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 …
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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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Random Thoughts: On starting Up
One advantage of living in Bangalore is everyone around you is working on startup ideas. You visit a coffee shop or a microbrewery you will find folks talking in length & at times even pitching product ideas to investors for funding. I keeping asking myself these questions whenever i think about starting up. 1. Is …
Random Thoughts: Money, is it everything.
In age of capitalism, money is de facto to happiness for most , it gets you everything (almost) Power Business Class ticket Grand Villa World Tour But are these the only things you need in life? What about inner peace, satisfaction and quality time with your new born baby or old aged parents?