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The surge in subscription-based services has led to what feels like a subscription overload. With so many companies trying to tie us into monthly (or even biweekly to make it look cheaper!) payments, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to manage and afford. If I’m already subscribed to ten services, I have to think twice before addi...

There’s a difference between being alone and feeling lonely. Being alone without feeling lonely is not a problem, but the opposite is very harmful.

Securing a job can be challenging, especially if you've explored various career paths. Companies often prefer candidates with a straightforward career trajectory. However, if you’ve had the courage to explore different paths and then returned to a more conventional route, or in general if you’re struggling to get interviews, this guide...

Troubles are blessings that help you find your purpose. Here's how you can turn your trouble into purpose: 1. Discover and face your most burning trouble: It's often the one you believe you were born with, or that it’s simply how things are meant to be, and you can never overcome it. It troubles you constantly, yet you've accepted it a...

Have no expectations from others. Live every moment to the fullest. Become better than yesterday. Work on your skills. Showcase. Don’t come in your own way. That’s all that matters. Self improvement is the best way to progress. Be MVP wherever you go and whomever you work with.

Inability to set aside the bag of our memories is what keeps us stuck. Expansion: Every struggle, pain, misery, joy, and achievement you experience is just a memory. The moment has already passed, but it’s still alive in your mind. Let go to experience the present reality and move on to the next thing.

To avoid anxiety about an upcoming event, go in unprepared or underprepared. Underestimate the event, and you will feel less pressure. You’ll see that you’re able to stay more natural, and you do your best when you’re natural.

What you believe about yourself is what you radiate and that’s what people perceives about you, and that’s what you attract. Your beliefs sets ups the type of magnet you become. P.S: Don’t forget to back the belief by actually putting in the work.

I have been struggling to regulate my urge to control. I tend to over-control situations and people, which is not good. Too much control leads to anxiety and disappointment when things don’t go our way. But too little control can cause things to go in completely wrong directions. I’m learning to step back and let things take their own ...

Find something to look forward to. It helps you stay motivated and excited for the next day. This doesn’t happen naturally anymore, especially if you’re away from your family. Everything becomes optional, and you end up not participating. Also in school, things were chosen for us: class schedules, exam dates, class 1 then 2, 3, and so ...

The more you discover yourself, the easier it becomes to navigate life.

I’m privileged to have a heart that knows the way, and soul courageous enough to walk that way.

Let’s talk about culture. Culture is a term that is often associated with companies, but it doesn’t have to be. It should be associated with a tribe. A tribe is simply a group of people. It can be a family, a society, a company, or a whole nation. Culture is how a majority of people behave and operate in a tribe. As someone who has fir...

Aim to live a life where you’re excited every moment. Where you don’t want to sleep but have to. Where you don’t want to eat but need to. That’s when you know you’re living a life and doing something you really love and care for.

Key concepts in system design: 1. CDN (Content Delivery Network): A network of distributed servers that deliver web content to users based on their geographic location, improving load times, reliability, and availability by caching content closer to end-users. 2. Gateway (Load Balancer): A device or software that distributes incoming n...

The fundamental desire that we all share is the desire to touch another life. It's a desire worth pursuing. At what scale is up to you. Explanation: At our core, all we want to do is touch another life through our actions. All our ambitions stem from this desire. If they come from something else, they won't last forever. Whether you're...

Rough checklist to keep in mind when designing an API: 1. Naming functions right for internal clarity: Ensure function names are descriptive and follow a consistent naming convention. def get_profiles 2. Naming routes right for external clarity: Use meaningful and intuitive route names that clearly indicate their purpose: get 'users/fe...

Your vibe (energy and aura) is what attracts opportunities, and your hard work converts them into rewards. Without the right energy and aura, no amount of hard work can bring you opportunities. Work on uplifting your aura as much as you work on up-skilling.

Learn abstraction to move fast. Learn fundamentals to innovate. Abstraction is when you know how to use something to achieve a desired outcome without knowing how it works. You know how to drive a car, but not necessarily how the engine works. As we advance technologically, there are more and more layers of abstraction. More abstractio...

Users have crazy ways of finding workarounds. If you ever have the opportunity to observe users interacting with your app without them knowing, take it. You'll be surprised to see that an app can be used in such unexpected ways! Really. Well, I haven't had that privilege yet, but you can get pretty close to that if you collect analytic...

The compulsive urge for perfection arises from a deeply rooted fear of judgment, often a result of poor parenting.

🗡 You'll find yourself using a sword to cut vegetables because you didn't know that a knife exists. 🔪 Earlier in my career (and sometimes even today), I was so desperate to build and achieve the end result that I would use any tool I came across to build apps. It was a horrible thing to do. I often have sparks of ideas and I can't wait...

To stay healthy, food must enter and exit your body. The sooner, the better. Similarly, thoughts must come in and pass out. The sooner, the better. The longer they stay stuck in your head, the more they rot and the more unpleasantness they create. What makes a thought stuck? Out of the thousands of thoughts we have in a day, the ones t...

What you fear is what becomes the reality. You literally fuel it to become a reality by fearing it. Read the subsequent posts to understand where fear comes from and how it is the source of all our thoughts -> 1. Solitude: Dark reality 2. You’re four brains and one body.

If you’re struggling with unwanted thoughts, the best way is probably to label them. How? By understanding who is the creator of those thoughts. You have four brains, not one! This is what makes it very difficult. I’m NOT a doctor or psychiatrist, nor have I studied the brain, but I had this realization when struggling to find answers ...

“This will get deep very soon. It’s okay if you don’t get it. I hope you’re never forced to understand it:” An extended (> 6 months) period of solitude reveals the reality of our monkey brains. When you’re left alone with your thoughts, you’ll see that they turn against you. You’ll try to avoid solitude. But when life forces it, you mu...

Notes on Setting Up Deployment with Dokku and Git: Documentation: https://dokku.com/docs/getting-started/installation/ Prerequisite: - Cloud provider: Digital Ocean - Terminal commands: MacOS - Git already installed on your local machine Steps to setup deployment: 1. Create Droplet (remote machine) on DigitalOcean or any other cloud pr...

When you choose to envy someone, you block yourself from creating ways to get what you envy in others. You isolate. You reject. You look down upon people. You assume they got 'lucky’. When you admire, you create ways. You learn from them. You fire up your brain cells. You get excited. You want to be around more people whom you can admi...

Here's a fun comparison between STRIP, SQUEEZE, SQUISH with an example: Consider a string: name = " Rushi Patel " STRIP: name.strip Output: "Rushi Patel"Removes the spaces from the START and END of a string SQUEEZE: name.squeeze Output: " Rushi Patel "Literally squeezes the string, i.e squishes down any INTERNAL repeating whitespace to...