Fauzan Erich Emmerling

If you read my blog you'll notice that I joined Traveloka around 9 months ago. It was my first time working for a product company and it was a great experience. I've always worked for a service company before that. Traveloka is an amazing company and the growth is staggering. I learned a lot about working with app at scale and the mobile app landscape. The experience gained is invaluable. Around 4 years ago I had this idea about a social shopping app called nawaran . I built it in 3 months and launched it but the ecosystem wasn't ready. So I decided to shut it down. A few months back I had a chat with some friends with a similar idea. They are building something similar and I thought that it's about time I chase that dream. This is when I decide that it's time to move on and so I joined them. Fast forward a couple of months and here we are, on my last day as a Traveloka employee. Thank you Traveloka, for giving me the chance to get exposed more to the prod...

Creativity is what drives my life. It is the reason why I took computer science as my major. IT is the reason why I can spend sleepless nights doing my codes and also the reason why I haven't blogged in a long while. I like creating things and IT developers are artists and creators in their own ways. About 2 months ago I met with several people offering investments. They want to establish an IT business venture. I was excited, but then somehow, in the middle of the road, things get bumpy and we cancelled the cooperations. I was disappointed because I knew the ideas we were about to build would require massive capitals in order for it to succeed. Then I spent nights after nights thinking on what to do next. I entered the period I call frozen mind. A state of mind where you feel that you're no longer creative. A state of mind that causes someone like me feeling powerless. I feel that I cannot develop anymore when actually I could. In the middle of it all, I tried to warm thi...

Why do you write? Some people might be asking why they would have blogs, why they would write a book or other forms of publications. They would end up with various reasons. Some would say they write to make a living. Some might say they write to fulfill their passion. Some others might even write because of peer preassure or because they want to be popular. Even Barney writes his blog to be legen... wait for it ...dary! Legendary! I write simply because I want to. Not because I want people to read it and change their lives. Not to be legendary like Barney. Not because I want to make a living out of it. Not because I want to be famous. Not even to fulfill my passion. Just because I want to, as simple as that. I write whenever I feel like writing, wherever I can (laptop, paper, smartphone), and I write whatever comes through my head. Not some pre-researched topics I think people would love to read. Take this post as an example. I wrote this in a motor garage while getting my motorcycle h...