Suppose you are a dishonest person, say, you will not hesitate to lie. Say, for example, when you are working in a project, you tell ‘I am done with task X’ when you are not. It’s obvious as to what will happen to the project. But what happens to you…

How to be happy ? Don’t be happy. Don’t be anything. You don’t have to be anything. When you try to be something, you are bound to suffer that. 2) Then how do we do things in the world ? Just do. Do something because you have to do…

Government offices in India are notorious for their delays. A citizen may engage with a Government office for certificates, passport etc. on an average of may be ten times or more in their lifetime. While I see passport offices have gotten, say 2x or 3x better over a decade…

It’s easy to criticize anything. I will criticize Education here. Specifically schools. I guess if I have to teach someone anything of substance, I would teach them ‘how to use your brain’. Not some dead knowledge. You may say we shouldn’t be reinventing the wheel. I have a problem…

Writing code to a large extent is about setting up the memory in a certain fashion and instructing the computer to make changes to it. This may sound simple. The harder part is to remember what part of the memory you set up represents what in the problem you…

We have for some reason placed too much stake on that elusive beast called success in our lives. If someone wins an election, he is successful. If they win a cricket match, they are successful. If they get first rank in the class they are successful. If they are…

One of the things I have noticed in me and a lot of us is the fear about future. No matter how wealthy you are, the uncertainty about the future remains. It should be less for those having more. But I guess it increases with your wealth as you…

Conway’s law from wikipedia tells this Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.[2][3] — Melvin E. Conway Micro services as an architecture reflects this truly. As is, it is very hard to debug a…

My experience in using frameworks have sucked. When I coded UI using Angular, the early one, guess it was 1 or 2, it was terrible. I felt the google engineers who coded it up felt that they have discovered something out of the world, that can be consumed by…