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 …
Category Archives: Life
Random Thoughts: Food & Life
I have been experimenting with what I have been eating for past 60 days. I am adding list of same & its outcome. Lots of fruits. Eggs in breakfast & sprouts in dinner. Heavy lunch rice/chapatti & some lentils. Beer 1.5 L/Week from one or the other microbrewery in bangalore. One death by chocolate from …
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 …
Random Thoughts: On-boarding new developers to open source projects. Then & Now.
We are entering in 2016, my journey to open source started in 2004-05 when i attended one of the Linux User Group meetup in New Delhi, India. Those days we had to pay one$ for surfing internet for an hour, having a dial-up internet at home was considered luxury. What was the scene those days? …
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Random Thoughts: On Identity
When we were born we had no identity, we were just another creature on planet Earth. Then came : Parents : religion, caste, surname Physical appearance: Looks, Color, Weight, Height Personal nature: Empathic, Rude, Jolly Job & Education: MIT/IIT/IIM/XLRI/MIT/Harvard Social Status: Bank balance, Car, House You will be judged & reminded about your identity at …
Random thoughts: On Romanticizing Failures
People say success & failures are complementary. It is like two side of coin & both co-exist. Over last few years I have noticed in every spectrum people are celebrating failures be it cover page of famous magazine, online portal, help/advice avenues like Quora or social media portals like Twitter, Facebook, Medium or LinkedIn. I …
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Random Thoughts: Purpose of life.
Few months back I celebrated 29 years of my existence. I have been thinking for sometime, what are we here for. This is my list which I am always reminded to : Parents & Family: Everything I have right now is because of my parents & awesome family around. Friends: Its good to have few …
Moving On, last day at The New Stack
Leaving an organization is extremely difficult especially when you have been part of it from day Zero[or before] or a 1st/2nd hire. But as someone said every great thing comes with an expiry date hence here I am writing my post on my last day of work at The New Stack. The Journey I got …