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Building Hornet's Self-Hosted Blockchain Server

I vividly remember dreaming as a child about building a computer from scratch. I wanted to feel every moving part inside a machine, understand each …

Meditation and Its Nuances

Meditation is mental execise that makes the mind more powerful just like physical exercise. How? When we lift weight, it is called resistance …

Six pillars of self confidence

Six pillars of self confidence Life lectures by Swami Sarvapriyananda: Living consciously: It feels great after 3 hours of mindful work than 3 hours …

How to be successful by Sam Altman

Compound yourself You don’t want to be in a career where people who have been doing it for two years can be as effective as people who have …

RAIN technique to deal with emotions

I learnt a good technique from the Mindfulness course I’m pursuing on Coursera by Rice University by Dr Tara. Whenever dealing with an …

Learning Cyber Security at IIT Kanpur

I vividly remember it was in the second year of the undergraduate program I wanted to understand how hackers compromise the system, gain access, leak …

Learning how to learn: Focused vs. Diffused mode of learning

Introduction The idea of taking breaks during study time had been primarily preached under wrong or less understood concepts of science. Mostly the …

Play by attack

Introduction If you ever want to play a game, be it any game, play it by attacking. What do I mean by a game? A game is anything which requires …

Getting Things Done my way

How I’m implementing the concepts of Getting Things Done Getting Things Done is an excellent book on task management written by David Allen. As …

Competition Going Global

The culture of remote work or work from home (WFH) is not new (especially in the technology sector), I’ve been working remotely for about 2+ years …

Coronavirus Lockdown: A Blessing in Disguise?

We are currently in a very sad yet interesting time. Why is it Sad? It is sad because a novel virus, currently named coronavirus, has caused a …

Pondering over Netflix show GUILTY

It’s been a case of conflict,confusion and shame mixed into one, when it comes to talking about feminism. Our society holds various opinions, …

Hacker all my life

Personal interpretation of Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 of India

Caution: Views and interpretations are completely personal Crux of the Act NRC (National Register of Citizens) which was originally planned for only …

Abuse of biased sympathy of society and judiciary towards women

This article is the result of pain and frustration that I’m going through due to witnessing innumerable number of men being victimized because …

Physics of Life

Change is a must. Once in a while we might feel our present condition shall last till death, but that’s very untrue. Life never remains in …

Swami Vivekananda: The Bold Monk

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” I fall …

Preface of a Yearbook

The following is the content on the preface for a yearbook that I wrote while at college. Walking down the memory lane at some point in our lives, …

Farewell to the first workplace of my life

30th of April marked my last working day at Kartbites, where I landed after getting the first job of my life as Software Engineer (Backend), while I …

The good and bad of asking for help

We all have our vulnerabilities, the way we deal with them varies. To me (and maybe to many more) asking for help seems the best way, because by doing …

Some advices for becoming a better computer engineer

The following are some lessons I’ve learnt over the years. They are, by the way, my personal opinions, which may very person to person, so take …