The Mortal Mamba

In the end – what all matters ?

It’s all going to be burnt into ashes and bones one day. Then what matters in the end ? Recently I was reading an article about some of the top regrets of dying people. These are the regrets mentioned in the article (and they made me think deeply) : You were born by a chance,…
20 Health Tips for 80% Health Improvement

One can follow countless health practices but if I were to pick some of the most basic albeit important ones which are also easy to follow I will pick the following – Sleep Sunlight Exercise Diet Supplements
Emotional pain

Getting hurt is an inevitable part of life. No matter how hard we try, we can’t control everything around us. At some point in our lives, we are bound to experience physical and/or emotional pain caused by our own actions or that of someone else’s. Physical pain is usually more straightforward to deal with. It…
See through the bullshit – Enthusiastic Persuasion

Everyone wants to convince you of their beliefs or ideas, often using enthusiasm as a persuasive tool. This combined with cognitive biases such as the halo effect and authority bias can be very convincing. However, it is important to be critical and see through the hype to avoid falling for false or misleading information. Cults…
Lessons in Software Development – Learnt from failures

Following are some of the critical learning I have absorbed in my career as a Software Engineer till now, some of these have costed me big failures : Never assume anything One thing that has costed me most are the “assumed” pieces. Pieces that I have assumed in the design, requirements, code, or may be…
You can not scale alone

If you have to do something at scale, you need a team. It is impossible to make a huge impact being a lone wolf. You have just two hands, one brain and limited 24 hours in a day. A good team function as a single body but has multiple brains specialised in tackling problems of…
Humans are slave of their own perceptions

There is nothing as true or false, there is nothing as right or wrong, what might be right for you would be wrong for someone else. We all live our life shaped by our own perceptions. These perceptions which we have acquired over time as a part of experience or perceptions which we have developed…