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I remember about a movie that I watched. Its called “lost in translation”. I think I remembered about it because I saw a post on social media that its director who was in a relationship with another director had recently went through divorce. And she made this movie to tell her side of story.  The more interesting thing is that a few years later his ex husband also made a movie called “Her” and he casted same lead actress.  The story of “lost in translation” is of a man. He goes to japan for a business trip and gets frustrated with the language barrier between him and the world. He feels very lonely and then he meets a girl, who was also american and had come there with her husband and her husband was so busy in work that she felt neglected. They dont exactly fall in love. but what they showed in the movie felt a lot like extramarital affair to me. And obviosly I did not like it. I dont know why I got reminded of it suddenly, but now that I think of it, the director misunderst...

I have been thinking about conceptions lately. Nothing deep or too philosophical. Just simple conceptions we hold knowingly and unknowingly about everything. About ourselves, about other people, about things, languages, places and our abilities. And I realized that so many of them are simply not true.  As a very blunt example. I used to dislike PHP. Its one of the most used technologies that still power majority of internet today. And I had this conception in my mind that its boring, old and slow. Not good for modern times.  And after an year or so of joining my company. I had to work on PHP. And I worked on it, got good at it and understood it. And fell in love with its functionality and simplicity.  Now that I think a about it, I would put PHP as my favorite technology for building a website. Unless some specific feature is needed from other technologies. Now that I think of it, I should try Java too. A programming language I have passionately hated my entire life. Anyw...

Chapters360 is the result of a small pain-point, that I had for a few years now. I think calling it a pain will be exaggeration. lets call it a small annoyance.  I follow a weekly podcast, it posts somewhere from a 2 to 4 hours of news and just random talks each week, on Saturday. and for a few hours, it does not have chapters. or Timestamps. Timestamps are the marking in any YouTube video which tell you about what topic is being talked about at any given time.  And it really annoys me cause I generally lose track of time and topic and end up repeating a lot.  In a few hours a member from these community posts these timestamps. which are very helpful. We call him “the timestamp man” 😄.  Anyways,  I always used to think, “what if a computer can do this? what if a computer can watch the entire video and create these chapters on topic automatically?” And one day I decided to make it myself.  I am not saying that this is the only system in the world which does...

 If you truly love a flower, you don't pick it up to have it. The moment you pick it to have it. It dies and so does your love for it.  But if you come across a flower, Which you love so dearly that you can't live without. Then you don't Try to make the flower yours. You give yourself to the flower. You Build a small house in the garden itself. Where the flower is at it's happiest and and you live there becoming the gardener of the garden.  PS.  A bird falls in love with a fish. But where do they live? So they taught each other how to breathe where they thought they never could. 

This Question is probably one of the most asked questions in the world. "What is love?" Many people throughout the time have tried to answer this. Well, I had a pretty amazing realization myself recently.  I believe that the journey is more important than destination. So I will start from the beginning. The story goes like this, I was coming back from my exams and I could not get my preferred seat in either a first or second class coach of the train. I was sitting in third class in the middle of summer. it was pretty hot and crowded, basically a really tough journey. And I asked myself, “Why am I doing this? Why am I going through all this?” and I did not know the reason. Sure there were reasons like, I have to complete my degree or whatever. But they felt shallow. It wasn’t strong enough reason for me to face all that hardship. Then I thought to myself “Do I hate my life?”  and The answer was No. I did not hate my life even at that moment.  It may be funny to you, b...

I was writing my exam last week, and in an exam I was asked this question. “What is the role of a team leader?”.  I was supposed to answer it in a few short sentences.  The moment I read this question I almost froze. nothing was coming to my mind, and I thought to myself, why is it happening?  why can’t I write an answer even though I have been leading a team for quite a few years now ? And I would say that I am not bad at it.  After a bit of thinking, I realized, its not that I don’t know the answer. Its just that I can not summarise it in a few sentences.  Anyways, I did end up writing the answer.  But it made me think about What do I know and how much do I not know about the things that I assume I am good at?  There is a term which is called “imposter syndrome”. It happens to some people who are good at doing something. Basically when a person constantly thinks that he is not good enough at what he does, or that he is an imposter hiding among people...

 Sometimes I ask this question to myself, and I have been asking this question a lot more lately.  “should we allow our emotions to fluctuate or should we train ourselves to always remain in a stable state emotionally?” To be honest, its really a question of preference, I see advantages and disadvantages in both approaches.  As a man I feel like its quite essential for me to have a good control over my emotions and not let it come in my way of work. And I have been quite good at it. There are instances when I have been in a terrible shape emotionally but I did not let it affect my work even a bit. But this is what is shown on the outside. To the entire world. I am good at it. But I am thinking about inside in this question.  what should happen to it?  From this logic it makes sense to just train myself to be completely emotionally flatlined. Be someone who does not get upset too much when  something goes wrong, or does not get too sad when gets hit with a c...