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This book is an anthology of posts on people and project management from 2008 to 2010, when the author was a manager and was roaming between management training sessions. It started as a blog, Management Bits and Tips: Reflections on Software Engineering and Software Technical Support Management, which now survives as a Facebook page, ManagementBits. When the author returned to engineering after management in 2009, he wanted to publish a book with the original title, Management Bits: An Anthology from Reductionist Manager. Around 2015, he changed its title to Critique of Management Reason: Management Bits and Tips from Can't and added a few more bits as late as 2017.

A humorous fable for IT professionals exhausted by urgency theater

This is the story of my disastrous time as a manager for a failing software development company. My diary reveals the reality of dealing with too many systems and a management team being too far from the work being done. It's a comic story of my decline and the terrible results of a badly managed software project.

In Chinmoy Mukherjee’s biting satire Eat, Slurp, Ascend, devoted cultist Chunmun Singh seeks cosmic enlightenment through his noodle-worshipping guru's ultimate "Great Astral Slurp." But when a wild astral journey across fourteen divine realms exposes the MSG-scented lies of his faith, Chunmun must choose between comforting delusions and the bitter taste of reality. Discover a hilarious, multisensory tale that expertly skewers modern spiritual commodification and the absurdities of blind devotion.

Nitin Maran, undisputed king of Sydney’s South Asian dating scene and fluent in ten languages of seduction, meets his match in a 145 km/h cricket yorker that inflates his balls to the size of footballs. Over fourteen agonising days he still refuses to cancel a single date with twelve gorgeous women—each expecting fireworks—while waddling through the wildest, most culturally tailored excuses ever invented. When the swelling finally disappears, every single woman messages him on the same Sunday demanding immediate delivery. The multilingual playboy has nothing left to say.

When Sydney crime boss Gobi Sultan kidnaps five-year-old Chunmun Singh for a million-dollar ransom, he never imagines the real threat: a toddler who can’t stop unbuckling his seatbelt under traffic cameras and accidentally torching an apartment with a gas oven. Within forty-eight hours, the city’s merciless smart-AI algorithms bankrupt Gobi’s entire empire. Six months later, a rival syndicate learns the same lethal lesson—never let a curious kindergartener loose on your heist. A razor-sharp satire where innocence beats organized crime every time.

The apocalypse has finally hit Melbourne, but for 16 eccentric preppers hoarding exactly one type of essential each, the real threat is the neighbors. When the lights go out, alliances crumble into a hilarious, Mad Max-style suburban showdown of booby-trapped toilet paper and weaponized wine. Dive into this laugh-out-loud satire that proves when the end of the world arrives, true survival takes a lot more than just a solitary stash!

In the spice-scented chaos of Old Delhi, bribery is the price of survival—until one merchant refuses to pay. His defiance sparks a breathtaking chain reaction, raining money onto the streets and proving that integrity can still bloom in the city’s ancient dust.

As the spiritual fire of the mortal Rishis threatens to melt the foundations of the heavens, Indra, King of the Gods, turns to his ultimate weapon of distraction. Menaka, the most enchanting Apsara of the celestial court, is dispatched on a divine mission: to break the unwavering focus of the sages through the irresistible power of beauty and grace.

Gemini said Teaser When Hindu deities descend to Bangalore to buy a flat, they discover their celestial powers are utterly useless against the city's true apex predators: bribe-hungry bureaucrats. It takes a frustrated IT professional armed with a bucket of dirty water to spark a viral revolution, proving to the Gods that everyday mortal courage is the ultimate superpower.

For thousand years Ravana has kidnapped Komal Gupta across lifetimes—from Egyptian pharaoh to Martian tyrant—only to lose her every time to her true love. In his final, disastrous incarnation he’s a cash-strapped airline owner who accidentally abducts Lakshya Malhotra… mid-drag transition video. A razor-sharp satirical novella where the Ramayana ends not with war, but with viral content, a fashion empire, and the most pragmatic karmic divorce in history.

What if the exile that shook the heavens wasn't Rama’s to bear? In this daring reimagining, King Dasharatha takes to the forest with a defiant Kaikeyi, sparking a cosmic war that forces a queen of shadows to become a savior of worlds.

Fleeing flooded Bihar for the gleaming skyscrapers of Bengaluru, Chunmun Singh expects steady jobs but gets a daily masterclass in xenophobia instead. Don't Call Me Goobe is a hilarious, heartbreaking 30-day odyssey of misplaced Kannada phrases, hostile commutes, and the shattering of the great Indian urban dream.

In the neon-drenched underbelly of Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, weary god Brahma decides his successor won’t be a saint — he summons twenty of the city’s most notorious criminals for a cosmic job interview. Arsonists, con artists and meme lords must answer an eight-fold quiz on creating universes, fusing stars and forging life, all while revealing their darkest street-smarts. When the ultimate deceiver Susan Alias is chosen, she scams reality itself into existence — only to discover that becoming God leaves her utterly, eternally alone.

Twenty ruthless Indian tycoons each paid Swami Nityanirvana one billion dollars for a VIP reincarnation package—only to wake up as tigers, cockroaches, cows, frogs and stray dogs. Now the saffron-robed swami criss-crosses neon-drenched India with his glowing SoulTracker GPS and crackling Speak2Beast app, hunting their bewildered animal souls to drag them to Vistara, Gujarat’s ultra-luxury sanctuary for the formerly human. A wildly funny, incense-scented divine comedy where karma bites back—hard, hairy, and hilariously human.Meta