For last couple of years, I have been silently running little social experiments during important Indian festivals. It’s dead simple — I just wish my contacts. Who doesn’t, you say? But here’s the catch: I wish them by their name. So instead of sending someone a half-assed forwarded message, I actually type text into the message box and hit send. For instance, if you are...
For last two hours now, I have been listening to/watching music videos from the late 90s and early 2000s. Brings back a ton of memory that I thought I forgot. Shaktiman used to be aired during the weekends. That spinning superhero with the power of all the chakras in the human body. I was so in love with Gita Biswas. They changed actresses twice. But I fell in love even more. Today...
Over the last weekend I finished watching Chernobyl, an HBO mini-series that deals with the 1986 nuclear disaster which shook the world. The five-episode series explores the various walks of life that the event affected. Not only is it informative and investigative in nature, the series is a time-capsule that gives you a clear picture of the former USSR and its propaganda. But this post is not...
Sometimes you only need one reason. One reason to start working on your next big thing. One reason to take up the last book you didn’t finish. One reason to pick up the phone and call that old friend you didn’t talk to in a while. But it takes a lot of motivation discipline to actually keep working on them. Be it a project or a book — you need to keep working on it until you finish...
Yuval Noah Harrari, in his book Sapiens, said, “Consistency is a playground of the dull minds.” In recent years, I, for one, fell victim to this classic trap of consistency — safe job, smooth daily life, and no need to get out of the comfort zone.
In 1965, Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel, famously stated that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles in about two years. That is to say, computing power doubles every two years. While this a very exciting achievement for engineers and computer scientists alike, it has produced nothing but idiocy on the part of developers and device manufacturers.