{"id":4914,"date":"2020-08-27T00:03:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T18:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2020-08-27T00:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T18:33:05","slug":"luck-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/27\/luck-2\/","title":{"rendered":"luck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I keep hearing from folks that we make our own luck. I feel luck has some part to play with our life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still remember going to a cyber cafe and searching for How to become a hacker and getting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/faqs\/hacker-howto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Eric S Raymonds (opens in a new tab)\">Eric S Raymonds<\/a> book in yahoo search(there was no google then). Time and again I think of the incident, what would  I or my career has turned out if I had not gotten to know about Open Source movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My entire career, connection, and conviction got wings because of it. I don&#8217;t have a degree from the Ivy leagues of the world. All I had was these community folks from the Linux user group and later on Drupal, Ubuntu, OpenStack, Minio. They helped me grow, become better with the journey of life. I am in touch with most of these folks, some laugh and feel good seeing me how I have shaped in short gotten more mature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do people downplay luck? Has luck not helped you one or another way in finding someone or achieving something? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luck is like the ladder; you have to climb all by yourself to become successful. Luck plus hard work is magic.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep hearing from folks that we make our own luck. I feel luck has some part to play with our life. I still remember going to a cyber cafe and searching for How to become a hacker and getting Eric S Raymonds book in yahoo search(there was no google then). Time and again I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/27\/luck-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;luck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[583],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}