manager came up with a concept, a central page, where we would be surfacing an aggregate view of all the recommendations personalized for the sellers. We already had our backend which generates various recommendations based on different cohorts. They had to make a new system to give sellers new goals and benchmark them on the basis of their performance. This page had a beautiful UX. We implemented shimmers, animations, and confettis to be shown when the seller achieves his goal and has a benchmark upgrade. This page had to be mobile responsive to be supported both on desktop and mobile browsers. Also, Flipkart’s seller app should be able to open this page inside the mobile application instead of building a page of their own. We are constantly trying to build

       “Guddu, I am leaving now. I have to reach early today.” My father woke me up. I got out of the bed, closed the door behind him, and went back to sleep. My alarm was scheduled to ring at eight.     I am fifteen years old, studying in ninth class. I am staying with my father in a small one-bedroom rented house in Bhubaneswar. I study in a school where my father is also a teacher. He is the shift in charge for high school, a rank just below the headmaster. Today is the nomination day for the school election. In our school, a small election is conducted every academic year to choose the student cabinet. The election is held for four posts, the President, the Secretary, the Sports head, and the Cultural head. Being elected into the cabinet is one of the coolest achievements of school life. High school (eighth, ninth, and tenth standard) students get to vote in the election. Tenth-standard students are not allowed to file nominations because they are supposed to invest more tim