illogical

Our minds and urges are illogical. It has resulted in many wars, deaths, and treacheries. The constant urge of what is next, the quest for finding the best results and endless search.

Our holy texts are full of these occurrences. The messengers of god killed millions for religious supremacy. Many natives got killed and looted by sailors and businessmen.

In the modern era, many countries are run indirectly by the puppet governments, strings are with developed countries. Billions are spent from taxpayers’ money and distributed to warlords and building countries’ nuclear arsenals.

Our life, our health, our hunger has less importance. Patriotism is no cure for hunger, nor is religion.

cinema

Modern-day cinema is a propaganda machine. They sell us to dream, hope and materialistic happiness. A 5-year-old knows about what is costly, and costly means good. The violence, macho and molestation showed on-screen gets applauded.

What are we doing to our generation? Opening them up to drugs, nudity, hate, crime, and propaganda?

During Hitler’s era, the propaganda ministries’ job was to spread all good stories about Hitler.

Modern-day cinema has gone multi-steps forward. A specific race, religion, skin color getting idolized while others being an outcast.

smart

I like a smart conversation, my friend said. It got me thinking for some time. What is a smart conversation?

Talking about god and spiritualism to Athiest will be boring. Pious and god-fearing will find the same person smart and enjoy the discourse.

So smart conversation is more about the likeness of the other person participating. A gambler might be a smart person for someone who wants know-how of it.

The smart conversation comes down to the perspective, likeness, and individuality of other participants.

design doc

I understand many would have given advice do not worry about design doc in the early days of the product journey, focus on shipping features. I find this advice bullshit after a few years of product development. 

My experience suggests without the design doc from the very first day UI becomes a sandwich. Every new component gets crafted with the mood of the developer or team. When a new member joins, he comes with his own learning and further additions. 

Since there is no standard the same component inside the product starts giving a different way, approach to execution. 

Even if you are starting, you have a 2 member team, you have no clue how and what you are shipping in 1st version. Get a fucking design doc that has minimum information about it.

  1. Fonts to be used
  2. Sizes of fonts in different places
  3. Actions on the buttons: close, open
  4. How will components behave, ope when clicked
  5. How will navigation bar, sidebar appear in various devices
  6. Fixed limited colors to be used across product

Please note as the product upgrades with time so do the design document. Do not fall in the trap of redesigning UI every year because it is fucking painful.

I am sharing this with my experience. I am in the middle of it right now. I might sound grumpy, but this is how it is. 

busy

We are living in an era where we are globally connected. We have gotten into a default busy state. Everyone around seems to have gotten busy in their own life, work and chores.

Some of us are so busy that they don’t have time to spend with their loved ones, parents or siblings.

Busy means avoiding what is not important in a way for the success or making money.

The capitalism gravy train has made us all slaves of it, personal relationships and life are of less importance. It is more about social status and winning at all costs, earning more.

Our loved ones are getting old, they will not complain but some part in their heart will have a longing for you. Take some time for them, it will be therapeutic.

traveler

Are we not a traveler? Are we not traveling in our thoughts and actions every moment? The actions and reactions of ours in a particular scenario, are they not accelerating or suspending our journey?

Are we all not chasing our true north? Are we all not traveling to find the meaning of our life?

The life which we have now, are we not trying to make it better?

The Viral Storm

Liked reading The Viral Storm. The core of pandemic seems to be poverty. The viruses from Gorillas and other wild beast is moving to us and causing havoc. People in Africa, China are blamed for their game and wild hunting.

Nobody asks why are they eating wild animals. Given the option of available alternative proteins like the rest of the world, why would they hunt? 

The developed world has eradicated cholera, polio, smallpox, malaria and anti-vaccine gang blames vaccine for autism. I am not sure how much is the truth. But as we progress in our life, we will need these viruses as antibodies to fight against the deadly beast. 

Islamophobia

India during lockdown as well going through Islamophobia: bias and prejudice against Muslims. Entire countries media, social media and WhatsApp university are blaming Muslims for the spread of Covid19.

Indian media and some stupid politicians have made entertainment bulletin out of the stupidy of a few Ulama.

Whatsapp is sharing propaganda messages urging people not to buy groceries and vegetables from Muslim sellers as they are working with Jihadis and spreading Covid19 in our country. As a sensible Indian we have to teach our parents, not to fall for this stupid hoax.

65 lakhs gods, Christ, Allah et all watching from above must be feeling sad. What have we turned into as a human? What happened to our logic and rationality?