Got this awesome read on Quora. ”Every minute someone leaves this world behind. We are all in “the line” without knowing it. We never know how many people are before us. We can not move to the back of the line. We can not step out of the line. We can not avoid the line.… Read More We all are waiting in the line : People and Thoughts
Everyone’s dreaming about tomorrow. It would be interesting to think of what you dreamt about … when there was time for you to dream about you tomorrow !!! Were you just sitting and dreaming about taking on the world? or you just thought you would never be and continued anyways … with a hope that… Read More One quick question – have you dreamt about your future ?
Since I started understanding science, I always had two questions that always bugged me.1. How a new born baby learns.2. Who am I and does everybody like me, be feeling like me. These two questions have made me make myself a promise…an impossible dream… ‘Coding a system that is conscious in some degree’. Not the… Read More My thoughts on building a conscious system: People and thoughts
Being a software developer, we have a sync up between the team at the start of the day to check on where we are as far as the project progress is concerned. I was sharing my status about how the model I trained did not look great to me, so I would have to consume… Read More A lesson from an afternoon sync-up : People and Thoughts
I was working on something on my computer last night and suddenly I recalled one of the the theories I had listened to before. I was looking to my desktop and a thought just came that shook me really hard. Here’s the thought. You look at the desktop, there’s this screen, a rectangular screen …… Read More A mentally disturbing thought … People and thoughts
It’s not that I hate scrolling on Facebook and Instagram but I have this rule for myself that the moment I encounter 10 consecutive stories or posts that I genuinely find uninteresting, I force myself to close it and stop scrolling. The primary goal of every app on your smartphone is to make you stick… Read More A thought worth thinking …
I was listening to one of the speech by Dr. George Lakeoff. One of the most reputed professors and researchers in the field of Neuro-Science. The speech was about how how your thoughts get calculated in your brain. Wooo wait!! before you think of skipping, mind that the article isn’t about it (I mean calculation… Read More Are people really bad? People and Thoughts
As it’s winter starting in India, I absolutely love sitting out in my corridor at night, when everyone’s in sleep. The silence, the loneliness paired with the gentle super cold breeze is a killer combination. There’s lot of things in life that takes us by a surprise. Things like how not knowing age of anyone… Read More We don’t like change. Do we? People and Thoughts.
Imagine yourself sitting around the table for a family dinner. Besides you is one of your cosines that you haven’t met since long. After a while, he opens up his mouth and very confidently starts talking about a subject that he clearly knows very little about. You look down at your phone, a quick Google… Read More Everything that you know _________ : People and Thoughts
My cousin sister who has just passed out her Master’s, takes classes. So everyday, children pass by our door ( as my uncle lives besides us), I like to observe them everyday. Their parents at times come with them to drop them off to the class. One of the children’s yesterday was asking his mother… Read More Gossiping about people?
Here is an apple and here is a banana. Choose one. . . Whichever one you picked, it was your decision completely. That is what we call free will. Free will is an idea that whatever we do or choose to do is completely down to us. But what if I told you that Free… Read More The disturbing problem of free-will: people and thoughts
Lemme tell you this at the start itself that when you read this, you think though every other sentence here. . . One day, we born … and one day we will die … everything that’s in between is something that we know of..something that we understand … everything that happened before and that will… Read More How to keep everything going … people and thoughts
We all want to be happy, even a newborn of us wants to be happy but one thing we all don’t remember is that it all starts with a cry. A strange thing about being properly happy is to learn how to be sad. Every day, a lot of stuff happens to us, someone does… Read More How important is sadness to you : People and thoughts
One of the interesting days in the year for employees is the day when they get their compensation Emails. I’ve seen people gathering in groups, waiting for the mail. They don’t discuss their raises but are very keen to knowing others. Thank god I’m not one of those.. but anyways !! Let’s say, you got… Read More This is how you negotiate your salary with your boss : People and Thoughts
The other day, I was reading about hacking attacks. SQL injection, Metasploit, Cross site scripting, insecure serialization etc. etc. During the discussion, suddenly the topic of discussion shifted to why the big companies & organizations get hacked. Answer of the host was … It’s developers fault. It’s the developers fault? What?. This really upset me.… Read More Why do companies get hacked ? People and Thoughts
I wrote an article recently stating how Samsung is likely to be the next one to ditch the charger in the box. With the launch of Galaxy S21, Samsung did join the team to ship their devices without chargers, Xiaomi followed and I’m sure soon almost everyone will join the team… The strange thing for… Read More This is why ‘not including a charger with phones’ is a bad move …
There are times when you don’t know what’s happening. The Adrenaline stops working, like it has no effect on whatsoever is happening around you, you simply don’t want to respond. You just want to look at everybody, give a little fake smile and pretend as if everything is perfect but only you know, it’s not…… Read More Void in the rushing world … People and Thoughts
Note: Sorry to interrupt but read slow. I did everything right, I worked hard, I was kind as often as anyone can be… Then why am I lying in here in the hospital bed with my house destroyed and my life on the edge of being a life anymore? I bought a new house, it… Read More Everything happens for a reason… People and Thoughts
Everybody knows Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela is universally regarded as a great leader. I was reading about him on Wiki, I read few more other pages and there I read, One day, he was asked. what makes him a great leader ! And he said, every time he went with his father for some tribal… Read More Why Nelson Mandela is a great leader … People and Thoughts
Note: Things described here are real and serious. They can change you as a human. At the same time, these things are not for everybody. You need to see if it suits you. Quite frankly, I’ll not be responsible if this causes any damage to you and yourself. These things done right by right person… Read More How to get control over what you see… People and Thoughts
A young man says, “Why are you eating that fish?” He says, “Well, because I love fish.” Oh you love the fish, that’s why you took it out of the water, killed it and boiled it … Don’t tell me you love the fish … you love yourself & just because fish tastes good, you… Read More Can you really improve yourself? People and Thoughts
Note: All the research discussed here is a simplified version of research conducted by Donald Hoffman, one of my favorite researchers. 2. This long article is my attempt to simplify my understanding of his thoughts/research to make you understand reality better. 3. Every scientific theory that has evolved since the birth of science, has some… Read More Reality around you … : People and Thoughts
Micosoft: I believe you’re Mr. Mukesh right ? How may I help you? My PC: Don’t help me anymore. Please ! Come here… Micosoft: Sorry to hear that … Did I do something wrong ? My PC: Did you so something right ? Ask this to me, that would be easy to answer. Micosoft sits… Read More Messy Micosoft: BSOD
Should we be really positive in life? Lemme confront that these are my thoughts, might not necessarily right but worth thinking about… I was out for some work and I see a man selling vegetables, shouting loudly .. Rs.30 for a kilo, Rs.30 for a kilo. Another person stops by and asks for vegetable for… Read More What’s wrong with you ? people and thoughts
“kill it , kill it … throw some water. oops its moving … beat it” I was woken up by these strange sounds by my ear … I got up so quick as if they were beating me and went to the door. Neighbors throwing up some water on it … I saw it… Read More I simply couldn’t process it: people and thoughts
Yesterday night, I wasn’t feeling well, I was feeling dizzy .. maybe I’m not drinking enough water …
I was sitting beside a wall … and a bug crawled by …
I killed it … I crushed it as hard as I can and as fast as I can…
I’m so cruel no!!!
No .. I’m not …… Read More Don’t burn me when I die … : People and Thoughts
Think of this … “We, humans, are made to appreciate, to seek for things that please us, things that make us feel comfortable”. We always choose the options that are positive, options that are less harmful to us. and we make tons of those in a day … Honda or Hyundai, Tea… Read More Remember, there is no You or I : People and Thoughts
I’m a full-time coder, I do blogging, I do teaching in universities, I buy things from amazon, I do online transactions and what not… What I mean by all this is that I am a person who has a lot of things going on in my mail account. ‘Your order no: 1234xyz is on the… Read More They mailed the wrong person … this is how you deal with spams
This morning, I was in front of the mirror, drying up my face, I look into the mirror, I look straight into my eyes and again … the same question arises in mind … Is this me ? like Really ? Sometimes I feel like all my life is nothing different than a simulation.… Read More NO! This can’t be real … people and thoughts …
If it’s night time, you are on your bed and you are trying to sleep .. it’s best time to really dive deep and think on this topic much seriously… BTW, do you know that you get more emotional or you think more at night than you think of something in a day ! That’s… Read More What is your life made up of ? People and Thoughts
Have you ever wondered what must be happening to a shooting star after being wished by millions of people ? It must be wishing someone would be selfless enough to wish for it to go back to the sky and glow as it used to be … … Read More Dream of life …People and Thoughts
Do you dream ?… Read More Why you should not dream ….
Note: Even after being a developer and understanding behind the scenes of working of OLA and UBER like services, I get frustrated everytime I book a cab and that frustration has let to write up of this article. By no means I am blaming any of the above services. I’m not highlighting any content in… Read More Why OLA and Uber aren’t growing well in India/ Why OLA/UBER seem to be worst services in India
I’m regular visitor of Medium ( http://www.medium.com) . I like to read topics of my choice there. Yesterday, I just filtered all the posts by topic “self” and I observed that one of the frequent sub-topics was “depression”. There were 100’s of posts talking about how do you overcome depression and be happy in life.… Read More Can we please stop suggesting others about dealing with depression !!!
I was looking out from the gallery of our office, I saw group of people going by, a butterfly flying around, a spyder weaving its net quietly near me ….Everything went blurred and my thoughts occupied all of my mind … Thoughts of that child playing on the terrace in one of the buildings. He… Read More I mean Really ? Don’t say yes …
Serious Note: If you are soft hearted or an over-thinker, please avoid reading this article. I as a writer of this post am not responsible to any issues that might occur after reading this article… This article is based off of all my readings about how it feels to die based upon different researches… Read More What we know about near death experiences … NOT FOR EVERYONE
Note: Don’t want to be rude but this article really needs your true concentration to understand. If you are into something already, it’s okay if you don’t read it right now. But when you do, please be here understanding every single word. Take time to understand and think… So here’s the thing. Science has proved… Read More This is why your life doesn’t work your way …people and thoughts
Human world is not an easy place to live in. We have to feed ..
it’s not just physical food, its mental food ..status, wealth, opinions, people etc..
hunger of the body is nothing compared to hunger of the mind.There’s our unlimited desires meet with limited source of mental food.… Read More Why meditation is absolutely necessary to every-one of us … people and thoughts way 🙂
Dream that keeps you awake at night is the dream you should follow…right ? No ! A dream without a plan and continuity of your involvement in achieving it is just a wish …it’s not a dream !!! How many of you have those crazy dreams ? What is your dream? You know, your parent… Read More Whats wrong with your life ? : People and Thoughts
That blind spot always reminds me that I’m not done yet. There’s lot many things yet to be learnt …lot many codes to be written …and I know, I’m completely aware of the fact that its a blind spot. It’s not real..It’s there to encourage me all the time to do something new, to learn something new every single day !!! … Read More How to achieve your goals and be successful in life … : People and Thoughts
I was crossing a road, I’m in the middle of crossing it, suddenly a guy looses his mind and bumps his car right next to the divider I’m standing on … I literally felt the death in-front of me … This whole world, it is full of uncertainty. No algorithm, no human being on the… Read More Life filled with uncertainty…people and thoughts
Few days/years back, It was tough surgery for doctors because they had to transplant cornea of a man, who lost his sight when he was 3 years old because of the small explosion. For the first time, camera’s were there to witness the moment when that man was about to see the word for the… Read More This is what happens when a blind person suddenly gets eyes … : People and Thoughts
Ah! you forgot to write comment here at line no 233. Correct that and check it in … “Nothing can be quite so useful as well placed comments ” .. hmm… comments !!! Really ? I have been writing code since last 3 years..but every-time my manager asks me to write comments, I hate… Read More Code or Comments : People and thoughts
One of the fundamental things that most of the people don’t understand is that “If you want it great, it takes time !!!” If you go to gym, you work out and … and you come home, look in the mirror …and you see nothing ! you see no change in yourselves.. The other day,… Read More Why it doesn’t work for you? : People and Thoughts
So I was having a tea alone outside the office and I hear this word called ‘Rasher’ which basically is an eatable (thin slice of bacon). Now I haven’t heard of this word before, I couldn’t imagine what it is, how it looks etc. I can’t even imagine how it tastes because I don’t even… Read More Why Machine learning seems to be going in the wrong direction : people and thoughts
I know, Everyone has desire to achieve something in life. Everyone wants to be something for someone, I mean, who doesn’t like success? But only few of us are able to achieve it … The reason? The reason we don’t succeed to complete the path to our desire is because we are lazy.. I mean… Read More This is why we aren’t yet successful ! – people and thoughts
Oh man! Same lunch again…
I was looking at the dinner and it was like, “I don’t wanna eat anything, it’s okay!”.
You will understand these feelings if we have been at hostels during your education.
Life seemed so much difficult every time I went for my meal. First of all the meal is so much spicy, that reddish gravy, those fixed combos of vegetables and on top of that, my acidity…… Read More Sequence of life : people and thoughts
I always thought I wanted piece of my mind and that’s why I’m on earth but I never knew …
I never knew that ..
” Hell is on earth” … Read More I never knew…
Along the life till now, I’ve learnt that there are going to be few things in life you have no control over.. I feel such things constantly… It has become part of my life . This thought that the only thing in this world you have control over is your own..this thought keeps me conscious.… Read More Controlled freaks …. people and thoughts
It was late night when she got up in between and noticed some disturbance around shrubs in the garden. It was her again … a cat . A cat running badly with all that fear of dying … because its that crazy evil dog who was eager to catch her … It wasn’t long since… Read More Fear of nothing !!!
I was on the terrace last night, talking to my mom…and we see a couple gossiping louder enough that I was able to hear it from terrace. They were not gossiping, they were quarreling. ‘You did this, you did that, you are not ideal husband, you are not perfect’… I heard these words and they… Read More Are you perfect? Does that even matter?
How many times do you tell yourself that you want to be alone !! Let me ask you .. If God or someone gives you that opportunity, will you be really able to be alone on earth ? Let me tell you the truth …No matter who you are, we all are those controlled freaks… Read More Why you should watch magic : People and Thoughts
I love being in my own thoughts. I love going deep into things with what I see, what I understand and what I perceive. My brain simply doesn’t discard usual things people discard.
I was looking out from the cab’s window, listening to the semi mute voice of air leaking through window and Outside, I see some girls alongside road. Almost all of them had expensive dresses, high hill sandals etc and one of them was standing out..Because she was poor. She was wearing simple dress with relatively less make up.… Read More You are looking beautiful …Sari vs Skirt : People and Thoughts
Note: Not for over thinkers… I have named my internal existence as “Frank”. Here’s what Frank usually asks me again and again !!! Frank: Mukesh..!!! You know, stop faking happiness. I’m frank, you can’t fake me that..at least you should know this ..Tell me, why do you avoid yourself ? . Mukesh: No I don’t… Read More A rude Pastor : People and Thoughts
Training the mind to be peaceful is quiet difficult… Stopping thoughts itself is disturbing as human mind is extremely sensitive. Here’s how you keep yourself peaceful. Imagine yourself sitting on the side of a busy road. Passing cars represent thoughts and feelings. All you have to do is to sit there and watch the cars .… Read More How to keep your mind peaceful ? People and Thoughts
I come to office, log in to People and Thoughts and there’s this comment in front form Sneha Prakash, one of the bestie blogger friends of mine…and I get overwhelmed reading her comment..because, Because it says, “Congratulations! You are nominated for LIEBSTER AWARD”. Oh man! I can’t express my reaction on her comment but… Read More LIEBSTER AWARD : People and thoughts
. . अगं ऐकलंस का…….? आज बंटीची बस येणार नाहीए. मला वेळ नाही. त्याला शाळेतुन तुच आण. *कारण तु घरीच असते…..* अगं माझा मोबाईल चार्जर सापडत नाही, battery low आहे, तुझा फोन नंतर लाव. तुझा चार्जर मला दे. *कारण तु घरीच असते……* आज मला लवकर office ला जायचे आहे , आधी पेपर मला दे. तु… Read More कारण तू घरी असतेस
Hey, you want Orange ? hey..I’m talking to you ..!!! Me? why are you asking me ? Is that orange ripe or rotten orange? Will I have to do anything in return ? Do I even know you ? Sometimes… this habit of overthinking kills us. Simple question. Do you want Orange? . . .… Read More You want orange? People and thoughts
I wonder, how would Santa be segregating his gifts? ow would he be defining Good vs Bad? When I was a child, my definition for Good was something like , “Being good is being kind to people and not hurting anyone mentally or physically…” I grew up and in the journey, my things got stolen… Read More How to be a Santa Claus in funny world !
Sometimes I sit and stare at the falling leaves, pretend that they give me an inspiration while all I can think of is the disturbances in my life and frustration they bring up with them. I look silent from outside, I might look happy, but inside…I’m a deep, depressed soul. There are lot many… Read More Illusion of stability of stability of things is an illusion …
Last night, I was having my dinner at one of the hotels nearby. A man comes in, with his daughter… both look extremely sad on their faces… he buys ‘chapati’ only and gets a pair of ‘wadas’, both sit outside and start eating it. This whole scene was so disturbing to me. It was such… Read More Who are you ? – People and Thoughts
Sometimes while I’m walking down the road and the person walking in front of me looks at me and passes by, seems like I know whats going to happen next, might not be the whole future but at least few seconds before… Seems like that person was expected to pass by. he would have… Read More Choices…People and Thoughts
One of the most hurting thing for me is to see a women,lady,sister,daughter crying. May be crying to dad for chocolates, crying to mom for teddy, crying for loosing her best friend, crying to her friend because she couldn’t do much, crying on her dad’s shoulder in her own wedding, crying alone because her husband… Read More Worst thing to see…
I don’t mean my past was bad but as I grow on, I start realizing how my past has been shaping my future.Things, moments which felt offensive, happy, right, wrong those days, now I realize why those were correct to shape my better future… I remember those days, where me being silent, my friends used… Read More The past…
We learn by observing the world. Even just after few days of our birth, we look at how people smile and we try to mimic it. Sometimes I wonder if there’s no god, who would be controlling all this ? I just keep observing people and wonder how this world, each and every activity of… Read More Secret to our habit of sharing moments of sorrow?
In this modern age of improved, relaxed life with technologies advancing each day, lot of countries still have lotteries method going on which kind of let’s people expect to suddenly acquire some big fortune in terms of money or something else. The poor villagers are more keen to have lotteries. What they don’t realize (… Read More Lottery of life
One of a little babies of our neighbors came to me said, Mukesh, that puppies’ life is so awesome no? No work, No tensions and most important…No relations and full day sleep with quiet lesser efforts than us.… Read More Life of Riley
Food facility in our office is at one of the floors of the apartment. People from other floors and other companies on the floor too have their lunch at the same floor.Yesterday me and my manager went for lunch..we had our meal ready at desk and we started enjoying… Somehow in between we ended up… Read More Statistics is frustrating…
I always have been thinking about whether I should learn just one programming language or learn whatever comes to me . It has always been an unanswered problem for me. I asked this to one of the professors in university. He answered it in a way that made me to think and write this article… Read More Update Yourself now !!!
Those of you who don’t know the term “Machine Learning”, “Machine learning is a set of algorithms that are given some data as an input, those algorithms learn it, teach themselves and use that intelligence for different things”. It’s something we call “Artificial intelligence”. I have been doing some Machine Learning stuff at my office… Read More Teaching machines to understand…is it that simple?
Recently got chance to work with some Machine Learning stuff. Writing codes that learns things by themselves. You don’t need to code explicit instructions for them to do their work. It’s like teaching small child to walk. You don’t really tell him how to lift up next foot and step up properly, you just support… Read More Is our brain really smart? contradiction to one of my articles…
Because I think, growth isn’t possible without compromises, sacrifices in terms of time, money, stress, friends and all forms of it.… Read More Random World…
Sometimes I look around and wonder about my relations with people…
I go on thinking about the way we met, the first introduction…
Just one reply to one of my posts by one of readers, our conversation continues on the topic, we talk a bit over People and their Thoughts and that reader becomes one of my best friends ever…… Read More Relationships with People…
Sometimes while looking at the screen of my mobile, my PC, we think wisdom comes with the age…but don’t you think ,its correct?
I asked this to many people and lot of them answered, “I don’t think this is true anymore with this vast era of information being spread over the internet daily…everything being shared by people …I think today, even 5 years baby knows how to operate a computer.”… Read More Being Human …
We build those walls with our insecurities, our fears, with our ego, impatience, failed expectations…
We build those walls to to hide ourselves, to protect that broken heart…the list just goes endless brick by brick…… Read More Life is really simple but we tend to complicate it…
I like to see people who believe that their life is driven by their luck, or their life is controlled by some forces of Nature.… Read More What matters in life?
Every time I go happy with my decisions, every time I enjoy my day, every time I see baby smiling with my childish talk with it, as if it understood what I was talking about … “Human brain” is a thing that interests me in such situations with all its complicated decisions, emotional/chemical balances, different… Read More Nature is perfect …
I love to be there for someone who needs me the most at times. Its one of those awesome moments where I just feel being alive, most useful…I feel the humanity. I don’t mean being there for big problems in their life, I mean the smallest problems, sadness that other’s don’t notice, those little expressions on… Read More A moment of gratitude : People and Thoughts
I love watching outside just after having my bath in the morning. There’s this big ground in front, full of grass…Its pretty much good view from the forth floor of our apartment where I live. I enjoy watching my day rising in front of me with faint light rays and people, children hurrying for school…… Read More Strength doesn’t come from winning, your struggles define your strength…
Hey, Hellow everyone !!! I’m so happy and excited today to announce that with all your responses and enormous interest in “People and Thoughts“, we are upgrading website’s URL from ‘http://www.peopleandthoughts.wordpress.com‘ to ‘http://www.peopleandthoughts.com‘ . So now you no more need to remember URL of “People and Thoughts”. Its just ‘peopleandthoughts.com’. As simple as its name. Its… Read More Big Congrats to all of you …
I have always been thinking of “Brain” and “Mind” or “Soul” we say. I don’t think there’s anything as Mind/Soul inside. It is just a concept or virtual world built by our brain in order to protect itself. I mean just imagine a person without soul but brain…It would be more like a robot… Read More Don’t always believe what your brain shows you…
One of my best friends called me yesterday night and told about the incident happened with her. It wasn’t much serious but she is very Innocent and she is not at all used to such things. The reason behind everything was nothing but her frankness with people. Frankness ??? Really ? Yah ! Frankness… We… Read More Which Level Do you Belong
Everyone loves music. I do. Which one I like depends on my mood and the environment around. Sometimes I love to just keep it going and natter in between with my work while sometimes I like to sit down specially for that and completely get involved in the emotions of the song. Why am… Read More How my habit makes me to hate my favorite song…
One of our Managers, “Mr. Manoj Shukla” left company today. He officially resigned.Being a team member, the days with him have been best. Although I was fresher in the team, his support was still awesome. One of his habits I liked is the technical impression he had on the people. He was a good manager,… Read More Happy Days…
How could talking to your own can make you feel good!!! My soul expects me to give some time in a day to itself.Its not a duty…Its something that you need to carry out for your own.To know yourself better… We are so busy doing our work, talking to people, looking at that screen… Read More Want good life? Implement this …
Everyone wishes..so as me. Mine is little weird. Thats fine though. I’m pretty positive person and life till now has been nice. anyways… How I wish my death to be !!! I won’t like to die at an instant or in sleep. I won’t even like to die by age. I don’t really wanna… Read More How I would wish my death to be …
Recently came across some new Stuff. Wrote a code that trains itself to identify people. Give few true images, meaning ‘This is how people look like’ and give few false images that doesn’t have people in it, meaning ‘This is how people doesn’t look like’. You run the program, give it input, ask it to… Read More Is our brain Really Smart?
Do you know the best way to compensate/to enjoy every thought of the day ? It need not be Happy…it could be sad..you can’t expect everything to go well as per your mood !!! The strange possible way that works well for me to know myself is to keep myself away from everything in… Read More Strange way to know yourself…
I remember my first day at the University…. It was the first time I was away from parents and the home for my Masters, and the worst thing was to know that “I had to be here for 2 years and may be after that too”… No clue who my roommates were going… Read More Away from Home…
I love to be alone. Everyday after I come home,finishing all the chores of a day, late night I love to go on my terrace for a while, I love talking to my mom and dad over phone… That little bit of darkness around me, the silence after everyone going to sleep or may… Read More Beautiful Night …
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