We are living in a competitive environment. From time of birth to our death we are competing. We are competing over materialistic things: Grades in your degrees Salary you are drawing. Girl/Guy you got married to. How well off you are in your life with all the possession, vacation and life long luxury . $$ …
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Random Thoughts: Dealing with toxic people
We are all different, each one of us think and behave differently. We have our own opinion, prejudice and priorities. It is not necessary that we have to buy into everyone’s belief and follow it. But at many instances you would have seen a special kind of people: Who are just negative and everything they …
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Random Thoughts: On EGO
Our identity has a lot to do with what/who we are in eye of society. We create a fabric/mirror/boundary around us and respond to a situation or person depending on our Ego. [Unfortunately] He/She did not respond to my email/phone/sms/Whatsapp, I will block him/her now. [Might have been busy, can we not give some benefit …
Random Thoughts: Life or Auto Pilot?
Growing up in a middle class Indian family has its own set of limitations. Your family decides name for you. Society decides your religion/caste. Your parents decide what you have to pursue in your career. Mom decides who you should marry & when you should have kids. The peer pressure on us drives us towards …
Random Thoughts: What makes us Unhappy?
Few weeks back, I asked a simple question on Twitter: What is cause of unhappiness? 🤔 — Atul Jha (@koolhead17) February 11, 2017 I ended up getting some interesting response. Ego: Most of us are driven by Ego, If it is hurt I have a new enemy and if nurtured friendship continues. Expectation: We expect …
Random thoughts: Weight loss and all.
Before you go further, this post is not about Keto diet or Crossfit. Losing weight requires: Running daily say 1-2 km. Avoiding Sugar/Rice. Giving up on alcohol/soda. A goodnight sleep 6-8 hrs. Eating boiled veg or sprouts post 7 pm. Having a 30 minutes light workout in gym followed by 20 mins abs exercise. Having …
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 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: On television, newspaper & media
When I was a little kid we only had Doordarshan, India’s national channel & It had limited hours dedicated for news. Currently we have 25+ hindi & english channel catering 24/7 news. If we add up entertainment/lifestyle/sports the list will go over 200. It is same with newspapers. I have not purchased a newspaper in …
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