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: 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: 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 …

Random Thoughts: We have stopped being grateful

We are living in a hyper-converged world, smart phones & social media taking more time than family/friends/nature/surrounding. We have enough to feed ourself unlike those laborers working in mine/rail/road constructions. We have enough to commute from one place to another in cab/car/taxi/auto unlike many others who still walk miles barefoot for work. We are free/independent …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Random Thoughts: On working remotely

I have completed almost 2+ years working remotely. I can only say its not an easy job  & requires well defined process in place. I just felt like sharing what could be the best way to avoid conflicts across team members & abiding to timeline. Daily Communication Tools To communicate with the daily activities with …