Thoughts

  • One thing I started appreciating after becoming a dad is the value of time. Like many dads, being the best possible hands on dad is non-negotiable to me. You don’t need a lot of money to be a good parent but you certainly need a lot of time and patience, things money can’t buy. However,…

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  • Did you ever wish that you would rather be in a different place than you are right now? I did. I think it is normal for all of us to think of some dreamland where everything is going to be exactly in the way we want. A place that is anywhere but where we are…

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  • Dear Facebook, I installed your app after many months so I can easily set one of the photos in my camera roll as a cover photo. This time I hoped to keep you on my iPhone. However I am disappointed that you haven’t stopped infesting my feed with “People You May Know” list. I understand…

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  • Not giving a fuck

    Tim Ferriss tweeted and I retweeted this great post titled, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Stop what you are doing right now and read this. “@tferriss: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck http://t.co/lp6xUDTpt4” — Chait (@chaitanyamsv) March 5, 2015 It has so many f-words in it but it is a…

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  • Adventurous Life

    You don’t have to jump off the planes or cliffs to be adventurous. You can also live an adventurous life by not accepting the status quo, not giving in, not listening to cynics, and not stopping to learn. All it requires is the belief that anything you don’t like at any stage in your life…

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  • 2014 in the hindsight

    2014 has been a great year for me with few exceptions. I did not have any grand resolutions to start with. I instead chose to intensify the tiny habits method I stumbled upon in 2013. As a self-reminder, I forked some markup on Codecademy and created a three point manifesto for myself. I think I…

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  • I [had to sit] sit a lot. I do take breaks and stretch but sometimes, especially when I am working on something interesting, it is difficult to take break and come out of the flow. As a result I end up sitting for prolonged hours. And before sitting consumes my health,  I decided to do…

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  • 2 am rants

    Today I finalized a number of tweaks to this site and pretty much implemented everything I conceived. Among others, I fixed the color scheme, menu style and security (Check that additional tag in the footer). It is 2:21 am but I am happy I am able to put all my ideas into action in a…

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  • Countdown to 2014

    My 2014 Countdown. This page also lists the principles behind my 2014 resolutions. These are based on my learning around behavioral science evangelized by Lift app. I’m going to keep the actual 2014 resolutions to myself because I’d like to delay the satisfaction until they are actually done. In other words, I’m avoiding the undue…

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  • Why is Microsoft cool?

    This is certainly one of the coolest answers I read on Quora. We live in a world where we pay more attention to an app that adds a fake nostalgia to our photos than the builders of the roads we travel, electricity we consume and food we eat. Cool answer explaining Why is Microsoft ‘cool’?

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