Notes from reading: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramhansa Yogananda

Autobiography of a Yogi  was in my reading list for the past few months.  Last week I was able to finish reading it. The book as the title says is an autobiography of Paramhansa Yogananda. Paramhansa Yogananda with his teachings and  Kriya Yoga  changed life of many of us. He spent most of his time …

Social media and Brain FUCK!!

Social media was on fire last week.It was almost buzzing & it had too much of information/opinion/emotion overflow. Two important things happened: USA Donald Trump won the presidential election of United States by defeating Hillary Clinton.  This means he will replace Obama to become next President of United States.                        This result followed mixed reaction from …

Random Thoughts: Our Problems

Just got to know about maid’s daughter health condition, she went through heart surgery. Returned to work after 3 months & all those smiling security guards and house keeping staffs are replaced by new faces. I was told entire management got replaced by new vendor because they were cheaper. The hawker selling used cloths was …

Learning after turning 30+ some lessons & life forward.

I celebrated my 30 birthday last month & yes, I am three decades old now. Few of the lessons were learnt willingly but most of them forcefully imposed/taught the hard way.    Family comes first Avoiding alcohol can do magic to your health Run & exercise regularly for better physical and mental health Keep your …

Surge pricing debate: Question nobody asks

Surge pricing for taxi aggregators has been banned in Karnataka. While I have been reading the opinions of various people on different social media platforms on it, there are a few voices that are missing – taxi drivers. They’re the ones who really suffer from this ordeal, especially drivers who have bought cars on loan …

Random Thoughts: Some life lessons.

I am no billionaire philanthropist  or a startup guy who just made a big exit. The content of this post has more to do with my experience with life/people & surroundings over year of time. These are some of the learnings: 1. Family should get all the attention. 2. Heath comes next 3. People will …

My first 60 days at minio

Most of my close friends know that I joined https://minio.io  couple of months back. As a developer evangelist, most of my time is spent getting application developers excited, evangelize Minio and also hack on Minio’s software stack (yes you heard it right!) Minio stands for minimal cloud storage and derives from our belief in the …

2015 PASSED, 2016 WELCOME!!

Happy New Year to everyone to start with. Year 2015 been amazing in following ways : Joined minio.io as developer evangelist [blog will follow soon :)] Met long time friends Razique & Heiko  in person after interacting with them for over 4 years on IRC regarding  OpensStack project. Two of my junior buddies Prashant & Jithesh …

Random Thoughts: On Depression

Woke up & read this r/linux thread  where Ian Murdock [Debian Linux project founder] tweets are mentioned. Ian says he is committing suicide.  I will be more than happy if these tweets turn out to be hoax or coming from someone else who gained control of his Twitter account. This incident got me thinking about one of …