Dead..Lines__

Think of a deadline for any task! It's kind of scary, isn't it?
It should be if you don't know how to break the path to achieving the task within that deadline. If you know how to manage it, then you might like giving deadlines to you.
It is similar to discipline, which we use to hate in school, never practiced in college but instantly faced it in corporate and started disliking it. It's just like, you were not giving attention to Triangles in your class 8 and 9 and suddenly you have to give board exam for Trigonometry chapter. Obviously, you are going to hate it, not because it's not acceptable by you, it's because you don't know how to tackle it, solve it.

You are not aware of the basics about how deadlines work. Might be no one taught it to you or if someone did then you were forced to follow it, instead of giving you the proper underlying basics of it, the logic how deadline works.

Let's start from the worst scenario, what happens if you are not disciplined? (want to check? answer these following question link here) and on top of that you don't give/ or like to give deadlines to yourself.

Here is a Ted-Ed video on what happens inside the mind of a procrastinator? It's funny but it's meaningful.

What's the result of being not disciplined? You procrastinate, effects are at times you may end up asking to yourself any of these two question:

1. Which direction are you going?
2. What are your accomplishments so far?

These are the symptoms, the ways you can actually find out, are you a procrastinator? Do you like to be disciplined?

Now, if you desire to improve then how to solve it? How can you get rid of this?
Let's discuss this in the next post.. keep tuned ;)

Who's life are you living?

What is the framework of life which has been taught to you or specifically saying what have you chosen to learn out of all the events or lesson taught by the fate?

Q: Why start a post with a question?
So that I can give a direction to your thoughts and skepticism as you are going to relate this blog post with your life and then judge this post. Now this doesn't mean I don't want you to judge, sure do, it will improve my perspective and quality of thoughts.

Back to the question, who's life are you living? In today's world, most of us compare our self with the achievers, like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Ellon Musk. Yes, we do when we come to know about them for the first time and get fascinated. The question which comes to our head, as it has became a universal question in this scenario, is "They were working their ass off and achieve things even when they were at the age of me at this point, what have I achieved?" and get sad enough to give up on what we were working on and have achieved or accomplished so far.

Q: Why do we do that?
Human nature. We focus on negative side more than on the positive part, we as humans have the tendency to think all the possibilities to fight with different kind of scenarios which may come in front of us, this way we prepare ourself for each and every situation. This is how our ancestors survived and thus we are alive.

But, todays world is mentally more challenging in comparision to previous age. Today we have anxiety disorder, worry about same thing in an infinite loop of thought unless it pass on, have attention deficiency sydrome without being aware of it.

Then, how come They have become achievers and you haven't or doubt that you will. They did what they loved and were fixed to their GOAL. Are you? Yes, obviously you are. If so, lets quantify..

So, which direction are we flowing towards? Apart from all the digital mess which is around us today, all the unchosen chaos residing in the head of each individual including our self, have we took time to ask ourself before consuming any maturely written content, which is meant to be marketed well rather than create value in the mind of readers, and without judging it whether this is related to your goal, aaahhhh your goal!!! let's cut the train of thoughts here and focus on one thing,

"What is your GOAL?"

Have you even written it down some where, either on a piece of paper or on your journal? Because after that only you can sketch the path towards it and hence chose what comes in your path, which article should be read to influence you so that it may direct you or motivate you towards your GOAL.

Hence, decide your GOAL, don't just make a mental note of it, write it down and read at certain intervals to keep you focused.

Last thought which I want to leave with you is, before reading any article or consuming any post on Facebook or watching any video on YouTube, ask yourself does this fall on your path or is it just a lucrative content which attracts the lost souls who haven't chosen the direction of their life.

Next blog post: How big companies are using internet as a platform to suck your time to make their own profits? Ethical or not, no one is mature enough to judge that, will you try even?

Time vs Productivity

I don't have time!
I thought I will work on an App and make it to the play store, a decent and workable app which will let user engage with it every day for a minute and provide an insight into their lifestyle related to how active it is?

I did hire interns (two) and started the virtual internship and here I am not able to start with the task completion and achieve any milestone, not even a single step.
I got busy with office work and also got overburden by the work.

Now I guess this might happen with any guy who is working and had taken responsibilities  at office but still has the fire to do something of its own.

So, here is the list of things which I started, All of this started in the month of May:

1. Huge workload at the office got to complete tasks as well as with tight deadline.
2. At the same time, I thought I will hire two virtual interns and ask them to work on the project which I wanted to work since last year. Hired them but then before doing all this I have to prepare the scope of the project, functionalities documents as well as project roadmap (with milestones and timeline). I failed to do this and as a result, I am not able to coordinate with them every day and give them the task for the next day.
3. Along with this, I started running and doing exercise in the morning as well which makes me exhausted by the evening and hence I can't work on anything when I return to home after office.

Possible reason I am failing:

• I am unable to work in the afternoon, feel drowsy and procrastinate. I guess my productivity cycle is in the morning (8 to 12 or 1) and then in the evening (5 to 9).
• Either I open up YouTube to watch Justice League videos ( a new trend in me) or I open up Facebook. One as never ending suggestive videos algorithm and the other has an infinite scroll with relevant content which the user will like to read. Both of the algorithm as written to keep engaging the user and trap him/her. I have become the victim of it.
• When lots of people are in the office, they talk and this distracts me from working that's why when I am alone in the office or with very fewer people then the productivity goes higher. I can accomplish more stuff.

Why I am not able to be an entrepreneur

Few years back when I was in 4th year of my engineering, I did a course called Tech Entrepreneurship from Online portal which was being taught by Standford's professor. Doing that course filled a lot of energy to me then and I was so hyper active. I use to think of numerous of ideas and eager to make a venture. I was ready to take a risk.

Now, I am as if stagnated, unproductive, stable. I don't hustle anymore. I am fearing about what will happen if I take this risk then I may loose someone. I can't fulfil my dreams, or this is just a mere thought. What I think is you have stopped making small projects and experimenting them. Dump this thought that you are not taking the risk because of losing someone, this is a just mere excuse. Try to be realistic and practical, on what grounds are you willing to take this risk, do you have any plan? any business model?? any idea even?

Firstly stop thinking that you know much, and stop acting like you are a teacher, this thought is what stagnating you, stay foolish and stay hungry, never get mature, be a child from the mind. You shouldn't act like you have to teach someone something, just be like as if you are talking and if they find it helpful then they may accept it and appreciate it. Most of the people out there are more  matured than what you are right now, so stay hungry and eager to learn. 

After many months, I enrolled myself in the entrepreneurship course (I guess I like business end more than the technical end) and looking at the people around me I became skeptical that oh they are doing like this, I wasn't like this before. I know how I became skeptical. I need to throw out this nature and be optimistic.

Positive things happen to Positive people 

Something very valuable I learned about making a startup: 

Zuckerberg in an interview said that he use to do small projects always and out of which one hit the market and it went viral. I got to incorporate this habit in me.

Some mindset change thing which I learned today:

• So far any documentary or interview or lesson I use to watch or read, I use to get an idea of how I don't fit into those shoes who became a successful entrepreneur or don't have the quality which they had in the early stages.
• But, today when I listen to Zuckerberg interview there was this point which I can't recall but it made me feel that yes I have this quality in me hence I can be an entrepreneur one day, yes that quality was - making small projects and experimenting them out. Zuckerberg also mentioned that college or institutes shouldn't be taken in a sense that you need to learn these particular skills but in return one should focus on what he/she knows and add it to his/her knowledge base and work around that, focus on what are you good at.  Even Elon Musk use to skip his college and work on a separate project which he wanted to sell. 

Thread of my life - Intimidated easily

So here is the thing, I use to think how people achieve success, are they born like that or they get shaped in such way on the process of life? or it is they work on themselves to become a material of success.
I use to think, take notes from online articles, analyse personal life and people whom I met, how successful people do things differently and how?

Soura, who is the CEO of Lattice has very proficient knowledge of anything which he do. He is dominating, so most of the time when he is in a debate or talking to people then his point is very valid and well put.

What I am lacking at is the knowledge which I have. Last day I was hearing Sundar's interview, he did point out that sometimes in your life you will have to work with people who would be challenging, will intimidate you. That is the phase when you will find insecurities and feel that you are not so competent, and the good part is, here you will get disheartened but if you can work on yourself and control yourself then you get the opportunity to enhance yourself during this phase.

Don't be in a state where everything is easy and simple for you, that means you are not growing. What do you want? just be where you are or want to grow.

What is wrong in me? I think a lot, analyse a lot. I wait for the feedback from another person to confirm that I did a nice job. Boss, you should understand that if you would have done a not so good job then next time when you approach you are not going to get that much return.
You should do your job rest is other's job. Just make sure whatever you are doing is very structured, logical and proper (not perfect, be practical).

You need to work hard and make yourself an intelligent person too. Read, and speak out what you have in your head, you may be wrong in the initial phase but you should commit to yourself that you are gonna fix your incapabilities and make yourself better.
Make sure whatever content you add to your mind and speak should be very valid and authentic. If someone doubts it, say okay let me think on it. I may be wrong but need to know more about it.
This way you won't get offended and give time to yourself to improve.

Finding Software Project's Lifetime

Project completed, developed and tested and even deployed on the client's end.
Now, the question rises!! What will be the lifetime of this software i.e how long will the user use the software without asking for any further upgrade?

With time the data in the back-end keep on increasing, the queries written for the system will take longer time to return the requested records.

Who can validate that system can withstand such future load or any other dependencies?
Mostly the support team is the first layer where it is reported about any issues which the software faces.
Then from the support team it gets articulated to the testing team.
On reproducing the error or investigating on the issue being faced. From here the manager is being notified.
The manager then bring it up in the group meeting with the developers, that's how the develop gets aware of the issue which wasn't able to visualize, the manager couldn't figure out at the time of design and development, the testing team missed it.

So, finally who can estimate the lifetime and take steps to extend it?

• An analyst who have experience in testing and have a track record of finding logical loopholes.
• An experienced project manager.
• Experienced developer or the one who can think/ figure out logical dependencies at code level.

If there's a position or specialization in IT field who can do an audit of the project an evaluate the lifetime of the project.

How he/she can gain this expertise?
 1. Surveying the projects which has been deployed and used on the field.
 2. Reading project analysis report and all.

BUT, in today's world there isn't any concept of one time build and delivered software as the world has accepted the rapid upgrading technique. Hence all this won't mean.

Though one should audit the limitation of the software system.

Deciding the career path

Lots of thing are going on. I am getting interested in the events which are happening around me. Previously I wasn't able to read newspaper because it use to effect me but now at least I can read news on internet, the ones which I like to read. Recently, I have seen  that in Indian Express app the news are worth reading, they don't post unnecessary  news.

Facebook can be used to get trending news and read lots of useful articles.

Twitter can be used to get an idea of latest happenings.

I have taken up responsibilities at work. Getting older, now I really need to know how to live life so that I may achieve what I want to or for now at least I can say that how to be a quality person in business field.

Should I go for MBA? do I need it or ? I should read some more about this and figure out that should I really take this decision? 

I am good at coding. Moreover I don't want to spend any more money on education. I have already burnt a lot.