I love Twitter. It is my gateway to the outside world. It feeds me with daily news, gossips, celebrations and mass outrage. Twitter connects me to the makers and those who have made it big in their domain. I have learnt a lot through them. In the pre-internet era, social engagement meant meeting over beer, …
Category Archives: Life
On my own
1st June 2017 was when I was free from my last full time job. It also means since then (aka over a year) I have been on my own. Looking back at these 360+ odd days, I have realized that I have done good for myself. I feel I have become more calm, healthy and …
On Advice
Advices are the easiest to come by. They have come from my friends, parents, relatives and even from those I have not met. Advices can be on anything and everything like I have shown in the following sketches. Career Marriage Programming Languages Starting Up Fundraising My constant struggle : Who should I take advice …
Being Authentic
Everyone is trying to be like someone else, everyone is looking for success mantra – from reading blog posts of famous entrepreneurs, learning about their daily routines to copying some hip hop artist look. We have turned into breed of copycats, but for what? Why can’t we be authentic, be as we are? We are …
On Algorithms
Algorithms are not new, we have been using it in stock trading, ticket booking etc. Just that in 2018 we are hearing more about it. Four interesting scenarios happened in past few years. Emergence of cloud computing made processing fast cheap. Newer Open Source and proprietary technologies like Keras and TensorFlow took Deep Learning closer to …
What matters in life
It takes years of survival on this planet to realize that :- Life is too short, live it now. A bucket list won’t be of much help. We are all opinionated and live in our own walled garden of thought. What matters the most is what makes you feel good and yes, you don’t have …
Random Thoughts: On my procrastination
Last year around October, Anurag wrote a post on procrastination and it hit my head like one hits nail with hammer. In his post, he has covered every part of procrastination in details, go ahead and read it. This post is about my procrastination habit and how it has screwed most part of me. I realized i was …
The ice cream chronicle #1
After over a month I headed to Polar Bear for an ice cream. I was not craving for it but went because during the day I was served with shit load of sugar in my lunch. I thought why not make it a cheat day. I have this tight cheat day eating policy, If I …
Random Thoughts: Why are we scared of losing?
Human mind is a monkey mind as Naval says. We are constantly worried about our future and work hard towards making it better. At times we get so busy in it that we forget about living in this very beautiful moment, the present which is constantly passing. At the same time we start overthinking and …
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Notes from reading: On shortness of life by Seneca
Senaca was one advisor to emperor Nero from Rome. He was also one of the founding father of stoics school of philosophy. In this chapter Seneca writes about our life and how short our life is in general. These are some notes from the book: Life is short, art is long. Our life is amply …
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