I am a software engineer
This is how he’d introduced himself to Kichu and everyone else in the room in 1998 – and to anyone and everyone he’d ever met since he’d started working a year ago. And Kichu had remarked “No you are not.
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leave phobia
One of the biggest differences I see in the work cultures of the east and the west are in taking leave – atleast a few days off from work. I’ve come across people in India who have worked for a decade or two at a stretch – and proudly proclaiming that they have not even…
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freshers in the software industry
Sometimes freshers come with ambitions of, as Jigar says, “writing an entire operating system” right from day one, but have to be confronted with ground reality of doing something less ambitous like reading up some documents.
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Jain for a day
[updated on Sep 2nd] Yesterday evening Jigar was telling me that a week starting from today marks a special time for Jains and they’re involved in fasting. A one day fast would be from yesterday night to tomorrow morning – only thing permitted would be hot water. I don’t know what made me decide to…
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fearlessness
A friend emailed me this this morning and is probably one of the best quotes I’ve come across: Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgement that something else is more important than fear Reminded me of a random statement I came across in a book