I cannot stop but wonder that last year around the same time I stood here not in serenity but fraught with anxiety.
Category: Life & Thoughts
Small chapters from my life, lessons learned and random thoughts.
I was here…
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This song by Beyoncé perfectly sums up my own philosophy of life: I want to leave my footprints on the sands of time.
Sugar-coated false promises
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Is it so hard for people to see what lies behind the trojan horse of a personal loan? I wonder…
Structured Entertainment — An experiment in fulfillment and productivity
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The practice of performing potentially wasteful activities in a deliberate, structured way during off-work hours or weekends for fulfillment and productivity.
Hello, Automattic
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I cannot be happier to write my comeback post to say that I’ve joined Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com. A8C is an open-source-focused, remote-first, distributed company that has many other cool products in its arsenal, like WooCommerce, Gravatar, Day One, and Tumblr. I’ve joined the WooCommerce division. Joining this wonderful bunch of like-minded people […]
Made the switch back from Mac to Linux
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After serving me dutifully for more than 4 years, my MacBook Pro 13″ (early 2015)’s battery died. It was a terrible sight. I was in the mid of a programming spree when that happened. There was a powercut and, whoosh, everything disappeared from the screen. It was puzzling at first. I thought my laptop had […]
Leaving Accenture (after 9 years)
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Today is my last day at Accenture. I am finally leaving it (for the second and last time) after more than 9 years of giving myself to it. In today’s rapidly moving world, that’s a very long time. Long enough to see so many colleagues come and go until you were the only one left. […]
Running + Cycling = Fun + Routine
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Today I completed 23 days of consecutive morning workouts. 23 days… my gosh! It was once believed that the magic number of days after which doing something daily became a routine was 21. I am 2 over. However, recent studies have shown that 21 is a little too less. The actual magic number is 66. […]
Picture of a blackhole
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Being a physics enthusiast, I was perhaps as dumbfounded as you were when I saw the first-ever image of a blackhole in today’s newspaper. I’ve always been fascinated by blackholes: their mind-bending complexity and the various sci-fi theories weaved around them over the years. So it’s obvious that capturing the ‘un-see-able’ felt weird. Like really […]
Presenting My “Brand” New Site
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It’s out. Live. My new website is finally ready for prime time. A couple of months back, I set out to redefine my online identity. Looking at the websites of some of the coolest developers online, I felt low. Kinda left-out. For a software developer, their website is a key ingredient of their ‘brand.’ My […]